2 July 2025
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Water


Water
(ISSN: 2073-4441) is pleased to announce the following 50 researchers who have been added to our group of 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the journal’s community. 

Name: Dr. Weichen Lin
Affiliation: School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Homepage: https://envfaculty.bnu.edu.cn/Public/htm/news/5/148.html
Research interests: water/wastewater treatment; membrane-based technology; membrane fouling and control; computational fluid dynamics; membrane module design

Name: Dr. Yongkui Yang
Affiliation: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Homepage: https://faculty.tju.edu.cn/YangYongkui/en/index.htm
Research interests: emerging pollutants; antibiotics; microplastics; treatment; risk; industrial parks

Name: Dr. Qiulai He
Affiliation: College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Homepage: https://grzy.hnu.edu.cn/site/index/heqiulai
Research interests: activated sludge; biological nitrogen removal; enhanced biological phosphorus removal; sludge reduction; energy and resource recovery

Name: Dr. Lotfi Mouni
Affiliation: Laboratoire de Gestion et Valorisation des Ressources Naturelles et Assurance Qualité, Faculté SNVST, Université de Bouira, Bouira 10000, Algeria
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5259-2357
Research interests: photocatalysis; sorption; wastewater; advanced oxidation processes; Fenton/photo-Fenton

Name: Dr. Nan Xu
Affiliation: School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
Homepage: https://saup.szu.edu.cn/info/1093/3182.htm
Research interests: hydrology; geography; climate change; coast; remote sensing; GIS; sustainability

Name: Dr. Chao Song
Affiliation: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
Homepage: https://www.huanke.sdu.edu.cn/info/1080/1066.htm
Research interests: antibiotics; microplastic; photolysis; corrosion inhibition; wastewater treatment

Name: Dr. Linghao Kong
Affiliation: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7758-5279
Research interests: wastewater; resource recovery; environmental processes; pollution control; photochemistry; arsenic; antimony

Name: Dr. Ran Mao
Affiliation: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
Homepage: https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~0075644
Research interests: electrocatalysis; electroreduction; nitrate reduction; advanced oxidation process; electrochemical water treatment; resource recovery; heavy metal complex removal

Name: Dr. Panpan Xu
Affiliation: School of Water and Environment, Chang'an University, Xi'an 710054, Shaanxi, China
Homepage: https://js.chd.edu.cn/hjkxygcxy/xpp/list.htm
Research interests: hydrogeochemistry; groundwater–surface water interaction; groundwater pollution; evolution of water environment in arid areas; origin of geothermal water; water–soil interaction

Name: Dr. Hangzhou Xu
Affiliation: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
Homepage: https://www.huanke.sdu.edu.cn/info/1080/1093.htm
Research interests: algal blooms; microbial community; cyanobacterial toxins; algal organic matter; disinfection byproducts; coagulation; drinking water treatment

Name: Dr. Linyan Yang
Affiliation: School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
Homepage: https://zhxy.ecust.edu.cn/2019/0222/c6506a85639/page.htm
Research interests: membrane filtration; membrane process; nanofiltration; minimization of micropollutants; disinfection by-product; water and wastewater treatment

Name: Dr. Jiawen Wang
Affiliation: School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Homepage: https://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/web/wangjiawen
Research interests: algal ecology; ecological protection and restoration; algal bloom early warning; risk prevention

Name: Dr. Bo Wang
Affiliation: Colleage of Environmental Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Homepage: https://yanzhao.bjut.edu.cn/info/1492/8476.htm
Research interests: water treatment; catalysis; adsorption; zeolite; organic pollutant; environmental engineering; chemical engineering

Name: Dr. Mengqi Zheng
Affiliation: Department of Municipal Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
Homepage: http://faculty.hfut.edu.cn/zhengmengqi/en/
Research interests: industrial wastewater treatment; algae–bacteria symbiosis system; bioelectrochemistry; carbon reduction and nitrogen fixation; nutrition recovery; microbiology

