Pronounces me: Shee-G
Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering & Sciences
Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University of Cincinnati
2901 Woodside Dr, Cincinnati , OH 45221
In a Saudi desert
PhD in Perth Western Australia on Environmental /Water chemistry; Supervisor: Jean-Philippe Croue
Master in Saudi Arabia, KAUST; Environmental Science & Engineering
BS in Environmental Science, Northeastern University, Shenyang
Hiking along the Cape to Cape trial in Western Australia
Emerging contaminants
Environmental analytics
Environmental organic chemistry
Photochemistry
Water quality & water treatment
Chemistry of natural organic matter
Niu arrived at Camp Nuo, a childhood dream
2018-2021 Postdoc at U of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (Chorover group & Field-Sierra group)
2022 Guest researcher at Zhejiang University - Jiande Environmental Innovation and Technology Centre, Hangzhou
2014 Research assistant at United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain
2011 Intern at NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan
2012 Visiting student at UIUC, IL
2016 Visiting student at Univ. Queensland (AU), and at Helmholtz Zentrum Munich (DE)
Hiking in the Caucasus
Hiking Kho Pi Pi
Fan, Z., Bentel, M. J., & Niu, X. Z. (2025). A Hydrophobic Deep Eutectic Solvent Platform for Integrated PFAS Capture and in Situ Mild-Condition Mineralization. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
Fan, Z., Nadagouda, M. N., Niu, X. Z., & Bentel, M. J. (2025). Micelle-Mediated Hydrated Electron Capture Enables Efficient C–F Bond Activation and PFAS Mineralization. Environmental Science & Technology, 59(31), 16764-16774.
Noda Morishita, K., Lee, H., Han, C., & Niu, X. Z. (2025). Syringe Filters and Autosampler Vials Impact on Analysis of Long-, Short-, and Ultrashort-Chain Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances. ACS ES&T Water, 5(3), 1344-1352.
Niu, X. Z., Field, J. A., Paniego, R., Pepel, R. D., Chorover, J., Abrell, L., & Sierra-Alvarez, R. (2021). Bioconcentration potential and microbial toxicity of onium cations in photoacid generators. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28(7), 8915-8921.
Morishita, K. N., Pimenidis, A., Abrell, L., Chorover, J., & Niu, X. Z. (2025). Occurrence of Ultrashort-Chain per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water Samples from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Journal of Hazardous Materials: Organics, 100006.
Niu, X. Z., Abrell, L., Sierra-Alvarez, R., Field, J. A., & Chorover, J. (2022). Analysis of hydrophilic per-and polyfluorinated sulfonates including trifluoromethanesulfonate using solid phase extraction and mixed-mode liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography A, 1664, 462817.
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