Contact Information

 

Jie Han

Professor, Ph.D. (Auckland)
XJTU Young Talent Tier-A Appointment
School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi’an, Shaanxi 710049, P.R. China
 
E-mail: jiehan (at) xjtu.edu.cn
 
Member, International Water Association
Member, Chinese Chemical Society
Member, American Chemical Society
Senior Member, Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences
 
Member, Council of Science Editors
Member, China Editology Society of Science Periodicals
 
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Chemistry Letters 
(JCR Q1, IF 15.0) (Springer Nature)
Editorial Board, Chemical Engineering Journal
(JCR Q1, IF 13.3) (Elsevier)
Editorial Board, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (JCR Q1, IF 6.2) (Elsevier)
Editorial Board, Animal Diseases 
(BMC Springer Nature)

Biography

I am the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Environmental and Public Health Group and a Professor with a 'Young Talent Tier A' appointment at Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), member of the 'C9 league' universities in China, which is ranked among the top 10 in science and engineering in the country. 

 

The overall theme of my research is on environment and public health, and much of my previous work was on emerging contaminants, particularly the migration of trace organic compounds into and out of polymers including membranes, common plastics, and elastomers. I have strong interests in advancing public health including exposure identification, risk assessment, mitigation, and science communication to the general public. 

 

Prior to joining XJTU, I received research training and experience from the University of Auckland (UoA), National University of Singapore (NUS), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), and University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), and worked with the PIs of several world-renowned laboratories in my fields. Since my Auckland times, I have supervised over 50 students, including undergraduates and Master's students who later developed strong interests in scientific research and pursued their PhDs. In the past six years, I have delivered over a dozen research projects as the PI or co-PI, and received over eight million RMB in research funding.

 

I have a strong passion in scientific writing, editing, and communication. I hold appointments as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Chemistry Letters (Springer Nature, JCR Q1, IF 15.0) and I am a member of the Editorial Board of Chemical Engineering Journal (JCR Q1, IF 13.3), Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (JCR Q1, IF 6.8), and Animal Diseases (a new journal launched in spring 2021, indexed by ESCI). I serve as a member of the Council of Science Editors (U.S.) and the China Editology Society of Science Periodicals. I am a Senior Member of the Chinese Society for Enviornmental Sciences and hold long-term memberships of the International Water Association (IWA) and the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Science, Technology & Life

These are the words that have really made a lasting impact on me over the years, about science, technology, and goals we are pursing in life.

 

1. Seeking the Great White Bird of Absolute Truth

 

The following texts are excerpted from the biography of Alan G. MacDiarmid, a New-Zealand-born polymer scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 on the discovery of conducting polymers.

 

I first read this piece in 2007. I still read it from time to time. Elegant and powerful, from a beautiful mind.

 

 

 

2. Steve Jobs' Commencement address at Stanford

 

Jobs delievered this speech to Stanford graduates in 2005. It has since made a worldwide impact on students and young entrepreneurs, and perhaps for many generations to come. I, for one, found his words to be truly motivating and inspiring. https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/

 

Jobs was such a talented speaker. It is better to watch him delivering this speech than just reading the texts. For users in China, here is an alternative link to the video clip: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1oW411h7Ea

 

 

 

3. Mark Zuckerberg's Commencement address at Harvard

 

If Steve Jobs made a good example of us trying to answer the big question 'how do we live?', then Mark Zuckerberg, a well-known young entreprenuer and founder of Facebook (now Meta), has attempted to answer the even bigger question and perhaps the ultimate one in life: 'why do we live?'

 

What really amazed me was that Zuckerberg delivered this speech at the age of 33, in 2015. Profound, inspiring, and thought-provoking. Highly recommended.

 

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/05/mark-zuckerbergs-speech-as-written-for-harvards-class-of-2017/

 

Alternative link to the video (for users in China): https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Rx411Y7WW

 

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Fun & Thought-Provoking stuff

"I decided to give one of these rods a huge stretch, fast, a jerk... and it stretched 1000%." - Wilbert L. Gore, inventor of Gore-Tex.

 

“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” - Benoit Mandelbrot, in his introduction to The Fractal Geometry of Nature. 

"云不是球体，山不是圆锥体，海岸线不是圆，树皮不是光滑的，闪电传播的路径也不是直线。"

- 曼德博，《大自然的分形几何》绪论

 

I believe these words are equally important in scientific research.

 

Covid-19 vs. romance, social distancing vs. human affection, ordinary people in a once-in-a-hundred-year pandemic... everything is put in such high contrast.