Dr. Mei Sun
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Energy Production and Infrastructure Center 3163
9201 University City Blvd | Charlotte, NC 28223
Phone: 704-687-1723 | Fax: 704-687-0957
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012
- M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008
- B.E. Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2007
Current Postdoctoral researchers
Bingchuan Liu (2022-now)
Bingchuan Liu graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2015 with a PhD in Environmental Engineering. Then, he worked as an associate professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) from 2015 to 2022. He obtained a master’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) and a bachelor’s degree from Harbin Institute of Technology (China). He mainly works on analyzing the occurrence of PFAS in drinking water sources in North Carolina. He has a broad research interest in investigating the occurrence, fate, environmental impact, and removal of emerging contaminants in various environmental matrices. In his spare time, he enjoys things related to The Three Kingdoms. He also likes playing Hearthstone and reading suspense novels.
Current PhD Students
None
Current Master’s Students
None.
Current Undergraduate Students
Manaiyah Raybon
Previous Group Members
Postdocs: Yuling Han (Guangdong University of Technology), Yen-Ling Liu (REGENESIS), JInchen Chen (Atlas Technical Consultants), Yingying You (Merck), Kotaiba Abugazleh (Washington State Department of Ecology)
PhD student: Vivek Pulikkal (CEC Inc.)
Master’s students: James Homiller (WK Dickson & Co.), Sadhana Vangapalli (Chesterfield County Utilities, VA), Thuy Le (Union County, NC), Kaitlynn Bryan-Scaggs (ONE Environmental Group), Samonty Das
Undergraduate students: Melissa Thai (City of Charlotte), Isabel Srivoraphan (Booth & Associates), Savannah Tilley (Kimley-Horn), Dave Tilley (BASF), Ziona Bates-Norris (University of Arkansas), Cristine Quach (LaBella Associates), Hunter Hale (CDG, Inc.),
Lab technician: Elizabeth Batianis (Duke Energy)
Visiting scholar: Qin Tian (National Research Center for Geoanalysis of China)
Group Photos