Education & Working Experience

2021/07- present, University of Science & Technology Beijing, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Associate Professor

2019/01- 2021/06, University of Science & Technology Beijing, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Lecture

2016/07-2018/12, University of Science & Technology Beijing, Department of Environmental Engineering, Postdoctoral teaching staff

2015/04-2016/04, Kyushu University, Faculty of Agriculture, Postdoctoral Fellow

2011/09-2015/03, Kyushu University, Innovative Science and Technology for Bio-industry, Ph.D.

2008/09-2011/01, University of Science & Technology Beijing, Municipal Engineering, M.Sc.

2003/09-2007/07, Harbin Institute of Technology, Environmental Engineering, B.Sc.

Teaching

1. Solid Waste Treatment and Disposal

2. Advanced Environmental Chemistry

Research projects

1. Integration of Key Technologies and Engineering Demonstration for High-value Resource Utilization of Urban Food Waste, Environmental Protection Research Project of Anhui Province; 2023-2025.

2. Technology and Demonstration Project on Ethanol Fermentation from Food and Cellulosic Waste, supported by the National Key R&D Program of China; 2022-2024.

3. Integration and Equipment Development for Resource Utilization Technology of Lactic Acid Fermentation from Waste Biomass and Pilot Demonstration, supported by Company; 2021-2024.

4. Biofortification, Intelligent Analysis and Regulation in High-Solids Anaerobic Digestion Reactor, supported by the National Key R&D Program of China; 2018-2022.

5. Study on the mechanism and application of lactic acid antimicrobial pre-fermentation for bio-butanol production from food waste, supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; 2018-2020.

6. Study on the mechanism and key technology of bio-butanol production from food waste with carboxylic acid pre-fermentation, supported by Beijing Natural Science Foundation; 2018-2020.

7. Efficient butanol production from food waste with antimicrobial lactic acid pre-fermentation, supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation; 2018-2020.

Academic Achievements

Main journal publications：

1. Pan H., Li Y., Zhu W., Wu C., Gao M.*, Wang Q., Wang Y., Lu Y., Rao Y., Yu C. Oriented Bioconversion of Food Waste to Lactic Acid for External Carbon Source Production: Microbial Communities and Comparison of Denitrification Performance. Bioresource Technology, 2025, 416: 131739.

2. Cheng Y., Pan H., Zhang J., Gao M.*, Wang Y., Lu Y., Rao Y., Yu C., Wu C. Enhancing Methane Production in Two-Phase Anaerobic Digestion of Perishable Organic Waste: Mini-Review On Acidogenic Fermentation Pathways and Regulatory Strategies. Bioresource Technology, 2025, 424: 132253.

3. Liu S., Wang Q., Li Y., Ma X., Zhu W., Wang N., Sun H., Gao M.* Highly Efficient Oriented Bioconversion of Food Waste to Lactic Acid in an Open System: Microbial Community Analysis and Biological Carbon Fixation Evaluation. Bioresource Technology, 2023, 370: 128398.

4. Zhang S., Ma X., Sun H., Zhao P., Wang Q., Wu C., Gao M.* Response of semi-continuous anaerobic digestion of food waste to progressively increasing temperature: Methanogen community, correlation analysis, and energy balance. Industrial Crops and Products, 2023, 192: 116066.

5. Zhu W., Sun H., Zhang Y., Wang N., Li Y., Liu S., Gao M.*, Wang Y., Wang Q. Improving Lactic Acid Yield of Hemicellulose From Garden Garbage through Pretreatment of a High Solid Loading Coupled with Semi-Hydrolysis Using Low Enzyme Loading. Bioresource Technology, 2023, 384: 129330.

6. Zhang S., Ma X., Sun H., Xie D., Zhao P., Wang Q., Wu C., Gao M.* Semi-continuous mesophilic-thermophilic two-phase anaerobic co-digestion of food waste and spent mushroom substance: Methanogenic performance, microbial, and metagenomic analysis. Bioresource Technology, 2022, 360: 127518.

7. Gao M., Lin Y., Wang P., Jin Y., Wang Q., Ma H., Sheng Y., Van Le Q., Xia C., Lam S.S. Production of Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Caproate From Chinese Liquor Distillers’ Grain Using Pit Mud as the Fermentation Microbes. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021, 417: 126037.                                                

8. Gao M., Yang M., Ma X., Xie D., Wu C., Wang Q. Effect of co-digestion of tylosin fermentation dreg and food waste on anaerobic digestion performance. Bioresource Technology, 2021, 325: 124693.