Ran Mei
Primary Research Area
- Environmental Engineering and Science
Research Areas
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Education
- Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2020
- M.S. in Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2015
- B.S. in Energy and Resources Engineering, Peking University, China, 2013
Academic Positions
- Affiliate (0%), Center for Artificial Intelligence and Modeling (CAIM) Research Theme, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Aug 2025-
- Assistant Professor (100%), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Nov 2024-
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan, Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, Jan 2021 - Mar 2023
Research Interests
- Meta-omics
- Syntrophysism and methanogenesis
- Microbial evolution
- Microbial ecology
- Cultivation of uncultured microorganisms
- Anaerobic biotechnology
- Biological wastewater treatment
Primary Research Area
- Environmental Engineering and Science
Research Areas
Teaching Honors
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (Spring 2025)
Research Honors
- DOE JGI CSP New Investigator Award (2023)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (2022)
- Jacobs Engineering Group / AEESP Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2021)