Dr Yongqiang Liu
Lecturer
Dr Yongqiang Liu is Lecturer in Environmental Engineering within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
My research focuses on sustainable wastewater treatment with concerns of greenhouse gas emission, water quality, and resource recovery
Dr Liu received her PhD in Chemical Engineering. After that, she worked as a research fellow and a Singapore Millennium Foundation (SMF) research fellow at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Subsequently, she worked as a senior research scientist at the Institute of Environmental Science and Engineering, Singapore, before she joined the University of Southampton as a lecturer.
Dr Liu’s past research covers a wide range of topics from glycerol fermentation, pyrolysis and gasification of organic wastes, to wastewater treatment and resource recovery. She has undertaken many projects sponsored by the Singapore National Environment Agency, the Singapore Environment and Water Industry Programme Office, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, National biofilm Innovation Centre, BBSRC/EPSRC NIBB. She also conducted projects from the industry for technology demonstration and scaling-up.
Dr Liu is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal papers and a number of conference papers. She is the author of three book chapters on “Aerobic treatment of organic compounds in the wastewater”, “Biological phosphorus removal processes”, and “Combustion, pyrolysis and gasification of sewage sludge for energy recovery”. Dr Liu is a technical reviewer serving for a number of international journals for years, and she is also a reviewer of research proposals for BBSRC, Royal Society and research councils in Canada, Finland and Croatia.
