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The 2022 Young Talent Award Winners
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The 2022 Young Talent Award Winners
Dr. Sai Liang, Professor, School of Ecology, Environment and Resources, Guangdong University of Technology.
Dr. Liang received a B.S. and a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, both in Environmental Science and Engineering. He completed a 4-year postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor before joining the School of Environment at Beijing Normal University, as a Professor in 2017. In 2020 he moved to Guangdong University of Technology, as a Professor and Vice Dean. He is directing the Key Laboratory for City Cluster Environmental Safety and Green Development of the Ministry of Education with a focus on environmental systems analysis. The ongoing research topics in his lab include the modeling of the coupled human-natural systems and the effect of socioeconomic transitions on environmental impacts. He has published over 140 papers in journals including Nature Food, Nature Communications, One Earth, Environmental Science & Technology, etc. His papers have been cited for more than 6,000 times with an H-index of 47 (Google Scholar). He currently serves as a Vice Chair of the Industrial Ecology Committee under the Ecology Society of China. He also serves as the editorial board members of the Journal of Cleaner Production and Ecosystem Health and Sustainability (Science Partner Journal). Reducing environmental impacts through socioeconomic transitions: critical review and prospects. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 2023, 17(2): 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-023-1624-1
Dr. Jinyong Liu, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside.
Dr. Liu received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Master’s degree in Environmental Science & Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After the postdoctoral training at Colorado School of Mines, he joined UCR in 2016. The ongoing research topics in his lab include (i) degradation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), (ii) catalytic reduction of oxyanions, and (iii) transition metal chemistry for environmental applications. Dr. Liu is the recipient of the Chinese-American Professors in Environmental Engineering and Science (CAPEES) Young Investigator Award (2022), the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Paul V. Roberts Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for Advisor (2021), New Engineer to Watch by Water Environment Research (2021), Excellence in Review Award of Environmental Science & Technology Letters (2018), America Chemical Society (ACS) C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Awards (2014), and ACS Graduate Student Awards in Environmental Chemistry (2013). His Ph.D. students at UCR have received one AEESP Paul V. Roberts Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2021), four ACS C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Awards (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022), three ACS Graduate Student Awards in Environmental Chemistry (2019, 2020, 2021), one ACS Undergraduate Award in Environmental Chemistry (2019), and two American Water Works Association (AWWA) Scholarships (2018, 2019). The undergraduate and high school students in Dr. Liu’s lab continued their higher education in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry majors at Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Liu is currently a member of Editorial Board for Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, Water Environment Research, and Environmental Research. Catalytic Reduction of Water Pollutants: Knowledge Gaps, Lessons Learned, and New Opportunities. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 2023, 17(2): 26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-023-1626-z
Dr. Ngai Yin Yip, Lavon Duddleson Krumb Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University.
Dr. Yip received his doctoral degree in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from Yale University. His current research is focused on advancing physicochemical technologies and innovations for critical separation challenges in water, energy, and the environment, including high-salinity desalination, zero-liquid discharge, resource recovery from wastewaters, next-generation selective membranes, switchable solvents for water treatment, and low-grade heat utilization. For his research contributions, Dr. Yip has been recognized by the James J. Morgan Early Career Award of Environmental Science & Technology (Honorable Mention) and is featured as an Emerging Investigator by Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. In addition to serving on the editorial boards of Desalination and Chemical Engineering Journal Advances, he is also an Early Career Board member for ACS ES&T Engineering. He has been a guest editor for special issues of Desalination and Water Science & Technology. Advancing ion-exchange membranes to ion-selective membranes: principles, status, and opportunities. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 2023, 17(2): 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-023-1625-0
Dr. Xianlai Zeng, Associate Professor, School of Environment, Tsinghua University.
Dr. Zeng obtained the Bachelor (2002) and Master (2005) degrees in Northwest A&F University, and Ph.D. (2014) at Tsinghua University. He worked as a technical advisor for the United Nations Development Program (2015), visiting staff at Coventry University (2012), visiting professor at Macquarie University (2017), and Fulbright fellow at Yale University (2018–2019). His areas of specialization and interest include waste recycling and circular economy. He proposed the emerging concept and framework of anthropogenic circularity. He has published around 100 articles and books, which have been cited for more than 8,000 times with an H-index of 38 (Google Scholar). As the PI, he has chaired over 20 international and national competitive projects related to waste management, metal sustainability, and circular economy. In addition, Dr. Zeng has received 10 granted patents and led one group standard of resource and environmental properties of industrial solid waste. He has chaired or organized a dozen leading international academic meetings or workshops on material flow and waste management. Win-Win: Anthropogenic circularity for metal criticality and carbon neutrality. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 2023, 17(2): 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-023-1623-2
We thank the award committee for their diligent work to select the winners of this year’s Young Talent Award. In June-2023, we will welcome your nominations for the 2024 Young Talent Award.
Jiuhui Qu and John C. Crittenden
Editors-in-Chief
December 3, 2022
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