Prof. Dr. Nan XU is a full professor, Ph.D. advisor and vice dean of the School of Environment and Energy at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, and the director of the Shenzhen Engineering Research Center for Nanoporous Water Treatment Materials. She is a Member of the Expert Committee on Emerging Contaminant Control of Guangdong Province. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from the Department of Environmental Engineering, Institute of Chemical Engineering at Dalian University of Technology in 2000, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Environmental Engineering at Peking University in 2005. Before joining Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School in March 2009, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford University and the Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK.

Dr. Xu specializes in aquatic environmental chemistry, and the theories and technologies for the control and treatment of aquatic environmental pollution. Her main research interests focus on the target and non-target screening, ecological risk assessment, and enhanced removal of emerging contaminants, such as per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in aquatic environment. Dr. Xu has hosted or joined in various scientific research grants, from the National Natural Science Foundation, Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, Shenzhen Science and Technology Program, National Major Science and Technology Program for Water Pollution Control and Treatment, UK Natural Environment Research Council, and UK Environmental Agency. She has published more than 130 peer-reviewed journal papers, in which more than 90 were published in well-known SCI journals such as Nature Communications, Water Research, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental and Chemical Engineering Journal. Four papers have been highly cited. From 2021 to 2024, she has been consecutively included in the list of the top 2% world scientists based on "Annual Scientific Impact". She held four invention patents. She won the first prize of Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award (ranking 2nd), first prize of Innovation Award of China Invention Association (ranking 1st), and second prize of Shenzhen Science and Technology Progress Award (ranking 1st). She was awarded as Shenzhen Overseas High-Level Talent in 2013.

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