Professor JiaQian Jiang

Professor
Professor Jiang is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and a Chartered Engineer. He has a PhD degree in Environmental Engineering and has the expertise of research and teaching in the field of water and environmental science and engineering. His main research interests are: development and use of water treatment chemicals; design and optimisation of water treatment unit processes; nutrients recovery from wastewater; and degradation of emerging micro-pollutants in aquatic environments.

As a principal investigator and a supervisor, Prof Jiang led his team to successfully complete various projects and at the same time has supervised 15 doctoral students and 6 post-doc researchers to completion. His researches are funded by the Research Council UK, EU Research Council, UK/Scottish/international industries, UK KTP scheme, British Council and other overseas funding organisations.

Prof Jiang supervised numerous dissertations of MSc and final year undergraduates. He also developed new teaching syllabus and delivered teachings in the subject of water and wastewater treatment technology and engineering, environmental and water chemistry and the chemical engineering related.

As an activist in scientific societies, Prof Jiang is a member of EPSRC Peer Review College, a Research Assessor of The Carnegie Trust for Scottish Universities, an invited external PhD examiner at various universities, a member of the expert committee of EU Research for innovation, an invited assessor by various international funding organisations to review research proposals, a member of programme committees and sessions’ chair of various international conferences, and an associate editor/member of editorial board of various international journals. Moreover, his researches have resulted in a number of peer reviewed journals papers, book chapters and articles in conference proceedings, which have high impact to the academic community and scientific societies (see https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3607-8910).