Wenjie Wang

Associate Professor

Email: Wenjie.wang@nju.edu.cn

Dr. Wenjie Wang joined the Nanjing-Helsinki Institute in Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences in March, 2025. His main research interests include the numerical simulations of the atmospheric ozone pollution, synergetic control of ozone and PM_2.5, atmospheric oxidation capacity, and interaction between climate change and ozone pollution. You are welcome to contact us if you are interested in pursuing a master's or doctoral degree in our group.

Work Experiences

2025.03—present   Associate Professor, NHI, Nanjing University

2020.08—2025.02   Post-doc researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany

Education Background

2015.09—2020.07   PhD, Peking university

2011.08—2015.06   Bachelor, Ocean university of China

Research Interests

Numerical simulations of the atmospheric ozone pollution

Synergetic control of ozone and PM_2.5

Evolution of atmospheric oxidation capacity

Interaction between climate change and ozone pollution

Measurements of atmospheric VOCs reactivity

Publications

Wenjie Wang; Xin Li; Yafang Cheng; David D. Parrish; Ruijing Ni; Zhaofeng Tan; Ying Liu; Sihua Lu; Yusheng Wu; Shiyi Chen; Keding Lu; Min Hu; Limin Zeng; Min Shao; Cheng Huang; Xudong Tian; K. M. Leung; Liangfu Chen; Meng Fan; Qiang Zhang; Franz Rohrer; Andreas Wahner; Ulrich Pöschl; Hang Su; Yuanhang Zhang; Ozone pollution mitigation strategy informed by long-term trends of atmospheric oxidation capacity, Nature Geoscience, 2024, 17(1): 20-25.

Wenjie Wang; Xin Li; Ye Kuang; Hang Su; Yafang Cheng; Min Hu; Limin Zeng; Tianyi Tan; Yuanhang Zhang; Exploring the Drivers and Photochemical Impact of the Positive Correlation between Single Scattering Albedo and Aerosol Optical Depth in the Troposphere, Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2021, 8 (7), 504-510.

Wenjie Wang; Xin Li; Min Shao; Min Hu; Limin Zeng; Yusheng Wu; Tianyi Tan ; The impact of aerosols on photolysis frequencies and ozone production in Beijing during the 4-year period 2012–2015, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019, 19(14): 9413-9429.

Wenjie Wang; David D. Parrish; Xin Li; Min Shao; Ying Liu; Ziwei Mo; Sihua Lu; Min Hu;

Xin Fang; Yusheng Wu; Limin Zeng; Yuanhang Zhang; Exploring the drivers of the increased ozone production in Beijing in summertime during 2005–2016, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2020,20(24): 15617-15633.

Wenjie Wang; Bin Yuan; Yuwen Peng; Hang Su; Yafang Cheng; Suxia Yang; Caihong Wu; Jipeng Qi; Fengxia Bao; Yibo Huangfu; Chaomin Wang; Chenshuo Ye; Zelong Wang; Baolin Wang; Xinming Wang; Wei Song; Weiwei Hu; Peng Cheng; Manni Zhu; Junyu Zheng; Min Shao; Direct observations indicate photodegradable oxygenated volatile organic compounds (OVOCs) as larger contributors to radicals and ozone production in the atmosphere, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022, 22(6): 4117-4128.

Wenjie Wang; David D. Parrish; Siwen Wang; Fengxia Bao; Ruijing Ni; Xin Li; Suding Yang; Honglei Wang; Yafang Cheng; Hang Su; Long-term trend of ozone pollution in China during 2014–2020: distinct seasonal and spatial characteristics and ozone sensitivity, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022, 22(13): 8935-8949.

Wenjie Wang; Bin Yuan; Hang Su; Yafang Cheng; Jipeng Qi; Sihang Wang; Wei Song; Xinming Wang; Chaoyang Xue; Chaoqun Ma; Fengxia Bao; Hongli Wang; Shengrong Lou; Min Shao; A large role of missing volatile organic compound reactivity from anthropogenic emissions in ozone pollution regulation, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2024, 24(7): 4017- 4027.

Wenjie Wang; Jipeng Qi; Jun Zhou; Bin Yuan; Yuwen Peng; Sihang Wang; Suxia Yang; Jonathan Williams; Vinayak Sinha; and Min Shao; The improved comparative reactivity method (ICRM): measurements of OH reactivity under high-NOx conditions in ambient air, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2021, 14 (3), 2285-2298.

Min Shao^#; Wenjie Wang^#; Bin Yuan; David D. Parrish; Xin Li; Keding Lu; Luolin Wu; Xuemei Wang; Ziwei Mo; Suxia Yang; Yuwen Peng; Ye Kuang; Weihua Chen; Min Hu; Limin Zeng; Hang Su; Yafang Cheng; Junyu Zheng; Yuanhang Zhang; Quantifying the role of PM2.5 dropping in variations of ground-level ozone: Inter-comparison between Beijing and Los Angeles, Science of The Total Environment, 2021, 788: 147712.

Jun Zhou^#; Wenjie Wang^#; Yanfeng Wu; Chunsheng Zhang; Aiming Liu; Yixin Hao; Xiao-Bing Li; Min Shao; Development and application of a nitrogen oxides analyzer based on the Cavity Attenuated Phase Shift (CAPS) technique, Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2023.

Jun Zhou^#; Wenjie Wang^#; Yan Wang; Zhen Zhou; Xiongzhou Lv; Meijin Zhong; Bowen Zhong; Deng, Minhui Deng; Jiang, Bin Jiang; Luo, Junqing Luo; Cai, Jiahua Cai; Li, Xiao-Bing Li; Bin Yuan; Min Shao; Intercomparison of measured and modelled photochemical ozone production rates: Suggestion of chemistry hypothesis regarding unmeasured VOCs, Science of The Total Environment, 2024, 951, 175290.

Xin Li; Wenjie Wang*; Suding Yang; Yafang Cheng et al., Ozone sensitivity regimes vary at different heights in the planetary boundary layer, Science of The Total Environment, 2024, 944, 173712, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173712.