Advanced Water Management Centre

Mr Mengxiong Wu

  • Research Scholar
Phone: +61 7 3365 3699
Fax: +61 7 336 54726
Location: 60-637

Profile Details

Profile

Short Biography: 

Mengxiong received his Bachelor of Environmental Science from Anhui University in 2012. He then went on to complete a Master of Environmental Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2015. Following this he spent a year working as a research and design engineer at Focused Photonics Inc. in Hangzhou. Mengxiong joined the AMWC in 2016 to pursue his PhD.

Awards: 

  • The University of Queensland International (UQI) Scholarship, 2016
  • Outstanding Graduate Student, Zhejiang University, 2014
  • Outstanding Graduate Student, Anhui University, 2012
  • The First Prize Scholarship for Excellent Learning Performance, Anhui University, 2011
  • The First Prize Scholarship for Excellent Learning Performance, Anhui University, 2010
Research

Research Projects/Thesis: 

  • Denitrifying Anaerobic Methane Oxidation (DAMO) process

Publications

Key Publications: 

    • Mengxiong Wu, Qibo Feng, Xue Sun, Hailong Wang, Gerty Gielen, Weixiang Wu*. Rice (Oryza sativa L) plantation affects the stability of biochar in paddy soil. Scientific Reports (2015), 5.
    • l Mengxiong Wu, Min Yang, Xingguo Han, Ting Zhong, Yunfei Zheng, Pin Ding, Weixiang Wu*. Highly stable rice-straw-derived charcoal in 3700-year-old ancient paddy soil: evidence for an effective pathway toward carbon sequestration. Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2015), 1-8.
    • l Mengxiong Wu, Xingguo Han, Ting Zhong, Mengdong Yuan, Weixiang Wu*. Soil organic carbon content affects the stability of biochar in paddy soil. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environmentt, 223 (2016), 59-66.
    • l Mengdong Yuan, Jing Zhu, Cheng Wang, Mengxiong Wu, Faqian Sun, Yangyang He, Xingguo Han, Weixiang Wu*. Latitudinal distribution of microbial communities in anaerobic biological stabilization ponds: effect of  the mean annual temperature. Microbial Biotechnology, (2016) 9(6), 834–845.