Qilin Li

Dr. Qilin Li is the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, and the Associate Director for Research for the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT). Dr. Li received her B.E. degree in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her post-doctoral training at Yale University. Dr. Li’s research focuses on advanced materials and novel processes for desalination, water treatment and reuse, and sustainable urban water systems. She is a Fellow of the International Water Association (IWA) and currently serves as the vice chair for the IWA Nano&Water Specialist Group Managing Committee. Dr. Li served as an Associate Editor of Water Research and co-editor of Desalination and is an editorial board member for Frontier of Environmental Science and Engineering.