Binbin Wang

Ph.D., Associate Professor, recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Shaanxi Province, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Microbial Ecology & Technology (CMET), Ghent University, Belgium. His current research focuses on efficient pollution control and remediation technologies driven by the interactions between environmental functional materials and microbial processes. Specific research interests include: (i) coupled abiotic–biotic remediation of chlorinated hydrocarbon co-contamination in soil and groundwater, (ii) mechanistic elucidation of microbially driven sulfidation of zero-valent iron and regulation of its reductive dechlorination interface properties, and (iii) structural and functional characterization of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in microbial aggregates. He has presided over multiple national and provincial research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation, Zhejiang Provincial Public Welfare Research Program, and sub-projects of Zhejiang Provincial Key R&D Program. To date, he has published more than 20 papers as first author or co-author in leading international journals in the field of environmental science, such as Environmental Science & Technology and Water Research.

Education:

• July 2008 - June 2014: Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (Integrated Master's and Ph.D. Program)

• September 2004 - June 2008: Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering

Work Experience:

• February 2023 - February 2024: Visiting Researcher, Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium

• January 2019 - Present: Associate Professor, College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology

• July 2014 - December 2018: Lecturer, College of Biological and Environmental Engineering/College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology

• Fundamentals of Civil Engineering and Construction Management

• Fundamentals of Civil Engineering and Construction Management (for International Students)

• Professional Laboratory I

• Fundamental Professional Laboratory I

• Environmental Chemistry Laboratory (for International Students)

• Served as supervising teacher and guided students to participate in the 4th Zhejiang Province University Student Low-Carbon Recycling Technology Innovation Competition, awarded Third Prize, Jun 2025.

• Served as supervising teacher and guided students to participate in the 13th Zhejiang University of Technology University Student Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Social Practice & Technology Competition, awarded Second Prize, Jun 2025.

• Served as supervising teacher and guided students to complete the 2024 College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology “Enterprise Research Project Unbundling and Leadership” program, awarded Third Prize, Apr 2025.

• Awarded “Outstanding Undergraduate Internship Supervisor of 2019”, Zhejiang University of Technology, Jan 2020.

• Awarded “Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis (Design) Supervisor of 2019”, Zhejiang University of Technology, Jan 2020.

• Awarded “Outstanding Class Advisor of the 2015/2016 Academic Year”, Zhejiang University of Technology, Dec 2016.

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 42577267), “Biogenic Sulfidated Zero-Valent Iron in Low-Organic-Carbon Aquifers: Formation Mechanism, Interfacial Structure, and Reductive Dechlorination Properties,” 2026.01–2029.12, ¥490,000, ongoing, Principal Investigator.

• Sub-project of the Zhejiang Provincial Key Research and Development Program (No. 2021C03167-001), “Research and Development of Long-Lasting Materials and Technologies for Redox Reaction Walls for Risk Management of Organic Polluted Sites,” 2021.01–2023.12, ¥1,020,000, completed, Principal Investigator.

• Zhejiang Provincial Public Welfare Technology Research Program (No. LGF20E080020), “Study on Key Issues of a New Efficient Nitrogen Removal Process for Wastewater Based on the Isolation and Recovery of Nitrifying Bacteria from Excess Sludge,” 2020.01–2022.12, ¥100,000, completed, Principal Investigator.

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51508511), “Study on the Bioreactive Characteristics of Particulate Organic Matter in Urban Sewage Based on Microbial Products,” 2016.01–2018.12,  ¥236,000, completed, Principal Investigator.

• Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Provincial (No. LQ15E080011), “Effects and Mechanisms of Particulate Organic Matter on the Production and Physicochemical Properties of Microbial Products in Activated Sludge,” 2015.01–2017.12,  ¥50,000, completed, Principal Investigator.

