Dr. Wenwen Kong

Contact / address

Visiting scholar

Department of Lake Research
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Brückstr. 3a
39114 Magdeburg, Germany

+49 (0)341 6025 3434

wenwen.kong@ufz.de
2023036@hebut.edu.cn
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Dr. WenWen Kong


Research Interest

  • Capture and conversion of CO2, especially CO2 fixation by algae
  • Migration and transformation of nutrients and chemicals in surface water

Curriculum vitae (recent 10 years)

01/2026-present Professor, Hebei University of Technology, China
01/2026-12/2026 Visiting scholar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany
01/2024-01/2026 Associate Professor, Hebei University of Technology, China
08/2019-01/2024 Lecturer, Hebei University of Technology, China
08/2019-04/2023 Post-doctor, Hebei University of Technology, China
09/2014-06/2019 PhD, Environmental Science, Nankai University, China


Publications (last 5 years)

  1. Tiantian Yang, Zhixiang Tang, Junchi Liu, Wenwen Kong (*), Lianfei Xu, Zhijiang Dong, Honghong Lyu (*), Boxiong Shen (*). Carbon-based catalysts for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reaction via heteroatom doping and metal doping: Influencing factors, mechanisms, and economic analysis. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2026, (Accepted)
  2. Denghui Peng, Guo Zhou, Ke An, Wentao Guo, Tiantian Yang, Wenwen Kong (*), Boxiong Shen (*), Xin Wang, Honghong Lyu, Jiao Ma. Critical review on the adsorption of taste and odor compounds by activated carbon: Influence factors, modifications methods, mechanism. Chem. Eng. J. 2025, 507: 160677.
  3. Yuqin Zhao, Yulan Zhao, Hui Guo, Denghui Peng (*), Wenwen Kong (*), Fengjian Yan, Shumei Zhou, Quansheng Li, Boxiong Shen (*), Chongrui Lyu. Adsorption of Algal-Derived 2-Methylisoborneol (MIB) and Dimethyl Disulfide (DMDS) onto Activated Carbon: The Role of Pore Structure and Hydrophobicity, Molecules. 2025, 30: 4348.
  4. Wenwen Kong, Jia Kong, Shuo Feng, Tiantian Yang, Lianfei Xu, Boxiong Shen (*), Yonghong Bi (*), Honghong Lyu (*). Cultivation of microalgae–bacteria consortium by waste gas–waste water to achieve CO2 fixation, wastewater purification and bioproducts production. Biotechnol. Biof. Biop. 2024, 17: 26.
  5. Yize Zou, Chao Liu, Lianfei Xu (*), Yao Li, Menghao Dong, Wenwen Kong (*), Boxiong Shen (*), Zhuozhi Wang, Xin Wang, Jiancheng Yang. Synergistic effect of green trace K2CO3 and CO2 activation of Zhundong coal for high-performance supercapacitors. J. Power. Sources. 2024, 602: 234333.
  6. Qihang Yang, Xiaoyu Wang, Kai Li, Mengmeng Zhen (*), Wenwen Kong (*). Hollow bimetallic layered hydroxides nanocages/mxenes electrocatalysts as superior accelerators for boosting sulfur redox kinetics under high sulfur loadings. J. Alloy. Compd. 2024, 1008: 176621.
  7. Jian Zhao, Honghong Lyu (*), Zhiqiang Wang, Chunlu Ma, Shuna Jia, Wenwen Kong (*), Boxiong Shen. Phthalocyanine and porphyrin catalysts for electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide: Progress in regulation strategies and applications. Sep. Purif. Technol. 2023, 312: 123404.
  8. Wenwen Kong, Shilin Shi, Denghui Peng, Shuo Feng, Lianfei Xu, Xin Wang, Boxiong Shen (*), Yonghong Bi (*), Honghong Lyu (*). Effects of phytohormone on Chlorella vulgaris grown in wastewater-flue gas: C/N/S fixation, wastewater treatment and metabolome analysis. Chemosphere. 2023, 345: 140398.
  9. Wenwen Kong, Qijie Xu, Honghong Lyu, Jia Kong, Xin Wang, Boxiong Shen(*), Yonghong Bi(*). Sediment and residual feed from aquaculture water bodies threaten aquatic environmental ecosystem: Interactions among algae, heavy metals, and nutrients. J. Environ. Manage. 2023, 326: 116735.
  10. Wenwen Kong, Suiliang Huang (*), Boxiong Shen, Priakhina Ekaterina, Zobia Khatoon, Huigwang Yun. Experimental study on effects of prometryn exposure scenarios on Microcystis aeruginosa growth and concentrations of nutrients. Environ. Sci. Pollut. R. 2023, 30(5): 12138-12151.
  11. Wenwen Kong, Jia Kong, Honghong Lyu, Jiao Ma, Zhuozhi Wang, Zhikun Zhang, Shuo Feng, Boxiong Shen (*). Application of indole-3-acetic acid in microalgae cultivation to improve the feasibility of simultaneously purifying wastewater, fixing CO2 and producing fatty acids under Hg stress. J. Clean Prod. 2022, 358: 132028.
  12. Wenwen Kong, Boxiong Shen (*), Jiao Ma (*), Jia Kong, Shuo Feng, Zhuozhi Wang, Lifu Xiong. Pyrolysis of Spirulina platensis, Tetradesmus obliquus and Chlorella vulgaris by TG-FTIR and Py-GC/MS: Kinetic analysis and pyrolysis behaviour. Energy. 2022, 244: 123165.
  13. Zhiqiang Wang, Shengwei An, Jian Zhao, Peng Sun, Honghong Lyu (*), Wenwen Kong (*), Boxiong Shen (*). Plastic regulates its co-pyrolysis process with biomass: Influencing factors, model calculations, and mechanisms. Front. Ecol. Evol. 2022, 10: 964936.
  14. Wenwen Kong, Jia Kong, Honghong Lyu, Jiao Ma, Peng Yuan, Zhuozhi Wang, Boxiong Shen (*), Shuo Feng. Integrating municipal wastewater treatment with CO2 fixation and fatty acids production by cultivating Tetradesmus obliquus. J. Clean Prod. 2021, 320: 128916.
  15. Wenwen Kong, Boxiong Shen (*), Honghong Lyu, Jia Kong, Jiao Ma, Zhuozhi Wang, Shuo Feng. Review on carbon dioxide fixation coupled with nutrients removal from wastewater by microalgae. J. Clean Prod. 2021, 292: 125975.
  16. Wenwen Kong, Jia Kong, Jiao Ma, Honghong Lyu, Shuo Feng, Zhuozhi Wang, Peng Yuan, Boxiong Shen (*). Chlorella vulgaris cultivation in simulated wastewater for the biomass production, nutrients removal and CO2 fixation simultaneously. J. Environ. Manage. 2021, 284: 112070.
  17. Wenwen Kong, Meng Zhang (*), Yanling Liu, Jiulan Gou, Quanquan Wei, Boxiong Shen (*). Physico-chemical characteristics and the adsorption of ammonium of biochar pyrolyzed from distilled spirit lees, tobacco fine and Chinese medicine residues. J. Anal. Appl. Pyrol. 2021, 156: 105148.