General

Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering), Professor

Vice Director of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Deputy Director of State Key Lab of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry,

Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences,

Room 405, Building 5, 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District,

Beijing 100085, P.R. China

Tel/Fax: +86-10-62849128

Mobile: +86-13910825879

E-mail: czhu@rcees.ac.cn

Research Areas

His primary research motivation is the technical principles and engineering applications of water pollution control and resource recovery. He focuses on the theory and technology of membrane separation for water treatment, electrochemical water treatment and resource recovery technology and water environment simulation and ecological remediation methods.

Education

9/2003-7/2006     Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering. Advisor: Prof. Jiuhui Qu. Research Center for                                    Eco- Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

9/2000-7/2003     M.S. in Environmental Science. Advisor: Prof. Guangjun Zhang. Northwest A&F                                        University

9/1996-7/2000     B.S. in Environmental Science. Northwest A&F University


Experience

   
Work Experience


2023-present         Vice Director of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

2018-present         Professor, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

                               Professor, CAS-TWAS Centre of Excellence for Water and Environment

                               Deputy Director, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry

2015-2016              Visiting Scholar, Menachem Elimelech Research Group at Yale University, USA

2012-2018              Associate Professor, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese      Academy of Sciences

2006-2012             Assistant Professor, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publications

   
Papers

1.      Hongwei Yu, Huawei Jia, Nan Shen, Diga Gang, Wenke Yuan, Yuyi Yang, Chengzhi Hu*and Jiuhui Qu. Can “Risk-Sharing” Mechanisms Help Clonal Aquatic Plants Mitigate the Stress of Nanoplastics? Environmental Science & Technology, 2024, 58 (6), 2984-2997.

2.      Chenghai Lu, Chengzhi Hu*, Zhibin Chen, Peiyao Wang, Fan Feng, Guangzhi He, Fuyi Wang, Yanyan Zhang*, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Xiwang Zhang, Jiuhui Qu*. Dehydration-enhanced ion-pore interactions dominate anion transport and selectivity in nanochannels. Science Advances, 2023, 9, eadf8412.

3.      Zhibin Chen, Chengzhi Hu*, Chenghai Lu, Jingqiu Sun, Yanyan Zhang*, Fuyi Wang, and Jiuhui Qu*. Steric Hindrance-Induced Dehydration Promotes Cation Selectivity in Trans-Subnanochannel Transport. ACS Nano, 2023, 17 (13): 12629-12640.

4.      You Wu, Zhenao Gu, Chenghai Lu, Chengzhi Hu*, Jiuhui Qu. In situ regulation of selectivity and permeability by electrically tuning pore size in trans-membrane ion process. Water Research, 244 (2023) 120478.

5.      Tianyu Wang, Zijian Zhang, Zhenao Gu, Chengzhi Hu*, and Jiuhui Qu. Electron Transfer of Activated Carbon to Anode Excites and Regulates Desalination in Flow Electrode Capacitive Deionization. Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57, 2566−2574.

6.      Yuhan Zhang, Kanghui Gu, Kai Zhao, Deng Haiqian, Chengzhi Hu*, Enhancement of Struvite generation and anti-fouling in an electro-AnMBR with Mg Anode-MF membrane module, Water Research, 2022, 119561

7.      Jingqiu Sun, Jiawen Huo, Bowen Li, Zhenao Gu, Chengzhi Hu*, Jiuhui Qu, Anode passivation mitigation by homogenizing current density distribution in electrocoagulation, Water Research, 2022, 223, 118966

8.      Haiqian Deng, Huiling Ren, Jinzhou Fan, Kai Zhao, Chengzhi Hu*, Jiuhui Qu, Membrane fouling mitigation by coagulation and electrostatic repulsion using an electro-AnMBR in kitchen wastewater treatment, Water Research, 2022, 222, 118883.

9.      Zhenao Gu, Zhiyang Zhang, Nan Ni, Chengzhi Hu*, Jiuhui Qu, Simultaneous Phenol Removal and Resource Recovery from Phenolic Wastewater by Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation, Environmental Science & Technology, 2022, 56, 7, 4356–4366.

