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Chuanwu Xi
奚传武
Chair Professor
College of Environment and Sustainable Engineering · Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
Dr. Chuanwu Xi is a Chair Professor at the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo (EIT), serving as Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of External Cooperation, and Dean of the College of Environment and Sustainable Engineering. He received his PhD in Molecular Microbiology from KU Leuven, Belgium in 2000, his MSc in Microbiology from Guangxi University in 1996, and his BSc in Biology from Anhui Normal University in 1993. Before joining EIT in August 2024, he was a tenured Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Global Public Health at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on water quality and health, medical-device-related infection control, and the environmental transmission and control of infectious diseases. Using modern molecular biology and genomics, his group studies the environmental transmission pathways, survival and pathogenic mechanisms of pathogens, and develops environmental intervention and anti-infection technologies. He has published more than 140 SCI papers with over 8,000 Google Scholar citations (H-index > 50), and served as Chair of the ASM Environmental and Applied Microbiology Division and President of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (Microbiology). He received the FDA Scholar-in-Residence award in 2016.
Research interests
Water quality and health
Environmental transmission, surveillance and control of infectious diseases
Medical-device-related infections and biofilm control
Microbial elemental cycling and engineering applications
Education & experience
- 1996–2000 · KU Leuven, Belgium · PhD in Molecular Microbiology
- 1993–1996 · Guangxi University · MSc in Microbiology
- 1989–1993 · Anhui Normal University · BSc in Biology
- 2024–present · Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo · Chair Professor
- 2017–2026 · University of Michigan · Tenured Professor
- 2012–2017 · University of Michigan · Tenured Associate Professor
- 2005–2012 · University of Michigan · Assistant Professor
- 2003–2005 · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Research Assistant Professor
- 2001–2003 · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Assistant
- 2000–2001 · KU Leuven · Postdoctoral Researcher
Selected work
- Paper · 2024
Evaluation of the long-term protection conferred by an organosilicon-based disinfectant formulation against bacterial contamination of surfaces
Le N N T, Wu J, Rickard A H, et al. · Journal of Applied Microbiology, 2024, 135(9): lxae210
- Paper · 2024
Development of a machine learning model to support low cost real-time Legionella monitoring in premise plumbing systems ↗
Xu J, Li X, Xi C W, et al. · Water Research, 2024, 267: 122510
- Paper · 2023
Prevalence of legionella in a public building water plumbing system during COVID-19 lockdown
Li X, Xu J, Wu J, et al. · Environment & Health, 2023, 1(5): 352-359
- Paper · 2022
Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in air and on surfaces and estimating infection risk in buildings and buses on a university campus
Zhang X, Wu J, Smith L M, et al. · Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 2022, 32(5): 751-758
- Paper · 2021
US–China collaboration is vital to global plans for a healthy environment and sustainable development
Xu M, Daigger G T, Xi C, et al. · Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55(14): 9622-9626
- Paper · 2020
Glycine-based treatment ameliorates NAFLD by modulating fatty acid oxidation, glutathione synthesis, and the gut microbiome
Rom O, Liu Y, Liu Z, et al. · Science Translational Medicine, 2020, 12(572): eaaz2841
- Patent · 2020
Two-part nitric oxide generating topical compositions（一氧化氮生成外用组合物）
Doverspike J C, Phan J, Wu J, Xi C, et al. · US Patent App. 16/976,382
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