Dr Xueqin Zhang
ARC DECRA Research Fellow
Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology
Researcher biography
Biography:
Dr. Xueqin Zhang is currently a Research Fellow, and an ARC DECRA Fellow at Australian Centre of Water and Environmental Biotechnology (ACWEB, formerly AWMC), and School of Chemical Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2021 at Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC) and then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ACWEB till November 2023. His research focuses on the physiology and ecology of novel microorganisms in biogeochemical cycling, bioelectrochemistry in carbon (methane) cycles and environmental bioremediation, and greenhouse gas (bio)conversion for value-adding applications. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals including Nature Microbiology, Nature Communications, Environmental Science and Technology and Water Research. He acted as a Guest Editor of two journals and has been invited as a reviewer for over 10 journals. He serves on the editorial board of Frontiers of Environmental Science Engineering.
Teaching and Learning:
- Lecturer in Advanced Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment (WATR6103)
- Supervisor in Thesis project (CHEE7382)
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Fundamental understanding and application of the metabolic pathway for VFA/electricity production through Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane (AOM) Australian Research Council |
2018–2021 |
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Fugitive greenhouse gas emissions from urban water systems Australian Research Council |
2009–2017 |
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Production of valuable chemicals from gaseous waste Australian Research Council |
2022–2024 |
Journal Articles
Zhang, Xueqin, Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2025). Current trends in electromicrobiology of methane oxidation. Trends in Microbiology, 33 (7), 782-795. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2025.02.012
Wang, Suicao, Zhang, Xueqin, Tian, Dihua, Zhao, Jing, Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Cai, Fangrui, Xie, Mengying, Virdis, Bernardino, Guo, Jianhua, Yuan, Zhiguo, Zhang, Run and Hu, Shihu (2024). Anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to reductive immobilization of hexavalent chromium by “Candidatus Methanoperedens”. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 480 136020, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.136020
Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Ma, Beibei, Yang, Yu, Li, Fengwang, Yan, Penghui, Wu, Yuming, Zhang, Xueqin, Hu, Shihu, Wang, Hao, Ge, Lei and Zhu, Zhonghua (2024). Advances and challenges of carbon‐free gas‐diffusion electrodes (GDEs) for electrochemical CO2 reduction. Advanced Functional Materials, 35 (1) 2411195. doi: 10.1002/adfm.202411195
Zhang, Xueqin, Zhao, Jing, Erler, Dirk V., Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Kong, Zheng, Wang, Suicao, Wang, Zhiyao, Virdis, Bernardino, Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2024). Characterization of the redox-active extracellular polymeric substances in an anaerobic methanotrophic consortium. Journal of Environmental Management, 365 121523, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121523
Wang, Zhiyao, Lu, Xi, Zhang, Xueqin, Yuan, Zhiguo, Zheng, Min and Hu, Shihu (2024). Ammonium-based bioleaching of toxic metals from sewage sludge in a continuous bioreactor. Water Research, 256 121651, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2024.121651
Xie, Mengying, Zhang, Xueqin, Li, Shiqing, Maulani, Nova, Cai, Fangrui, Zheng, Yue, Cai, Chen, Virdis, Bernardino, Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2024). Humic substances as electron acceptor for anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) and electron shuttle in Mn (IV)-dependent AOM. Science of The Total Environment, 912 169576, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169576
Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Li, Mengran, Yan, Penghui, Wu, Yuming, Zhang, Xueqin, Dorosti, Fatereh, Zhang, Xi, Ma, Beibei, Hu, Shihu, Wang, Hao, Zhu, Zhonghua and Ge, Lei (2024). Rational designing microenvironment of gas-diffusion electrodes via microgel-augmented CO2 availability for high-rate and selective CO2 electroreduction to ethylene. Advanced Science, 11 (40) 2402964, 1-14. doi: 10.1002/advs.202402964
