Date of Birth: June 29, 1981; Nationality: Chinese

Associate Professor

Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences

Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

E-mail: biaozhu@pku.edu.cn Phone: +86 18518480032

EDUCATION

• ·2005–2010, Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA; Supervisor: Dr. Weixin Cheng

• ·2002–2005, M.S. in Ecology, Peking University, China; Supervisor: Dr. Jingyun Fang

• ·1998–2002, B.S. in Environmental Science, Peking University, China

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• ·2020–present, Associate Professor (with tenure), Peking University, China

• ·2014–2020, Assistant Professor, Peking University, China

• ·2012–2014, Postdoc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

• ·2011–2012, Postdoc, Cornell University, USA

• ·2010–2011, Postdoc, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA

HONORS AND AWARDS

• ·2022, Advisor for Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation, Peking University

• ·2020, Science and Technology Award for Young Scientists, Ecological Society of China

• ·2020, Excellent Teacher for Undergraduate Students, Peking University

• ·2018, Ng Teng Feng – Xinhe Distinguished Young Scholars, Peking University

• ·2018, Second Prize of Teaching Competition by Young Teachers, Peking University

• ·2016, Excellent Young Scholars, National Natural Science Foundation of China

SELECTED SERVICES FOR ACADEMIC BOARDS AND JOURNALS

• ·2024–present, Senior Editor, Journal of Plant Ecology

• ·2021–present, Subject Matter Editor, Ecology

• ·2020–present, Associate Editor, Journal of Ecology

• ·2020–present, Associate Chief Editor, Soil Biology & Biochemistry

• ·2018–present, Vice Director of Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University

• ·2017–2019, Secretary of Asian Ecology Section, Ecological Society of America

• ·2010-preent, reviewers for many journals (15-20 manuscripts per year), PNAS, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Ecology Letters, Global Change Biology, New Phytologist, Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Soil Biology & Biochemistry, Geoderma, Plant and Soil, Biogeochemistry, Biogeosciences, etc.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• ·Plant-soil interactions (particularly rhizosphere carbon and nutrient cycling)

• ·Soil organic carbon dynamics in response to global change (warming, N deposition, etc.)

• ·Nutrient regulation of ecosystem processes in terrestrial ecosystems

RESEARCH GRANTS

Main external grants from NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) as PI (Principal Investigator)

1. ·2022-2025, Key processes of soil carbon cycling and mechanisms of their responses to climate warming, #42141006.

2. ·2020–2023, Vulnerability of surface and subsurface soil organic carbon dynamics to warming and root inputs in an alpine meadow ecosystem: controls and mechanisms, #31971528.

3. ·2017–2020, Rhizosphere priming effects of woody plants on soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization: dynamics and mechanisms, #31670525.

4. ·2017–2019, Belowground ecology, #31622013.

PUBLICATIONS

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iKQtxxIAAAAJ&hl=en

5 recent papers (*, corresponding authors)

1. ·Zhang QF, Qin WK, Feng JG, Li XJ, Zhang ZH, He JS, Schimel JP, Zhu B*. 2023. Whole-soil warming does not change microbial carbon use efficiency in surface and deep soils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120(32):e2302190120

2. ·Yin R#, Qin WK#, Wang XD, Xie D, Wang H, Zhao HY, Zhang ZH, He JS, Schadler M, Kardol P, Eisenhauer N, Zhu B*. 2023. Experimental warming causes mismatches in alpine plant-microbe-fauna phenology. Nature Communications 14:2159 [# Equal contributions]

3. ·Sun LJ, Tsujii Y, Xu TL, Han MG, Li R, Han YF, Gan DY, Zhu B*. 2023. Species of fast bulk-soil nutrient cycling have lower rhizosphere effects: A nutrient spectrum of rhizosphere effects. Ecology 104:e3981

4. ·Feng JG, He KY, Zhang QF, Han MG, Zhu B*. 2022. Changes in plant inputs alter soil carbon and microbial communities in forest ecosystems. Global Change Biology 28:3426-3440

5. ·Han MG, Chen Y, Li R, Yu M, Fu LC, Li SF, Su JR, Zhu B*. 2022. Root phosphatase activity aligns with the collaboration gradient of the root economics space. New Phytologist 234:837-849 [Highlighted with commentary by Yaffar et al. 2022, New Phytologist 234:773-775]