Likun Xue, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, is a Taishan Scholar Distinguished Expert and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellence for Young Scholars. He is primarily engaged in atmospheric chemistry research, focusing on the evolution, sources, behavior, and environmental, climate, and health effects of reactive trace gases and aerosols. He has published over 220 academic papers (including 86 as first author or corresponding author), obtained 12 authorized patents, and his work has been cited more than 11,000 times with an H-index of 59 (Google Scholar).

He also holds several concurrent positions, including Vice Chair of the Atmospheric Environment and Pollution Meteorology Committee of the Chinese Meteorological Society, Deputy Secretary-General of the Atmospheric Environment Branch of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, Deputy Secretary-General of the Ozone Pollution Control Committee of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, Chair of the Youth Editorial Board of China Environmental Science, member of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) China Working Group, Associate Editor of Environmental Science & Technology (EST) Air, and Editorial Board Member of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters.

His research achievements have been recognized with the Second Prize of Natural Science by the Ministry of Education and the Second Prize of Environmental Protection Science and Technology.

• 2006-09-01-2011-12-01
  Shandong University
  Environmental Science
  Postgraduate (Doctoral)
• 2002-09-01-2006-07-01
  Shandong University
  Environmental Engineering
  Undergraduate (Bachelor’s degree)

• 2007-09 — 2008-09
  Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Research Assistant
• 2009-09 — 2011-01
  Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Research Assistant
• 2011-01 — 2015-01
  Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Post Doc. & Research Fellow
• 2015-01 — Now
  Environment Research InstituteShandong University
  Professor
• 2016-04 — 2018-08
  Jinan Environmental Monitoring Center Station
  Deputy Station Master (on secondment)

1. Urban and regional air quality

2. Troposphere ozone and atmospheric photochemical pollution

3. Sources and chemical transformations of reactive nitrogen oxides

4. Monitoring analysis and reaction mechanism of volatile organic compounds

5. Regional air pollution three-dimensional monitoring (ground mountain aircraft platform)

6. Development and application of atmospheric chemical models and chemical reaction mechanisms

7. Marine atmospheric environment

(1) Hengqing Shen#, Qinyi Li#, Fei Xu#, Likun Xue*, Yongxia Hu, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez*, Wenxing Wang, and Tao Wang*, Aerosol Iodide Accelerates Reactive Nitrogen Cycling in the Marine Atmosphere, Nature Communications, 16: 8148, 2025.

(2) Yu Yang#, Liubin Huang#, Min Zhao, Yan Wu, Yihang Xu, Wenxing Wang, and Likun Xue*, Multiphase reactions of organic peroxides and nitrite as a source of atmospheric organic nitrates, Nature Communications, 16: 5437, 2025

(3) Hengqing Shen, Likun Xue*, Gen Zhang*, Yujiao Zhu, Min Zhao, Xuelian Zhong, Yanqiu Nie, Jinghao Tang, Yuhong Liu, Qi Yuan, Huiwang Gao, Tao Wang*, and Wenxing Wang, Marine Sources of Formaldehyde in the Coastal Atmosphere, Science Bulletin, 2025, 70, (1), 96-103.

(4) Likun Xue*, Ying Jiang, Hongyong Li, Qingqing Liu, Ji Zhang, Hengqing Shen, Yong Zhao, Zhaoxin Guo, Tianshu Chen, Liang Wen, Yuhong Liu, Jiangshan Mu, Yujiao Zhu, Xinfeng Wang, Jian Gao, Tao Wang, Wenxing Wang, Reactive oxidized nitrogen at a high mountain site in the North China Plain: Chemical speciation and temporal variations during 2007-2023, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere, 130, 7, 2025.

(5) Tianshu Chen, Tao Wang*, Likun Xue*, and Guy Brasseur, Heatwave Exacerbates Air Pollution in China through Intertwined Climate–Energy–Environment Interactions, Science Bulletin, 2024, 69, (17), 2765-2775.

(6) Min Zhao, Hengqing Shen*, Ji Zhang, Yuhong Liu, Yue Sun, Xinfeng Wang, Can Dong, Yujiao Zhu, Hongyong Li, Ye Shan, Jiangshan Mu, Xuelian Zhong, Jinghao Tang, Mingzhi Guo, Wenxing Wang, Likun Xue*, Carbonyl Compounds Regulate Atmospheric Oxidation Capacity and Particulate Sulfur Chemistry in the Coastal Atmosphere. Environmental Science & Technology, 2024, 58, (39), 17334-17343.

(7) Jiang Ying, Xue Likun*, Shen Hengqing*, Dong Can, Xiao Zhisheng, Wang Wenxing, Dominant processes of HONO derived from multiple field observations in contrasting environments, Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 9(4), 258-264, 2022.

(8) Yingnan Zhang, Likun Xue*, William P. L. Carter, Chenglei Pei, Tianshu Chen, Jiangshan Mu, Yujun Wang, Qingzhu Zhang, and Wenxing Wang, Development of ozone reactivity scales for volatile organic compounds in a Chinese megacity, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(14):11053-11068, 2021.

(9) Likun Xue*, Rongrong Gu, Tao Wang, Xinfeng Wang, Sandra Saunders, Donald Blake, Peter K. K. Louie, Connie W. Y. Luk, Isobel Simpson, Zheng Xu, Zhe Wang, Yuan Gao, Shuncheng Lee, Abdelwahid Mellouki, and Wenxing Wang, Oxidative capacity and radical chemistry in the polluted atmosphere of Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta region: analysis of a severe photochemical smog episode, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16, 9891-9903, 2016.

(10) Likun Xue*, Ying Jiang, Hongyong Li, Qingqing Liu, Ji Zhang, Hengqing Shen, Yong Zhao, Zhaoxin Guo, Tianshu Chen, Liang Wen, Yuhong Liu, Jiangshan Mu, Xinfeng Wang, Jian Gao, Tao Wang, Wenxing Wang, Development of a chlorine chemistry module for the Master Chemical Mechanism, Geoscientific Model Development, 8, 3151-3162, 2015.

1. Chemistry of reactive trace gases, NSFC, (2020–2022), 1.5M, PI.

2. Photochemical air pollution, Shandong National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2019–2022), 1.0M, PI.

3. Observations and chemistry of atmospheric reactive nitrogen over eastern China, National Key Research and Development Program (2022–2026), 4.99M, PI.

4. Impacts of oil & natural gas extraction on tropospheric ozone and regional air quality, NSFC (2017–2020), 770K, PI.

5. Formation of nitrous acid in the marine boundary layer and its impacts on air quality in coastal areas, NSFC (2016–2018), 250K, PI.

6. Organic aerosols in offshore marine atmosphere of eastern and southern China: sources, chemical ageing, and climate consequences, National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) – Research Grant Council (RGC) Joint Research Scheme (2021–2024), 1.2M, PI.

7. Vertical measurements of regional air pollution by mountain-top sites and aircraft, National Key Research and Development Program (2016–2020), 7.5M，PI

8. Impacts of reduced emissions of sulfur dioxide on the formation of nitrate aerosol, NSFC (2021-2024), 580K, PI.

9. Heterogeneous chemistry of reactive nitrogen oxides and its impacts on atmospheric oxidizing capacity and secondary air pollution in North China, NSFC (2016-2019), 3.72M, co-I.

10. Investigation of causes and prevention of complex urban air pollution, Leading Scientist Program (Innovation Team) of Ji’nan City (2019–2021), 1.0M, PI.