Professor Tao Wang currently holds a Chair in Semiconductors at the University of Sheffield. He was awarded the prestigious Royal Society Emerging Technology Award in 2015. He recently led the pioneering development of advanced epitaxy technologies for monolithic on-chip integration of III-nitride LEDs, which were successfully transferred to the semiconductor industry in 2022. He has published approximately 550 papers and patents in various international journals and conferences, and serves as the Founding Director of the Centre for GaN Materials and Devices, as well as a principal supervisor for over 30 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. His teaching disciplines include Semiconductor Materials and Devices, and his research interests include semiconductor materials and devices; photonics; electronics; integration of photonics and electronics; and solar energy materials.