Ying ZHU

Associate Professor

Email: yzhu16@sjtu.edu.cn

Developed the SESAMe and SESAMe-Veg models. SESAMe v3.4 - a high-resolution multimedia environmental fate model for non-ionisable and ionisable organic chemicals covering Mainland China. Collaboration is welcomed!

Research Interests

• Emissions of contaminants and impact factors
• Environmental fate and exposure modeling of emerging and persistent organic chemicals
• Modelling Environmental and human health risks

Biography

Academic Work Experience:

Jan. 2021-present, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Associate Professor

May 2018-Jan. 2021, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS, China, Assistant Professor

Apr. 2016-Mar. 2018, Lancaster University, UK, Postdoc/ Research Associate

Education:

Dec. 2011-Mar. 2016, Environmental Science, Lancaster University, UK, PhD

Sep. 2006-Jul. 2009, Environmental Science, Peking University, China, M. Sc.

Sep. 2004-Jul. 2006, Economics, Peking University, China, B. Economics

Sep. 2002-Jul. 2006, Environmental Science, Peking University, China, B. Sc.

Professional Service:

npj Emerging Contaminants, Editor-in-Chief

Selected Publications

Underlines: students supervised; * corresponding author

1. Guangbin Zhong, Zengwei Li, Kevin C. Jones, Ying Zhu*. Effects of global treaty on commercial chemicals widely used as additives: meta-analysis of historical measurements of PBDEs. The Lancet Planetary Health, 2025, 9 (6), e538-e552.
   
2. Nan Lin, Zengwei Li, Ning Ding, Sung Kyun Park, Stuart Batterman, Wei Du, Jiayin Dai, Ying Zhu*. Estimation of Dermal Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) from Feminine Hygiene Products: Integrating Measurement Data and Physiologically Based Toxicokinetic (PBTK) Model. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2025, 133 (6), 067020, doi.org/10.1289/EHP15418.

3. S. Li, Y. Zhu*, G. Zhong, Y. Huang, K.C. Kevin. Comprehensive Assessment of Environmental Emissions, Fate, and Risks of Veterinary Antibiotics in China: An Environmental Fate Modeling Approach. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2024, 58 (12), 5534–5547.

4. Chen, R.; Xing, C.; Shen, G.; Jones, K. C.; Zhu, Y*. Indirect emissions from organophosphite antioxidants result in significant organophosphate ester contamination in China. Environ. Sci. Technol., 2023, 57 (48), 20304?20314.
5. Z. Li, X. Zhang, B. Wang, G. Shen, Q. Zhang, Y. Zhu*. Indoor exposure to selected flame retardants and quantifying importance of environmental, human behavioral and physiological parameters. Science of The Total Environment, 2022, 835, 155422.
   
6. Y. Li, Y. Zhu*, W. Liu, S. Yu, S. Tao, W. Liu*. Modeling multimedia fate and health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the coastal regions of the Bohai and Yellow Seas. Science of The Total Environment, 2022, 818, 151789.
   
7. Zengwei Li, Ying Zhu*, Dou Wang, Xianming Zhang, Kevin C Jones, Jianmin Ma, Pu Wang, Ruiqiang Yang, Yingming Li, Zhiguo Pei, Qinghua Zhang, Guibin Jiang. Modeling of Flame Retardants in Typical Urban Indoor Environments in China during 2010-2030: Influence of Policy and Decoration and Implications for Human Exposure. Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55 (17), 11745–11755.
   
