Zhang Wei, female, born in April 1980 in Haicheng, Liaoning Province. She is an associate professor. Her research primarily focuses on soil carbon and nitrogen transformation and cycling. She has achieved original findings in the study of the microbial transformation processes of exogenous nitrogen, clarifying the microbial mechanisms of exogenous nitrogen transformation and the coupled regulation mechanisms of carbon and nitrogen under environmental changes and conservation tillage. These findings provide a theoretical and practical foundation for the efficient utilization and management of nitrogen fertilizers. She has led the completion of over 10 research projects, including projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a subproject of the National Basic Research Program of China, subprojects of the National Key Research and Development Program, etc. She has published over 40 papers, including more than 20 SCI-indexed papers. Her research findings have been primarily published in leading soil science journals such as Soil Biology & Biochemistry, Biology and Fertility of Soils, Geoderma, and Plant and Soil.

2003.09–2008.07 Ph.D. degree in Soil Science from the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. 1999.08–2003.07 B.S. degree in Applied Chemistry from the Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.

2010.10–present: Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor 2008.09–2010.09: Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Professor

Soil carbon and nitrogen transformation, isotope technology, microbial processes

1. 2023–2028: Sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China, titled "Technologies for Regulating Deep Soil Moisture and Nutrients and Enhancing Efficient Utilization in Dry and Thin Black Soil", Project Leader. 2. 2021–2026: Sub-project of the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, titled "Three-Dimensional Monitoring and Application Evaluation of Models in the Rain-Fed Agricultural Demonstration Area of Northern Liaoning", Project Leader. 3. 2022–2025: Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, titled " Effect of Maize Straw Mulching on The Construction and Function of Soil Organic Nitrogen Pool", Project Leader. 4. 2021–2024: Science and Technology Project of Shenyang, titled "Research on the Mechanism and Key Technologies for Enhancing Soil Organic Matter in Dry Farmlands of Shenyang", Project Leader. 5. 2019–2022: Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, titled "Microbial Immobilization Process of Deposited Nitrogen And its Influence Mechanism in A Temperate Forest Soil", Project Leader. 6. 2020–2022: Sub-project of the Science and Technology Program of Liaoning Province, titled "Technologies for Enhancing Soil Fertility in Black Soil Farmlands of Northeast China", Project Leader. 7. 2017–2020: Sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China, titled "Microbial Assimilation of Nitrogen in the Root Zone Soil and its Coupled Regulation Mechanism of Carbon and Nitrogen", Project Leader. 8. 2016–2019: Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, titled "The Effect of Temperature on Microbial Assimilation of Extraneous Isotope Inorganic Nitrogen and its Stability in Mollisol", Project Leader. 9. 2014–2018: Sub-project of the National Basic Research Program of China (Young Scientists 973 Program), titled "Biological Mechanisms of Reactive Nitrogen Retention in Soil", Project Leader. 10. 2010–2012: Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, titled "The Effect of Drying-Wetting on The Turnover Process of Fertilizer Nitrogen in Soil", Project Leader.

1. Dong S.H., Deng F.B., Zhou F., Ma S.C., Wang Z.Y., Wang W.Q., Zhang W*., He H.B., Zhang X.D. Internal transformation of fertilizer-derived organic nitrogen fractions in an arable soil and the regulation of maize residue mulching. Geoderma, 2025, 459, 117385. (Corresponding author) 2. Ma X.S., Zhang W., Zhang X.C., Bao X.L., Xie H.T., Li J., He H.B., Liang C., Zhang X.D. 2022. Dynamics of microbial necromass in response to reduced fertilizer application mediated by crop residue return. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 165:108512. (Co-first author) 3. Zhang W., Zhang X.C., Bai E., Cui Y.H., He H.B., Zhang X.D. 2020. The strategy of microbial utilization of the deposited N in a temperate forest soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 56(3), 359-367. 4. Liu X., Zhou F., Hu G.Q., Shao S., He H.B.*, Zhang W.*, Zhang X.D., Li L.J. 2019. Dynamic contribution of microbial residues to soil organic matter accumulation influenced by maize straw mulching. Geoderma, 333:35-42. (Co-corresponding author) 5. Zhang W., Liang C., Kao-Kniffin J., Xie H.T., He H.B., Zhang X.D. 2017. Effects of drying and wetting cycles on the transformations of extraneous inorganic N to soil microbial residues. Scientific Report, 7:9477. 6. Zhang W., Cui Y.H., Lu X.K., Bai E., He H.B., Xie H.T., Liang C., Zhang X.D. 2016. High nitrogen deposition decreases the contribution of fungal residues to soil carbon pools in a tropical forest ecosystem. Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 97: 211-214. 7. Zhang W., Liang C., Kao-Kniffin J., He H.B., Xie H.T., Zhang H., Zhang X.D. 2015. Differentiating the mineralization dynamics of the originally present and newly synthesized amino acids in soil amended with available carbon and nitrogen substrates. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 85,162-169. 8. Zhang W., He H.B., Li Q., Lu C.Y., Zhang X.D., Zhu J.G. 2014. Soil microbial residue dynamics after 3-year elevated O3 exposure are plant species-specific. Plant and Soil, 376: 139-149.