Xinwei Mao
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director/Advisor

Education

• PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Californa Berkeley, 2015
• MS, Environmental Process Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2009
• MS, Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2008
• BS, Environmental Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 2006

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY, 2023 – present
• Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY, 2016 – 2023
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, NY State Center for Clean Water Technology, 2015 - 2016
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2014 - 2015

Research Interests

Xinwei Mao's research interests lie in her passion of advancing and applying the knowledge of environmental microbiology to establish cost-effective and energy efficient wastewater treatment processes and promote a sustainable relationship between humans and the natural water environment. She is currently developing novel on-site wastewater treatment systems in collaboration with Stony Brook's Center for Clean Water Technology (CCWT). These systems are based on novel de-nitrification pathways to treat on-site wastewater that is both cost-effective and energy-efficient. Research is underway to test the feasibility of these novel on-site wastewater treatment systems at the micro level in the lab as well as the feasibility at the macro level through field testing. Other research interests include bio-remediation of recalcitrant contaminants in groundwater and sediments, as well as bio-energy production from waste and wastewater.