Xi-Zhi Niu

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

Education

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

Research

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

Research experience

2018-2021 Postdoc at UArizona, 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 

Barefoot hiking Kho Pi Pi

Some recent publications

Pan, J., Zhuo, Q., Niu, X. Z., Zeng, Y., Wang, H., Guan, B. (2024). Screening of trace PhACs from drinking water and removal of gemfibrozil by catalytic ozonation at pilot scale. ACS ES&T Water (In press).

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.

Niu, X. Z., Moore, E. G., & Croué, J. P. (2018). Excited triplet state interactions of fluoroquinolone norfloxacin with natural organic matter: a laser spectroscopy study. Environmental science & technology, 52(18), 10426-10432. 

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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