Yi Wang is a Researcher at the Guangzhou Institute of Energy, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2008. He received a Ph.D. at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was an Assistant Researcher at the Guangzhou Institute of Energy, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 2013 to 2015. He worked at Helmholtz Geosciences Center GFZ, Germany, as a visiting scholar from 2017 to 2018. He authorized 27 Chinese national invention patents and 8 American invention patents. He won the National Science Fund for Outstanding Youth in 2021 and the second prize of the National Technology Invention Award (ranked 5th) in 2018. He has published more than 100 SCI papers.