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Dr Jiaying Li is a Faculty member in the Civil Engineering department at The University of Sydney. She is recognized as an ARC DECRA Research Fellow within the Faculty of Engineering. Her research interests and profile details are available on her Discovery profile page.
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Jiaying Li is a Sydney Horizon Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Sydney, specializing in Sewer Processes, Wastewater-based Epidemiology, and Emerging Contaminants and Health. Her research focuses on the detection and monitoring of pathogens and contaminants in wastewater to assess public health risks. Li's work includes the first confirmed detection of SARS-CoV-2 in untreated wastewater in Australia and the application of artificial neural networks for estimating COVID-19 case numbers. She also investigates the stability of biomarkers in sewers and the impact of environmental factors on the transformation of illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals. Her research contributes to the development of wastewater-based epidemiology as a tool for public health surveillance.