Ruigang Wang received his doctorate with Prof. Peter Crozier and Dr. Renu Sharma in materials science and engineering from Arizona State University in 2007. In August 2016, he joined the department of metallurgical and materials engineering at the University of Alabama as an assistant professor. His research mainly focuses on the shape/size-controlled synthesis of metal oxides; emission control catalysts; the support structure effect in metal oxide catalysis; materials for energy capture, storage, and conversion; metal recycling; and high-temperature ceramics processing.