Prof. Xiaoyun Xu
School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversitySpeech Title:
Biography: Prof. Xiaoyun Xu earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2015. Following her doctoral studies, she conducted three years of postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at SJTU and spent one year as a visiting scholar in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Florida. In 2019, she joined SJTU as an Associate Professor. Her research focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in the environment, remediation of heavy metal-contaminated soils, and the design of engineered carbon materials for contaminant control. She has published over 100 SCI-indexed papers in leading environmental journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology, and Water Research, with 8 highly cited papers and an H-index of 44. She has been selected for the National Youth Talent Program, Shanghai Rising-Star Program, and Stanford University’s "World’s Top 2% Scientists" list; She currently serves on the ES&T Early Career Editorial Board and as a Youth Committee Member of the Soil Remediation Division, Chinese Society of Soil Science.