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Jiaying Li is a tenured-track Sydney Horizon Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney (USYD), concurrently serving as Head of the Environmental Engineering Laboratory. Her academic career includes a PhD in Environmental Engineering from The University of Queensland (2020), followed by postdoctoral research there before joining USYD in 2024. She is also an ARC DECRA Fellow and a member of The Net Zero Institute and the Charles Perkins Centre.
Her research focuses on wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE), integrating chemical, biological, and genomic approaches to monitor public health and environmental contaminants. Key areas include tracking pathogens (e.g., viruses), chemical pollutants (e.g., PFAS, pharmaceuticals), and developing novel sensors and treatment methods for emerging contaminants. Her work combines wastewater engineering, genomics, geospatial analysis, and socio-economic modeling to address clean water and public health challenges.
Notable achievements include securing over $4.75M AUD in grants (e.g., ARC DECRA, industry collaborations) and prestigious awards from MIT and the Australian Academy of Science. Current projects involve viral pathogen surveillance, contaminant removal in urban systems, and global wastewater genomic networks for pandemic early warning.
She supervises one PhD student at USYD and three at UQ, with expertise spanning environmental engineering, analytical chemistry, and bioinformatics. Her labs and collaborations aim to bridge academia, industry, and government for real-world environmental health solutions.
