Shiqiang (Nick) Zou
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Engineering Building, 428 S Shaw Ln, Room 3559
Biography
Dr. Shiqiang (Nick) Zou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He leads the Electrified WAstewater Treatment and Elemental Recovery (E-WATER) Lab at MSU. His research centers on applied electrochemistry to transform resource-intensive wastewater management into a resource-supplying hub. Dr. Zou extends this expertise by integrating applied electrochemistry with selective separation and process engineering to develop engineering solutions that improve
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Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2019
M.S., Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 2015
M.S., Environmental Engineering, Peking University, 2014
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Early Career Research Fellow (Gulf Research Program), National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 2025
William F. Walker Merit Teaching Award, Auburn University, 2025
Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2023
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Hao, S., Feng, Y., Wang, D., Cho, J., Qiu, C., Wi, T.U., Xu, Z., Yu, Z., Sellers, C., Zou, S., Jain, A., Wang, H. Electrochemical Removal of Se(IV) from Wastewater Using RuO2-Based Catalysts. Nano Letters, 2025, 25 (6), 2547-2553.
Zulfeqar, N., Khosravi, A., Zou, S. Nano-Enhanced Electrokinetic Conditioning of Expansive Soils Using MgO Nanoparticles. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2025, 151 (11), 04025120.
Xie, A., Martinez Vargas, D.R., Yang, Z., Zou, S. Efficient selenate removal from impaired waters with TiO2-assisted electrocatalysis. Water Research, 2024, 262, 122134.
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