Personal profile:

Rui Gao, PhD, born in January 1992. She obtained her Master's and PhD degrees from Wageningen University in the Netherlands and Ghent University in Belgium, respectively. In 2021, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(SIAT, CAS), and joined the Water Environment Laboratory at the Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research (SIAR) in May 2023. She has been awarded the Shenzhen Peacock Overseas High-level Talent Class C and currently serves as a Junior Editorial Board Member for the international journal Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (RECT). Her main research areas include the recycling and recovery of metal resources from spent lithium batteries. Her related achievements have been published as the first author in renowned journals and conferences in the field of resource recovery and application, such as Water Research, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, and IWA Resource & Recovery. She has also participated as a core member in several projects on metal resource recovery and reuse initiated by the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Leuven University in Belgium, the research team of Professor Bruce E. Logan, and British Petroleum (BP).

Main research directions:

Recycling of metal resources from spent lithium batteries and metal-rich wastewater.

Electrochemical wastewater treatment technology and engineering applications.

Email: ruigao_2021@126.com

Contact address:

Dongqu Qinmin Building, Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Science and Technology of China

Recent research project engagements in the past three years:

[1] Postdoctoral Fund, 80,000 yuan, 2022

[2] Guangdong Provincial Foundation for Fundamental and Applied Basic Research, 100,000 yuan, 2022

Publications within 5 years:

1. Gao, R., X. Wang, S.M. Zhang, X.X. Li, X.F. Yu, L.C. Bai “High-efficiency recovery of palladium and platinum using black phosphorus for in-situ synthesis of long-term stable hydrogen evolution catalysts” Separation and Purification Technology, Volume 316,2023,123771

2. Gao, R., Mosquera-Romero, Suanny., Ntagia, Eleftheria., Wang, Xiaofei., Rabaey, Korneel., Bonin, Luiza.“Review—Electrochemical Separation of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants in Wastewater” Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol.169, 2022

3. Gao, R., Bonin L, Carvajal Arroyo JM, Folens K, Mees B, Du Laing G, et al. “Integrated metal extraction system of electrodeposition and crystallization to selectively recover copper and zinc from automobile shredder residues” Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Vol.172, 2021

4. Gao, R., Bonin L, Carvajal Arroyo JM, Rabaey K. “Separation and recovery of ammonium from industrial wastewater containing methanol by copper hexacyanoferrate (CuHCF) electrodes” Water Research 188, 2021

5. Gao, R., X. Dominguez-Benetton, J. Varia, B. Mees, G. Du Laing, and K. Rabaey, “Membrane electrolysis for separation of cobalt from terephthalic acid in industrial wastewater,” Hydrometallurgy, vol. 191, 2020.

6. 202211421297X - Black phosphorus-copper-based antioxidant conductive slurry and its preparation method and application

7. 2022114179524 - Method for recovering metal from waste lithium batteries with black phosphorus, composite material, and its application

8. 2022114221786 - Method for recovering precious metals from waste catalysts with black phosphorus, composite material, and its application