Dr. Qi received her Ph.D. degree from the Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2017. Then she joined the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Aquatic Chemistry in RCEES as an assistant professor (Associate Professor from 2021). Her research is focused on algae removal and secondary pollution control, mainly involve the growth, metabolism and biochemical regulation methods of algae in raw water, the mechanism of oxidative stress in algae and the biological interaction mechanism between algae and bacteria, the control of algal organic matter release and the enhanced flocculation technology of algae removal, and so on. Dr. Qi has presided several research projects sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and other scientific research management departments in China. She has published over 20 papers in journals and one national invention patent.