SU Kai

Assistant Professor for Environmental Science and Engineering

Research Interests:

Environmental Significance and Mechanistic Reactivity of Redox-activated Clay Minerals

Connect:

SWJTU XIPU Campus Building 4 Room 4442

email:ksu@swjtu.edu.com.cn

Education:

a.September, 2009 - July, 2013. Southwest Jiaotong University, Ph.D., Engineering Environmental Control.

Ph.D. Thesis: Experimental Research of Using Modified Clay Mineral to Remove Nitrate.

b.August, 2010 - August, 2012. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Joint Ph.D., Soil Physical Chemistry.

Research Focus: Environmental Significance of Clay Minerals.

c.September, 2008 - August, 2009. Southwest Jiaotong University, Master Degree Candidate, Engineering Environmental Control.

Research Focus: Remediation of Heavy Metal Pollution in Groundwater.

d.September, 2004 - June, 2008. Southwest Jiaotong University, bachelor, Environmental Engineering.

Experience

a.September, 2013 - Present. Southwest Jiaotong University, Assistant Professor.

b.December, 2018 - December, 2019. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Visiting Scholar.

Research Interests

My research has focused on the area of the environmental significance and mechanistic reactivity of redox-activated clay minerals. Clay minerals from soils, sediments, and enriched deposits will be reacted with bacteria and other reductants, similar to those encountered in nature, to create redox-modified products. These products will then be reacted with the contaminants of interest.