Brief CV

Associate Professor, Xiamen University (2021.10 - present)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2019.08 - 2021.10)

PhD, Environmental Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2014.08 - 2019.08)

Research Funding

 INFEWS/T1: Advancing FEW System Resilience in the Corn Belt by Integrated Technology-Environment-Economics Modeling of Nutrient Cycling, 2017-2023,  (1739788)

Selected Publications

Huang, Z., Kijko G., Scanlon K., Lloyd, S., Henderson, A., Fantke, P., Jolliet, O., Li, S.*, 2023, System approach for characterizing and evaluating factors for occupational health impacts due to nonfatal injuries and illnesses for the use in life cycle assessment, Environmental Science & Technology.57(32),11738-1 1749.

Li, S., Cai, X.,* Niroula, S., Wallington, K., Gramig, B., Cusick, R., Singh, V., McIsaac, G., Oh, S., Kurambhatti, C., Emaminejad, A., John, S., 2023. “Integrated agricultural practices and engineering technologies enhance synergies of food-energy-water systems in Corn Belt Watersheds.” Environmental Science & Technology, 57(25), 9194–9203.

You, J., Li, S.*, Chen, N., Yang, X., Kurambhatti, C., Cai, X., Singh, V., 2023. “Phosphorus (P) recovery from corn biorefineries is promising for mitigating environmental impacts and promoting the P circular economy”, Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 198, 107194

Li, S.,# Wallington, K.,# Niroula, S.,# Cai, X.,* 2022. “A modified response matrix method to approximate SWAT for computationally intense applications,” Environmental Modelling & Software, 148, 105269.

Thompson, M., Moussavi, S., Li, S., Barutha, P., Dvorak, B., 2022. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of small water resource recovery facilities: Comparison of mechanical and lagoon systems. Water Research. 215, 118234.

Li, S., Cai, X.,* Emaminejad, S., Juneja, A., Niroula, S., Oh, S., Wallington, K., Cusick, R., Gramig, B., John, S., Gregory, M., Singh, V., 2021. “Developing an Integrated Technology-Environment-Economics Model to Simulate Food-Energy-Water Systems in Corn Belt Watersheds,” Environmental Modelling & Software, 143, 105083.

Li, S.,# Aryan, E.,# Aguiar, S., Cai, X., Cusick, R.,* 2021 “Evaluating long-term treatment performance and cost of nutrient removal at water resource recovery facilities under stochastic influent characteristics using artificial neural networks as surrogates for plant-wide modeling,”, ACS ES&T Engineering, 1 (11), 1517-1529.

Li, S., Thompson, M., Sussan M., Dvorak, B.*, 2021 “Life cycle and economic assessment of corn production practices in the western US Corn Belt,” Sustainable Production and Consumption, 27, 1762-1774.

Li, S.,* Qin, Y., Dvorak, B. I., Subbiah, J. 2020. “Life cycle assessment of the U.S. beef processing through integrated hybrid approach,” Journal of Cleaner Production, 265, 121813.

Li, S., Dvorak, B. I.,* Subbiah, J. 2019. “Environmental and occupational impacts from U.S. beef slaughtering are of same magnitude of beef foodborne illnesses on human health,” Environment International, 129, 507-516.

Li, S., Zhilyaey, S., Dvorak, B. I.,* Gallagher, D., Subbiah, J. 2019. “Sustainability of safe foods: an integrated life cycle assessment of antimicrobial systems in U.S. beef processing,” Science of The Total Environment, 691, 252-262.

Li, S., Kinser, C., Ziara, R. M., Dvorak, B. I., Subbiah, J. 2018. “Environmental and economic implications of food safety interventions: Life cycle and operating cost assessment of antimicrobial systems in US beef packing industry,” Journal of Cleaner Production, 198, 541-550.

Li, S., Ziara, R., Dvorak, B. I., Subbiah, J., 2018. “Assessment of water and energy use at process level in U.S. beef packing industry: case study in a typical U.S. large-size plant,” Journal of Food Processing Engineering, e12919.

Awards and Honors

2020, College of Engineering Outstanding Dissertation Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

2019, Maude Hammond Fling Fellowship ($20,000), one of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s most prestigious graduate honors.

2018, Student Leadership Award in LCA, ACLCA XVIII conference, Colorado, USA.

2017, Nebraska American Water Works Association (AWWA), Colonel Leisen Scholarship, Nebraska, USA