主持项目：
1. 国家自然科学基金优秀青年科学基金项目 (海外)，2022-2024，在研，污水再生与资源化；
2. 广东省自然科学基金-杰出青年项目，新型电极界面吸附态氧化剂去除难降解污染物的效能与机制研究 (2022B1515020053)，100万人民币，2022-2025，在研；
3. 国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目，流动阳极氧化难降解污染物过程中吸附态自由基选择性生成机制 (52100030)，30万人民币，2022-2024，在研；
4. 广州市科技计划项目基础与应用基础研究项目，膜曝气反应器中微藻捕集二氧化碳过程机制研究，5万人民币，2022-2024，在研；
5. 澳大利亚科学研究委员会ARC，Ammonia recovery from wastewaters using flow-electrode membrane systems (LP170101180)，800,000 澳币 (400万人民币)，2019-2022，结题；
6. 澳大利亚新南威尔士大学资助项目，Flow-electrode technologies for water reclamation and selective resource recovery (PS51974)，330,000 澳币 (160万人民币)，2019-2022，结题
Web of Science: Researcher ID D-9981-2013。代表性研究成果如下：
1．Luo, L., He, Q., Ma, Z., Yi, D., Chen, Y.* and Ma, J.*, 2021. In situ potential measurement in a flow-electrode CDI for energy consumption estimation and system optimization. Water Research, 117522；https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135421007181；
2．Xie, J.#, Ma, J.#, Zhao, S. and Waite, T.D., 2021. Flow anodic oxidation: Towards high-efficiency removal of aqueous contaminants by adsorbed hydroxyl radicals at 1.5 V vs SHE. Water Research, 200, 117259; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135421004577
3．Kong, X., Ma, J.*, Le-Clech, P., Wang, Z., Tang, C.Y. and Waite, T.D., 2020. Management of concentrate and waste streams for membrane-based algal separation in water treatment: A review. Water Research, 183, 115969；https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135420305066
4．Ma, J.#, Ma, J.#, Zhang, C., Song, J., Dong, W. and Waite, T.D., 2020. Flow-electrode capacitive deionization (FCDI) scale-up using a membrane stack configuration. Water Research, 168, 115186；https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135419309601
5．Ma, J., Zhang, Y., Collins, R.N., Tsarev, S., Aoyagi, N., Kinsela, A.S., Jones, A.M. and Waite, T.D., 2019. Flow-electrode CDI removes the uncharged Ca–UO2–CO3 ternary complex from brackish potable groundwater: Complex dissociation, transport, and sorption. Environmental Science & Technology, 53(5), 2739-2747；
6．Ma, J.#, Ma, J.#, Zhang, C., Song, J., Collins, R.N. and Waite, T.D., 2019. Water recovery rate in short-circuited closed-cycle operation of flow-electrode capacitive deionization (FCDI). Environmental Science & Technology, 53(23), 13859-13867;
7．Ma, J., He, C., He, D., Zhang, C. and Waite, T.D., 2018. Analysis of capacitive and electrodialytic contributions to water desalination by flow-electrode CDI. Water Research, 144, 296-303；
8．He, C.#, Ma, J.#, Zhang, C., Song, J. and Waite, T.D., 2018. Short-circuited closed-cycle operation of flow-electrode CDI for brackish water softening. Environmental Science & Technology, 52 (16), 9350-9360;
9．Ma, J., Wang, Z., Zhang, J., Waite, T.D. and Wu, Z., 2017. Cost-effective Chlorella biomass production from dilute wastewater using a novel photosynthetic microbial fuel cell (PMFC). Water Research, 108, 356-364；
10．Ma, J., He, D., Tang, W., Kovalsky, P., He, C., Zhang, C. and Waite, T.D., 2016. Development of redox-active flow electrodes for high-performance capacitive deionization. Environmental Science & Technology, 50(24), 13495-13501；
11．Ma, J., He, D., Collins, R.N., He, C. and Waite, T.D., 2016. The tortoise versus the hare-Possible advantages of microparticulate zerovalent iron (mZVI) over nanoparticulate zerovalent iron (nZVI) in aerobic degradation of contaminants. Water Research, 105, 331-340；
12．Ma, J., Wang, Z., He, D., Li, Y. and Wu, Z., 2015. Long-term investigation of a novel electrochemical membrane bioreactor for low-strength municipal wastewater treatment. Water Research, 78, 98-110；
13．Ma, J., Wang, Z., Yang, Y., Mei, X. and Wu, Z., 2013. Correlating microbial community structure and composition with aeration intensity in submerged membrane bioreactors by 454 high-throughput pyrosequencing. Water Research, 47 (2), 859-869.