2007-present  Professor, Research Center of Urban Environmental Engineering and Circular Economy, Institute of Urban Environmental, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1998-2006     Associate Professor, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology
1993-1998     Assistant Professor, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology
2003-2006     Ph. D. in Environmental Engineering, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS
1988-1991     MSc. in Analytical Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University
1984-1988     BSc. in Chemistry, Hunan Normal University  

Public Services 

1. Editorial member of Chinese Journal of Environmental Engineering;
2. Editorial member of Environmental Sanitation Engineering;
3. Committee member of Industrial Water Conservation;
4. Member of National Rural Sewage Treatment Expert Committee;
5. Director of Fujian Society for Environmental Sciences;
6. Vice president of Xiamen Society for Environmental Sciences. 

Achievements:

Host numbers of national, provincial and industrial projects, including demonstration projects;
Publish more than 100 scientific papers;
Authorize more than 30 patents, including 17 invention patents and 15 utility model patents.

1. Wastewater treatment and resource recovery
2. Greenhouse gas emission mechanism of municipal solid waste
3. Landfill leachate treatment
4. Resource utilization technology of kitchen waste

1. Xin Ye, Minquan Chen, Wei Wang*, Junhuang Shen, Junbin Wu, Wei Huang, Lishan Xiao, Xiangyu Lin, Zhi-Long Ye, Shaohua Chen*. Dissolving the high-cost with acidity: A happy encounter between fluidized struvite crystallization and wastewater from activated carbon manufacture. Water Research, 2021,188:116521.
2. Hualiang Feng, Zefang Chen, Xiaojun Wang*, Shaohua Chen, John Crittenden. Electrochemical advanced oxidation for treating ultrafiltration effluent of a landfill leachate system: Impacts of organics and inorganics and economic evaluation. Chemical Engineering Journal, 2021, 413:127492.
3. Chengliang Zhang, Xiaojun Wang, Lai Wei, Boguang Wang, Shaohua Chen*. Time-resolved characteristics and production pathways of simulated landfilling N2O emission under different oxygen concentrations. Environment International, 2021,149:106396.
4. Hualiang Feng, Xiaojun Wang*, Jiasheng Cai, Shaohua Chen*. Discrepancies in N2O emissions between household waste and its food waste and non-food waste components during the predisposal stage. Journal of Environmental Management, 2020,265:110548.
5. Ruili Yang, Xiaojun Wang*, Yan Guo, Zhaoji Zhang, Shaohua Chen*. Evaluation of anammox pathway recovery after high COD loading using water quality, molecular biology and isotope labelling analysis. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering, 2020,43:625–636.
6. Dongyuan Chu, Zhi-Long Ye, Shaohua Chen*. Interactions among low-molecular-weight organics, heavy metals, and Fe(III) during coagulation of landfill leachate nanofiltration concentrate. Waste Management, 2020,104:51–59.
7. Xiaojun Wang, Ruili Yang, Yan Guo, Zhaoji Zhang, Chih Ming Kao, Shaohua Chen,*. Investigation of COD and COD/N ratio for the dominance of anammox pathway for nitrogen removal via isotope labelling technique and the relevant bacteria. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2019, 366:606–614.
8. Xiaojun Wang, Ruili Yang, Zhaoji Zhang, Junbin Wu, Shaohua Chen,*. Mass balance and bacterial characteristics in an in-situ full-scale swine wastewater treatment system occurring anammox process. Bioresource Technology, 2019,292: 122005.
9. Chengliang Zhang, Yan Guo, Xiaojun Wang, Shaohua Chen*. Temporal and spatial variation of greenhouse gas emissions from a limited controlled landfill site. Environment International, 2019,127: 387–394.
10. Yaoyin Lou, Xin Ye*, Zhi-Long Ye, Pen-Chi Chiang, Shaohua Chen*. Occurrence and ecological risks of veterinary antibiotics in struvite recovered from swine wastewater. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018, 201: 678-685.

1. The Grade A Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences “Integration and demonstration of ecological infrastructure construction and human settlements optimization technology & equipment in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Megalopolis” (No. XDA23030200, 2019.01-2023.12).
2. Science and Technology Service Network Initiative of Fujian Province: “Development and industrialization of discrete apparatus for aerobic composting of organic waste” (No. 2019T3004, 2019.04-2022.04)