Dr. Mo Wang is a University Distinguished Professor and the Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair at the Warrington College of Business at University of Florida. He specializes in research areas of retirement and older worker employment, occupational health psychology, expatriate and newcomer adjustment, leadership and team processes, and advanced quantitative methodologies.

He received numerous best paper awards and early/mid-career awards from Academy of Management (AOM), American Psychological Association (APA), Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and Society of Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP). His research program has been supported with more than $6M from NIH, NSF, CDC, and various other research foundations and agencies. His work has also been reported extensively by the popular media, such as NPR, BBC, Associated Press, WSJ, NYTimes, HBR, and the Washington Post.

He is an elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (M.A.E) and an elected member of Florida Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (ASEMFL). He is a Fellow of AOM, APA, APS, and SIOP. He is also a member of the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS) for National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He was the Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Retirement and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Applied Psychology and Work, Aging and Retirement. He was the President of Society for Occupational Health Psychology (2014-2015) and served the Presidential Track for Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology (2021-2024). He was the Director for the Science of Organizations Program at National Science Foundation (2014-2016).