10.  Boyang Yu, Jingqiu Sun, Kai Zhao, Fangkai Ma, Lingkai Sun, Junrong Shao, Jiayu Tian*, Chengzhi Hu*, Mitigating membrane fouling by coupling coagulation and the electrokinetic effect in a novel electrocoagulation membrane cathode reactor, Water Research, 2022, 217, 118378.

11.  Hongwei Yu, Miaomiao Liu, Diga Gang, Jianfeng Peng, Chengzhi Hu*, Jiuhui Qu. Polyethylene microplastics interfere with the nutrient cycle in water-plant-sediment systems. Water research, 2022, 214,118191.

12.  Chenghai Lu, Chengzhi Hu*, Cody L. Ritt; Xin Hua, Jingqiu Sun, Hailun Xia, Yingya Liu, Da-Wei Li, Baiwen Ma, Menachem Elimelech, Jiuhui Qu, In Situ Characterization of Dehydration during Ion Transport in Polymeric Nanochannels, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143(35): 14242-14252.

13.  Siqi Wu, Xin Hua, Baiwen Ma, Hongwei Fan, Rui Miao, Mathias Ulbricht, Chengzhi Hu*, Jiuhui Qu, Three-dimensional analysis of the natural-organic-matter distribution in the cake layer to precisely reveal ultrafiltration fouling mechanisms, Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55(8), 5442-5452.

14.  Yi Zhou, Chengzhi Hu*, Huijuan Liu, and Jiuhui Qu. Potassium-Ion Recovery with a Polypyrrole Membrane Electrode in Novel Redox Transistor Electrodialysis, Environmental Science & Technology, 2020, 54 (7): 4592-4600.

15.  Xiao Tan, Chengzhi Hu*, Zongqiang Zhu, Huijuan Liu, Jiuhui Qu, Electrically Pore-Size-Tunable Polypyrrole Membrane for Antifouling and Selective Separation, Advanced Functional Materials, 2019, 29.

16.  Chengzhi Hu, Zhongtao Liu, Xinglin Lu, Jingqiu Sun, Huijuan Liu* and Jiuhui Qu, Enhancement of the Donnan effect through capacitive ion increase using an electroconductive rGO-CNT nanofiltration membrane, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2018, 4737–4745.

17.  Jingqiu Sun, Chengzhi Hu*, Tiezheng Tong, Kai Zhao, Jiuhui Qu, Huijuan Liu, and Menachem Elimelech, Performance and mechanisms of ultrafiltration membrane fouling mitigation by coupling coagulation and applied electric field in a novel electrocoagulation membrane reactor, Environmental Science & Technology, 2017, 51(15): 8544–8551.

18.  Lili Zhang, Chao Zhang, Chengzhi Hu*, Huijuan Liu, Yaohui Bai, Jiuhui Qu,Sulfur-based Mixotrophic Denitrification Corresponding to Different Electron Donors and Microbial Profiling in Anaerobic Fluidized-bed Membrane Bioreactors, Water research, 2015,85:422-431.

19.  Chengzhi Hu, Huijuan Liu*, Guixia Chen, William A. Jefferson, and Jiuhui Qu, As(III) Oxidation by Active Chlorine and Subsequent Removal of As (V) by Al13 Polymer Coagulation Using a Novel Dual Function Reagent, Environmental Science & Technology, 2012, 46: 6776-6782.

20.  Chengzhi Hu, Huijuan Liu*, Jiuhui Qu, Dongsheng Wang, Jia Ru. Coagulation behavior of aluminum salts in eutrophic water: Significance of Al13 species and pH control, Environmental Science & Technology, 2006, 40(1):325-331.


