Qin Ning

【Professional Title】: Associate Professor
【Department】: Department of Environmental Engineering
【Office】: Room 502, Tumu Building
【Tel】:
【Email】: qinning@ustb.edu.cn
【Research Field】: 1. Environmental Behaviors of Persistent Organic Pollutants.
2.Environmental Exposure and Health Effects.
3. Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment.

Education & Working Experience

2022.7-now. Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology Beijing.

2022.9-2023.9. Visiting Scholar, National Institute of Radiological Sciences. Japan.

2018.7-2022.7. Assistant Professor, University of Science and Technology Beijing.

2014.7-2018.7. PostDoc, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences.

2013.7-2014.7. Research Assistant, Peking University.

2008.9-2013.7. Ph. D. in Environmental Geography, Peking University.

2004.9-2008.7. B.S. in Environmental Science, Peking University.

Research projects

1. Toxicokinetics of typical hydrophobic organic contaminants in freshwater fishes, supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2022-2025.

2. Nitro-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exposure of children in indoor coal combustion environment and association with urinary metabolites, supported by Open fund of China CDC Key Laboratory of Environment and Population Health, National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 2021-2023.

3. Research on the influence mechanism of particulate organic matter (POM) on the particles/water distribution of hudrophobic organic contaminats (HOCs), supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. 2016-2018.

Academic Achievements

Main journal publications：

1. Ning Qin, Jian Zheng*，Guosheng Yang, Eunjoo Kim, Osamu Kurihara. Determination of Pu isotopes in urine samples by a pseudo-isotope dilution method using non-isotopic tracer 237Np. Talanta. 2025, 289, 127768.

2. Tianxin Li, Yao Wang, Ning Qin*, Wenjing Zhao, He Huang. Time dependence effect of metal toxicology and application in WQC derivation of main water basins in China. Ecological Indicators. 2025, 170, 113049.

3. Chi Sun, Xiang Li, Shuang Li, Ning Qin *. Risk assessment of Arsenic in surface water of China water systems based on a time-dependent species sensitivity distribution (SSD) method. Environmental pollution. 2024, 363, 125070.

4. He Huang, Wenjing Zhao, Ning Qin *, Xiaoli Duan*. Recent Progress on Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Model: A Review Based on Bibliometrics. Toxics. 2024, 12(6), 433.

5. Beibei Wang, He Huang, Ning Qin*, Wenjing Zhao, Qin Wang, Suzhen Cao, Xing Chen, Xiangyu Xu, and Xiaoli Duan. Effect of NPAH Exposure on Lung Function of Children in Indoor Coal Combustion Environment. Indoor Air. 2024. 6192008.

6. BeiBei Wang, Liwen Zhang, Weiying Feng, Han Zhang, Xiaoli Duan and Ning Qin*. Bioaccessibility-corrected probabilistic health risk assessment of dietary metal(loid) exposure in six major food groups in children from Northwest China. Environmental Sciences Europe. 2024, 660, 192-202.

7. Ning Qin, Jian Zheng, Guosheng Yang, Keiko Tagami. A comprehensive survey of reference materials for their use in quality assurance for the determination of Np-237 in environmental samples. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 2024, 271, 107328.

8. Tuerxunbieke Ayibota, Xiangyu Xu, Wen Pei, Ling Qi, Ning Qin* and Xiaoli Duan*. Development of Phase and Seasonally Dependent Land-Use Regression Models to Predict Atmospheric PAH Levels. Toxics. 2023, 11, 316.

9. Wenjing Zhao, Xuepu Ma, Tuerxunbieke Ayibota, Jiacheng Guan, Xiao-li Duan, Ning Qin* Derivation of indoor benzene threshold value based on carcinogenic risk assessment of Chinese population. China Environmental Science. 2022,42(10): 4889~4900 (in Chinese)

10. Ning Qin, Yuanyuan Zhu*, Yan Zhong, Jing Tian, Jihua Li, Laiguo Chen, Ruifang Fan and Fusheng Wei. External Exposure to BTEX, Internal Biomarker Response, and Health Risk Assessment of Nonoccupational Populations near a Coking Plant in Southwest China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022, 19.

11. Ning Qin, Ayibota Tuerxunbieke, Qin Wang, Xing Chen, Rong Hou, Xiangyu Xu, Yunwei Liu, Dongqun Xu, Shu Tao and Xiaoli Duan*. Key Factors for Improving the Carcinogenic Risk Assessment of PAH Inhalation Exposure by Monte Carlo Simulation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021, 18.

12. Ning Qin, Wei He, Qishuang He, Xiangzhen Kong, Wenxiu Liu, Qin Wang, Fuliu Xu*. Multi-Media Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons at Lake Chaohu, the Fifth Largest FreshWater Lake in China: Residual Levels, Sources and Carcinogenic Risk. Atmosphere. 2021, 12, 1241.

13. Ning Qin*, Ayibota Tuerxunbieke, Yunwei Liu, Rong Hou, Xiangyu Xu, Jiacheng Guan, Xiaoli Duan. Non-carcinogenic Risk Assessment of Cadmium Exposure through Drinking Water in Chinese Residents Based on Age-stratification Weight. Environmental Science. (in Chinese).

14. Ning Qin*, Yunwei Liu, Rong Hou, Caiyun Wang, Beibei Wang, Xiaoli Duan. Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Arsenic Exposure through Drinking Water Intake in Chinese. Residents Environmental Science (in Chinese).

15. Ning Qin, Xiangzhen Kong, Wei He, Qishuang He, Wenxiu Liu, Fuliu Xu*. Dustfall-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) over the fifth largest Chinese lake: residual levels, source apportionment and correlations with suspended particulate matter (SPM)-bound PAHs in water. Environmental Science and Pollution Research.2021.

16. Ning Qin, Wei He, Wenxiu Liu, Xiangzhen Kong, *Fuliu Xu, John P. Giesy. Tissue distribution, bioaccumulation, and carcinogenic risk of polycyclicaromatic hydrocarbons in aquatic organisms from Lake Chaohu, China. Science of the Total Environment.2020, 749.

17. Yunwei Liu, Ning Qin*, Weigang Liang, Xing Chen, Rong Hou, Yijin Kang, Qian Guo, Suzhen Cao, *Xiaoli Duan. Polycycl. Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure of Children in Typical Household Coal Combustion Environments: Seasonal Variations, Sources, and Carcinogenic Risks. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020, 17.

18. Yuanyuan Zhu, Xiaoli Duan*, Ning Qin*, Jungang Lv, Guoping Wu, Fusheng Wei. Health risk from dietary exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a typical high cancer incidence area in southwest China. Science of the Total Environment. 2019;649:731-738.

19. Yuanyuan Zhu, Xiaoli Duan*, Ning Qin*, Jihua Li, Jing Tian, Yan Zhong, Laiguo Chen, Ruifang Fan, Yang Yu, Guoping Wu, Fusheng Wei. Internal biomarkers and external estimation of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their relationships with cancer mortality in a high cancer incidence area. Science of the Total Environment. 2019;688:742-750.

20. Jia He, Di Shi, Beibei Wang, Chenglian Feng, Hailei Su, Ying Wang, Ning Qin∗. Ecological risk assessment and water quality standard evaluation of 10typical metals in eight basins in China. China Environmental Science. 2019; 39(7): 2970-2982 (In Chinese)