Hui Wang,Aarhus University

Leachate through Molecular Signatures and Machine Learning.

 Dr. Hui Wang has been trained in the field of environmental science and engineering on wastewater treatment during the period of her Ph.D. and Postdoc at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (No. 51 in the QS World University Rankings). She is an experienced researcher, whose diverse works are featured in more than 20 peer-reviewed papers, 2 books, and 9 Granted Patents (Chinese National Invention). She has received 5 projects (680 thousand RMB) as principal investigator on wastewater treatment and solid waste management. 

Xiaoxia's research explores the effect of magnetic field on the interaction between drinking water bacteria and divalent ions such as calcium. Different methods such as advanced microscopy, bacterial culturing, and molecular analysis are applied. The processes of bofilm formation, biocrystallization of calcium carbonate, and dynamic of microbial communities are all under the scope of the investigation of her PhD topic.

Sulfamethoxazole (SMX) 

Dr Liu Xiao now is Marie-Curie postdoc in Strasbourg university and guest scientist in Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. He mainly focuses on tracking the fate of organic pollutants in the environmental such as catchment, wetlands and food webs. He published around 10 first author papers in Environmental Science &Technology, Analytical Chemistry and others. He attended 6 international conferences with 5 oral presentation and also invited for lecture. He is also acting as a reviewer of journals Chemosphere, Science of Total Environment, Frontiers in Microbiology, Environmental Pollution and journal of hazardous materials. 

in Freshwater Sediments

Lei Xia is a postdoctoral fellow in Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium (recipient of FWO Fund, supervisor Prof. Erik Smolders). In 2022, she graduated from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Leuven (CSC Fund, supervisor Prof. Erik Smolders) in 2012, and graduated from the School of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology in 2017 (tutor Professor Xu Mo and Professor Liu Guo). Her research interests mainly include phosphorus biogeochemical cycle and ecological environmental effect, wastewater phosphorus resource recovery, electrodriven membrane technology, high resolution monitoring of sediment-water microinterface and two-dimensional imaging technology and etc.

an Overlooked Iceberg

Xiaojing Zhu does works focusing on nontarget screening of organic  chemicals as nonextractable residues (NER, or bound residues) in  environmental solid matrices (soil, sediment, and water/air  particles) and their response to Climate Change. Her research interest includes:

(1) Exhaustive extraction and nontarget screening analysis of organic chemicals in soil 

and aquatic system. 

(2) The environmental history and fate of organic chemicals.

Dr Zhugen Yang is Senior Lecturer in Sensor Technology (US equivalent Associated Professor), leading UKCRIC-funded Advanced Sensors Laboratory at Cranfield University in the UK. He received a prestigious UKRI-NERCPersonal Fellowship in 2018 to start his independent academic career at the University of Glasgow, where he was appointed as a Lecturer (UK tenured) at James Watt School of Engineering before the group moved to Cranfield University in 2019. He completed a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, and subsequently awarded EU Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Bath after he received his PhD from the University of Lyon in France and graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology and Sun Yet-sen University in China.

His group is developing rapid and low-cost sensors (e.g., paper-origami device) for biomedical diagnostics (e.g., infectious diseases and cancers), public health (e.g., wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19), and environmental science (e.g., microbial source tracking, antimicrobial resistance antimicrobial resistance). He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles (H =31 as of 10/2022) including PNAS, Nature Communications, serving as Associated Editor and editorial member for several international journals. His work has been recognized with a few international awards (e.g., ACS James Morgan ECR Award), and featured in Science as well as a number of media coverages including BBC. The origami-paper device displayed at London Science Museum. 

Organic Pollutants – Mechanisms and Degradation Products.

Dr. Xi Zhang obtained her Ph.D. from the Process and Environmental Technology Laboratory of KU Leuven in June of this year (2023) (supervised by Prof. Raf Dewil). Now, she continues to do her postdoctoral research at the same lab. She was awarded Postdoctoral mandaten, PDM, KU Leuven. She has published 25 papers in Chemical Engineering Journal (IF 15.1), Water Research (IF 12.8), and other journals, including 9 first authors, and obtained 1 patent. As a guest editor of Frontiers in Chemistry, Water, and other journals, he has hosted several special issues. Her research interests include using advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) to remove recalcitrant pollutants (e.g. pharmaceuticals, chlorophenols, dyes, etc.) from water; nanomaterial catalysis; pollutants degradation pathways, and toxicity assessment.

 Photodrgradation of Surgical Masks

Guyu began her PhD studies at the State Key Laboratory for Estuarine and Coastal Research and continued at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). In2020, Guyu joined Peking University as a Postdoc before moving to her current post as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department Analytical Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. Her current focus is on environmental monitoring and external human exposure; human biomonitoring; the impact on biological barriers; and the determination and characterisation of external human exposure with MNPLs using Electron Microscopy, Vibrational spectroscopy, and thermoanalytical method: TED-GC/MS.

Dr. Mingsheng Jia has been a BOF Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University's  Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Belgium, since 2021.  His research has been supported by multiple personal fellowships from China,  Belgium, and the Netherlands (Radboud Excellence Fellow, 2023). He earned  his PhD in December 2019 from Ghent University, specializing in process engineering and systems analysis (including mathematical modeling) of biological nitrogen removal from wastewater. A broad range of approaches was covered, from operating lab-scale bioreactors, and applying ecological theories, to modelling future wastewater treatment plants. In 2020, he worked as a postdoc on an EU project for decentralized biological nitrogen removal from industrial  

wastewater at Politecnico di Milano (Italy). His current research focuses on innovative  

thermophilic biological nitrogen removal and resource recovery. He enjoys studying applied microbial ecological questions related to nitrogen and carbon cycling, applying a combination of experimental and computational tools. The final aim is to integrate engineering, microbiome and modelling insights to develop more sustainable and efficient environmental biotechnologies.