Development of novel in-situ mass spectrometry ionization techniques
Heterogeneous chemistry
Aerosols and air pollution
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Yiming Qin is an associate professor at the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo. She obtained her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2021, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Irvine. Before joining the EIT she worked as assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the development of novel in-situ mass spectrometry ionization techniques, atmospheric multiphase chemistry, aerosols, and air pollution. She was selected as Carnegie Mellon University Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Star (launched at MIT) in 2022, and Seventeenth Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS XVII) in 2023.
RESEARCH FIELD
Development of novel in-situ mass spectrometry ionization techniques
Heterogeneous chemistry
Aerosols and air pollution
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2017-2021：PhD., Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
2014-2017：Mphil., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2010-2014：Bachelor, Shandong University, Environmental Science
WORK EXPERIENCE
2025-Present: Associate Professor, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo
2023-2025: Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong, School of Energy and Environment
2021-2023: Postdoc, University of California, Irvine, Department of Chemistry
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2025–present: Young Editorial Board Member, Sustainable Horizon
AWARDS AND HONORS
2025: National Young Talents Program
2023: Seventeenth Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESS XVII), US DOE
2022: Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Stars
General Information
More than 40 SCI papers, with more than 1220 citations and H-index of 16.
Google Scholar：
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=I2fB55kAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate
10 Representative Works (* refers to the corresponding author)
1. C Zhang, Yiming Qin*, Lei Li, Eleonora Aruffo, Shaoyong Li, Xuan Li, Ning Zhang, Yun Wu, Haiwei Li, Yunjiang Zhang, Yuan Dai, Ming Wang, Xinlei Ge, Ke Li, Wei Du, Chunlei Cheng, Mei Li, Mindong Chen, and Junfeng Wang*，Real-Time Detection of Urban Atmospheric Micro–Nanoplastics and Their Chemical Mixing State Using Bioaerosol Single-Particle Mass Spectrometry，Environmental Science & Technology 2025 59 (40), 21600-21608
2. Z Liang, L Zhou, Y Chang, Y Qin, CK Chan*, Biomass-burning organic aerosols as a pool of atmospheric reactive triplets to drive multiphase sulfate formation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121 (51) e2416803121
3. Consta, Styliani; Wingen, Lisa M.; Qin, Yiming; Perraud, Veronique; Finlayson-Pitts, Barbara J. *; Modeling the ionization mechanism of amorphous solid particles without an external energy source coupled to mass spectrometry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024, 26(44): 28220-28233
4. Yiming Qin; Véronique Perraud; Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts; Lisa M. Wingen *; Peroxides on the Surface of Organic Aerosol Particles Using Matrix-Assisted Ionization in Vacuum (MAIV) Mass Spectrometry, Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57(38): 14260-14268
5. Yiming Qin; Lisa M. Wingen; Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts *; Toward a molecular understanding of the surface composition of atmospherically relevant organic particles, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022, 119(35): e2209134119
6. Qin, Yiming*; Ye, Jianhuai; Ohno, Paul; Liu, Pengfei; Wang, Junfeng; Fu, Pingqing; Zhou, Liyuan; Li, Yong Jie; Martin, Scot T.; Chan, Chak K.* ; Assessing the Nonlinear Effect of Atmospheric Variables on Primary and Oxygenated Organic Aerosol Concentration Using Machine Learning, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2022, 6(4): 1059-1066
7. Qin, Yiming; Ye, Jianhuai; Ohno, Paul; Zhai, Jinghao; Han, Yuemei; Liu, Pengfei; Wang, Junfeng; Zaveri, Rahul A.; Martin, Scot T.*; Humidity Dependence of the Condensational Growth of α-Pinene Secondary Organic Aerosol Particles, Environmental Science & Technology, 2021, 55(21): 14360-14369
8. Yiming Qin; Jianhuai Ye; Paul E. Ohno; Yali Lei; Junfeng Wang; Pengfei Liu; Regan J. Thomson; Scot T. Martin* ; Synergistic Uptake by Acidic Sulfate Particles of Gaseous Mixtures of Glyoxal and Pinanediol, Environmental Science & Technology, 2020, 54(19): 11762-11770
9. Qin, Yi Ming; Tan, Hao Bo; Li, Yong Jie; Li, Zhu Jie; Schurman, Misha I.; Liu, Li; Wu, Cheng; Chan, Chak K. * ; Chemical characteristics of brown carbon in atmospheric particles at a suburban site near Guangzhou, China, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018, 18(22): 16409- 16418
10. Qin, Yi Ming; Tan, Hao Bo; Li, Yong Jie; Schurman, Misha I.; Li, Fei; Canonaco, Francesco; Prevot, Andre S. H.; Chan, Chak K. ; Impacts of traffic emissions on atmospheric particulate nitrate and organics at a downwind site on the periphery of Guangzhou, China, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2017, 17(17): 10245-10258
