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Feiping Zhao is an Associate Professor (supervisor for PhD students) in the School of Metallurgy and Environment and a young scholar at Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Control & Treatment of Heavy Metal Pollution. He has served as an Associate Editor of Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, and Young Editorial Boards of Rare Metals (JCR 1) and Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (JCR 1). He has been the winner of Hunan Outstanding Youth Fund since 2022.

His research focuses on the environmental remediation and comprehensive utilization of non-ferrous resources. The scope of his work includes environmental functional adsorption materials, environmental photo/electrocatalyst materials, and advanced oxidation technology. Dr. Zhao aims to develop green and sustainable remediation technologies for the cleanup of contaminated water and soils, and the green recovery of resources from the wastes such as heavy metals and rare earth metals. Dr. Zhao is also conducting research on the field of the preparation of two-dimensional arsenene materials and resource recovery and recycling. He has successfully received fundings as a principal investigator in higly competive calls for research funding including National Key R&D Program of China (grant nr. 2020YFC1808002), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Young Scientists Fund, grant nr. 52104406; General Program, grant nr. 22376223), and Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Hunan (Outstanding Young Scholars, grant nr. 2022JJ20074; General Program, grant nr. 2020JJ4740). Dr. Zhao has published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed SCI journals, such as Environmental Science & Technology, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Green Chemistry, Carbon, Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Hazardous Materials, and so on. Having an h-index of 29, his publications have been cited over 3600 times (Google Scholar). In recognition of his research work, Dr. Zhao was presented with the ACS Top 1% Highest Cited Author 2015-2019. Additionally in 2020, Dr. Zhao was the recipient of First Prize of China Nonferrous Metal Industry Science and Technology Award (2023), Outstanding Youth Award in Rare Metal (2021), and he was awarded Hunan Distinguished Youth Scholar in 2022.

Feiping Zhao has taught courses to undergraduates such as Environmental Professional English, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development, and to graduate students such as Academic Writing and Green Chemistry. He has supervised undergraduates in 3 National Undergraduates Innovation and Entrepreneurship Projects, and 1 of them was rated as an "Excellent Project". Two of them won National Metallurgical Science and Technology Competition Awards. He has engaged in extensive and long-term collaboration with international universities and institutes in Canada, Finland, Switzerland, Australia, and Germany.

Students who have background in chemistry, materials, environment and metallurgy are welcome to apply for Master/PhD positions: feiping.zhao@csu.edu.cn