I. Courses

1. Industrial Wastewater Pollution Control

2. Environmental Literature Retrieval and Academic Writing

3. Environmental Monitoring (in English)

4. Wastewater treatment principles and technology (in English)

5. Graduation Internship

II. Research Projects

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Program (52270092)

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Program (51978492)

3. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Program (51608374)

4. Independent Project of the State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse (PCRRE20005)

5. Tongji University Outstanding Young Talent Training Program (2016KJ012)

III. Honors and Awards

1. National High-Level Young Talent Program

2. Shanghai Oriental Talent Program (Youth Project) 

3. World's Top 2% Scientist (2022-2024, Standford University) 

4.. First Prize, Water Young Investigator Award (MDPI)

5. Young Australia China Alumni of the Year Award 

6. Emerging Woman Investigator in Engineering Award (Result in Engineering, Elsevier)

7. IWA Project Innovation Award (Team member)

8. Shanghai Technology Invention Award (Second Prize, Team member)

9. National First-Class Undergraduate Course (Team member)

10. First Prize, Tongji University Teaching Achievement Award (Team member)

IV. Selected Publications

(* indicates corresponding author)

1. Yan, X., Sun, J. *, Wang, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhang, C., Li, W., Xu, J., Dai, X., Ni, B.-J.(2023) Low-rate ferrate dosing damages the microbial biofilm structure through humic substances destruction and facilitates the sewer biofilm control. Water Research, 235, 119608.

2. Sun, J., Peng, Z., Zhu, Z-R., Weng, F., Dai, X., Ni, B-J. (2022) The atmospheric microplastics deposition contributes to microplastic pollution in urban waters, Water Research, 225, 119116.（ESI highly cited paper, Top 1%）

3. Tang, Y., Sun, J*., Dong, B., Dai, X*., (2022) Thermal Hydrolysis Pretreatment-Anaerobic Digestion Promotes Plant-Growth Biostimulants Production from Sewage Sludge by Upregulating Aromatic Amino Acids Transformation and Quinones Supply. Environmental Science & Technology, 56(3) 1938-1950.

4. Sun, J., Zhu, Z.-R., Li, W.-H., Yan, X., Wang, L.-K., Zhang, L., Jin, J., Dai, X., Ni, B.-J., (2021) Revisiting Microplastics in Landfill Leachate: Unnoticed Tiny Microplastics and Their Fate in Treatment Works. Water Research, 190, 116784.

5. Ni, B.-J., Yan, X., Dai, X., Liu, Z., Wei, W., Wu, S.-L., Xu, Q., Sun, J.* (2020) Ferrate Effectively Removes Antibiotic Resistance Genes from Wastewater through Combined Effect of Microbial DNA Damage and Coagulation. Water Research, 185, 116273.

6. Ni, B.-J., Zhu, Z.-R., Li, W.-H., Yan, X., Wei, W., Xu, Q., Dai, X., Sun, J.* (2020) Microplastics Mitigation in Sewage Sludge through Pyrolysis: The Role of Pyrolysis Temperature. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 7(12), 961–967.

7. Wu, S.-L.#, Sun, J.#*, Chen, X., Wei, W., Song, L., Dai, X., and Ni, B.-J*. (2020) Unveiling the Mechanisms of Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Production from Waste Activated Sludge Alkaline Fermentation Liquor through Physiological, Thermodynamic and Metagenomic Investigations. Water Research, 169, 115218.

8. Sun, J., Dai, X., Wang, Q., van Loosdrecht, M.C.M., and Ni, B.-J. (2019) Microplastics in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Detection, Occurrence and Removal. Water Research, 152, 21-37. (ESI Hot Paper, Top 0.1%)

9. Wei, W., Huang, Q.-S., Sun, J.*, Dai, X., and Ni, B.-J.*, (2019) Revealing the Mechanisms of Polyethylene Microplastics Affecting Anaerobic Digestion of Waste Activated Sludge. Environmental Science & Technology, 53(16), 9604-9613.

10. Sun, J., Ni, B.J., Sharma, K.R., Wang, Q., Hu, S., Q Wang, and Yuan, Z. (2018) Modelling the Long-Term Effect of Wastewater Compositions on Maximum Sulfide and Methane Production Rates of Sewer Biofilm. Water Research, 129, 58-65.

V. Patents

1. Sun, J., Yan, X., Ni, B-J., Zeng, S., Wu, S-L., Huang Q-S., A method to control odour and corrosion in pipelines (CN ZL201811592232.5)

2. Sun, J., Yan, X., Ni, B-J., Xu, Q., Zhu, Z., Kenjiahan, A., Liu, Z. A tertiary treatment method for removal antibiotic resistance genes from wastewater (CN ZL201911019612.4)

3. Sun, J., Zhang, Z., Ni, B-J., Xu, Q., Wu, S-L., Zhang, L, Wang, Y. A method to produce medium-chain fatty acids from carbohydrates containing wastewater without external electron donors addition. (CN ZL202010362013.9)

4. Sun, J., Yan, X., Dai, X., A method for pipeline corrosion and odor controlling (Australia Patent, 2021105330)

5. Sun, J., Zhang, Z., Dai, X., Peng, Z., Lu, Z., Method for preparing medium-chain fatty acids (mcfas) based on carbon dioxide regulation (CN Patent, ZL202211022468.1, US Patent, US18/177480, AU Patent, AMCZ-2312488124)

VI. Professional Activities

Young Committee Member, IWA Modelling and Integrated Assessment Specialist Group

Editorial Board Member / Young Editorial Board Member of Environmental Science & Technology; Environmental Research; Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology; Frontiers in Microbiology; Scientific Reports; Sustainable Horizons, etc.

Reviewer for over 30 SCI journals and international conferences