Dr. Hu is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. She earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University and her B.S. in Marine Science from Xiamen University. Her research integrates experimental and computational approaches to tackle pressing environmental challenges. She specializes in investigating the fate and transport of organic pollutants in soil–plant systems and water/wastewater sysyems, developing physical, chemical, and biological methods for their removal, and advancing biomass valorization technologies. She also applies density functional theory (DFT), molecular dynamics (MD), and molecular docking to elucidate reaction mechanisms and inform the design of functional materials.