Qilin Li, professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) and co-director of the Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center (NEWT) at Rice, has received the 2021 Association of Chinese-American Professors in Environmental Engineering and Science (CAPEES) Frontier Research Award.
The award is given annually to professors who have “achieved recognized research leadership and pioneered an innovative research area,” and is supported by Nanova Inc., an engineering firm dedicated to environmental monitoring and protection.
Li earned her Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002, and joined the Rice faculty in 2006. Her research focuses on advanced technologies for water and wastewater treatment, membrane processes, colloidal processes and interface phenomena in aqueous environments, environmental applications and implications of nanotechnology.