International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Shu TAO

Profile:

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2003, Professor Shu Tao is a distinguished Chinese environmental scientist whose research and professional work have focused on the emission, transport, fate, and effects of trace toxic pollutants at regional and global scales. Born in 1950 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, he graduated from the Department of Geology and Geography at Peking University in 1977 and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kansas, USA, in 1981 and 1984, respectively. He was elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. From 1984 to 2020, he pursued his academic career at Peking University and currently serves as Chair Professor at the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology. He was selected for the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 1995 and led an Innovative Research Group supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2000. He has led research projects supported by the NSFC at general, key, major, and major international cooperation levels, as well as programmes funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. He also serves as a member of the National Environmental and Ecological Consultative Committee and the National Environmental and Health Expert Consultative Committee, Associate Editor of Environmental Science & Technology, and an editorial board member of several Chinese and international journals.

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Professor Tao’s research has centred on the emission, environmental behaviour, fate, and effects of trace toxic pollutants, with particular emphasis on global pollutant emission inventories, pollutant transport and exposure modelling, and emissions from rural household sources and their effects on indoor and outdoor air quality and human health. Through national research programmes and international scientific collaboration, he has contributed to research on the global cycling, environmental transport, and human exposure risks of persistent organic pollutants, mercury, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications as first or corresponding author in international journals, with more than 20,000 citations indexed by the Web of Science and an h-index of 80. His research has also contributed to the development of quantitative approaches for assessing pollutant emissions, environmental exposure, and associated health risks. Through sustained research, leadership of national research programmes, and international academic collaboration, Professor Tao has contributed to connecting fundamental research in environmental chemistry and pollutant fate with practical applications in pollution control, environmental health risk assessment, and sustainable development.