Contact Info
E-mail: wwli@ustc.edu.cn
Personal Homepage: https://faculty.ustc.edu.cn/liwenwei/zh_CN/index.htm
Experience
August 2020 - present, Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
July 2018 - July 2020, Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, USTC
January 2016 - June 2018, Professor, Department of Chemistry, USTC
May 2012 - December 2015, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, USTC
July 2008 - April 2012, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, USTC
September 2005 - July 2008, Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Chengdu Institute of Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
September 1998 - July 2005, B.S. and M.S, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University
Research Fields
1. Advanced nanomaterials for catalytic degradation of water pollutants and resource recovery;
2. Genetic engineering of environmental microorganisms for waste-to-resource conversion;
3. Low-carbon upcycling of metal-containing wastes/ wastewater
Awards
1. 2023, First-Class Award for Progress in Science & Technology of Anhui Province
2. 2023, First-Class Natural Science Award, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards, the Ministry of Education of P.R.C.
3. 2017, Yangtze River Young Scholar, the Ministry of Education of P.R.C.
4. 2015, the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars
5. 2016, Youth Science and Technology Award, Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences
6. 2018, Youth Science and Technology Award, Anhui Province of China
Academic Occupations
1. 2020 - present, Associate Editor of Chemical Engineering Journal
2. 2020 - present, Editorial Board Member of ACS ES&T Water
3. 2016 - present, Member of the International Water Association (IWA) Specialist Group on Assessment and Control of Toxics in Water
Publications
1. Wen-Wei Li, Han-Qing Yu*, Bruce E Rittmann*. Reuse water pollutants. Nature, 2015, 528: 29-31.
2. Wen-Jie Du, Jia-Yuan Lu, Yi-Rong Hu, Juanxiu Xiao, Cheng Yang, Jie Wu, Baocheng Huang, Shuo Cui, Yang Wang, Wen-Wei Li*. Spatiotemporal Pattern of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in China’s Wastewater Sector and Pathways towards Carbon Neutrality. Nature Water 2023, 1: 166–175
3. Rui Lu#, Wen-Wei Li#, B Mizaikoff*, A Katzir, Y Raichlin, Guo-Ping Sheng, Han-Qing Yu*. High-sensitivity infrared attenuated total reflectance sensors for in-situ multi-component detection of volatile organic compounds. Nature Protocols, 2016 11(2): 377-386.
4. Shi-Jie Yuan#, WW Li#, Yuan-Yuan Cheng, Hui He, Jie-Jie Chen, Zhong-Hua Tong, Zhi-Qi Lin, Feng Zhang, Guo-Ping Sheng*, Han-Qing Yu*. A plate-based electrochromic approach for the high-throughput detection of electrochemically active bacteria. Nature Protocols, 2014, 9(1): 112-119.
5. Ying-Jie Zhang, Jie-Jie Chen, Gui-Xiang Huang, Wen-Wei Li*, Han-Qing Yu*, and Menachem Elimelech*. Distinguishing homogeneous advanced oxidation processes in bulk water from heterogeneous surface reactions in organic oxidation. PNAS 2023, 120 (20): e2302407120
6. Zhi-Yan Guo#, Rongbo Sun#, Zixiang Huang#, Xiao Han, Haoran Wang, Cai Chen, Yu-Qin Liu, Xusheng Zheng, Wen-Jun Zhang, Xun Hong*, Wen-Wei Li*. Crystallinity engineering for overcoming the activity-stability tradeoff of spinel oxide in Fenton-like catalysis. PNAS 2023, 120 (15): e2220608120
7. Zhi-Yan Guo, Yang-Si, Wen-Qi Xia, Fan Wang, Hou-Qi Liu, Cheng Yang, Wen-Jun Zhang, Wen-Wei Li*. Electron Delocalization Triggers Nonradical Fenton-like Catalysis over Spinel Oxides. PNAS 2022, 119 (31): e2201607119
8. Li-Jiao Tian, Wen-Wei Li*, Ting-Ting Zhu, Jie-Jie Chen, Wei-Kang Wang, Peng-Fei An, Long Zhang, Jun-Cai Dong, Yong Guan, Dong-Feng Liu, Nan-Qing Zhou, Gang Liu, Yang-Chao Tian, Han-Qing Yu*. Directed bio-fabrication of nanoparticles through regulating extracellular electron transfer. JACS 2017, 139: 12149-12152.
9. Zhi-Yan Guo, Chen-Xuan Li, Miao Gao, Xiao Han, Ying-Jie Zhang, Wenjun Zhang, Wen-Wei Li*. Mn‐O Covalency Governs the Intrinsic Activity of Co‐Mn Spinel Oxides for Boosted Peroxymonosulfate Activation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021, 59: 2–9
10. XW Liu, WW Li*, HQ Yu. Cathodic catalysts in bioelectrochemical systems for energy recovery from wastewater. Chemical Society Reviews, 2014, 43: 7718-7745.
11. WW Li, HQ Yu*, Z He*. Towards sustainable wastewater treatment technologies by using microbial fuel cells–centred technologies. Energy & Environmental Science, 2014, 7: 911-924.