Name: Dr. Cancan Jiang
Affiliation: Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9064-5990
Research interests: environmental biotechnology; microbial interaction; quorum sensing; metagenomics; bioinformatics; nitrogen cycle; water treatment; anammox; partial nitrification

Name: Dr. Modesto Pérez-Sánchez
Affiliation: Hydraulic Engineering and Enviromental Department, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Homepage: https://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/mopesan1
Research interests: hydraulic machines; renewable systems; water distribution networks; water management

Name: Dr. Yuxue Guo
Affiliation: Institute of Water Science and Engineering, Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Homepage: https://person.zju.edu.cn/0619337#0
Research interests: reservoir control operation; water resource management; climate change and adaption; system analysis optimization; hydrological modeling; uncertainty; artificial intelligence

Name: Dr. Gaia Mattei
Affiliation: Department of Science and Technology, Parthenope University of Naples, Napoli, Italy
Homepage: https://www.uniparthenope.it/Portale-Ateneo/organigramma/2387
Research interests: geomorphology; coastal geoarchaeology; sea level change; coastal landscape evolution; new technology for underwater landscape reconstruction; GIS; marine geophysics

Name: Dr. Jinsheng Huang
Affiliation: Institute of Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
Homepage: https://case.fiu.edu/about/directory/profiles/jinsheng-huang.html
Research interests: environmental nanotechnology; emerging contaminants; water treatment; soil remediation; resource recovery; waste management

Name: Dr. Chiara Zanotti
Affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milan, Italy
Homepage: https://en.unimib.it/chiara-zanotti
Research interests: groundwater quality; groundwater availability; climate change; natural background levels; data science; data-driven approach; time series analysis

Name: Dr. Cátia Graça
Affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7811-6765
Research interests: advanced oxidation processes (AOPs); water treatment technologies; waste valorization; circular economy in water management; environmental technology

Name: Dr. Yuntao Wang
Affiliation: Advanced Interdisciplinary Institute of Satellite Applications, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Homepage: https://geot.bnu.edu.cn/Public/htm/news/5/1070.html
Research interests: water resource management; urban flood simulation and risk assessment; eco-hydrology; water environment simulation

Name: Dr. Zihao Wu
Affiliation: Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Water Security, Center for Water Research, Advanced Institute of Natural Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China
Homepage: https://cwr.bnuzh.edu.cn/zxgk/jsdw/fjshfyjy/02ebb44fa7444f8c83190fa7f4848de3.htm
Research interests: advanced oxidation processes; emerging contaminants; water and wastewater treatment; environmental photochemistry; chlorinated organic pollutants; radicals for water treatment and remediation

Name: Dr. Zhaocai Wang
Affiliation: College of Information Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China
Homepage: https://xxxy.shou.edu.cn/_t1352/2015/1228/c17516a340484/page.htm
Research interests: streamflow prediction; cascade reservoir scheduling; water–energy–food–carbon coupling; water quality prediction; water resource management; water–wind–solar–storage multi-energy complementarity; hydrological modeling

Name: Dr. Dong Liu
Affiliation: Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Homepage: https://www.niglas.cas.cn/yjsjy_165790/dsjs/shshshdsh/dtx/202207/t20220704_6471100.html
Research interests: remote sensing; carbon cycle; water environment; lakes; rivers; particulate organic carbon; dissolved organic carbon

Name: Dr. Sai Xu
Affiliation: School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Homepage: https://ebe.njust.edu.cn/b8/30/c17807a309296/page.htm
Research interests: antibiotic resistance; methane oxidation; microbial community; water ecology; photocatalysis; pathogen; wastewater treatment

Name: Dr. Yi Yang
Affiliation: Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China
Homepage:
https://fas.bnu.edu.cn/jyjg/xsgk/hxx1/xsszhx/hxzj/2ca5a7c2a1f84477894be4bb66848f76.htm
Research interests: water treatment; catalysis; adsorption; zeolite; organic pollutant; environmental engineering; chemical engineering

