The Environmental Sciences Division (ESD) Baohua Gu has been named an ORNL Corporate Fellow.
Baohua, who leads ESD's Molecular Scale and Biogeochemical Processes, is an international expert in environmental geochemistry most noted for his innovative approach to studying organo-metal interactions and applying spectroscopic techniques to characterizing the fate, transformation, and transport of heavy metals, radionuclides, and nanomaterials in aquatic and terrestrial systems. He came to ORNL after receiving his doctorate in geochemistry from the University of California-Berkeley.
Baohua is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America. He has published more than 220 journal articles with over 9000 citations and has six patents. He has also served as the regional editor (Asia) for Environmental Engineering Science. He holds a joint appointment as professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.