Professor Bing-Jie Ni

Professor Bing-Jie Ni

Professor

2009, Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, University of Science & Technology of China (USTC), China.

Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Bing-Jie (Bruce) Ni received his PhD degree in environmental engineering in June 2009. He currently is an ARC Future Fellow and full professor at UNSW Sydney. He has been working in the field of environmental technology and wastewater treatment, particularly the interface among process engineering, microbial biotechnology, materials science and mathematical modeling, focusing on the integration of these disciplines to develop innovative and sustainable technological solutions to a...

Phone
+61 2 9065 2306
E-mail
bingjie.ni1@unsw.edu.au
Location
Water Research Centre Room 104, Civil and Environmental Engineering Vallentine Annex (H22), Kensington Campus

Ni, B.J., Wei, W., Chen, Z., Circular Economy Driven Sustainable Green Hydrogen Energy, Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project, 2025-2027, Australia.

Ni, B.J., Wei, W., Overcoming microplastics induced inhibition on waste-to-energy conversion, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, 2022-2025, Australia.

Ni, B.J., Ngo, H.H., Guo, W., Contribution of Comammox Process to Sustainable Wastewater Treatment, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, 2022-2025, Australia.

Ni, B.J., Sustainable wastewater management, Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship (step 2), 2016-2020, Australia.

Ni, B.J., Novel biotreatment for micropollutant removal from contaminated water, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), 2013-2016, Australia.

Ni, B.J., Mu, Y., Micro-managed biofilm - next generation environmental biotechnologies, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project, 2013-2016, Australia.

Zheng, M., Waite, D., Ni, B.J., Wardrop, P., Permala, R. Zero emission nitrogen removal process. Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project, 2024-2029, Australia.

Yuan, Z., Tyson, G., Sharma, K., Ni, B.J., Murthy, S., Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from sewers – understanding, modelling and mitigation, Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project, 2011-2014, Australia.

  • 2024, Nature Index Rising Star
  • 2024, Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024, Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024, Soil and Environmental Health Outstanding Paper of the Year Award
  • 2023, Highly Cited Researcher - Clarivate Analytics - Web of Science
  • 2023, Stanford top 2% Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2023, Australia Research Leader in Water supply and treatment, The Australian
  • 2023, Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN)
  • 2023, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust)
  • 2023, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
  • 2023, Fellow of Royal Society of Biology (FRSB)
  • 2023, Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023, Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023, Eco-Environment & Health Outstanding Paper of the Year Award
  • 2022, Highly Cited Researcher - Clarivate Analytics - Web of Science
  • 2022, Stanford top 2% Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2022, Nano Research Top Papers Award
  • 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2021, Stanford top 2% Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2020, Mendeley Data top 100,000 Cited Researchers in the world in all academic disciplines
  • 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2018, Top Australia's Most Innovative Engineers Award
  • 2018, South Australian Water Awards - Research Innovation category
  • 2017, Outstanding Reviewer Award for Water Research (Top 1 journal in the field)
  • 2016, ARC Future Fellowship (Level 2), Australian Research Council (ARC), Australia
  • 2016, Outstanding Poster Award, 1st international conference of bioresource technology for bioenergy, bioproducts & environmental sustainability
  • 2015, The University of Queensland Mid-career Research Fellowship, Australia
  • 2015, Outstanding Reviewer Award for Water Research (Top 1 journal in the field)
  • 2015, The University of Queensland Foundation Research Excellence Award 2015
  • 2014, Scopus Young Researcher Award 2014 (Engineering & Technology category), Australia and New Zealand
  • 2014, ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development (Waste Category), Asia-Pacific region, Japan (One of the three recipients in Asia-Pacific region)
  • 2013, EAIT Early Career Researcher Award, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • 2013, ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development (Water Category), Asia-Pacific region
  • 2012, ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Australian Research Council (ARC)
  • 2012, EAIT Early Career Researcher Award, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • 2012, The University of Queensland Early Career Researcher Award, Australia
  • 2011, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards of China, China
  • 2010, The University of Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Australia
  • 2010, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • 2009, HC Oersted Postdoctoral Fellowship of Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark

I have been working on the interface among process engineering, chemistry, materials engineering, microbiology, and environmental biotechnology. I focus on the effective integration of these disciplines to develop innovative and sustainable technological solutions to achieve high-levels of pollutant removal/transformation in waste/water with minimised carbon emissions and energy consumption and maximized resources/energy recovery, aiming to transform waste/water from a troublesome pollutant to a valuable resource for resources recovery and energy generation as well as saving large quantities of greenhouse gas emissions. My specific research interests include but not limited to:

  • Sustainable carbon neutral wastes and wastewater management
  • Green chemistry & Solid wastes reutilization
  • Emerging contaminates in urban water systems: occurrence, fate, behaviour and transportation
  • Greenhouse gases emission and mitigation from urban waters
  • Electrochemical water/seawater/wastewater splitting
  • Microplastics and nanoplastics in urban water systems
  • Eco-design of catalysts for water environmental and energy application
  • Novel low-carbon high-efficient biological nitrogen removal biotechnologies
  • Anaerobic digestion and fermentation for sewage sludge treatment and biotransformation
  • Mathematical modelling of biological wastewater and sludge treatment processes

  • Lead Guest Editor, Water Research (Nature-indexed, Elsevier, 2021-2022)
  • Editorial Advisory Board, Environmental Science & Technology (Nature-indexed, 2021-2023)
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief (inaugural), Cleaner Water (Elsevier, 2023- present)
  • Editor, Sustainable Horizons (Elsevier, 2021-present)
  • Associate Editor, Environmental Chemistry Letters (Springer, 2022-present)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier, 2019-2024)
  • Editor, Journal of Environmental Management (Elsevier, 2018-2024)
  • Associate Editor, Environmental Research (Elsevier, 2022-2024)
  • Associate Editor, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology (Taylor, 2022-present)
  • Editorial Board, Current Opinion in Green & Sustainable Chemistry (Elsevier, 2019-present)
  • Editorial Board, Soil & Environmental Health (Elsevier, 2022-present)
  • Editorial Board, Environmental Surfaces and Interfaces (Elsevier, 2023-present)
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances (Elsevier, 2021-present)