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Xiao Su is a researcher at the  and an assistant professor of  at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusettes Institute of Technology in 2017, and his B.A. from the University of Waterloo in 2011.
Professor Su is a chemical engineer whose interdisciplinary research program encompasses energy and environmental processes, water treatment and purification, chemical and biological manufacturing, and advanced materials synthesis. He has developed greener methods to manufacture, use and recycle chemicals, and his recent work on electrodialysis-based water purification addresses the energy and water crises simultaneously.
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Honors and awards:


2023: AIChE Separations FRI/John G. Kunesh Award


2023: ACS Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloids & Surfactant Science


2023: School of Chemical Sciences Teaching Award


2022: Center for Advanced Study, Fellow


2021: International Society of Electrochemistry Elsevier Prize for Green Electrochemistry


2020: ACS Victor K. LaMer Award


2020: RCSA Scialog Fellow