8. Ying Zhu, Huijing Huang, Yunhui Zhang, Guannan Xiong, Qinghua Zhang, Yujun Li, Shu Tao, Wenxin Liu*. Evaluation of PAHs in Edible Parts of Vegetables and Their Human Health Risks in Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, China: A Multimedia Modeling Approach. Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 773, 145076.
9. Kai Lei, Chunye Lin, Ying Zhu*, Wei Chen, Huiyun Pan, Zhe Sun, Andrew Sweetman, Qinghua Zhang, Mengchang He. Estrogens in municipal wastewater and receiving waters in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China: Occurrence and risk assessment of mixtures. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 389: 121891.
10. Kai Lei, Ying Zhu*, Wei Chen, Huiyun Pan, Yuanxin Cao, Xuan Zhang, Bobo Guo, Andy Sweetman, Chunye Lin*, Wei Ouyang, Mengchang He, Xitao Liu. Spatial and seasonal variations of antibiotics in river waters in the Haihe River Catchment in China and ecotoxicological risk assessment. Environment International, 2019, 130: 104919.
11. Ying Zhu, Jason Snape, Kevin Jones, Andrew Sweetman*. Spatially explicit large-scale environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals in surface water in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 2019, 53 (5): 2559-2569.
12. Ying Zhu, Shu Tao, Jianteng Sun, Xilong Wang, Xiangdong Li, Daniel CW Tsang, Lizhong Zhu, Guofeng Shen, Huijing Huang, Chuanyang Cai, Wenxin Liu*. Multimedia modeling of the PAH concentration and distribution in the Yangtze River Delta and human health risk assessment. Science of the Total Environment, 2019, 647, 962-972.
13. Kai Lei, Ying Zhu*, Wei Chen, Huiyun Pan, Bobo Guo, Xuan Zhang, Yuanxin Cao, Andrew Sweetman, Chunye Lin*. The occurrence of home and personal care products in the Haihe River catchment and estimation of human exposure. Science of the Total Environment, 2018, 643, 63-72.
14. Ying Zhu*, Oliver Price, John Kilgallon, Yi Qi, Shu Tao, Kevin Jones, Andrew Sweetman*. Drivers of contaminant levels in surface water of China during 2000–2030: Relative importance for illustrative home and personal care product chemicals. Environment International, 2018, 115, 161-169.
15. Zhe Sun, Ying Zhu*, Shaojie Zhuo, Weiping Liu, Eddy Y. Zeng, Xilong Wang, Baoshan Xing, Shu Tao. Occurrence of nitro- and oxy-PAHs in agricultural soils in eastern China and excess lifetime cancer risks from human exposure through soil ingestion. Environment International, 2017, 108, 261-270.
16. Ying Zhu, Oliver Price, John Kilgallon, Cecilie Rendal, Shu Tao, Kevin Jones, Andrew Sweetman*. A multimedia fate model to support chemical management in China: a case study for selected trace organics. Environmental Science & Technology, 2016, 50 (13), 7001-7009.
17. Ying Zhu, Shu Tao, Oliver Price, Huizhong Shen, Kevin Jones and Andrew Sweetman*. Environmental distributions of benzo[a]pyrene in China: Current and future emission reduction scenarios explored using a spatially explicit multimedia fate model. Environmental Science & Technology, 2015, 49 (23), 13868-13877.
18. Ying Zhu, Oliver Price, Shu Tao, Kevin Jones, Andy Sweetman*. A new multimedia contaminant fate model for China: How important are environmental parameters in influencing chemical persistence and long-range transport potential? Environment International, 2014, 69, 18-27.
19. 朱櫻，吳文婧，王軍軍，秦寧，王印，王雁，何玘霜，徐福留*。小白洋淀水—沉積物系統(tǒng)多環(huán)芳烴的分布、來源與生態(tài)風(fēng)險。湖泊科學(xué)，2009, 21(5), 637-646。
20. 朱櫻，薛蓓，謝彥佼，劉先利，陶澍*。用連續(xù)提取法研究芘在魚鰓表面的結(jié)合形態(tài)。生態(tài)毒理學(xué)報，2006，1 (1)，75-79。
    

Research Projects

• Sub project of National Key R&D Program of China,
  
• Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program, Contribution of organophosphite antioxidant precursors to multimedia environmental fate of organophosphate esters in China, 01/2024–12/2027, PI (490,000 CNY)
  
• Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program, High-resolution dynamic modelling of widely used pharmaceuticals in Chinese environments and impact factors, 01/2020–12/2023, PI (610,000 CNY)
• Sub project IV of National Key R&D Program of China, Highly sensitive biological systems for sensing and identifying environmental persistent toxic pollutants – application and evaluation of the systems, 07/2019–06/2024, CO-PI (1.32 million CNY)
• Natural Science Foundation of China for Youth, Contamination and health effects of indoor fine particles and PAHs in rural areas of North China, 01/2011–12/2013, PI (210,000 CNY)

Honors and Awards