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Dr. Shihong Lin is an Associate Professor and Chancellor Faculty Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt University. The mission of his research group is to advance water separation processes for addressing critical sustainability challenges. The three current research areas in his group include (1) desalination and water treatment, (2) resource extraction and recovery, and (3) brine management.
Dr. Lin has received many awards and recognitions for his scholarly achievements. Notable awards include the Jacobs Engineering Group/ AEESP Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2024, as advisor) from Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, Walter L. Huber Research Prize (2023) from American Society of Civil Engineers, Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award (2023) from Vanderbilt, Paul L. Busch Award from Water Research Foundation (2020), the Young Investigator Award from the Association of Chinese American Professors in Environmental Engineering and Science, or CAPEES (2020). He was also named recognized by Clarivate as a Highly Cited Researcher (2022).
Dr. Lin was the president of CAPEES for 2022-2024. He also serves currently as the section editor for Journal of Water Process Engineering and associate editor for Resources, Conservation, and Recycling, and Chemical Engineering Journal Advances. He is also in the editorial boards of ES&T, ACS ES&T Engineering, and Journal of Membrane Science Letters.
Research Focus
- Membrane and electrochemical separation
- Resource extraction and recovery
- Water treatment and desalination
- Brine management
- Process and material innovation for water, energy and resource sustainability
Publications
Wang, R. and Lin, S.*, Membrane Design Principles for Ion-Selective Electrodialysis: An Analysis for Li/Mg Separation. Environmental Science & Technology, 58, 2024, 3552-3563
Wang, R., He, R., He, T., Elimelech, M., and Lin, S.*, Performance metrics for nanofiltration-based selective separation for resource extraction and recovery, Nature Water, 1, 2023, 291-300
Zhang, X., Yao, Y., Horseman, T., Wang R., Yin, Y., Zhang, S., Tong, T.*, and Lin, S.*, Electrodialytic crystallization to enable zero liquid discharge, Nature Water, 1, 2023, 547- 554
Liang, Y., Zhu, Y.*, Liu C., Lee, K-R., Hung, W-R., Wang, Z., Li, Y., Elimelech, M., Jin, J.*, and Lin, S.*, Polyamide Nanofiltration Membrane with Highly Uniform Sub-nanometre Pores for Sub-1Å Precision Separation, Nature Communications, 11, 2020, #2015
Lin, S.*, Energy Efficiency of Desalination: Fundamental Insights from Intuitive Interpretation, Environmental Science & Technology, 54, 2020, p76 (invited perspective)
Wang, L., Dykstra, J., and Lin, S.*, Energy efficiency of capacitive deionization, Environmental Science & Technology, 53, 2019, p3366
Wang, Z., Horseman, T., Straub, A.P., Yip, N.Y., Li, D., Elimelech, M.*, and Lin, S.*, “Pathways and challenges for efficient solar-thermal desalination”, Science Advances, 5, 2019, eaax0763
Wang, Z., Chen, Y., and Lin, S.*, Kinetic model for surfactant-induced pore wetting in membrane distillation, Journal of Membrane Science, 564, 2018, p275
Education
Ph.D., Duke University
M.S., Duke University
B.S., Harbin Institute of Technology (China)