Dr. Peng Wang is Chair Professor and Founding Director of the Institute of Carbon Neutrality and Green Development at Sun Yat-sen University in China. Prior to this, he was a founding faculty member at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, where he served as Chair of the Environmental Science and Engineering Program from 2013 to 2017. His research broadly focuses on sustainable water production and the water-energy-food-environment nexus. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a 2023 Clarivate “Highly Cited Researcher”, Dr. Wang has received many accolades, including the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (2020), the Nanova Frontier Research Award by CAPEES (2020), the Zijin Quanxing Distinguished Alumni Award from Nanjing University (2021), the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award (2023), and the Agilent ACT-UR Award (2025). Dr. Wang has held prominent advisory roles, including membership on Hong Kong’s Advisory Committee on Water Supplies (2022–2024) and service as a juror for the 2024 Global Prize for Innovation in Desalination (GPID). He currently serves as Co-Founding President of the International Atmospheric Water Harvesting Association (since June 2024) and is an Executive Editor of Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T).