About Chuan Wu’s work
Based at Central South University, Chuan Wu held a Croucher Visitorship at the Education University of Hong Kong from November 2017 to April 2018.
Biography
Wu Chuan received his Bachelor's degree in Bioengineering from Central South University in 2005, his Master's degree in Ecology from Sun Yat-sen University in 2007, his collaborative research at Liverpool John Moores University in 2008-2009, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2011. Since 2011, he has been teaching at the School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, and was promoted to Professor in 2017. Wu's research interests include the migration and transformation of arsenic in soil-rice system and its geochemical cycle, environmental remediation of heavy metal pollution, research and development of passivation materials and passivation mechanism of heavy metal contaminated soil, and application of plant bioreactors in molecular medicine agriculture. Wu is a member of the Heavy Metal Pollution Prevention and Control Professional Committee of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, a youth member of the Hunan Botanical Society, and has presided over and participated in projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key R&D Program, the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, the National Public Welfare (Environmental Protection) Industry Research Project, and the Hong Kong Research Council Foundation.