People
Title:Associate Professor
Subject:Applied Soil Biochemistry
Phone:+86-24-83970357
Email:ylZhang@iae.ac.cn
Address:P. O. Box 417 Shenyang 110016 CHINA
Resume:

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIINS

1. Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAREERI, CAS). Ph. D. in Soil Ecology, 2009.
2. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences M. S. in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2004
3. College of Land and Environment, Northeast Agricultural University B. A. in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 1999.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

1. 2013.11-present:Associate Professor. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
2. 2013.04-2014.04: Visiting scholar. Tropical Research & Education Center of Florida University, US.
3. 2006.07-2013.11: Assistant Professor. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
4. 2004.07-2006.07: Research assistant. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

MEMBERSHIPS OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

2008-present: Member of Soil Science Society of Liaoning Province, China
2004-present: Member of Division of Soil Fertility and Fertilizer Sciences, Soil Science Society of China


PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1.2009.07.16-07.23: Japan. Agricultural Conference
2.2013.04-2014.04. U.S. Florida University. Visiting Scholar. “Little molecular Humic Acid”.

Program
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) “Mineralization of exogenous biochar in soil and their temperature sensitivity”. 2014-2016. 26 million yuan
2. Agricultural public welfare industry project “Effects of biochar on soil carbon and nitrogen cycle”. 2013-2017. 120 million yuan.
3. National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China in 12th Five-Year “Environmental effects of stabilized fertilizers”. 2012-2016. 70 million yuan.
4. The project of the Key Laboratory of terrestrial ecological process, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. “Effects of exogenous phytase on soil phosphorus transformation and microbiological activity”. 2008-2012. 4.5 million yuan.
5. The knowledge innovation project of Chinese Academy of Sciences project(KZCX3-SW-445)“Soil enzymatic process and its regulation in main farmland of Northeast China”.

  • 1. Biochemical characteristics of soil during the improving process of soil quality
    2. Role of soil enzymes on nutrients (C, N, P, S) cycling in agricultural, grassland, sand land and forest systems
    3. Regulation of urea N transformation in soil-plant system by urease and nitrification inhibitors incorporation; Response of soil phosphatase and arylsulphatase activities to activators and their role on organic P and S hydrolysis