Representative Papers

Nature Index Journals

• Wang, B.B.;  Zhu, Y.T.;  Dong, W.B.;  Wang, C.J.;  Yang, L.Y.;  Fan, Y.J.;  Sun, T.Y.;  Shan, Y.;  Wu, Z.K.; He, F., Unveiling the Differential Impacts of S-nZVI and nZVI on Microbial Dechlorination of Trichloroethene by Dehalococcoides. Environmental Science & Technology 2025 59(27), 14089-14102.

• Wang, B.B., Luo, Q., Pan, Y.J., Mei, Z.H., Sun, T.Y., Zhong, Z., He, F.*, Liang, L.Y., Wang, Z.Y. and Xing, B.S. Enhanced Biogenic Sulfidation of Zero-Valent Iron in Columns: Implications for Promoting Dechlorination in Permeable Reactive Barriers. Environmental science & technology 2023 57(49), 20951-20961.

• Wang, B.B., Liu, X.T., Chen, J.M., Peng, D.C., He, F.* Composition and functional group characterization of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in activated sludge: the impacts of polymerization degree of proteinaceous substrates. Water research 2018, 129, 133-142. 

• Gu, Y.W., Wang, B.B., He, F.*, Bradley, M.J., Tratnyek, P.G. Mechanochemically Sulfidated Microscale Zero Valent Iron: Pathways, Kinetics, Mechanism, and Efficiency of Trichloroethylene Dechlorination. Environmental Science & Technology 2017, 51, 12653-12662.

• Wang, B.B.*, Chang, Q., Peng, D.C., Hou, Y.P., Li, H.J., Pei, L.Y. A new classification paradigm of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in activated sludge: Separation and characterization of exopolymers between floc level and microcolony level. Water research 2014, 64, 53-60.

• Wang, B.B.*, Peng, D.C., Hou, Y.P., Li, H.J., Pei, L.Y., Yu, L.F. The important implications of particulate substrate in determining the physicochemical characteristics of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in activated sludge. Water research 2014, 58, 1-8.

Other Journals

• 宁伟全; 王彬斌*. 零价铁生物硫化过程及机制的研究进展. 发酵科技通讯 2025, 1-11.

• 王彬斌;  于滨玮;  何锋;  李军;  王长智; 梅荣武. 基于二价阳离子去除的胞外聚合物提取方法特性比较. 环境科学学报 2022, 42 (10), 303-313.

• Wang, B.-B., Luo, Q., Li, H.-J., Yao, Q., Zhang, L., Zou, J.-T., He, F.* Characterization of aerobic granules formed in an aspartic acid fed sequencing batch reactor under unfavorable hydrodynamic selection conditions. Chemosphere 2020, 260, 127600.

• Wang, B.-B., Shi, X., Liu, X.-T., Zou, J.-T., Li, H.-J., Peng, D.-C., He, F.* Insight into the fenton-induced degradation process of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) extracted from activated sludge. Chemosphere 2019, 234, 318-327. 

• Wang, B.-B., Gu, Y.-W., Chen, J.-M., Yao, Q., Li, H.-J., Peng, D.-C., He, F.* Is polymeric substrate in influent an indirect impetus for the nitrification process in an activated sludge system? Chemosphere 2017, 177, 128-134.
  

• 王彬斌;  林景东;  万顺利; 何锋. 氧化镁基生物质炭高效去除水体中磷的特性. 环境科学 2017, 38 (7), 2859-2867.

• Wang, B.B.*, Peng, D.C., Zhang, X.Y., Wang, X.C. Structure and formation of anoxic granular sludge-A string-bag hypothesis. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2016, 10, 311-318.
  

• Wang, B.B.*, Zhang, L., Peng, D.C., Hou, Y.P., Pei, L.Y., Yu, L.F. Extended filaments of bulking sludge sink in the floc layer with particulate substrate. Chemosphere 2013, 93, 2725-2731.
  

• Wang, B.B., Liu, S.L., Zhao, H.M., Zhang, X.Y., Peng, D.C.* Effects of extracellular polymeric substances on granulation of anoxic sludge in sequencing batch reactor. Water Science and Technology 2012, 66, 543-548.