Lianfa Song
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- DEPARTMENTTexas Tech University
- COUNTRY USA
Professional Activities
Professional Experience
| 2013.9-present | Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas Tech University |
| 2007-13.8 | Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas Tech University |
| 2002-07 | Associate Professor, Deputy Director, Center for Water Research, Division of Environmental Science & Engineering and Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore |
| 2000-01 | Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore |
| 1996-99 | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Structural Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) |
| 1994-95 | Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN |
| 1993-94 | Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1990-93 | Graduate Student Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1984-89 | Lecturer, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. |
Honors and Awards
2011 |
Invited speaker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas. |
2010 |
Invited speaker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. |
2010 |
Invited speaker at the ECI Conference on Advances in Science and Engineering for Brackish Water and Seawater Desalination, Cetraro, Italy. |
2009 |
Invited speaker at the 5th Sino-US Chemical Engineering Conference, Beijing, China. 2008 Invited speaker at the 2008 IWA North American Membrane Research Conference, Amherst, Massachusetts. |
2006 |
Keynote speaker at the Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute (ASI): Leading- edge Strategies and Technologies for Sustainable Urban Water Management at HKUST, Hong Kong. |
2005 |
Invited speaker at International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM), Seoul, Korea. |
2003 |
Award for student paper competition (graduate student S. Ma) at the 14th North American Membrane Society Annual Meeting, Jackson Hole, WY. |
2002 |
Award for student paper competition (graduate student K. L. Chen) at the 13th North American Membrane Society Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA. |
1990 |
Arco Scholarship that covered full tuition fee at UCLA for three years (1990-1992). |
Professional Society Memberships
- American Society of Civil Engineer
- International Water Association
- North American Membrane Society
- Environmental Engineering Society in Singapore
Research Interests and Activities
- Membrane processes (RO, UF, MF) for water desalination and purification
- Physicochemical processes in water and wastewater treatment
- Membrane bioreactor (MBR) for demotic and industrial wastewater treatment
- Colloidal phenomena in aquatic systems
- Transport and fate of contaminants in subsurface environments