Basic Information
Name： | Bin-Le Lin |  | ||
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| Email： | 1010140339@seu.edu.cn; 18851150339@163.com | |||
| Address： | Room 239,Dingjiaqiao Campus, Southeast University, Nanjing | |||
Professor Lin Bin-Le studied abroad in Japan in 1992 and received her Ph.D. from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 1998. From 1998 to 2001, she conducted research at the University of Tokyo on the development of a global-scale biogeochemical nitrogen cycle model. Since 2001, she held a long-term position at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, focusing on risk assessment research in the fields of chemicals, energy, and the environment. In 2025, she was elected as a Fellow of the Japanese Academy of Engineering. In July 2026, Professor Lin Bin-Le joined the School of Public Health at Southeast University as a Changjiang Chair Professor.
Reasearch Interest
Every new energy technology deployed in society comes with its own “environmental and health ledger.”Professor Lin’s team will focus on the cutting-edge research field of “risk assessment of energy-environment-health system and public health decision-making for a low-carbon society.” The team aims to establish an “interdisciplinary medicine and engineering research platform for energy, environment, and health” that combines an international perspective with interdisciplinary characteristics.What sets the team’s research apart is that they focus not only on “how much carbon has been reduced,” but also on “what health costs have been incurred and what health benefits have been gained” as a result.
The team mainly focuses on the core causal chain of “energy structure transition → changes in emissions of new pollutants → effects on public health.” Based on four technical pillars—toxicological mechanism validation, risk assessment, material cycle modeling, and life cycle assessment—and using epidemiology and Health Impact Assessment (HIA) as the assessment endpoints, the team aims to construct a full-chain research paradigm encompassing “emission characteristics → exposure assessment → toxic mechanism analysis → health effects → risk trade-offs → policy interventions.”Their research findings will directly inform the formulation of environmental standards and the selection of energy technology roadmaps under the national “Dual Carbon” strategy and the “Healthy China” initiative.
Research includes, but are not limited to, the following four topics
1. Emission characteristics and health risk assessment of new pollutants associated with the new energy industry chain: Focusing on the full life cycle of emerging technologies such as ammonia-hydrogen energy, biomass energy, and lithium-ion batteries, this research identifies novel pollutants emitted during their processes (such as ozone precursors like ammonia, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds; endocrine disruptors; and heavy metals), conducts population exposure assessments and employs experimental methods—including organoid chips, nematode, and cell models—to elucidate their toxicological mechanisms and quantifies their dose-response relationships and health risks.
2. Health Risk-Benefit Trade-off Assessment for Green and Low-Carbon Technologies: For low-carbon technologies such as new energy sources (e.g., ammonia-hydrogen) and carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), establish a quantitative comparison framework between “carbon reduction benefits” and “health impacts” to provide a scientific basis for optimizing technology selection.
3. Update and Development of Global/Regional-Scale Biogeochemical Nitrogen Cycle Models: Building upon and advancing the team’s long-term expertise in nitrogen cycle modeling, develop exposure assessment tools that are capable of addressing the new dilemma of “carbon reduction leading to increased emissions of nitrogen and pollutants” caused by new energy technologies. These tools will be coupled with multi-medium (e.g., water and atmosphere) pollutant modules to support health impact predictions under climate change and energy scenarios.
4. Nitrogen/Carbon Cycles and Health Risk Assessment in Urban-Watershed Systems: Focusing on urban wastewater treatment system and its resource recovery technologies, evaluates the carbon and nitrogen footprints of the entire system as well as aquatic environmental health impacts (including public health risks such as the spread of antimicrobial resistance), and explore synergistic optimization solutions that integrate “carbon reduction and nitrogen control—resource recovery—public health protection.”.
The group actively recruits master's and doctoral students on a rolling basis, and sincerely invites postdoctoral researchers and collaborative faculty to join. Outstanding talents with academic backgrounds in Environmental Science/Engineering, Preventive Medicine/Public Health, Analytical Chemistry, Mathematical Statistics/ Modeling, Geographic Information Science, Energy Engineering, Biology/Microbiology, Information Science, Policy Management and other related disciplines are warmly welcome.
Biographical Information
1. 1995–1998, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, Ph.D. in Material Biology Engineering
2. 1998–2001, Research Institute of Industry Science, Tokyo University, Japan, Research Associate
3. 2001–2026, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, Chief Senior Research Scientist
4. 2026–present, Southeast University, Changjiang Chair Professor and Doctoral Supervisor
Representative Publications
1. Managing Risk to Ecological Population. In: Lawrence W. Barnthouse, Wayne R. Munns, Jr., and Mary T. Sorensen, Editors. Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment. CRC (September 19, 2007) Press Inc., p346
2. Modelling a global biogeochemical Nitrogen cycle model in terrestrial ecosystems. Ecological Modelling 135(1), 89-110.
3. A modelling approach to global nitrate leaching caused by anthropogenic fertilisation. Water Research 35(8), 1961-1968.
4. Approaches for establishing predicted-no-effect concentrations for population-level ecological risk assessment in the context of chemical substances management. Environmental Science and Technology 39(13), 4833-4840.
5. Predicting the acute ecotoxicity of chemical substances by machine learning based on graph theory. Chemosphere 238:124604.
6. System approach for evaluating the potential yield and plantation of Jatropha curcas L. on a global scale. Environmental Science and Technology 44(6), 2204-2209.
7. Biofuel or biodiversity? Integrated emergy and economic cost-benefit evaluation of rice-ethanol production in Japan. Energy 46, 442-450.
8. Sustainability assessment of bioethanol and petrol fuel production in Japan based on emergy analysis. Energy Policy 44, 23-33.
9. PM2.5-related health impacts of utilizing ammonia-hydrogen energy in Kanto Region, Japan. Frontier Environmental Science Engineering 12(2):13.
10. Extrapolation of available acute and chronic toxicity test data to population-level effects for ecological risk management of chemicals. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 28(7), 1557-1566.
11. An all-in-one tool for multipurpose ecological risk assessment and management (MeRAM) of chemical substances in aquatic environment. Chemosphere 268:128826.
12. Increased nitrogen deposition contributes to plant biodiversity loss in Japan: Insights from long-term historical monitoring data. Environmental Pollution 290:118033.
13. Inorganic PM2.5 reduction in Kanto, Japan: The role of ammonia and its emission sources control strategies. Environmental Pollution 349(2024/5/15):123926.