An Li, PhD., Professor

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
School of Public Health

University of Illinois at Chicago
Phone (312) 996-9597, Fax (312) 413-9898, Email: anli@uic.edu

Ph.D. in Water Chemistry. 1993. University of Wisconsin - Madison
MS in Environmental Engineering. 1988. Utah State University

 

Recent Research

· Great Lakes Sediment Surveillance Program (GLSSP)

· NCS Formative Research - Organic Contaminants in Placenta Tissue

· Debromination of PBDEs in Aquatic Sediments

· Method Development for the Analysis of PBDEs in Human Placenta Tissue

· Historical and Emerging Halogenated Flame Retardants in Sediment of the Great Lakes

· Measuring Water Ingestion Among Water Recreators (Final Report)

· Fate Analysis of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Anaerobic Digester Sludge

· Chronology of PBDE Air Deposition in the Great Lakes from Sedimentary Records (Final Report)

· Source Apportionment of Indoor PAHs in Urban Residence Homes (Final Report)

 

Teaching

· EOHS543/CME523: Environmental Organic Chemistry

· EOHS542/CME524: Water Chemistry

· EOHS440/CME411: Chemistry for Environmental Professionals

 

Recent Publications (see complete list of publications and citations)

Hua Wei, Azivy Che Aziz-Schwanbeck, Yonghong Zou, Margaret B. Corcoran, Armen Poghosyan, An Li*, Karl J. Rockne, Erik R. Christensen, Neil C. Sturchio. Polybromodiphenyl Ethers and Decabromodiphenyl Ethane in Aquatic Sediments from Southern and Eastern Arkansas, USA. (in review). 2012

Hua Wei, Yonghong Zou, An Li*, Erik R. Christensen, Karl J. Rockne. Photolytic Debromination of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Hexane by Sunlight: Two Approaches to Investigating Debromination Pathway. (in review). 2012

Ruiqiang Yang, Hua Wei, An Li*. Emerging Brominated Flame Retardants in the Sediment of the Great Lakes. Environ. Sci. Technol., 46 (6), pp 3119–3126. 2012

Ruiqiang Yang, Hua Wei, Jiehong Guo, Colin McLeod, An Li*, Neil Sturchio. Historically and Currently Used Dechloranes in the Sediments of the Great Lakes.  Environ. Sci. Technol.,  45, 5156–5163. 2011

Yingming Li, Thanh Wang, Pu Wang, Lei Ding, Xiaomin Li, Yawei Wang, Qinghua Zhang, An Li and Guibin Jiang. Reduction of Atmospheric Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-Dioxins and Dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Environ. Sci. Technol., 45(8), 3304–3309. 2011

Puripus Soonthornnonda, Yonghong Zou, Erik R Christensen, An Li. PCBs in Great Lakes Sediments, Determined by Positive Matrix Factorization. J. Great Lakes Res., 37(1), 54-63. 2011

Samuel Dorevitch, Suraj Panthi, Yue Huang, Hong Li, Angela M. Michalek, Preethi Pratap, Meredith Wroblewski, Li Liu, Peter A. Scheff, An Li. Water ingestion during water recreation. Water Research. 45, 2020-2028. 2011

Hua Wei and An Li*. Semi-volatile Organic Pollutants in the Gaseous and Particulate Phases in Urban Air. In: Urban Airborne Particulate Matter: Origins, Chemistry, Fate and Health Impacts. Fathi Zereini & Clare Wiseman (Eds). Springer Publishing Company. 2010. pp. 339-362.

Hua Wei, Ruiqiang Yang, An Li*, Erik R. Christensen, Karl J. Rockne. Gas chromatographic retention of 180 polybrominated diphenyl ethers and prediction of relative retention under various operational conditions. J. Chromatogr. A., 1217, 2964-2972, 2010

Ruiqiang Yang, Yawei Wang, An Li, Qinghua Zhang, Chuanyong Jing, Thanh Wang, Pu Wang, Yingming Li, Guibin Jiang. Persistent organic pollutants in fish of the Tibetan Plateau and the implication for orographic cold trapping. Environmental Pollution. 158(6), 2310-2316, 2010

Hua Wei, Priyanthi Shyamalee Dassanayake, An Li*. Parametric Evaluation for Programmable Temperature Vaporization Large Volume Injection in Gas Chromatographic Analysis of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers. Internat. J. Environ. Analy. Chem. 90, 535-547, 2010

R.M.A. Priyanthi S. Dassanayake, Hua Wei, Rachel C. Chen, An Li*. Optimization of Matrix Solid Phase Dispersion Extraction Procedure for the Analysis of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Human Placenta. Analytical Chemistry, 81(23), 9795-9801, 2009 (PMC2794305)

Hua Wei, Mary Turyk, Salvatore Cali, Samuel Dorevitch, Serap Erdal, An Li*. Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Dust: Particle Size Fractionation, Evidence of Debromination and Relevance to Human Exposure. J. Environ. Sci. Health A., 44(13), 1353-1361, 2009

An Li*, Karl J. Rockne, Neil Sturchio, Wenlu Song, Justin C. Ford. PCBs in the Sediments of the Great Lakes - Distribution and Recent Trends, Homolog Pattern and In-Situ Degradation. Environ. Pollut. 157, 141-147. 2009

 

Research Team

Xiaowen Lu. Visiting Scholar 2012.

Jessica Nanes – MS (current)

Jiehong Guo – Ph.D. (current)

Yulin Xia – MS (current)

Priyanthi Shyamalee Dassanayake. PhD student (current)

Andy Sandy. Postdoc Assoicate. 2010-2012.

Hua Wei. PhD 2012. Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Sediments from Arkansas, Illinois and Indiana of the United States.

Suraj Panthi. MS 2010. Quantification of Cyanuric Acid in Outdoor Swimming Pool Water and Human Urine Samples Using HPLC.

Colin McLeod. Student research assistant. 2009-2010.

Amit Patel. UIC Honor College. Undergraduate research assistant. 2009-2010.

Ruiqiang Yang. Visiting Schloar. 2009-2010.

Yue Huang. Postdoc Associate 2009.

Priyanthi Shyamalee Dassanayake. MS 2008. Preliminary method development to analyze polybrominated diphenyl ethers in human placenta.

Hua Wei. MS 2007. Analytical Method Enhancement for Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Environmental Samples.

Rachel C. Chen. 2006. High School Research Intern. Intel Science Talent Search Semi-finalist.

Wenlu Song. PhD 2005. Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in the Sediment of the Great Lakes.

Justin C. Ford. MS 2005. Sedimentation in the Laurentian Great Lakes as Determined by Alpha Spectroscopy.

Lymari Ruiz-Sanchez. MS 2003. Analytical Method Development for Mycotoxins in House Dust Samples.

Gwennetta M. Butler. MS 2003. Solubility of 4-chlorobiphenyl in Water-Alcohol Mixtures at Four Temperatures.

Todd M. Schoonover. MS 2002. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Residential Air of Ten Chicago Area Homes.

Jae-Kil Jang. PhD 2001. Spatial and Temporal Distribution and Source Identification of Priority Pollutants in Lake Calumet Area.

Felice Norlock. MS 2000. Method Development on the Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Urban Residence Homes.

Kent A. Cheung. MS 1998. Cosolvent Enhanced Electrokinetic Remediation of Soil Contaminated with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons.