John Wen

John Z. Wen is a Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and is cross-appointed to the Chemical Engineering department at the University of Waterloo. He is also the Director of the Laboratory for Emerging Energy Research at the university and a member of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME). Currently he serves as the CSME Technical Committee (TC) Chair on Microtechnology and Nanotechnology.

Professor Wen’s areas of research expertise are in in-situ resources utilization, energetic nanomaterial, metal fuel, biofuel combustion, CO2 capture and storage, emission of particulate matters, energy utilization and storage, and nanotechnology-based energy devices. His research interests include processing lunar regolith, metal combustion, nanomaterial synthesis, development of nanothermite and energetic nanocomposites, and fabrication of nanotube and nanowire based energy devices.

Professor Wen teaches several upper year and graduate Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering courses.