Dr. Ma is currently an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station. He received his Ph.D. from Missouri University of Science and Technology in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Environmental Engineering. His expertise spans from phytoremediation to environmental nanotechnology, environmental biogeochemistry, novel materials, fate and transport of emerging contaminants and advanced oxidation/reduction treatment processes. He has published more than 135 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and his research was supported by over $10 million dollars of federal and state funding. His lab is particularly interested in sustainable recycling of waste biomass from phytoremediation.