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April Z. Gu is a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. She holds affiliations with the Graduate Fields of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Quality (minor), and Microbiology. Her research focuses on applying biotechnology to improve wastewater treatment, studying climate change impacts on phosphorus cycling, and developing toxicogenomics-based water quality monitoring technologies.
Gu earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University (1993) and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington (2003). Before joining Cornell in 2018, she served as a faculty member at Northeastern University’s Department of Environmental Sciences (2006–2017). Her industry experience includes roles as a process engineer and research scientist at HDR Engineering.
Her research interests emphasize sustainable water systems, molecular biotechnology applications, and environmental health. Key achievements include pioneering quantitative toxicogenomics assays and advancing understanding of antibiotic resistance linked to environmental pollutants.
Gu has received notable awards such as the WEF Fellowship (2017), Excellence in Mentoring Award (Northeastern, 2017), and NSF CAREER Award (2009). She actively contributes to professional organizations including IWA, WEF, ACS, and AEESP.
Teaching focuses include Microbiology for Environmental Engineering and Biological Processes at Cornell, alongside courses previously taught at Northeastern in water engineering and fluid mechanics.