Name: Prof. Dr. Ying Xu
Affiliation: School of Ecology and Environment, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450000, China
Homepage: https://www7.zzu.edu.cn/sthj/info/1063/1576.htm
Research interests: wastewater treatment; solar evaporation; solar distillation; seawater desaltation; photothermal materials; photocatalysis materials; environmental recovery; pollutant degradation

Name: Dr. Shuang Qiu
Affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Chemical Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, School of Environmental and Biological Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China
Homepage: http://gsmis.njust.edu.cn/open/TutorInfo.aspx?dsbh=SjqWL14Ng3oVwDNnKaXWpw==&yxsh=RbLgfe3wnYE=&zydm=2s6FlpXG84M=
Research interests: biological wastewater treatment; nutrient recovery; bioenergy from wastewater; microalgae; microalgae–bacteria consortium; nitrogen removal; carboxylate acid production

Name: Prof. Dr. Meijia Zhang
Affiliation: College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
Homepage:
https://mypage.zjnu.edu.cn/ZMJ1/zh_CN/index.htm
Research interests: microalgal–bacterial symbiosis system; membrane fouling; membrane bioreactor; wastewater treatment; resource recovery

Name: Dr. Pengwei Yan
Affiliation: School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
Homepage: https://homepage.hit.edu.cn/yanpengwei
Research interests: drinking water treatment; advanced oxidation technology; disinfection; water toxicity; decontamination of organic pollutants

Name: Dr. Liping Wang
Affiliation: School of Geology and Environment, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, PR China
Homepage: https://dhxy.xust.edu.cn/info/1013/6644.htm
Research interests: semiconductors; photocatalysis; water pollution control; DFT calculation; environmental remediation

Name: Dr. Shihai Deng
Affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 712000, China
Homepage: https://www.xjtu.edu.cn/jsnr.jsp?urltype=tree.TreeTempUrl&wbtreeid=1632&wbwbxjtuteacherid=2831
Research interests: water and wastewater treatment; AOPs; biological processes; membrane processes; resource recovery for circular economy and carbon neutrality; metallic catalysts and materials; micro-electrolysis

Name: Prof. Dr. Guang Yang
Affiliation: College of Water and Architectural Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832000, China
Homepage: https://sjxy.shzu.edu.cn/2022/1216/c6909a182090/page.htm
Research interests: ecological hydrology in arid areas; efficient utilization of water resources in arid areas; ecological hydrological models; unconventional water resource utilization in arid areas; hydrological cycle in inland river basins in arid areas

Name: Prof. Dr. Wei Ge
Affiliation: School of Water Conservancy and Transportation, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China
Homepage: https://www5.zzu.edu.cn/yrl/gewei.pdf
Research interests: dam; dike; risk assessment; risk management; failure probability; risk consequences; emergency evacuation

Name: Dr. Matteo Gentilucci
Affiliation: School of Science and Technology, Geology Division, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5826-5031
Research interests: climate; climate change; landslide susceptibility; GIS; remote sensing; wildfires; hydrogeological risks

Name: Dr. Hongliang Kang
Affiliation: School of Land Engineering, Chang'an University, Xi'an, China
Homepage: https://js.chd.edu.cn/sle/khl/list.htm
Research interests: water erosion; soil erosion; water and soil conservation; sediment yield and transport; gully erosion; soil and water loss and control for production and construction projects; rainstorm erosion; terrace damage

Name: Dr. Xi Zhang
Affiliation: Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, and Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, Lemont, IL, USA
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OlJ8VxMAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN
Research interests: advanced oxidation processes; photocatalysis; nanomaterials; membrane; (waste)water treatment

Name: Dr. Qijie Li
Affiliation: Civil Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ykjGoOIAAAAJ
Research interests: urban water research; urban hydrology; urban sustainability; underground space safety; smart urban water systems; flood risk and climate resilience; sustainable urban drainage; nature-based solutions

