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Education

Positions

• 2021/6-now    Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  
• 2022/8-now    Joint appointment with Earth and Environmental Sciences programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2022/8-now    Director of Environmental Science Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2023/1-now    Member, State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong
• 2022/1-12       Member, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2021/11-now   Fellow, Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2019-2021      Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  
• 2013-2019      Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  
• 2011-2013      Turner Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
  

Research Interests

• Environmental pollution
• Ecosystem biogeochemistry
• Stable isotope applications
• Environmental molecular applications
• Environmental human health

Representative Publications

1. Stinson I, Li H, Tsui MTK, Ku P, Ulus Y, Cheng Z, Lam HM (2024) Tree foliage as a net accumulator of highly toxic methylmercury. Scientific Reports 14: 1757.
2. Zhong H, Tang w, Li Z, Sonne C, Lam SS, Zhang X, Kwon SY, Rinklebe J, Nunes LM, Yu RQ, Gu B, Hintelmann H, Tsui MTK, Zhao J, Zhou XQ, Wu M, Liu B, Hao Y, Chen L, Zhang B, Tan W, Zhang X, Ren H, Liu YR (2024) Soil Geobacteraceae predict neurotoxic methylmercury in rice. Nature Food 5: 301-311.
3. Tsui MTK, Kwon SY, Li M, Bishop K (2023) Revisiting the relationship between mercury emission and bioaccumulation. Eco-Environment & Health 2: 1-2.
4. Lei P, Yu RQ, Kong Y, Bertilsson S, Tsui MTK, Jiang T, Zhao J, Liu YR, Joerg R, Zhong H (2023) Properly interpret metabolic inhibition results to identify primary mercury methylating microbes. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
5. Ullah R, Tsui MTK, Chow A, Chen H, Williams C, Ligaba-Osena A (2023) Micro(nano)plastic pollution in terrestrial ecosystem: Emphasis on impacts of polystyrene on soil biota, plants, animals, and humans. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 195: 252.
6. Ulus Y, Tsui MTK, Sakar A, Nyarko P, Aitmbarek NB, Ardón M, Chow AT (2022) Declines of methylmercury along a salinity gradient in a low-lying coastal wetland ecosystem at South Carolina, USA. Chemosphere 308: 136310
7. Li H, Tsui MTK, Ku P, Chen H, Yin Z, Dahlgren RA, Parikh SJ, Wei J, Hoang TC, Chow AT, Cheng Z, Zhu XM (2022) Impacts of forest fire ash on aquatic mercury cycling. Environmental Science & Technology 56: 11835-11844.
8. Yang YH, Kwon SY, Tsui MTK, Motta LC, Washburn SJ, Park J, Kim M, Shing KH (2022) Ecological traits of fish for mercury biomonitoring: Insights from compound specific nitrogen and stable mercury isotopes. Environmental Science & Technology 56: 10808-10817.
9. Li M, Kwon SY, Poulin B, Tsui MTK, Motta L, Cho M (2022) Internal dynamics and metabolism of mercury in biota: A review of insights from mercury stable isotopes. Environmental Science & Technology 56: 9182-9195.
10. Liu J, Li Y, Duan D, Peng G, Li P, Lei P, Zhong H, Tsui MTK, Pan K (2022) Effects and mechanisms of organic matter regulating the methylmercury dynamics in mangrove sediments. Journal of Hazardous Materials 432: 128690.

Research Grants

• 2025-2027, Research Grants Council (RGC) Earmarked Grants, General Research Fund, Ecosystem controls on the production and degradation of highly toxic methylmercury in upland vegetated landscapes, $910,742 (HKD)
• 2024-2025, Chinese University of Hong Kong, IdeaBooster Fund, A green solution to agriculture: Development of eco-friendly biochar and validation in local crop production, $100,000 (HKD)
• 2024-2026, Research Grants Council (RGC) Earmarked Grants, General Research Fund, Production of methylmercury and its linkage to biomagnification in food webs at a subtropical mangrove ecosystem, $877,079 (HKD)
• 2023-2025, Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF), Environmental Research, Technology Demonstration and Conference Projects, Baseline characterization of mercury levels and its potential toxicity in shorebirds in Mai Po Nature Reserve and Deep Bay, $495,200 (HKD)
• 2023-2025, State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Examination of ecological, microbial, and geochemical factors in determining bioaccumulation of highly toxic methylmercury in natural mangrove ecosystems, $500,000 (HKD)
• 2019-2025, National Science Foundation (USA) Division of Earth Sciences, Collaborative Proposal: Response of mercury cycling to disturbance and restoration of low-gradient forested watersheds, $164,740 (USD) (formerly as PI)

Awards

• 2015, Candace Bernard & Robert Glickman Dean’s Professorship, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• 2011, Honorable Mention, Dissertation Award, Universities Council on Water Resources
• 2010, Turner Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan
• 2009, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota
• 2009, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, U.S. National Science Foundation
• 2007, Chris Lee Award for Metals Research, Society Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry

Professional Activities

Editoral Services

• Editorial Board member, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (2021-now)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental Quality (2017-2022)

Research Proposal Review

• National Science Foundation (USA)
• Research Grant Council (Hong Kong)

Manuscript Review (selected journals)

• PNAS, Nature Geoscience, Environmental Science & Technology, Science of the Total Environment, etc.