Basic Introduction:

ZHANG Mengtao research focuses on the environmental behavior, toxicity and environmental risk of emerging contaminates, with a particular emphasis on the toxicological properties and environmental transformation products of these contaminants. He discovered that transformation products of phenolic pollutants exhibit higher toxicity compared to their original substrates, increasing environmental risk uncertainty.

Professional Experience:

2024.7 – Present, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Research Assistant Professor

2021.8 - 2024.1, Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University Postdoctoral Fellow

2015.7 - 2016.3 Jiangsu Electric Power Construction No.3 Engineering Company of China Energy Engineering Group, Engineer

Education:

2016.9-2021.5, Hong Kong Baptist University, Ph. D

2012.9-2015.6, Hefei University of Technology, Master of Engineering

2008.9-2012.6, Hebei University of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering

Research Interests:

1. Laboratory synthesis and toxicological study of potentially highly toxic products of emerging contaminates.

2. Environmental risk assessment of emerging contaminates.

Selected funded projects:

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52200229) “Enzymatic coupling mechanism of PCMX in urban rivers and aquatic ecological risk study”.

2. Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (JCYJ20240813094805008) “Study on the Coupling Mechanism of Biotransformation and Extracellular Enzyme Catalysis of Halogenated Phenolic Pollutants in Shenzhen Tidal Flat Wetlands”.

Published Works:

1. Zhang, Mengtao; Li, Xiaoyan; Lin, Lin; Shi, Jianghong; Luan, Hemi; Li, Bing*; Cell-free hemoglobin and hemin catalyzing triclosan oxidative coupling in plasma: A novel exogenous phenolic pollutants coupling pathway. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2024, 282, 116708

2. Zhang Mengtao; Shi Jianghong*; Bing Li; Ge Hui; Tao Huanyu; Zhang Jiawei; Wang Yunhe; Li Xiaoyan; Zongwei Cai; In vitro and in silico competitive binding of diOH-PBDEs with human thyroid hormone receptors, Toxics 2024,12, 281.

3. Zhang, Mengtao; Zhao, Feng; Zhang, Jiawei; Shi*, Jianghong; Tao, Huanyu; Ge, Hui; Guo, Wei; Liu, Dong; Cai, Zongwei*; Toxicity and accumulation of 6-OH-BDE-47 and newly synthesized 6,6 '-diOH-BDE-47 in early life-stages of Zebrafish (Danio rerio), Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 763: 143036.

4. Mengtao Zhang; Wei Guo; Juntong Wei; Jianghong Shi*; Jiawei Zhang; Hui Ge; Huanyu Tao; Xia owei Liu; Qing Hu; Zongwei Cai*; Determination of newly synthesized dihydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers in sea fish by gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, Chemosphere, 2020, 240: 124878

5. Mengtao Zhang; Jianghong Shi*; Yaobin Meng; Wei Guo; Huiyuan Li; Xiaowei Liu; Yang Zhang; Hui Ge; Min Yao; Qing Hu; Occupational exposure characteristics and health risk of PBDEs at different domestic e-waste recycling workshops in China, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2019, 174: 532-539

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