Name: Dr. Riccardo Boiocchi
Affiliation: Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, via Mesiano 77, Trento 38123, Italy
Homepage: https://webapps.unitn.it/public/store/ermete/allegato/per0246902/6697034a-e3aa-498f-b310-8b723d81dfa5.pdf
Research interests: wastewater; nitrogen removal; nitrous oxide; carbon footprint; environmental legislation; mathematical modeling; process control; decentralized treatment; energy production; water sustainability

Name: Dr. Borbála Széles
Affiliation: Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Homepage: https://www.tuwien.at/cee/wih/hydro/ueber-uns/team or http://waterresources.at/index.php?id=156
Research interests: hydrology; catchment hydrology; hydrological modeling; evapotranspiration; experimental catchments; water balance; water resource management

Name: Dr. Ze Jiang
Affiliation: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Homepage: https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/ze-jiang
Research interests: hydroclimate extremes; climate change; water resources; statistical hydrology; environmental engineering

Name: Dr. Diego Di Curzio
Affiliation: Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, 35122 Padova, Italy
Homepage: https://www.unipd.it/en/contatti/rubrica?detail=Y&ruolo=1&checkout=cerca&persona=DI%20CURZIO&key=B4CEA824C0235B0CE9570CA4D4074531
Research interests: reactive transport modeling; groundwater contamination; hydro(bio)geochemical modeling; reactive transport modeling; uncertainty quantification; geostatistics for hydrogeology and environmental sciences; data-driven methods; time series analysis

Name: Dr. Alex Sendros
Affiliation: Water Research Institute. Universitat de Barcelona,Barcelona, Spain
Homepage: https://webgrec.ub.edu/webpages/000009/ang/alex.sendros.ub.edu.html
Research interests: hydrogeology; geophysical prospecting; water management; hydrogeophysics; aquifer management recharge; wastewater treatment; nature-based solutions; aquifer vulnerability

Name: Dr. Yicheng Yang
Affiliation: Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences, Everglades Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Belle Glade, FL 33430, USA
Homepage: https://erec.ifas.ufl.edu/directory/post-doctoral-associates/
Research interests: biochar; water treatment; adsorption; constructed wetlands; activated carbon; water; water quality

Name: Dr. Mattia Di Cicco
Affiliation: Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3432-2492
Research interests: rustacea copepoda; crustacea amphipoda (genus niphargus); groundwater meiofauna; modeling in biogeography; modeling of invertebrate behavior; groundwater functional traits

Name: Dr. Arianna Cauteruccio
Affiliations: 1. Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering (DICCA), University of Genova, 1 Montallegro, 16145 Genoa, GE, Italy; 2. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Measurement Lead Centre “B. Castelli” on Precipitation Intensity, 16145 Genoa, GE, Italy
Homepage: https://rubrica.unige.it/personale/VkZGW15q
Research interests: hydrology; atmospheric precipitation measurements; fluid dynamics and environmental engineering; pluvial flooding; sustainable urban drainage; nature-based solutions

Name: Dr. Nadia Penna
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy.
Homepage: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7299-4823
Research interests: turbulence; open-channel flow; vegetated flows; fluid–structure interaction; local scour; propeller-induced scour

Name: Dr. Peng Du
Affiliation: College of water sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
Homepage: https://cws.bnu.edu.cn/szdw/zzjs/fjs/832e5d75928e43a981276385c0e76709.htm
Research interests: wastewater-based epidemiology; emerging contaminants; biomarker; health risk assessments; early warning of infectious disease; monitoring substances of abuse; PPCPs

Name: Dr. Wenzhao Liang
Affiliation: Department of Ocean Science and Center for Ocean Research in Hong Kong and Macau, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Homepage:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9HrAKb0AAAAJ&hl=zh-TW
Research interests: coastal hydrogeology; surface water–groundwater interactions; biogeochemistry; carbon cycle; water quality; machine learning

 

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