应中国科学院城市污染物转化重点实验室和郑煜铭研究组邀请，新加坡国立大学陈嘉平教授于12月7日至9日到城市环境研究所学术交流，并作了题为“Functionalized materials for treatment of arsenic, fluoride, copper, and lead contaminated water”的学术报告。陈嘉平介绍了多种高性能功能纳米材料和功能膜材料等的研究进展，这些新材料均可用于快速去除废水中的砷离子、氟离子、铅离子等污染物。从水体中微塑料颗粒的检测方法及其毒性等角度，探讨了目前倍受关注的淡水中微塑料颗粒污染的问题。报告精彩纷呈，并与在场师生开展了深入探讨，现场气氛热烈，令大家受益匪浅。 

　　专家简介： 

Dr J. Paul Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in National University of Singapore (NUS). He joined the NUS in 1998 after he obtained his PhD degree from Georgia Tech. His teaching experiences include: Water Pollution Control Technology, Industrial Effluent Treatment, and Environmental Chemistry. His research interests are physicochemical treatment of water and wastewater and mathematical modeling of chemical and environmental processes. His current research activities are treatment of toxic metal ions by functionalized membranes and sorbents, ballast water management system, electrochemical technologies for organic and metal waste treatment, and instrumental and modeling analysis of environmental processes. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Chartered Scientist (CSci), a Chartered Chemical Engineer, and a Chartered Marine Engineer. He is a FIMarEST and a FIChemE.