Hongxin Wang is a research scientist at SETI Institute and a former scientist at University of California, Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is specialized in various modern X-ray spectroscopies on the extremely dilute metal sites inside hydrogenases, nitrogenases, and various enzymes in the past 30 years and in nuclear resonance vibration spectroscopy in the past 20 years. He has 116 academic publications, with the highest citation reaching 137. He has visited 10 synchrotron radiation centers and 30 different beamlines around the world.