Wei is currently leading the Environmental Molecular and Synthetic Biology Laboratory (https://www3.nd.edu/~nwei/index.html). She received her B.S. degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from Sichuan University, China, her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and Energy Bioscience Institute at UIUC. Wei’s research is focused on understanding and manipulating biological systems at the molecular level for beneficial applications towards environmental sustainability. Her research has been funded by NSF, NIH, DoD and USAID. Wei received NSF CAREER award in 2017.