People
Wei Li
Professor of Geochemistry
Deputy Director of Key Laboratory of Surficial
Geochemistry, Ministry of Education (KLSG)
Email: liwei_isg@nju.edu.cn
Tel: (+0086)25-89681359
BRIEF PROFILE
Wei Li is a Professor of geochemistry at the Nanjing University in the Department of Earth and Plenatary Sciences. His research focuses on mineral-water interfacial geochemistry and soil metal biogeochemistry as well as the application of fundamental principles of geochemistry in soil remediation and water decontamination. Projects include exploring the mechanism of transition metals precipitation on clay and Al oxides surface using quick-scanning EXAFS, the use of limestone minerals and clay minerals for metal sequestration for contaminated soils in Southern China, and designing new materials for fluoride removal. He is also interested in studying the soil phosphorus chemistry using both 31P liquid-state and solid-state NMR spectroscopy. He has published 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology, and Geochemical Cosmochimical Acta. Li holds a B.S. in chemistry from the Wuhan University, a M.S in environmental chemistry at the Research Center of Eco-Environmental Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. in mineralogy and geochemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He performed a postdoc at the University of Delaware in the Delaware Environmental Institute (DENIN).
EDUCATION
D. Phil. in State University of New York at Stony Brook (2010)
M.Sc. in Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006)
B.Sc. inWuhan University (2003)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Deputy Director, Key Lab of Earth Surface Geochemistry, Ministry of Education (May 2018 – present)
Vice Director, International Joint Institute of Critical Zone Science & Technology, Nanjing University/University of Leeds (Nov. 2017 - present)
Professor, School of Earth Science and Engineering, Nanjing University (Dec. 2015 - present)
Associated Professor, School of Earth Science and Engineering, Nanjing University (July. 2014 - Dec. 2015)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Delaware Environmental Institute; University of Delaware, supervised by Prof. Donald L. Sparks (Nov. 2010 - June. 2014)
HONORS AND AWARDS
National Excellent Young Scientist Award(2017)
1000-Youth Talent Scholar(2016)
Jiangsu Province Outstanding Young Scientists Award (2015)
Dengfeng Faculty Early Career Award, Nanjing University(2014)
Yonglin Liu Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006)
Research Excellence Scholarship,RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006)
Renmin Scholarship, Wuhan University (2002)
Renmin Scholarship, Wuhan University (2001)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China:Applied & Engineering Geochemistry (Undergraduate course) (2015-present)
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China: Research Methods in Earth Science （Graduate course）（2017-present）
Inviter Instructor
University of Delaware, Newark, DE: Designed and gave a three days lecture series to group members on the theory and application of X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (XAFS) and the use of EXAFS data processing programs (e.g., Athena, Artemis, SixPack, etc) (Mar. 2012)
Teaching Assistant
University of Delaware, Newark, DE (Feb. 2011 - June. 2013)
PLSC608 Environmental Soil Chemistry (Spring 2011, 30 graduate students)
PLSC608 Environmental Soil Chemistry (Spring 2013, 22 graduate students)
SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY (Sept. 2006 - June. 2007)
GEO101 Natural Hazards (Fall 2006, 200 undergraduate students)
GEO102 Environmental Geology (Spring 2007, 200 undergraduate students)
CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS and POSTDOCs
PhD students: Chao Ren (2015); Xinxin Mo (2016); Zhao Wang (2017); Yongfang Li (2017); Jingzhao Wang (2018); Qiang Zhou (2018); Hongbo Wang (2019)
Postdoc: Dongxing Guan (2016-2019); Yunbin Jiang (2017) Wenxian Gou (2019);
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS, SERVICES and LEADERSHIP
Journal Editor
Editorial Board, Geochemical Transaction, 2015 - present
Editorial Board, Advances in Environment and Pollution Research, 2017 - present
Review Editor, Frontiers in Earth Science, 2017 – present
Associate Editor, Geochemical Journal, 2020 -
Journal Reviewer
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Environmental Science & Technology, Chemical Geology, Langmuir, Soil Science Society of American Journal, Water Resources Research, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Journal of Environmental Quality, Environmental Pollution, Journal of Soil and Sediment, Colloid and Surface A, Water Environmental Research, Journal of Nanomaterials & Molecular Nanotechnology, Materials Research Bulletin, and Science in China
Meeting Organizer
Symposium Organizer, “Advances in understanding the Molecular Environmental Soil Science in Honor of Donald Sparks”, The International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements (ICOBTE) (2019)
Symposium Organizer, “Applications of NMR spectroscopy in clays and clay mineral system”, The 55th Annual Meeting of the Clay Mineral Society (2018)
Symposium Co-organizer, “Advances in understanding the environmental geochemistry of manganese oxides”, The 247th American Chemical Society National Meeting (2014)
Symposium Co-organizer, “Advances in understanding the chemistry of light elements at environmental interfaces”, The 245th American Chemical Society National Meeting (2013)
INVITED LECTURES
2019 Soochow University, Hangzhou, China
Novel methodology for probing mineral-water interface geochemistry
A molecular scale understanding of Zn isotope fractionation at environmental interfaces
2018 Zhejiang University of Technology,Hangzhou,China
Towards a molecular scale understanding of environmental geochemistry
2017 Institute of Urban Environment, Ningbo Branch, Ningbo, China
On the molecular scale understanding of phosphorus biogeochemical cycling
Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Molecular environmental science of P at mineral/water interface: A spectroscopic perspective
Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
Molecular understanding of soil heavy metal pollution: New insights from synchrotron techniques
2016 Zhejiang Agriculture & Forestry University, Hangzhou, China
How to be a good graduate student
2014 Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
Developing new methodologies for probing mineral/water interface
2013 Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Application of XAFS in environmental soil science
Nanjing University (School of Environment),Nanjing, China
Application of NMR and XAFS in environmental science
2012 Nanjing University (School of Earth Sciences),Nanjing, China
Environmental molecular science at mineral/water interfaces
Nanjing Institute of Soil Science,Nanjing, China
Molecular scale process of soil P chemistry
2010 University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
Determining the structure of anions adsorbed on Al (hydr)oxides by spectroscopic methods
Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Surface complexation of phosphate on boehmite (γ-AlOOH) as studied by novel solid-state NMR
Peking University, Beijing, China
Determining the short-range-order (SRO) structures in minerals by solid state NMR and pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of total X-ray scattering
2008 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Basics of solid-state NMR technique and its application in environmental science
