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Siwen Wang

Siwen Wang

Siwen Wang

Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Eng

Email: swang@clarkson.edu
Phone: 315/268-4446
Office: 130 Rowley Lab
Mailbox: CU Box 5710

Department(s): Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
School(s): Coulter School of Engineering
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Education
Environmental Science and Engineering Ph.D. - 2020
California Insitute of Technology
Environmental Science and Engineering MS. - 2013
Tsinghua University
Environmental Science and Engineering B.S. - 2011
Tsinghua University
Courses Taught
CE479/579 - Water and Wastewater Treatment Design
CE487/587 - Environmental Engineering Laboratory
CE682 - Environmental Biological Processes
Experience
Assistant Professor Clarkson Unviersity, Present
Postdoctoral Research Associate Clarkson University, 2020
Biography

Dr. Siwen Wang (she/her) joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as an assistant professor at Clarkson University in July of 2021. Her research expertise is focused on both the treatment and detection of waterborne pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, parasites, and antibiotic resistance genes. Her lab endeavors to provide solutions to decentralized water disinfection and point-of-use pathogen detection methods covering the entire analytical process, e.g., sampling, pretreatment, and biomolecular detection. 

Dr. Wang earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2020. She received the C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Award by American Chemical Society in 2019. She holds a master’s and a bachelor’s degree both in Environmental Science and Engineering from Tsinghhua University.

Research Interests

Research focuses on both treatment and detection of waterborne pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, parasites, and antibiotic resistance genes. With the overarching goal of developing point-of-use pathogen detection devices for environmental applications, research interests include providing solutions to the entire process including sampling, sample preparation, and detection.

Awards

Selected Awards

  • 2019 C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Award by ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry 
  • 2014 Outstanding Graduate of Beijing 
  • 2013 National Scholarship for Graduate Student, Tsinghua University


 

Publications

 

  1. Siwen Wang, Shasha Yang, Estefanny Quispe, Hannah Yang, Charles Sanfiorenzo, , Shane Rogers, Kaihang Wang, Yang Yang, Michael R. Hoffmann. Removal of antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes by UV-assisted electrochemical oxidation on degenerative TiO2 nanotube arrays. ACS ES&T Engineering, accepted, 2021.
  2. Siwen Wang, Yanzhe Zhu, Yang Yang, Jing Li, Michael R. Hoffmann. Electrochemical cell lysis of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria: DNA extraction from environmental water samples, Electrochimica Acta, 2020, 338, 135864.
  3. Yanzhe Zhu, Xiao Huang, Xing Xie, Janina Bahnemann, Xingyu Lin, Xunyi Wu, Siwen Wang, Michael R Hoffmann. Propidium monoazide pretreatment on a 3D-printed microfluidic device for efficient PCR determination of ‘live versus dead’ microbial cells. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 2018, 4(7), 956-963.
  4. Xing Xie, Siwen Wang, Sunny C. Jiang, Janina Bahnemann, Michael R. Hoffmann. Sunlight-Activated Propidium Monoazide Pretreatment for Differentiation of Viable and Dead Bacteria by Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2016, 3 (2), 57-61.
  5. Xing Xie, Janina Bahnemann, Siwen Wang, Yang Yang, and Michael Hoffmann. “Nanofiltration” Enabled by Super-Absorbent Polymer Beads for Concentrating Microorganisms in Water Samples, Scientific Reports, 2016, 6, 20516.
  6. Siwen Wang, Jun Huang, Yang Yang, Yamei Hui, Yuxi Ge, Torjorn Larssen, Gang Yu, Shubo Deng, Bin Wang, Christopher Harman. First report of a Chinese PFOS alternative overlooked for 30 years, its toxicity, persistence and presence in the environment, Environmental Science & Technology, 2013, 47 (18), 10163-10170.
  7. Siwen Wang, Jun Huang, Yang Yang, Gang Yu, Shubo Deng, Bin Wang. Photodegradation of Dechlorane Plus in n-nonane under the irradiation of xenon lamp, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2013, 260(0), 16-23.
  8. Xue Li, Jun Huang, Wang Zhang, Gang Yu, Shubo Deng, Siwen Wang. Determination of 41 polybrominated diphenyl ethers in soil using a pressurized solvent extraction and GC-NCI-MS method, International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, 2011, 91(12), 1135-1150.

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