Yanghua Duan

Yanghua Duan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University, joining the faculty in August 2025. His research focuses on developing innovative engineering solutions for treating non-traditional water sources, including agricultural runoff, stormwater, brackish water, industrial effluents, and municipal wastewater. By leveraging these alternative sources, his work aims to enhance water infrastructure resilience and promote sustainable, circular water systems.

Duan’s recent projects focus on electrified systems for chemical synthesis and contaminant transformation, catalytic reactive membrane fabrication and modeling, and electrified carbon sequestration technologies. His interdisciplinary research integrates electrochemistry, environmental chemistry, membrane processes, advanced material synthesis and characterization, process modeling, and techno-economic analysis. By applying this comprehensive approach, his work advances the fundamental understanding of physicochemical phenomena and leads to the development of prototypes that enable practical applications.

Duan earned his B.E. in Environmental Engineering from Tongji University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining CSU, he worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University and Rice University.