Areas of Focus
- Long-term risk prevention and control of contaminated sites
- Long-term evaluation and monitoring methods based on artificial aging for remediation
- Development of low-carbon long-lasting remediation materials
- Interfacial chemical actions between pollutants and minerals/remediation materials
- Biogeochemical processes in soil pollution and remediation
- Life cycle assessment of site remediation processes
- Soil carbon cycle
Work Experience
- 2017-2019 Postdoctoral Fellow/Killam Scholar: University of Alberta
- 2019-2021 Assistant Research Fellow: Tsinghua University
- 2021-present Distinguished Researcher, Associate Professor: Nanjing University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2006-2013 Bachelor & Master: Nanjing University
- 2013-2017 PhD: University of Cambridge
- Selected for the National High-level Talents Special Support Plan
Publications
- Effect of production temperature and particle size of rice husk biochar on mercury immobilization and erosion prevention of a mercury contaminated soil, Shen, Z.T., Zhang, Z.R., Zhang, M.D., Rinklebe, J., Ma, Y. and Hou, D.Y.*, 2021
- Solidification/Stabilization for Soil Remediation: An Old Technology with New Vitality, Shen, Z.T., Jin, F., O'Connor, D. and Hou, D.Y.*, 2019
- Synthesis of MgO-coated corncob biochar and its application in lead stabilization in a soil washing residue, Shen, Z.T., Zhang, J.Z., Hou, D.Y.,* Tsang, D.C.W., Ok, Y.S. and Alessi, D.S., 2019
- Temporal effect of MgO reactivity on the stabilization of lead contaminated soil, Shen, Z.T., Pan, S.Z., Hou, D.Y.,* O'Connor, D., Jin, F., Mo, L.W., Xu, D.Y., Zhang, Z.R. and Alessi, D.S., 2019
- Salisbury biochar did not affect the mobility or speciation of lead in kaolin in a short-term laboratory study, Shen, Z.T.,* McMillan, O., Jin, F. and Al-Tabbaa, A., 2016
Awards
- National Excellent Self-financed Overseas Student Scholarship
- Canadian Killam Postdoctoral Fund
- ES&T's Paper of the Year
