Prof. Dr. Xiaolei Wang is a Canada Research Chair in Batteries for Sustainability and a full professor of chemical engineering at the University of Alberta.  He runs his Nano For Advanced Clean Energy (NanoFACE) laboratory focusing on the rational design, development, and application of novel nanostructured materials for energy-related technologies, including lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, metal-air batteries, supercapacitors, and electrocatalytic systems.  Before joining UofA, he worked as a tenure-track assistant professor at Concordia University from 2017 to 2019 and postdoctoral fellow researcher at the University of Waterloo from 2014 to 2017.  Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, 2013), M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Tianjin University (TJU, 2007), and B.Sc. in Polymer Chemical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology (DUT, 2004).  Dr. Wang is the recipient of Canada Research Chair (Tier 2), FoE Mid-Career Research Award (2023), NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award (DAS, 2018), Petro-Canada Young Investigator Award (2018), and Concordia University Research Chair-Young Scholar (2019).