Current and past research grants and contracts

  1. National Key Research and Development Project, SQ2022YFC3200074, R&D and Demonstration of Risk Control Technologies for Emerging Pollutants in Drinking Water, 19.79 million yuan, 2022/11-2026/06.
  2. Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 52330001, Regulation of Water Cluster Transmembrane Structure Transformation and Principle of Selective Membrane Separation, 2.3 million yuan, 2024/01-2028/12. 
  3. National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 52125003, Water Pollution Control and Resourcing   4.0 million yuan, 2022/01-2026/12.
  4. Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 51978646, Structure Matching Rules between Water Clusters and Membrane Pores and the Principle of Membrane Separation Regulation, 600, 000 yuan, 2020/01-2023/12.
  5.  National Key Research and Development Project, 2019YFD1100102, Water quality improvement technology and low-maintenance equipment for conventional water sources in rural regions, 8.47 million yuan, 2019/11-2022/12.
  6. Basic and Frontier Scientific Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, ZDBS-LY-DQC014, Structure and selective separation performance of electro-controlled telescopic membrane for water purification, 3 million yuan, 2019/9-2023/12.
  7. Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 51678556, The principle of water purification by electrical control on grapheme-carbon nanotubes membrane with three dimensional hybrid architectures, 700, 000 yuan, 2017/01-2020/12.
  8.  Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment Sub-project, 2015ZX07402003, Research and demonstration of high fluorine groundwater treatment technology in rural areas, 4.5 million yuan, 2015/01-2017/12  
  9. The National Natural Science Foundation of China, 51378490, The speciation matching mechanism between organic arsenic and aluminum hydrolytic polymers and its principle of optimal coagulation, 800,000 yuan, 2014.01-2017.12.
  10. Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment Sub-project, 2012ZX07408001, Research on nitrate removal technology for small water supply facilities, 2.32 million yuan, 2013/01-2016/12
  11. Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 41171377, Study on formation and regulation mechanism of biological manganese oxide in constructed wetland, 700,000 yuan, 2012/01-2015/12
  12. 863 Plan Project, 2009AA06Z303, Research on water treatment technology identification system, 1.85 million yuan, 2009/06-2012/06
  13.  Project Youth Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 40701165, Distribution behavior and fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in water in the presence of surfactants, 240, 000 yuan, 2008/01-2010/12
  14. Special Fund for Scientific Research Start-up of the winners of the Presidential Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Electrochemical on-line preparation technology with rich Al13 and active chlorine flocculants, 100, 000 yuan, 2007.1-2008.1 

Students

已指导学生

陈庆欣  硕士研究生  085229-环境工程  

董晶晶  硕士研究生  083002-环境工程  

苗时雨  博士研究生  083002-环境工程  

哈萨尔  硕士研究生  083002-环境工程  

杨敏  博士研究生  083002-环境工程  

周奕  硕士研究生  083002-环境工程  

苏帆  硕士研究生  085229-环境工程  

李梦恬  硕士研究生  083002-环境工程  

孙境求  博士研究生  083002-环境工程  

现指导学生

边继踊  博士研究生  083002-环境工程  

吴悠  硕士研究生  083002-环境工程  

赵凯  博士研究生  083002-环境工程  

宋歌  博士研究生  083002-环境工程  

芦超杰  博士研究生  083002-环境工程  

徐磊  博士研究生  083002-环境工程  

张宇涵  硕士研究生  083002-环境工程  

钢迪嘎  博士研究生  083002-环境工程  

Honors & Distinctions

  1. 2022  Environmental Technology Progress Awards, First Prize, China Environmental Protection Industry Association
  2. 2022  Science and Technology Awards, Grand Prize, China Urban Water Supply and Drainage Association
  3. 2021  China Patent Excellence Award
  4. 2021  Outstanding Achievement Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  5. 2016  Science and Technology Progress Awards, First Prize, Ministry of Environment Protection of the People’s Republic of China
  6. 2016  Science and Technology Progress Awards, First Prize, Chinese Ministry of Education
  7. 2012  National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Second Prize, Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology
  8. 2008  Beijing Science and Technology Award, Third Prize, The people's Government of Beijing City, China
  9. 2006  Award for Excellence by President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences