He has published 14 SCI papers in Environmental Science & Technology, ES&T Letters, PNAS and other journals in the fields of aerosol pH characterization, phase separation and virus inactivation mechanism.
Awards and Honors:
· 2020 C. Ellen Gonter award of Environmental Chemistry, Division of Env. Chemistry, ACS (American Chemical Society's highest Graduate Student Honor)
· 2020 Student award, 9th Sustainable nanotechnology organization conference
· 2020 ACS Certificate of merit award for oral presentation
· 2020 Innovation in Public Health award, NanoTechnology Entrepreneurship Challenge, VTSun
· 2019 Future Professoriate Graduate Certificate, Virginia Tech graduate school
· 2016 Hawkins Fellowship, Virginia Tech

Characterization of aerosol physical and chemical properties (pH, phase)
Characterization and detection of respiratory aerosol
Environmental Applications of Raman and surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

2016-2021 Virginia Tech University, PhD, Environmental Engineering
2015-2016 University of Virginia, Chemistry, M.A.
2011-2015 University of Science and Technology of China, Polymer Materials and Engineering, BA

2023-present Beijing Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor
2021-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, USA, Supervisor: Dr. Miriam A. Freedman

1. Huang, Q., Vikesland, P.J., 2022, Low-temperature Raman imaging of micron-size droplets. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.
2. Huang, Q., Vikesland, P.J., In situ pH measurements of environmental water droplets using flash-freeze SERS. 2022, Environmental Science & Technology Letters
3. Huang, Q., Wang, W. and Vikesland, P.J., 2021. Implications of the Coffee-Ring Effect on Virus Infectivity. Langmuir.
4. Huang, Q., Wei, H., Marr, L.C. and Vikesland, P.J., 2020. Direct Quantification of the Effect of Ammonium on Aerosol Droplet pH. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(1), pp.778-787.
5. Huang, Q., Pitta K., Miriam, F., Experimental Phase Diagram of Submicron 2-Methylglutartic Acid and Ammonium Sulfate Aerosol Particles. (in prep.)
6. Jing, X., Chen, Z., Huang, Q., Liu, P. and Zhang, Y.H., 2022. Spatiotemporally Resolved pH Measurement in Aerosol Microdroplets Undergoing Chloride Depletion: An Application of In Situ Raman Microspectrometry. Analytical Chemistry, 94(43), pp.15132-15138.
7. Wang, W., Rahman, A., Huang, Q., Vikesland, P.J., 2021. Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy enabled evaluation of bacterial inactivation. （Under Review, Water Research）
8. Rahman, A., Kang, S., Wang, W., Huang, Q., 2022, Lectin Modified Bacterial Cellulose Nanocrystals as Biosensors for Discriminatory Detection of Bacteria using SERS and Support Vector Machine (SVM). ACS Applied nano materials
9. Morris, D.H., Yinda, K.C., Gamble, A., Rossine, F.W., Huang, Q., Bushmaker, T., Fischer, R.J., Matson, M.J., Van Doremalen, N., Vikesland, P.J. and Marr, L.C., 2021. Mechanistic theory predicts the effects of temperature and humidity on inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses. Elife, 10, p.e65902.
10. Guo, H., Huang, Q., Leng, W., Zhan, Y., Behkam, B., Willner, M.R., Wei, H., Marr, L.C. and Vikesland, P.J., 2019. Bromide ion-functionalized nanoprobes for sensitive and reliable pH measurement by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Analyst, 144(24), pp.7326-7335.
11. Wei, H., Huang, Q. and Vikesland, P.J., 2019. The Aromatic Amine p K a Determines the Affinity for Citrate-Coated Gold Nanoparticles: In Situ Observation via Hot Spot-Normalized Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 6(4), pp.199-204.
12. Wei, H., Leng, W., Song, J., Liu, C., Willner, M.R., Huang, Q., Zhou, W. and Vikesland, P.J., 2018. Real-time monitoring of ligand exchange kinetics on gold nanoparticle surfaces enabled by hot spot-normalized surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Environmental science & technology, 53(2), pp.575-585.
13. Wei, H., Vejerano, E.P., Leng, W., Huang, Q., Willner, M.R., Marr, L.C. and Vikesland, P.J., 2018. Aerosol microdroplets exhibit a stable pH gradient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(28), pp.7272-7277.
14. Chen, W., Sun, X., Wang, X., Huang, Q., Li, X., Zhang, Q., Jiang, J. and Zhang, G., 2015. Efficient and tunable fluorescence energy transfer via long-lived polymer excitons. Polymer Chemistry, 6(10), pp.1698-1702.