Education background

2006-2010 Ph. D. Environmental Engineering, Research Center for Eco-Environmental sciences，

Tutor: Prof. JIUHUI QU

2004-2006 M.E. School of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology,

Tutor: Prof. HONG YOU

2000-2004 B.S.    College of Architecture and Environment, Sichuan University

Experience

2018-Present  Associate professor, School of Environment, Tsinghua University，Group leader: Prof. JIUHUI QU

2011-2018  Research assistant/Associate researcher, Research Center for Eco-Environmental sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2009.10-2009.12 Short-term visit at Eawag

Research Interests

Her primary area of research focuses on (1) Screening and identification of emerging pollutants in wastewater and its receiving rivers; (2) the transfer and transformation of pollutants in wastewater receiving rivers, and micro- ecological effect.

Research Experience

2023-2025:

Ecological storage and recycling of reclaimed water. Outstanding Youth Science Fund Project, The National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 52222004.

2022-2024:

Study on environmental risk prevention and control of emerging pollutants in Yellow River Basin. National Joint Research Center for Ecological Protection and High-quality Development of the Yellow River Basin, No. 2022-YRUC-01-0205.

2019-2023:

Identification and ecological risk of characteristic pollutants in key sections of Yangtze River. Research project of China Three Gorges Corporation, No. 201903139.

2018-2021:

The transformation and fate of PPCPs and the transformation products during bank filtration. The National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 51778608.

2012-2016:

Water quality changing mechanism and regulation principle during ecological storage of reclaimed water. The National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 51138006.

2013-2015:

The PAHs transformation and derivatives formation mechanism in river waters. The National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 41203069.

2009-2011:

Water Quality and Pollution Dynamics in Rivers of the Dry North and Wet South of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. GJHZ0908.

2006-2011:

The complex contamination process, eco-toxicological effects, pollution control and repair in Beijing-Tianjin-Bohai Bay area. The National Basic Research Program of China, No. 2007CB407301.

Represented Publications

2023

（1）Weixiao Qi, Xu Wang^*, Jin Kang, Yaohui Bai, Rui Bian, Hongtao Xue, Li Chen, Aaomei Guan, Yirong Pan, Huijuan Liu, Jiuhui Qu^*. Improvement of the Yangtze River’s water quality with substantial implementation of wastewater services infrastructure since 2013. Engineering, 2023, 21, 135-142.

2022

（1）Siling Li, Binghua Li, Huijuan Liu, Weixiao Qi^*, Yunfeng Yang, Gang Yu, Jiuhui Qu. The biogeochemical responses of hyporheic groundwater to the long-run managed aquifer recharge: Linking microbial communities to hydrochemistry and micropollutants, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022, 431: 128587.

（2）Junwen Chen¹, Weixiao Qi¹, Donglin Wang¹, Qiaojuan Wang, Hui Lin, Guannan Mao, Jinsong Liang, Xue Ning, Yaohui Bai^*, Huijuan Liu, Jiuhui Qu^*. Disruption and recovery of river planktonic community during and after the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. ISME Communications, 2022, 2, 84.

（3）Meng Qiao, Weixiao Qi^*, Huijuan Liu, Jiuhui Qu. Oxygenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the surface water environment: Occurrence, ecotoxicity, and sources. Environment International, 2022, 163, 107232.

（4）Aomei Guan, Weixiao Qi^*, Qiang Peng, Jiemin Zhou, Yaohui Bai, Jiuhui Qu. Environmental heterogeneity determines the response patterns of microbially mediated N-reduction processes to sulfamethoxazole in river sediments, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022, 421: 126730.