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Jiaqi (Jacky) Li
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Assistant Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact
2156 GG Brown Building
Phone: 734-764-9519
Email: Licee at Umich.edu
Dr. Jiaqi Li is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his B.E. in Civil Engineering from the Beijing University of Technology. Prior to Michigan, he was a Staff Scientist (career-indefinite) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 2021, he was awarded the Ernest O. Lawrence Fellow and began his independent research career at Lawrence Livermore. Prior to Livermore, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Research Interests
Modern infrastructure and the renewable energy industry depend on massive flows of cementitious materials, minerals, industrial chemicals, and critical materials. Building wind, solar, grid, storage, transportation, and resilient infrastructure requires scalable ways to manufacture construction materials, treat industrial and municipal waste streams, reduce environmental burdens, and recover valuable resources. Meeting these needs requires a system- level transformation in how inorganic resources are extracted, separated, converted, treated, and reused. My research addresses this challenge by developing transformative processes in environmental electrochemistry, geochemistry, and biologically mediated systems that convert industrial byproducts, biomass, and wastes into low-carbon construction materials, clean fuels, recoverable resources, and critical materials.
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Environmental electrochemistry, reaction engineering, and separations for cement decarbonization, waste treatment, resource recovery, and carbon capture, utilization, and storage.
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Critical mineral and material recovery from complex solid, aqueous, and waste feedstocks via electrochemical and biogeochemical processes, including electrolysis and biomineralization.
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Environmental valorization of wastes, biomass, industrial byproducts, and mineral resources through electrochemical, geochemical, and bio-enabled processes.
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Advanced manufacturing of sustainable cement and concrete, and development of novel clean-fuel production systems.
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Advanced materials characterization using synchrotron-based techniques.
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Artificial intelligence-enabled life-cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis for sustainable materials and clean-fuel technologies.