Research Interests

Environmental Chemistry. Particularly, I focus on the occurrence, transformation, and fate of emerging contaminants in natural and engineered environments.

Biography

• Dr. Weihua Song received a B.S. in Environmental Chemistry and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Nanjing University in 1999 and 2002. He completed his Ph.D. with Professor Kevin E. O’Shea at Florida International University in 2006. He was a postdoctoral fellow, working with Prof. William J. Cooper at University of California, Irvine from 2007 to 2010.

Prizes and Awards

• Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)

• Professorship of Eastern Scholar

Key Publications

• Yixin Huang, Yihui Zhang, Mengzhe Zhao, Shuwen Yan, Daqiang Yin, Weihua Song*. Solar Induced Phototransformation of Peracetic acid in Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter Solutions. Environmental Science & Technology, 2025, 59, 9321-9331.

• Mengzhe Zhao, Shuwen Yan*, Yelong Zhang, Yue Song, Shen-An Chan, Weihua Song*. Simultaneous and Rapid Analysis of Multiclass Emerging Contaminants Using a Column-switching LC-MS Method. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2024, 11, 12, 1391-1397.

• Wenjie Hong, Jianmin Zou, Mengzhe Zhao, Shuwen Yan, Weihua Song*. Development of a Five-Chemical-Probe Method to Determine Multiple Radicals Simultaneously in Hydroxyl and Sulfate Radical-Mediated Advanced Oxidation Processes. Environmental Science & Technology, 2024, 58, 5616-5626.

• Jianxin Nie, Jianmin Zou, Shuwen Yan, Weihua Song*. Photosensitized transformation of peroxymonosulfate in dissolved organic matter solutions under simulated solar irradiation. Environmental Science & Technology, 2022, 56, 1963-1972.

• Shuwen Yan, Jiaqian Sun, Haitao Sha, Qi Li, Jianxin Nie, Jianmin Zou, Chiheng Chu, Weihua Song*. Microheterogeneous distribution of hydroxyl radicals in illuminated dissolved organic matter solutions. Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55, 10524-10533.