Hui Li

Dr. Hui Li is a Professor of Environmental Soil Chemistry in Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University. His research program focuses on occurrence, sorption, transformation, bioavailability and potential impacts of emerging contaminants (pharmaceuticals and personal care products, PFAS), persistent organic contaminants and pesticides in the environment, understanding the fundamental environmental processes at molecular level, plant uptake and accumulation of organic contaminants, and development of innovative remediation technology. Dr. Li’s current PFAS-related research projects mainly include: 1) an EPA-funded team project focusing on PFAS occurrence in biosolids, plant uptake of PFAS from soils amended with biosolids, and analysis of human exposure, 2) a USDA-funded team project focusing on developing mitigation strategies to reduce PFAS accumulation in food crops, and 3) an MTRAC-funded project on development of innovative nano-reactor technology to defluorinate PFAS in water.