Jinxia Liu
Associate Professor
Civil Engineering
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Professor Liu’s expertise lies between environmental engineering and environmental analytical chemistry. The main focus of her research is on elucidation of environmental fate, behaviors and bio-availability of emerging organic contaminants, particularly fluorochemicals. Her research goal is to provide industry, policy- and decision-makers with information to make sound decisions on manufacture, assessment and management of organic chemicals. She is also interested in developing novel materials and treatment processes for removing fluorochemicals from contaminated water, soil and sediment. Before joining McGill University in 2011, Professor Liu has worked both in industry and academia in the US. Her research projects were funded by the US National Science Foundation, Maryland Water Resource Research Center, municipal water/sewer facilities as well as chemical industry.
Research Interest
1.Environmental fate and behaviors of legacy and new fluorochemicals 2.Novel biotransformation pathways of polyfluoroalkyl compounds 3.Development of new materials/processes for removal of flurochemicals from contaminated water, soil and sediment
Publications
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Mejia Avendaño, S., Vo Duy, S., Sauvé, S. and Liu, J. (2016) Generation of perfluoroalkyl acids from aerobic biotransformation of quaternary ammonium polyfluoroalkyl surfactants. 50 (18), Environmental Science & Technology, 50(18), 9923–9932, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b00140
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Munoz, G., Desrosiers, M., Vo Duy, S., Labadie, P., Budzinski, H., Liu, and S. Sauvé, J. (2017) Environmental occurrence of perfluoroalkyl acids and novel fluorotelomer surfactants in the freshwater fish Catostomus commersonii and sediments following firefighting foam deployment at the Lac-Mégantic railway accident. Environmental Science & Technology, 51 (3), pp 1231–1240 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b05432
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Mejia Avendaño, S., Munoz, G., Sauvé, S. and Liu, J. (2017) Assessment of the influence of soil characteristics and hydrocarbon fuel co-contamination on the solvent extraction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Analytical Chemistry, 89 (4), pp 2539–DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b04746
