Keding Lu

Keding Lu is a Full Professor at Peking University's College of Environmental Science and Engineering and State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, holding the National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) distinction.

Education

• PhD in Environmental Science, Peking University, 2004-2010
• BSc in Environmental Engineering, Nanjing University, 2000-2004

His research pioneers atmospheric chemical mechanisms driving urban pollution, specializing in free radical kinetics, multiphase reactions, and vertical pollutant gradients. Work spans ozone formation in Beijing, nitrate chemistry in the Pearl River Delta, and radical-driven health impacts, with methodologies including emission-driven box modeling and spectroscopic detection.

Scientific Awards

• National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
• Outstanding Author in Science China
• Outstanding Author in Science Bulletin
• Gold Prize for Young Scientists from the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences
• First Prize in Natural Sciences from the Ministry of Education

As principal investigator for the National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund, he leads projects on regional pollution mechanisms without documented advisees in the source text.

He directs the Ministry of Ecology and Environment's Key Laboratory for Atmospheric Ozone Pollution Prevention and Control, operating from Peking University's Environment Building (Room 527).