Researcher biography

Dr Jiaying Li is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences, the University of Queensland. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2020 at Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), the University of Queensland, which focused on wastewater-based epidemiology, namely understanding and modelling illicit drug and pharmaceutical biomarkers in urban sewers. She is now involved with Queensland’s COVID-19 wastewater surveillance. Her research interests are understanding stability and transformation of chemicals and emerging pollutants in sewers, systematic sampling in sewersheds and catchments, modelling fate and transport of chemical and biological markers in sewage systems.