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Editing and review experience
2023.01 – present Editor, Water Research X (Elsevier)
2025.10 – present Associate Editor, CleanMat (Wiley)
• Grant reviewer for Australian Research Council, German Research Foundation
• Reviewer for leading journals including Nature Sustainability, Nature Water, ES&T, WR.
Postgraduate student supervision:
• Doctoral degree: 4 (as Principal Supervisor) and 4 (as Co-Supervisor)
Principal supervision
1. Mr. Junfu Li, UQ, 2022-2025; Thesis title: Intensification and transformation of sludge anaerobic digestion systems.
2. Ms. Senyuan Gu, UNSW, 2023; Improving wastewater modelling by incorporating data-driven approaches
3. Mr. Qixiang Zhu, UNSW, 2024; Ignored sources of greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment plants
4. Mr. Mudi Zhai, UNSW 2025; Leveraging large language model to address pressing wastewater challenges.
• Mphil degree: 2 (as Principal Supervisor) and 1 (as Co-Supervisor)
• PhD student Mudi Zhai won 2025 Water Research Australia Memorial Award
• PhD student Kaili Li won 2025 AWA Queensland Student Water Prize
Selected awards
• Stanford/Elsevier World's Top 2% Scientists, 2024, 2025
• 2025 Management Committee International Water Association (IWA) Modelling and Integrated Assessment (MIA) Specialist Group
• 2025 AWA QLD R&D Excellence Award, Advancing Sludge Treatment (project co-lead)
• 2023 Australian Research Council (ARC) Inaugural Industry Fellowship (50 in Australia)
• 2022 UQ Early Career Researcher Award (20 in UQ)
• 2022 AWA Victoria Research and Development Excellence Award (project co-lead)
• 2020 Outstanding Self-Financed Chinese Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council
• 2020 Finalist of AEESP Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (Top 6 worldwide)
• 2019 Best Paper award of Environmental Science & Technology (Top 10 from >1,600 ES&T papers)
Conference Organization
2026 Scientific Committee, IWA Nutrient Removal and Recovery Conference, (NRR26) Netherland
2026 Scientific Committee, The 10th IWA Water Resource Recovery Modelling Seminar (WRRmod), Spain
2024 Organising Committee, IWA Nutrient Removal and Recovery Conference (NRR24), Australia
2023 Scientific Committee,The 8th IWA Water Resource Recovery Modelling Seminar (WRRmod), South Africa
2021 Organising Committee, IWA Instrumentation, Control and Automation Conference (ICA), China
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