Rate My Professor Xiaolin Wang

Dr. Xiaolin (Shannon) Wang is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University, where she leads a research group focused on carbon capture and storage, gas hydrate sciences, phase change thermal storage, thermal management, and green buildings. Her academic background includes a PhD from the Australian National University, undertaken starting in 2013, an MPEng from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a BBEEE from Nanjing Normal University. Following the completion of her doctoral studies, she joined ANU in 2018 as an education-focused lecturer and advanced to her current position as Associate Professor. She also holds leadership roles as Associate Director Education in the School of Engineering and Sub-Dean of Student Experience for the College.

Wang's research addresses critical challenges in sustainable energy systems, including gas hydrate-based hydrogen and natural gas storage and transport, hydrate-based carbon capture and sequestration, carbon dioxide hydrate slurries for building thermal energy storage, phase change material-embedded building envelopes for passive cooling, and directional heat transfer enabled by ice templating. She has secured approximately $3 million in competitive research funding, including an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) awarded within two years post-PhD, an ARENA-funded project on hydrogen storage with ground-source energy utilisation aimed at commercialisation, and the ANU Global Research Partnerships Scheme. Her achievements have earned her the ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Academics, AIRAH Excellence of HVAC&R Research Award, CECC Remote Teaching and Student Experience Award, AIRAH Research Student of the Year, and the 2025 ACT Young Tall Poppy Science Award. With 62 research outputs, key publications include "Nature-inspired carbon storage and transport: Investigating hydrate dissociation and flow dynamics of encapsulated CO2-TBAB hydrates in pipelines" (Energy, 2026, co-authored with Y. Zhang et al.), "Unlocking the potential of hydrate-based carbon capture: A review of passive techniques for CO2 hydrate formation promotion" (2024), and "Hydrate-based H2 storage with porous materials as heterogeneous promoters" (2025). She leads projects such as mass transfer enhancement for hydrate-based carbon capture and cold storage.