Ships Ballast Water Analysis: Microfluidic Technology in Algae Analysis

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Yongxin Song is a professor in the college of marine engineering Dalian Maritime University (DMU). He received his PhD degree in Marine engineering from Dalian Maritime University in 2012. Since joining DMU he has worked as an assistant professor (2004) Associate Professor (2012) and Professor (2017-now). He is a creative scientist at the forefront of exploring new sensing methods and lab-on-chip devices and their applications in the field of marine engineering. He is committed to making breakthroughs in any topic of microfluidic sensing technology where using conventional approaches to shrink the devices are challenging. His research areas involve of mechanical engineering colloid and interface electrical engineering. Dr. Song pioneered several ground-breaking studies in microfluidic chip-based marine pollution analysis such as electric and surface charges based living algae detection. He is the local co-chair of the 2016 International Conference on microfluidics and nanofluidics and lab-on-chip gest editor and topic advisory board of the Micromachines journal section chair of the 2018 International Conference on microfluidics and nanofluidics and lab-on-chip. He has published more than one hundred high quality international journal papers with more than twenty patents licensed.Junyan Zhang is currently an associate professor in the college of marine engineering Dalian Maritime University (DMU) Dalian China. His research interests include electrokinetic phenomena microfluidics and nanofluidics colloid and interface science ballast water detection as well as flexible devices for sensing. He has published more than 10 high quality papers. In addition he has been working as a fourth engineer on ocean-going ships for over 18 months. He was granted a funding (2021-2023) by National Natural Science Foundation of China the name of which is Characteristics of microalgae surface charge and analysis of microalgae viability in ship ballast water. He has developed a novel method to evaluate the viability of microalgae in ballast water through aqueous two-phase system.Mengqi Li is an Associate Professor in the college of marine engineering Dalian Maritime University (DMU). He received his PhD degree in Mechanical engineering from University of Waterloo in 2018. From 2019 to 2020 he worked at University of Waterloo as a Postdoc Fellow. Since joining DMU in 2020 he has worked as an Associate Professor until now. His research interests include microfluidics and nanofluidics colloid and interface science soft matter electrokinetic phenomena as well as electrochemical detection techniques. He has published more than 30 high quality papers and applied more than ten patents. Moreover he harbors an interest in ballast water treatment and detection techniques. He has developed a novel technique in identifying the viability of microalgae through liquid-liquid interface under electric field which has attracted great attention.Ming Li is currently an Associate Professor and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney Australia. She obtained her PhD from the University of Wollongong in Australia and conducted postdoctoral training at the University of Houston and the University of California Los Angeles in the USA. She was a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University before joining UNSW. Her research interests include microfluidics biosensors lab-on-a-chip technology and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS).Xiangchun Xuan is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at University of Toronto in 2006 and Bachelor of Engineering degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 1995. Dr. Xuan was a recipient of NSF CAREER award in 2012 and Clemson University Distinguished Doctoral Mentoring Award in 2022. His research interests cover the fundamentals and applications of microfluidics with special interest in particle and cell manipulations. He has published over 150 journal articles with a Google Scholar h-index of 55.Na Li received the Ph.D. degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from Dalian Maritime University Dalian China in 2020. She completed postdoctoral studies at the Marine Engineering College of Dalian Maritime University. Her research interests include environmental chemistry molecular biology and aquatic toxicology. In addition she was received multiple tech grants such as Basic scientific research projects in universities Science and technology talent innovation support policy projects Doctoral initiation program and so on.