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Name:
Youwei Hong
Highest Education:
 
Office:
1799 Jimei Road, Xiamen 361021, China
Zip Code:
361021
Phone:
+86-592-6190585
Email:
ywhong@iue.ac.cn

Education and Appointments:

1998.9-2002.6 B.S. in Plant Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU)
2002.9-2005.6 M.S. in Plant Physiology (Advised by Prof. Yushan Zheng), FAFU
2005.9-2008.12 Ph.D.in Environmental Sciences (Advised by Prof. Dongxing Yuan), Xiamen University
2009.02-2013.12, Assistant professor, Research Center for Urban Ecological Health and Environmental Safety, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IUE,CAS)
2014.01-2015.09, Assistant professor, Research Center of Urban Pollution Control and Restoration, IUE,CAS
2015.09- present, Associate professor, Research Center of Urban Pollution Control and Restoration, IUE,CAS
2014.04-2015.04, a visiting scholar at University of California Riverside, USA
2014.08-2015.08, a member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
2016.04-2017.04 a member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)

Main academic contributions:
Research Interest:
Atmospheric Environment; Atmospheric Chemistry; Organic tracers and Secondary Organic Aerosols (SOA)
Selected Publications:

1. Chen, Y., Du W., Chen J.*, Hong Y.*, Zhao J., Xu L., Xiao H. Chemical composition, structural properties and source apportionment of organic macromolecular in atmospheric PM10 in a coastal city of Southeast China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Accepted).
2. Hong Y., Chen J.*, Deng J., Tong L., Xu L., Niu Z., Yin L., Chen Y., Hong Z.. Pattern of atmospheric mercury speciation during episodes of elevated PM2. 5 levels in a coastal city in the Yangtze River Delta, China. Environmental Pollution. 2016, 218, 259-268.
3. Lao W., Hong Y., Tsukada D., Maruya K.A., Gan J. A New Film-Based Passive Sampler for Moderately Hydrophobic Organic Compounds. Environmental Science and Technology, 2016, 50 (24), pp 13470–13476.
4. Deng J., Zhang Y., Hong Y., Xu L., Chen Y., Du W., Chen J.*. Optical properties of PM 2.5 and the impacts of chemical compositions in the coastal city Xiamen in China. Science of the Total Environment 2016, 557, 665-675
5. Hong Y., Chen J.*, Zhang F., Zhang H.*, Xu L., Yin L., Chen Y. Effects of urbanization on gaseous and particulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls in a coastal city, China: Levels, sources, and health risks. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2015, 22:14919–14931.
6. Hong Y.*, Liao D., Chen J., Khan S.,Su J.,Li H. A comprehensive study of the impact of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contamination on salt marsh plants Spartina alterniflora: implication for plant-microbe interactions in phytoremediation. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2015, 22 (9), 7071-7081
7. Xu, L.; Chen, J.; Yang, L.; Yin, L.; Yu, J.; Qiu, T.; Hong Y., Characteristics of total and methyl mercury in wet deposition in a coastal city, Xiamen, China: Concentrations, fluxes and influencing factors on Hg distribution in precipitation. Atmospheric Environment 2014, 99, 10-16.
8. Hong Y., Yu S.*, Yu G., Liu Y., Li G., Wang M. Impacts of urbanization on surface sediment quality: evidence from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) contaminations in the Grand Canal of China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2012,19 (5):1352-1363.

Supported Projects:

1. Sub-project of the National Basic Research Priorities Program of China,“Observational studies and integrated application of air supersite in coastal areas of Ningbo” (No. 2016YFC0200501), 07/2016-06/2020. Principal Investigator
2. Sub-project of the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program) “Transport and transformation of atmospheric reactive nitrogen and their effects on air quality” (No. 2014CB953802), 01/2014-12/2018. Principal Investigator
3. Sub-project of International Cooperation and Exchanges, “Marine atmospheric Science Unravelled: Desorption electrospray ionization - Tof of flight- Mass spectrometer (DESI-Tof-MS) development and application” (No. 2016YFE0112200), 12/2016-11/2019. Principal Investigator
4. Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province, China “Characteristics and sources of secondary organic aerosols (SOA) in coastal cities of Southeast China” (No. 2016J01201), 04/2016-04/2019. Principal Investigator
5. Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China