Education

Duke University, Durham, NC USA
             

Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Expected May 2009.

          Dissertation: Elimination and Microbial Impact of Selected Pharmaceutically Active

                                 Compounds in Wastewater Treatment Plants.

          Honors: Senol Utku Annual Award for best pre-Ph.D. peer-reviewed journal papers

          Committee: Claudia K. Gunsch (Advisor), Heather M. Stapleton,  Marc A. Deshusses,

                               Michael D. Aitken

Tsinghua University, Beijing China

M.S., Environmental Engineering, July 2005
           Thesis: Organic Matter and Nitrogen Removal in Aeration Membrane Bioreactors.             

B.S., Environmental Engineering,  July 2003