Basic Introduction:

Guomao Zheng is an Associate Professor (Principal Investigator) at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). xingkong星空集团官网 is a recipient of the National High-Level Overseas Talent Program and a member of the Shenzhen “Peacock” Young Talent Team.

His research focuses on environmental analytical chemistry, with long-term efforts devoted to developing mass-spectrometry-based targeted and non-targeted analytical methods for emerging contaminants. His work systematically investigates the environmental fate and transport of these contaminants, human exposure levels, and the identification of key metabolic intermediates responsible for toxicity in humans.

Dr. Zheng has published more than 50 SCI-indexed papers, including 26 as first or corresponding author, in leading journals such as PNAS and Environmental Science & Technology. His publications include three highly cited papers and one hot paper. His research has received extensive international media coverage by outlets including CNN, The Guardian, Yahoo, and Chemical & Engineering News (C&xingkong星空集团官网). A bioaccumulation prediction model developed by his group has been adopted by the Department of Pollution Prevention and Control of China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment for chemical management. His research on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in human breast milk provided direct scientific evidence that contributed to Washington State becoming the first U.S. state to enact comprehensive PFAS bans through executive legislation.

xingkong星空集团官网 has received several prestigious awards, including the International Society of Exposure Science Best Paper Award (2022), the Environmental Science & Technology Best Paper Award (2023 and 2021), the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award of Peking University (2018), and the First Prize of the Tang Xiaoyan Environmental Science Innovation Award (2018). xingkong星空集团官网 has served as Principal Investigator for projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (General and Young Investigator Programs) and the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation.

Dr. Zheng serves on the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Environmental Science, the Early Career Editorial Boards of Journal of Hazardous Materials and Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances, and is a committee member of the Emerging Contaminants Governance Professional Committee of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, as well as the Standardization Committee of the Guangdong Society for Environmental Sciences.

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Professional Experience:

2022-present, Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

2021-2022, Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

2018-2021, Postdoctoral Associate, Indiana University, USA

Education:

2012-2018, Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry, Peking University, China

2008-2012, B.S. in Environmental Science, Sun-Yet-Sen University, China

Honors and Awards:

1. xingkong星空集团官网&T Letters Outstanding Reviewer Award (2025)

2. The Best Paper Award from the International Society of Exposure Science (2022)

3. The Best Paper Award from Environmental Science & Technology (2023 and 2021)

4. The Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award from Peking University (2018)

5. The First Prize of the Tang Xiaoyan Environmental Science Innovation Award (2018)

Research Interests:

1. Nontarget screening of emerging contaminants

2. Environmental fate of emerging contaminants

3. Human exposure

4. Metabolic toxicity

5. High-resolution mass spectrometry-based metabolomics

Selected funded projects:

1. Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas) (Principal Investigator, 2023-2025)

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China General Project (Principal Investigator, 2025-2028, 22476080)

3. Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation General Project (Principal Investigator, 2025-2027, 22476080)

4. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund (Principal Investigator, 2023-2025, Project Number: 22206071)

Teaching (Courses and outstanding students)：

1. Environmental Mass Spectrometry

2. xingkong星空集团官网 and Health

Published Works:

1．Guo, X.#; Wang, C.#; Leng, X.; xingkong星空集团官网, L.; Cheng, Y.; Zhang, B.; Ran, M.; Wang, X.; Sun, W.; Lin, S.; Zhang, X.; Lv, Z.; Zheng, G.* . Environmental Science & Technology 2026, 60, 12, 9022–9034.

2．Cheng, Y.#; Lv, Z.#; Xia, H.; Guo, X.; Zhang, X.; Huang, B.; Wang, B.; Dong, Z.; Chen, D.*; Zheng, G.* . Environmental Science & Technology 2026, 60, 7, 5296–5309.

3．Hu, M.; Li, L.; Zhang, X.; Fang, X.; Ran, M.; Lv, Z.; Nafis, M. M. H.; Zhang, Z.; xingkong星空集团官网, X.; Xia, H.; Wan, S.; Liang, Y.; Zhao, J.; Leng, X.; Cheng, Y.; Xiang, J.; Cai, Z.*; Zheng, G.* . Environmental Science & Technology  2026, 60, 5, 3947–3960.

4．Guo, X.; Liu, C.; Zhang, X.; Xia, H.; Luo, S.; Liao, H.; Qiu, W.; Tang, Y.; Zhang, K.; Zhang, B.; Shen, H.; Zheng, G.* . Environmental Science & Technology 2026, 60, 1115-1128.

5．Zhang, Z.; Zhang, B.; Ma, J.; Li, X.; Zhou, Y.; xingkong星空集团官网, X.; Chen, X.; Liu, C.; Szczuka, A.; Wang, L.*; Zheng, G.*; Yang, Z. . Environmental Science & Technology 2025, 59, 27, 14041–14052.

