Academic Qualification

Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences

M.S. in Environmental Science, South China University of Technology

B.E. in Environmental Engineering

Teaching Area

Environmental Geochemistry

Soil Science

Ecological Civilization

Research Area

Contamination and remediation of soils and water

Removal of emerging pollutants using novel mineral materials

Biogeochemical cycles of nutrients and metals

Environmental application of advanced spectroscopic techniques

Professional Services

Reviewer of SCI journals: Environmental Science & Technology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Environmental Science: Nano, Science of the Total Environment, etc.

Working Experience

2022 ~ Present, Assistant Professor, Macau University of Science and Technology, China

2019 ~ 2021, Postdoc Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

2017 ~ 2019, Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Academic Publication (selected)

1.      Ying Li, Jiaping Lin, Yang Wu, Song Jiang, Chaoran Huo, Tongxu Liu, Yang Yang, Yibing Ma*, Transformation of exogenous hexavalent chromium in soil: Factors and modelling, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.135799.

2.      Ying Li*, Chaoqun Zhang, Meijun Yang, Jing Liu, Hongping He, Yibing Ma, Yuji Arai, Effects of carbonate on ferrihydrite transformation in alkaline media, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2024, 26, 288-297.

3.      Ying Li, Chaoqun Zhang, Meijun Yang, Hongping He, Yuji Arai*, Carbonate accelerated transformation of ferrihydrite in the presence of phosphate. Geoderma, 2022, 417, 115811.

4.      Ying Li, Kenneth J.T. Livi, Mary R. Arenberg, Suwei Xu, Yuji Arai*, Depth sequence distribution of water extractable colloidal phosphorus and its phosphorus speciation in intensively managed agricultural soils, Chemosphere, 2022, 286, 131665.

5.      Ying Li, Meijun Yang, Martin Pentrak, Hongping He, Yuji Arai*, Carbonate-enhanced transformation of ferrihydrite to hematite, Environmental Science & Technology, 2020, 54, 13701-13708.

6.      Ying Li, Gaoling Wei, Xiaoliang Liang*, Caihua Zhang, Jianxi Zhu, Yuji Arai, Metal substitution-induced reducing capacity of magnetite coupled with aqueous Fe(II), ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2020, 4: 905-911.

7.      Ying Li, Donghui Han, Yuji Arai, Xin Fu, Xiaoqin Li*, Weilin Huang, Kinetics and mechanisms of debromination of tetrabromobisphenol A by Cu coated nano zerovalent iron, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019, 373, 95-103.

8.      Ying Li, Gaoling Wei, Caihua Zhang, Xiaoliang Liang*, Wei Chu*, Hongping He, Joseph W. Stucki, Lingya Ma, Xiaoju Lin, Jianxi Zhu, Remarkable effect of Co substitution in magnetite on the reduction removal of Cr(VI) coupled with aqueous Fe(II): Improvement mechanism and Cr fate, Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 656, 400-408.

9.      Ying Li, Gaoling Wei, Hongping He, Xiaoliang Liang*, Wei Chu*, Deyin Huang, Jianxi Zhu, Wei Tan, Qiuxin Huang, Improvement of zinc substitution in the reactivity of magnetite coupled with aqueous Fe(II) towards nitrobenzene reduction, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2018, 517, 104-112.

10.  Ying Li, Xiaoqin Li*, Donghui Han, Weilin Huang, Chen Yang, New insights into the role of Ni loading on the surface structure and the reactivity of nZVI toward tetrabromo- and tetrachlorobisphenol A, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2017, 311, 173-182.

11.  Ying Li, Xiaoqin Li*, Yang Xiao, Chaohai Wei, Donghui Han, Weilin Huang, Catalytic debromination of tetrabromobisphenol A by Ni/nZVI bimetallic particles, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2016, 284, 1242-1250.

12.  Xiaoliang Liang*, Ying Li*, Gaoling Wei, Hongping He, Joseph W. Stucki, Lingya Ma, Linda Pentrakova, Martin Pentrak, Jianxi Zhu, Heterogeneous reduction of 2‑chloronitrobenzene by Co-substituted magnetite coupled with aqueous Fe²⁺: Performance, factors, and mechanism, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2019, 3, 728-737. (*Co-corresponding author)

Research Grants

2025 – 2027      Constraints and mechanisms of carbonate on Fe(II)-catalyzed phase transformation of ferrihydrite, PI. (NSFC Young Scientists Fund)

2023 – 2026     Interaction mechanisms between carbonate-accelerated phase transformation of ferrihydrite and heavy metals in soils, PI. (FDCT)

2023 – 2025     Stoichiometric and spectroscopic study of heavy metal precipitation on the surface of secondary minerals - The case of nickel, PI. (Macau University of Science and Technology Faculty Research Grants)

2023 – 2025     Adsorption-precipitation characteristics of heavy metals on the surface of typical minerals, PI. (Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province, China)

2022 – 2024    Effect of CO₂ on the formation and transformation of green rusts, PI. (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, IL)

2019 – 2021     Effect of (bi)carbonate on the transformation of ferrihydrite at near neutral pH, PI. (Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, IL)

2019 – 2022     Effect of isomorphous substitution on the reducing capability of magnetite coupled with aqueous Fe²⁺, PI. (Research Grant of the Clay Minerals Society)

2023 – 2026      Multi-processes coupling mechanisms of transformation of soil heavy metals and carbon/nitrogen by seawater intrusion, Core participant. (FDCT)

2016 – 2021     Understanding mechanisms and processes of dissolved reactive phosphate (DRP) loss in Illinois tile-drained fields, Core participant. (Illinois Nutrient Research and Education Council)

2016 – 2020     Sources and transport of phosphorus in tile drained agricultural watersheds using advanced chemical analysis, Participant. (USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture)

2016 – 2019     Interaction of magnetite coupled with Fe(II) and its reducing capability towards environmental pollutants, Core participant. (National Natural Science Foundation of China)

2014 – 2018     Mineral structure and surface physiochemistry, Participant. (CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams)

Patents

A protocol for the removal of total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and heavy metals from river by zero-valent iron, China, ZL 2014 1 0386229.3.

Professional Certification and Awards

·         Outstanding research achievement award for graduate students, GIG, CAS, 2020.

·         Outstanding graduate, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018-2019.

·         A research grant award from the Clay Minerals Society and a travel grant award for EUROCLAY 2019.

·         Second prize of academic report of the eighth “Mineralogy and metallogeny” academic forum, GIG, CAS, 2018.

·         Excellence paper award of National Mineral Science and Engineering Conference, Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, 2016.

·         Merit Student, University of Chinese academy of sciences, 2015-2016.

Professional Society Membership

Membership of the Clay Minerals Society and Geochemical Society