PZETS-2025 Oral Presentation：Acidophilic Ammonia Oxidation: Principles and Emerging Roles in Environmental Biotechnology

 Min Zheng

 Water Research Centre, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia (e-mail: min.zheng1@unsw.edu.au )

Dr. Min Zheng is a tenured associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and an Australian Research Council (ARC) industry fellow. He has long been engaged in research on the innovation and commercialization of green water and environmental sustainability technologies. He graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in water and wastewater engineering in 2008 and received his doctorate in environmental science and engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014. He has over a decade of experience in water treatment research and engineering, and as the lead project leader, he has overseen national and international collaborative projects in Australia, securing over AUD 5 million in competitive research funding as the lead project. He has published over 160 SCI-indexed papers, including over 60 in Nature-indexed journals such as Nature Sustainability, Nature Water, Nature Communications, The ISME Journal, Environmental Science & Technology, and Water Research. His research has garnered over 5,000 citations, an H-index of 40, and he has been recognized as one of the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Elsevier and Stanford University. He currently serves as an associate editor of Water Research and an editorial advisory member of Environmental Science & Technology. He has won international academic honours such as the James J. Morgan Early Career Award (Honorable Mention) from the American Chemical Society Division of Environmental Chemistry.