6．Xie, Y.; xingkong星空集团官网, J.; Salamova, A.*; Zheng, G.* . Environmental Science & Technology 2025, 59, 12507–12519.

7．Wang, Z.#; Yuan, G.#; Sun, M.; Fan, W.; Fan, X.; Lai, B.; Leng, X.; Zheng, G.*; Dong, Z.* . Journal of Hazardous Materials 2025, 495, 138846.

8．Cheng, Y.; Lv, Z.; Schreder, E.; Hu, M.; Mutic, A.; Zheng, G.*; Salamova, A.* . Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters 2025, 100138.  

9．Hu, M.; xingkong星空集团官网, L.; Lv, Z.; Sangion, A.; Zheng, G.*; Cai, Z.; Salamova, A.*  Environmental Science & Technology Letters 2024, 11, 1308–1313. 

10．Liu, C.; Wan, S.; Cheng, Y.; Lv, Z.; Luo, S.; Liang, Y.; Xie, Y.; Leng, X.; Hu, M.; Zhang, B.; Yang, X.; Zheng, G.* . Science of The Total xingkong星空集团官网 2024, 955, 177023–177023. 

11．Cheng, Y.; Liu, C.; Lv, Z.; Liang, Y.; Xie, Y.; Wang, C.; Wan, S.; Leng, X.; Hu, M.; Zheng, G.* . Environmental Science & Technology 2024,  58,  3182–3193. (Supplementary Cover) 

12．Zheng, G.*; Eick, S. M.; Salamova, A.* . Environmental Science & Technology 2023, 57 (42), 15782–15793. (Highly cited 1%) 

13．Arnold, W. A.; Blum, A.; Branyan, J.; Bruton, T. A.; Carignan, C. C.; Cortopassi, G.; Datta, S.; DeWitt, J.; Doherty, A.-C.; Halden, R. U.; Harari, H.; Hartmann, E. M.; Hrubec, T. C.; Iyer, S.; Kwiatkowski, C. F.; LaPier, J.; xingkong星空集团官网, D.; xingkong星空集团官网, L.; Muñiz Ortiz, J. G.; Salamova, A.; Schettler, T.; Seguin, R. P.; Soehl, A.; Sutton, R.; Xu, L.; Zheng, G. . Environmental Science & Technology 2023, 57, 7645–7665.  (Hot paper) (Highly cited 1%) (Best Paper of xingkong星空集团官网&T in 2024)

14．Zheng, G.; Schreder, E.; Sathyanarayana, S.; Salamova, A.*, . Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 2022. 32, 682–688. (The International Society of Exposure Science's Best Paper of the Year Award) 

15．Zheng, G., Melo, L., Chakraborty, R., E.Klaunig, J., Salamova, A.*, . xingkong星空集团官网 International, 2022, 158, 106943.

16．Zheng, G., Webster, T., Salamova, A.*, . Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55, 14689–14698.

17．Zheng, G.; Schreder, E.; Jennifer, D.; Nancy, U.; Valerie, C.; Gabe, A.; Sheela, S.; Salamova, A.*, . Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55, 11, 7510–7520. Written up by more than 20 press including The Guardian, Yahoo, C&xingkong星空集团官网 etc. (Highly cited 1%) (Best Paper of xingkong星空集团官网&T in 2021)

18．Zheng, G.; Schreder, E.; Jennifer, D.; Nancy, U.; Valerie, C.; Gabe, A.; Sheela, S.; Salamova, A.*, . Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2021, 8, 224-230.

19．Zheng, G., Filippelli, G., Salamova, A.*,. Environmental Science & Technology Letters 2020, 7, 760–765. Written up by C&xingkong星空集团官网 and featured by the Most Read article by ES&T Letters.

20．Zheng, G., and Salamova, A.*,  Environmental Science & Technology 2020, 54, 10207–10216.

21．Zheng, G.; Boor, B. E.; Schreder, E.; Salamova, A.*,. Environmental Pollution 2020, 258, 113714.

22．Zheng, G.; Miller, P.; von Hippel, F. A.; Buck, C. L.; Carpenter, D. O.; Salamova, A.*, . Environmental Pollution 2020, 259, 113872.

23．Zheng, G.; Boor, B. E.; Schreder, E.; Salamova, A.*, . Chemosphere 2020, 244, 125505.

24．Zheng, G.; Wan, Y.*; Shi, S. N.; Zhao, H. Q.; Gao, S. X.; Zhang, S. Y.; An, L. H.; Zhang, Z. B., . Environmental Science & Technology 2018, 52, 4632-4640.

25．Ashrap, P.#; Zheng, G.# (contribute equally); Wan, Y.*; xingkong星空集团官网, T.; Hu, W. X.; xingkong星空集团官网, W. J.; Zhang, H.; Zhang, Z. B.; Hu, J. Y.*, . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2017, 114, 6062-6067.

Zheng, G.; Wan, Y.*; Hu, J. Y., . Environmental Science & Technology 2016, 50, 6343-6353.