Areas of Focus
- Molecular Environmental Geochemistry
- Nanomineralogy
- Soil Remediation Technologies
Work Experience
- 2016 - Present: Nanjing University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Professor
- 2014-2016: Nanjing University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Researcher
- 2010-2014: University of Delaware, Delaware Environmental Institute, Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2006-2010 PhD: State University of New York, Department of Earth Sciences
- 2003-2006 Master's: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences
- 1999-2003 Bachelor's: Wuhan University, Department of Environmental Sciences
- Selected for the Overseas High-level Talents Program (2016)
- Received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2017)
- Received the Outstanding Youth Fund of Jiangsu Province (2015)
Publications
- In situ/operando XAFS investigation of the sorption/precipitation of Zn(II) on palygorskite surface at the molecular scale: Implications for Zn stable isotope fractionation, Xinxin Mo, Yoshio Takahashi, Matthew Siebecker, Wenxian Gou, Zhao Wang, Xiancai Lu, Wei Li*, 2023
- Zn stable isotope fractionation during adsorption onto todorokite: A molecular perspective from X-ray absorption spectroscopy and density function theory, Zhao Wang, Kideok Kwon, Caroline Peacock, Xinxin Mo, Wenxian Gou, Xionghan Feng, Wei Li*, 2022
Awards
- 2017: National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
- 2016: Overseas High-level Talents Program
- 2015: Outstanding Youth Fund of Jiangsu Province
