Dr. Zhiyong Xia

Dr. Zhiyong Xia currently serves as the senior technical director and PFAS practice technical leader for GHD. He has extensive experience in PFAS management (PFAS capture, PFAS destruction, PFAS testing and evaluation, and fate and transport), water purification (heavy metals and microbes and microplastics removal), atmospheric water harvesting, and novel materials. Prior to joining GHD, Dr. Xia was the chief scientist at Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory where his PFAS and water work had won the lab’s Invention of the Year Award three times (2022, 2021 and 2015). Dr. Xia has 19 US patents related to PFAS, water, and novel polymers. He is an author of more than 100 technical publications. Dr. Xia holds an adjunct professorship at Johns Hopkins University -Whiting School of Engineering. Dr. Xia received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.