Ma Zongwei, Associate Professor at the School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Ph.D. He also serves as a member of the Committee on Environmental Planning of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, among other affiliations.
He has long been engaged in research on air pollution exposure and health impact assessment based on big data and machine learning, cascading risk analysis of natural disasters under climate change, and identification and regulation of multi-scale environmental risk drivers. He has led projects including the NSFC General Program, NSFC Young Scientist Fund, and Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Youth. He has published over 60 papers as first author or corresponding author in academic journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Remote Sensing of Environment, and Environment International, three of which have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers. He holds 8 software copyrights and invention patents. He has received the Second Prize of Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award, the First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award for Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements in Higher Education, and the Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions. He also serves as a member of the Committee on Environmental Planning and the Committee on Ecological and Environmental Artificial Intelligence of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences.
1) Ma, Z.W.; Hu, X.F.; Sayer, A.M.; Levy, R.C.; Zhang, Q.; Xue, Y.G.; Tong, S.L.; Bi, J.; Huang, L.; Liu, Y. Satellite-based spatiotemporal trends in PM2.5 concentrations: China, 2004–2013. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2016, 124: 184-192.
2) Liu, M.M.; Liu, X.Y.; Huang, Y.N.; Ma, Z.W.; Bi, J. Epidemic transition of environmental health risk during China’s urbanization. Science Bulletin, 2017, 62: 92-98.
3) Liu, M.M.; Bi, J.; Ma, Z.W. Visibility-Based PM2.5 Concentrations in China: 1957−1964 and 1973−2014. Environmental Science & Technology, 2017, 51: 13161-13169.
4) Ma, Z.W.; Liu, R.Y.; Liu, Y.; Bi, J. Effects of air pollution control policies on PM2.5 pollution improvement in China from 2005 to 2017: a satellite-based perspective. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2019, 19: 6861-6877.
5) Liu, R.Y.; Ma, Z.W.; Liu, Y.; Shao, Y.C.; Zhao, W.; Bi, J. Spatiotemporal distributions of surface ozone levels in China from 2005 to 2017: a machine learning approach. Environment International, 2020, 142: 105823.
6) Ma, Z.W.; Dey, S.; Christopher, S.; Liu, R.Y.; Bi, J.; Balyan, P.; Liu, Y. A review of statistical methods used for developing large-scale and long-term PM2.5 models from satellite data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022, 269: 112827.
7) Shao, Y.C.; Liu, R.Y.; Yang, J.X.; Liu, M.M.; Fang, W.; Hu, L.T.; Bi, J.; Ma, Z.W. Economic Growth Facilitates Household Fuel Use Transition to Reduce PM2.5-Related Deaths in China. Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57: 12663-12673.
8) Liu, R.Y.; Ma, Z.W.; Gasparrini, A.; de la Cruz, A.; Bi, J.; Chen, K. Integrating augmented in situ measurements and a spatiotemporal machine learning model to back extrapolate historical particulate matter pollution over the United Kingdom: 1980–2019. Environmental Science & Technology, 2023, 57: 21605-21615.
9) Hu, L.T.; Meng, J.; Xiong, C.Y.; Fang, W.; Yang, J.X.; Liu, M.M.; Bi, J.; Ma, Z.W. City-level resilience to extreme weather shocks revealed by satellite nighttime lights in China. Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024, 101: 105167.
10) Hu, L.T.; Deng, S.D.; Ma, J.X.; Liang, K.H.; Shao, Y.C.; Liu, M.M.; Yang, J.X.; Fang, W.; Bi, J.; Ma, Z.W. Informing Risk Hotspots and Critical Mitigations for Rainstorms Using Machine Learning: Evidence from 268 Chinese Cities. Environmental Science & Technology, 2025, 59: 1619-1630.
1. Ma Zongwei, Gao Hailong, Liu Yetong, Li Weihan, Wen Ting, Wang Zheng, Li Chuang, Li Na, Song Wenling, Tang Yue, Wu Meiling. Performance Evaluation and Institutional Integration of Pollutant Discharge Permits in the Taihu Lake Basin. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2022.
2. Ma Zongwei, Qi Lingling, Huang Qin, Hu Litiao, Wen Ting, Ni Ping, Li Weihan. Research on Performance Evaluation of Zonal Management for Water Ecological Environment Functions in the Taihu Lake Basin. Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 2022.
3. Bi Jun, Ma Zongwei, Gao Qi, Cao Guozhi, Huang Xianjin. Science and Judgment in Risk Assessment (Translated). Beijing: China Environmental Science Press, 2021.
4. Ma Zongwei. "Chapter 2: Scientific Planning and Rational Development." In Great Protection of the Yangtze River: Major Events, by Water Environment and Water Ecology Branch of Chinese Society for Urban Studies. Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press, 2022.
5. Jun Bi, George Greene, Zongwei Ma, et al. "China's development and environmental risk management." In Risk Conundrums: Solving Unsolvable Problems, 112-126. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
1. Research on Environmental and Health Risk Transmission Networks of Climate-Related Compound Extreme Events and Adaptation Measures, NSFC General Program (2026–2029)
2. Coupling Natural Hazards for Regional Environmental Risk Assessment and Control, NSFC General Program (2022–2025)
3. Performance Evaluation and Improvement Strategies of Pollutant Discharge Permits for Key Industries in the Taihu Lake Basin, Sub-project of the Major Water Pollution Control Program (2018–2021)
4. Methods for Environmental Risk Zoning and Mapping, Technical Support Project for the Second National Pollution Source Census Data Aggregation and Third-party Assessment (2019–2020)
5. Environmental Risk Assessment and Driving Factors of Regional Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs), NSFC Young Scientist Fund (2017–2019)
6. Fine-scale PM2.5 Exposure Assessment Using Satellite Remote Sensing, Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Youth (2016–2019)
1. Member, Committee on Ecological and Environmental Artificial Intelligence, Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (2025–present)
2. Member, Committee on Environmental Planning, Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (2023–present)
3. Invited Expert, Working Group 8 (WG-8), Atmospheric Environmental Remote Sensing Society (AERSS) (2022–present)
4. Member, Committee on Environmental Information and Remote Sensing, Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (2021–present)
5. Council Member, Jiangsu-Hong Kong-Macao Universities Alliance for Environment and Remote Sensing (2021–present)
1. Second Prize of Jiangsu Provincial Scientific and Technological Progress Award, for "Key Technologies and Applications for Intelligent Prediction and Control of Typical Environmental Risks" (2025, ranked seventh)
2. Second Prize of Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award, for "Key Technologies and Applications for Multi-level Nested Precise Environmental Risk Assessment, Prevention and Control" (2023, ranked fourth)
3. Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, for "An Intelligent Monitoring System for Hazardous Waste" (2022, ranked fourth)
4. Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, for "Environmental Impairment Liability Insurance (EIL) System" (2021, ranked fourth)
5. Sixth Management Science Award (Academic Category), Chinese Academy of Management Science, for "Research on Health Risk Management of Air Pollution" (2018, ranked second)
6. First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award for Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements in Higher Education, for "Research on Whole-Process Optimization and Control Technologies for Environmental Risk" (2016, ranked twelfth)
Mailing Address: No. 163 Xianlin Avenue, Qixia District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
Postal Code: 210023
Affiliation: Nanjing University
Email: zma@nju.edu.cn
