His research includes the antenna theory and applications, active electronically scanning arrays (AESAs), integrated antennas and arrays, substrate-integrated waveguide antennas, leaky-wave antennas and wireless propagation.
Lei Wang is an IEEE Senior Member since 2019. He received the Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China in 2015. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Research Fellow and Postdoc in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Postdoc Research Fellow in KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. From 2017 to 2020, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) in Hamburg, Germany. From 2020 to 2023, he was an Assistant Professor in Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. Since 2024, he is an Associate Professor in Lancaster University in Lancaster, UK.
He is the awardee of
- EPSRC Early-Career International Collaboration Grant (2023),
- the British Royal Society research grant (2022),
- German Research Foundation (DFG) research grant (2020),
- the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship (2016),
- the National PhD Scholarship in China (2014),
- the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (2014).
Moreover, he received
- the Best Theory and Design Antenna Paper Award in EuCAP-2023,
- the Best Paper Award in UCET-2020,
- the Best Poster Award in iWAT-2018.
He also supervised students winning
- the Second Place Winner in IWS-2023,
- the Best Student Paper Award in UCMMT-2022,
- the Honourable Mentioned Best Student Paper in APS-2021.