Qiong Zhang

Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering

Organization: University of South Florida

Education: Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University

Qiong Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF). She worked for the Sustainable Futures Institute at Michigan Tech as the operation manager before she joined USF. She has sponsored research projects in the areas of green engineering and sustainability, life cycle assessment, water supply and treatment, waste-based resource recovery, integrated resource management, system modeling of environmental technology adoption and critical infrastructures resiliency, and carbon footprint accounting of various water and wastewater technologies and strategies

Subject Areas:
Data Analysis/Modeling, Economics, Education/Communication, Sustainability, Water Quality, Water Treatment

Selected Projects

Selected Publications

• Lee, E., Oliveira, D.S.B.L., Oliveira, L.S.B.L., Jimenez, E., Kim, Y., Wang, M., Ergas, S.J., & Zhang, Q. (2020). Comparative environmental and economic life cycle assessment of high solids anaerobic co-digestion for biosolids and organic waste management. Water Research, 2019(115443). doi: 10.1016/j.watres
• Lee, E., Bittencourt, P., Casimir, L., Jimenez, E., Wang, M., Zhang, Q., & Ergas, S.J. (2019). Biogas production from high solids anaerobic co-digestion of food waste, yard waste and waste activated sludge. Waste Management, 95, 432-439. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2019.06.033