Xinhua Qi

University/Organization: Agro-environmental Protection Institute

Country: China

 Biography

Prof. Xinhua Qi received his B.S. degree in environmental chemistry (1998) and Ph.D. in environmental science (2003) from Nankai University (Tianjin, China). From July 2003 to Sep. 2006, he worked in the College of Environmental Science & Engineering of Nankai University. After that, he worked as JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) from Oct. 2006 to Nov. 2010. Then he returned back to China and worked at Nankai University (Nov. 2010 to Jan. 2015), where he was promoted to a full professor in 2011. From Jan. 2015, Professor Qi moved to Agro-Environmental Protection Institute (AEPI), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Tianjin China). He is currently the director of Research Center of Agro-Ecology and Environmental Governance of AEPI.


Professor Qi has a strong background in environmental chemistry, advanced oxidation techniques for wastewater treatment, environmental catalysis and catalytic conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into fuel and chemicals. He has published more than 80 peer reviewed scientific papers with a number of papers being in top-ranked international journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Green Chemistry and Bioresource Technology. These papers have been cited over 1800 times in ISI Web of Science with H index 22. He also has edited 5 books and 3 book chapters on environmental engineering and biomass resources utilization.

 Research Interest

His Research interests are Environmental chemistry; Reclamation of agricultural wastes, Biomass conversion into value-added materials and chemicals; Biomass-derived materials synthesis; Catalysis.