Zhang, Xueqin, Xie, Mengying, Cai, Chen, Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Wang, Zhiyao, Virdis, Bernardino, Tyson, Gene W., McIlroy, Simon J., Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2023). Pyrogenic carbon promotes anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled with iron reduction via the redox-cycling mechanism. Environmental Science and Technology, 57 (48), 19793-19804. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.3c05907
Zhang, Xueqin, Joyce, Georgina H., Leu, Andy O., Zhao, Jing, Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Virdis, Bernardino, Tyson, Gene W., Yuan, Zhiguo, McIlroy, Simon J. and Hu, Shihu (2023). Multi-heme cytochrome-mediated extracellular electron transfer by the anaerobic methanotroph ‘Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens’. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 6118, 1-14. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41847-w
Frank, Joshua, Zhang, Xueqin, Marcellin, Esteban, Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2023). Salinity effect on an anaerobic methane- and ammonium-oxidising consortium: shifts in activity, morphology, osmoregulation and syntrophic relationship. Water Research, 242 120090, 120090. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120090
Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Heffernan, James K., Ge, Lei, Zhang, Xueqin, Yan, Penghui, Marcellin, Esteban, Hu, Shihu, Zhu, Zhonghua, Wang, Hao and Yuan, Zhiguo (2023). Tuning flow-through cu-based hollow fiber gas-diffusion electrode for high-efficiency carbon monoxide (CO) electroreduction to C2+products. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 330 122589, 122589. doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2023.122589
Hu, Zhetai, Hu, Shihu, Hong, Pei-Ying, Zhang, Xueqin, Prodanovic, Veljko, Zhang, Kefeng, Ye, Liu, Deletic, Ana, Yuan, Zhiguo and Zheng, Min (2023). Impact of electrochemically generated iron on the performance of an anaerobic wastewater treatment process. Science of the Total Environment, 875 162628, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162628
Xie, Mengying, Zheng, Yue, Zhang, Xueqin, Xia, Jun, Maulani, Nova, Yuan, Zhiguo, Cai, Chen and Hu, Shihu (2023). Formate as an alternative electron donor for the anaerobic methanotrophic archaeon Candidatus ‘Methanoperedens nitroreducens’. Environmental Science and Technology Letters, 10 (6), 506-512. doi: 10.1021/acs.estlett.3c00220
McIlroy, Simon J., Leu, Andy O., Zhang, Xueqin, Newell, Rhys, Woodcroft, Ben J., Yuan, Zhiguo, Hu, Shihu and Tyson, Gene W. (2023). Anaerobic methanotroph ‘Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens’ has a pleomorphic life cycle. Nature Microbiology, 8 (2), 321-331. doi: 10.1038/s41564-022-01292-9
Hu, Zhetai, Zheng, Min, Hu, Shihu, Hong, Pei-Ying, Zhang, Xueqing, Prodanovic, Veljko, Zhang, Kefeng, Pikaar, Ilje, Ye, Liu, Deletic, Ana and Yuan, Zhiguo (2022). Electrochemical iron production to enhance anaerobic membrane treatment of wastewater. Water Research, 225 119202, 119202. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.119202
Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Ge, Lei, Zhao, Jing, Zhang, Xueqin, Li, Mengran, Hu, Shihu, Smart, Simon, Rufford, Thomas E., Zhu, Zhonghua, Wang, Hao and Yuan, Zhiguo (2022). Regulating the reaction zone of electrochemical CO2 reduction on gas-diffusion electrodes by distinctive hydrophilic-hydrophobic catalyst layers. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 310 121362, 121362. doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.121362
Zhang, Xueqin, Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Ni, Gaofeng, Frank, Joshua, Zhao, Jing, Cai, Chen, Virdis, Bernardino, Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2022). Bio-reduced graphene oxide on hollow fibers as gas-diffusible anodes for enhancing bioelectrochemical methane oxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal, 440 135811, 135811. doi: 10.1016/j.cej.2022.135811
Zhang, Xueqin, McIlroy, Simon J., Vassilev, Igor, Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Plan, Manuel, Cai, Chen, Virdis, Bernardino, Tyson, Gene W., Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2022). Polyhydroxyalkanoate-driven current generation via acetate by an anaerobic methanotrophic consortium. Water Research, 221 118743, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118743
Cai, Chen, Ni, Gaofeng, Xia, Jun, Zhang, Xueqin, Zheng, Yue, He, Bingqing, Marcellin, Esteban, Li, Weiwei, Pu, Jiaoyang, Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2022). Response of the anaerobic methanotrophic archaeon candidatus “methanoperedens nitroreducens” to the long-term ferrihydrite amendment. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13 799859, 799859. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.799859
Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Ge, Lei, Zhang, Xueqin, Hu, Shihu, Li, Mengran, Smart, Simon, Zhu, Zhonghua, Wang, Hao and Yuan, Zhiguo (2021). Stand-alone asymmetric hollow fiber gas-diffusion electrodes with distinguished bronze phases for high-efficiency CO2 electrochemical reduction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 298 120538, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120538
Zhang, Xueqin, Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2021). Anaerobic oxidation of methane mediated by microbial extracellular respiration. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 13 (6), 1-15. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.13008
Cai, Chen, Zhang, Xueqin, Wu, Mengxiong, Liu, Tao, Lai, Chun-Yu, Frank, Joshua, He, Bingqing, Marcellin, Esteban, Guo, Jianhua, Hu, Shihu and Yuan, Zhiguo (2021). Roles and opportunities for microbial anaerobic oxidation of methane in natural and engineered systems. Energy and Environmental Science, 14 (9), 4803-4830. doi: 10.1039/d1ee00708d
Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Ge, Lei, Zhang, Xueqin, Hu, Shihu, Li, Mengran, Smart, Simon, Zhu, Zhonghua and Yuan, Zhiguo (2021). Shape-tuned electrodeposition of bismuth-based nanosheets on flow-through hollow fiber gas diffusion electrode for high-efficiency CO2 reduction to formate. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 286 119945, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.119945
Li, Weiwei, Cai, Chen, Song, Yarong, Ni, Gaofeng, Zhang, Xueqin and Lu, Peili (2021). The role of crystalline iron oxides in methane mitigation through anaerobic oxidation of methane. ACS ES&T Water, 1 (5), 1153-1160. doi: 10.1021/acsestwater.0c00199
Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Ge, Lei, Zhang, Xueqin, Hu, Shihu, Li, Mengran and Yuan, Zhiguo (2021). Gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and dinitrogen to value-added products: a review. Energy and Environmental Science, 14 (4), 1959-2008. doi: 10.1039/d0ee03756g
Zhang, Xueqin, Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Frank, Joshua, Cai, Chen, Stark, Terra, Virdis, Bernardino, Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2020). Enhancing methane oxidation in a bioelectrochemical membrane reactor using a soluble electron mediator. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 13 (1) 173, 173. doi: 10.1186/s13068-020-01808-7
Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Zhang, Xueqin, Ge, Lei, Hu, Shihu, Li, Mengran, Smart, Simon, Zhu, Zhonghua and Yuan, Zhiguo (2020). Tuning the product selectivity of Cu hollow fiber gas diffusion electrode for efficient CO2 reduction to formate by controlled surface Sn electrodeposition. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12 (19) acsami.0c03681, 21670-21681. doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c03681
Xu, Yingfeng, Ge, Zhipeng, Zhang, Xueqin, Feng, Huajun, Ying, Xianbin, Huang, Baocheng, Shen, Dongsheng, Wang, Meizhen, Zhou, Yuyang, Wang, Yanfeng and Yu, Hanqing (2019). Validation of effective roles of non-electroactive microbes on recalcitrant contaminant degradation in bioelectrochemical systems. Environmental Pollution, 249, 794-800. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.03.036
Zhang, Xueqin, Xia, Jun, Pu, Jiaoyang, Cai, Chen, Tyson, Gene W., Yuan, Zhiguo and Hu, Shihu (2019). Biochar-mediated anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environmental Science and Technology, 53 (12) acs.est.9b01345, 6660-6668. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b01345
Feng, Huajun, Ge, Zhipeng, Chen, Wei, Wang, Jing, Shen, Dongsheng, Jia, Yufeng, Qiao, Hua, Ying, Xianbin, Zhang, Xueqin and Wang, Meizhen (2018). Carbonized cow dung as a high performance and low cost anode material for bioelectrochemical systems. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9 (NOV) 2760, 2760. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02760
Zhang, Xueqin, Guo, Kun, Shen, Dongsheng, Feng, Huajun, Wang, Meizhen, Zhou, Yuyang, Jia, Yufeng, Liang, Yuxiang and Zhou, Mengjiao (2017). Carbon black as an alternative cathode material for electrical energy recovery and transfer in a microbial battery. Scientific Reports, 7 (1) 6981, 6981. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07174-z
