Henry Teng joined Tianjin University in 2018 and is currently a professor in the Institute of Surface Earth System Science at TJU.  Prior to that he was on the faculty of the George Washington University where he started his academic career in 2000 as a member of the Geology and, later on, Chemistry Department.  He served as directors of Environmental Resource Policy program and Environmental Green Chemistry program at GWU, and expert program director in the National Science Foundation.

He was a Siyuan Lecturer Professor at Nanjing University from 2002 to 2016, and a JSPS fellow at the Hokkaido University in 2016-2017.

Henry received his BS from Nanjing University (China), MS from Temple University in Philadelphia, and PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology.   Before completing his education, Henry worked as assistent engeer in the Coal Mining Research Institute of China, visiting scholar in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and finally postdocotoral staff in Argonne National Laboratory.  

Henry's teaching portofolia include Environmental Geology, Science and Environment, Geochemistry, Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry of Air/Water/Soi, and Advanced Geochemistry.  His research interests lie in the general area of mineral surface geochemistry (including bio-mediated interfacial processes) but particularly in those related to the thermodynamics and kinetics of mineral crystallization and dissolution.  This research field requires multidisciplinary effort from chemistry, geology, biology, environmental science, and materials science. Henry is recognized as one of the pioneer workers and leaders in quantifying the behavior of mono-molecular layers of calcite during crystallization and dissolution.   Henry was recently awareded a NSFC key project (funding starts Jan, 2019)  to investigate mineral effects on microbes and exoemzymes in soil enviroment.  

Henry is a frequent reviewer/panelist for NSF, DOE, AAAS, ACS, and other funding agencies such as US Civilian Research and Develoment Foundation, Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (Netherland), and Hong Kong Research Council, and many scientific journals including Science, Nature and its series, PNAS, JACS, and Geology.  He currently sits on the editorial board of PLoS ONE and the Open Geology Journal.

Mineralogical effect on microbial activities

Role of amorphism in crystallziation

Ambient mineralization of phyllosilicates