Lijie Zhang
Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Environmental Science
385 Tiernan Hall (TIER)
About Me
Dr. Zhang's lab investigates interfacial processes that control the fate and transformation of environmental pollutants and resources under natural and engineered conditions.
Education
Ph.D. ; Washington University in St Louis ; Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering ; 2018

B.S. ; Tsinghua University ; Environmental Science and Engineering ; 2012

Awards & Honors

2020 Outstanding Post-Graduate Researcher Award, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

2018 Doctoral Student Research Award, Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

2018 Student Travel Award, Geochemistry Division, American Chemical Society

2025 Fall Courses
CHEM 701C - MASTERS THESIS

CHEM 591 - GRADUATE CO-OP WORK EXPER II

CHEM 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

CHEM 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

EVSC 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

EVSC 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

EVSC 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

CHEM 391 - RESEARCH AND INDEPENDENT STUDY

EVSC 592 - GRADUATE WORK EXPERIENCE II

EVSC 610 - ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL SCIENCE

EVSC 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

FRSC 491 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY I

CHEM 491 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY I

CHEM 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

EVSC 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

CHEM 700B - MASTERS PROJECT

CHEM 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

CHEM 492 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY

CHEM 590 - GRADUATE CO-OP WORK EXPER I

CHEM 701B - MASTERS THESIS

EVSC 591 - GRADUATE WORK EXPERIENCE I

EVSC 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

EVSC 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

Past Courses
CHEM 126: GEN CHEMISTRY II - HONORS

CHEM 235: PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY II

ENE 663: WATER CHEMISTRY

EVSC 610: ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL SCIENCE

EVSC 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR

Research Interests
Environmental biogeochemistry; soil/water contamination remediation; resource recovery; water purification; energy-related subsurface processes
Journal Article
L. Zhao, E. Zaborowski, S. Bordoloi, N. Rajagopalan, B.K. Sharma, C. Baroi, W. Xing, Lijie Zhang. 2024. "Characterization of novel polysulfide polymer coated fly ash and its application in mitigating diffusion of contaminants." Environmental Pollution , vol. 347 , pp. 123706.

Peihua Li, Yanan Yang, Lin-Lan Zhuang, Zhen Hu, Lijie Zhang, Shuhan Ge, Weiyi Qian, Wanqing Tian, Yinhu Wu, Hong-Ying Hu. 2024. "Effects of chemical oxygen demand and chloramphenicol on attached microalgae growth: Physicochemical properties and microscopic mass transfer in biofilm." Bioresource Technology , vol. 399 , pp. 130561.

Fangyu Hu, Chengcheng Gao, Baoyu Wang, Ziming Ding, Lijie Zhang, Shuhe Wei, Jing An. 2024. "Effects of chicken manure-modified biochar on the adsorption capacity of tetracycline and abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in soil." Land Degradation \& Development , vol. 35 , no. 3 , pp. 1224-1233.

Bin Pan, Tianru Song, Ming Yue, Shengnan Chen, Lijie Zhang, Katriona Edlmann, Chelsea W. Neil, Weiyao Zhu, Stefan Iglauer. 2024. "Machine learning - based shale wettability prediction: Implications for H2, CH4 and CO2 geo-storage." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy , vol. 56 , pp. 1384-1390.

François Nkinahamira, Anqi Feng, Lijie Zhang, Hongwei Rong, Pamphile Ndagijimana, Dabin Guo, Baihui Cui, Huichun Zhang. 2024. "Machine learning approaches for monitoring environmental metal pollutants: Recent advances in source apportionment, detection, quantification, and risk assessment." TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry , vol. 180 , pp. 117980.

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