Huang, Lijie, Zhang, Xueqing, Shen, Dongsheng, Li, Na, Ge, Zhipeng, Zhou, Yuyang, Zhou, Mengjiao, Feng, Huajun and Guo, Kun (2017). Effect of heat-treatment atmosphere on the current generation of TiO2 nanotube array electrodes in microbial fuel cells. Electrochimica Acta, 257, 203-209. doi: 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.10.068
Feng, Huajun, Wang, Yanfeng, Zhang, Xueqin, Shen, Dongsheng, Li, Na, Chen, Wei, Huang, Bin, Liang, Yuxiang and Zhou, Yuyang (2017). Degradation of p-fluoronitrobenzene in biological and bioelectrochemical systems: Differences in kinetics, pathways, and microbial community evolutions. Chemical Engineering Journal, 314, 232-239. doi: 10.1016/j.cej.2016.12.097
Wang, Yanfeng, Zhang, Xueqin, Feng, Huajun, Liang, Yuxiang, Shen, Dongsheng, Long, Yuyang, Zhou, Yuyang and Dai, Qizhou (2016). Biocatalysis mechanism for p-fluoronitrobenzene degradation in the thermophilic bioelectrocatalysis system: Sequential combination of reduction and oxidation. Chemosphere, 159, 44-49. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.05.074
Ding, Yangcheng, Feng, Huajun, Huang, Wenkun, Li, Na, Zhou, Yuyang, Wang, Meizhen, Zhang, Xueqin and Shen, Dongsheng (2015). The effect of quorum sensing on anaerobic granular sludge in different pH conditions. Biochemical Engineering Journal, 103, 270-276. doi: 10.1016/j.bej.2015.08.010
Zhang, Xueqin, Shen, Dongsheng, Feng, Huajun, Wang, Yanfeng, Li, Na, Han, Jingyi and Long, Yuyang (2015). Cooperative role of electrical stimulation on microbial metabolism and selection of thermophilic communities for p-fluoronitrobenzene treatment. Bioresource Technology, 189, 23-29. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2015.03.147
Feng, Huajun, Zhang, Xueqin, Guo, Kun, Vaiopoulou, Eleni, Shen, Dongsheng, Long, Yuyang, Yin, Jun and Wang, Meizhen (2015). Electrical stimulation improves microbial salinity resistance and organofluorine removal in bioelectrochemical systems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 81 (11), 3737-3744. doi: 10.1128/AEM.04066-14
Zhang, Xueqin, Feng, Huajun, Liang, Yuxiang, Zhao, Zhiqing, Long, Yuyang, Fang, Yuan, Wang, Meizhen, Yin, Jun and Shen, Dongsheng (2015). The relief of microtherm inhibition for p-fluoronitrobenzene mineralization using electrical stimulation at low temperatures. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 99 (10), 4485-4494. doi: 10.1007/s00253-014-6357-4
Shen, Dongsheng, Zhang, Xueqin, Feng, Huajun, Zhang, Kun, Wang, Kun, Long, Yuyang, Wang, Meizhen and Wang, Yanfeng (2014). Stimulative mineralization of p -fluoronitrobenzene in biocathode microbial electrolysis cell with an oxygen-limited environment. Bioresource Technology, 172, 104-111. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.08.120
Yang, Yu-Qiang, Chen, Zhuo-Xian, Zhang, Xue-Qing, Hu, Li-Fang, Shen, Dong-Sheng and Long, Yu-Yang (2014). Effects of added polyacrylamide on changes in water states during the composting of kitchen waste. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 22 (3), 2295-2302. doi: 10.1007/s11356-014-3513-4
Feng, Huajun, Zhang, Xueqin, Liang, Yuxiang, Wang, Meizhen, Shen, Dongsheng, Ding, Yangcheng, Huang, Baocheng and Shentu, Jiali (2014). Enhanced removal of p-fluoronitrobenzene using bioelectrochemical system. Water Research, 60, 54-63. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.03.027
Zhang, Xueqin, Feng, Huajun, Shan, Dan, Shentu, JiaLi, Wang, Meizhen, Yin, Jun, Shen, Dongsheng, Huang, Baocheng and Ding, Yangcheng (2014). The effect of electricity on 2–fluoroaniline removal in a bioelectrochemically assisted microbial system (BEAMS). Electrochimica Acta, 135, 439-446. doi: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.05.033
Feng, Huajun, Ding, Yangcheng, Wang, Meizhen, Zhou, Guanglan, Zheng, Xin, He, Hongzhen, Zhang, Xueqin, Shen, Dongsheng and Shentu, Jiali (2014). Where are signal molecules likely to be located in anaerobic granular sludge?. Water Research, 50, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.11.021
Conference Paper
Guo, Xiao, Bertling, Karl, Donose, Bogdan C., He, Xin, Degnan, Zach, Solemanifar, Armin, Zhang, Xueqin, Laycock, Bronwyn, Virdis, Bernardino, Fedorov, Arkady, Jacobson, Peter and Rakić, Aleksandar D. (2022). Terahertz nanoscopy: a non-destructive characterization tool for nanomaterials and nanostructures. The 2022 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, Adelaide, SA Australia, 11-16 December 2022.
Thesis
Zhang, Xueqin (2021). Understanding extracellular respiration of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea and application for bioelectrochemical oxidation of methane. PhD Thesis, Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/46b036d