Professor

Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences

Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

E-mail: biaozhu@pku.edu.cn 

EDUCATION

2005–2010, Ph.D. in Environmental Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA

2002–2005, M.S. in Ecology, Peking University, China

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

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2025–present, Professor, Peking University, China

2020–2025, Associate Professor, 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

SELECTED SERVICES FOR ACADEMIC BOARDS AND JOURNALS

2024–present, Chief Editor, Soil Biology & Biochemistry

2024–present, Senior Editor, Journal of Plant Ecology

2021–present, Subject Matter Editor, Ecology

2020–present, Associate Editor, Journal of Ecology

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

2010-preent, reviewers for many journals, 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, 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

PUBLICATIONS

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