Employment:

February 2005 to Present:Associate Professor, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Teaching duties: Environmental Microbiology (in English, together with Professor Zbigniew Lewandowski, Montana State University), Molecular Environmental Microbiology (in English for Graduate), Water Pollution Controlling Engineering, Water Environment and Water Culture.

Research topics: biological wastewater treatment; membrane bioreactor; bioelectronically-active biofilms; microbial ecology in wastewater treatment.

January 2009 to 2010:Postdoc &Research Fellow of Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship. Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Principal investigatorofMarie Curie International Incoming Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme (PIIF-GA-2008-220665):Engineering aspects and mechanisms of redox-stratified membrane bioreactor for completely autotrophic nitrogen removal from wastewater.

March 2007 to March 2008:Postdoc & Assistant Research Professor,Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU),Lyngby,Denmark

Advisors: Prof.MogensHenze & Prof. Barth F. Smets.Project: “Redox-stratificationcontrolled biofilm reactor (ReSCoBiR) for nitrogen removal from ammonium-rich wastewater”.

Education:

March 2000 toJanuary2005:Departmentof Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing,China,Ph.D. inEnvironmentalEngineering

Dissertationtitle: “Suspended carrier biofilm reactors for polluted river water remediation”.

Advisor: Prof. Yi QIAN and Prof. Xianghua WEN.

September1997 toMarch 2000: College of Environmental Science and Engineering,Tongji University, Shanghai,China,Masterof Engineering in Municipal Engineering

Thesis title: “Application of powdered activated carbon into drinking water treatment”.

Advisor: Prof. Jinchu FAN

September1992 toJuly 1996: Department of Environmental Engineering,Qingdao Technological University, Qingdao, China,Bachelorof Engineering in Environmental Engineering