Soil Microbiology
Environmental Microbiology
Microbial Ecology

Ph.D

1997.09 – 2002.07. Ph.D of Soil Science, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, 

1993.09 – 1997.07. B.Sc. Environmental Engineering. Shanxi University. China

2008.12 - Present.  Professor of Soil Microbiology. Institute of Soil Science, Selected for 100 talent program of CAS.

2006.05 – 2008.11. Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiologym, Germany

2003.10 – 2006.05. Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences of Nagoya University, Japan
 
2002.09 – 2003.09. Postdoctoral Fellow, USDA/ARS, Colorado School of Mines & North Carolina State University.

Soil Ecology
Environmental Science
Molecular Microbial Method in Soil Science.

• 2020 Selected as Leading Scientist Award in China

• 2019 Innovation Award of Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China

• 2015 Distingushed Professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2015 Excellent Teaching Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences

• 2012 Distingushed Scholars among 100 talent program holders (20%)
• 2012 Distinguished Young Investigator of Jiangsu Province
• 2008 Selected as 100 talent program holder of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2008 Top Honor in Basic Research of China (the 6th most important PI)
• 2005 Max-Planck Society Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 2004 Top Honor in Basic Research of Jiangsu Province
• 2003 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
• 2002 President Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences (1%)
• 2001 START Fellowship/Visiting Scientist Award
• 2000 Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship of Institute of Soil Science
• 1996 Outstanding Leader for Student Association of Shanxi University

 (1)     Wang B, Qin W, Ren Y, Zhou X, Jung M-Y, Han P, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Li M, Zheng Y, Lu L, Yan X, Ji J, Liu Y, Liu L, Heiner C, Hall R, Martens-Habbena W, Herbold CW, Rhee S-k, Bartlett DH, Huang L, Ingalls AE, Wagner M, Stahl DA, Jia Z*. (2019). Expansion of Thaumarchaeota habitat range is correlated with horizontal transfer of ATPase operons. The ISME Journal 13:3067-3079

(2)     Cai Y, Zheng Y, Bodelier PLE, Conrad R, Jia Z*. (2016). Conventional methanotrophs are responsible for atmospheric methane oxidation in paddy soils. Nature Communications, 7:11728

(3)     Wang B, Zhao J, Guo Z, Ma J, Xu H, Jia Z*. (2015). Differential contributions of ammonia oxidizers and nitrite oxidizers to nitrification in four paddy soils. The ISME Journal, 9(5): 1062-1075

(4)     Lu, L., Han, W., Zhang, J., Wu, Y., Wang, B., Lin, X., Zhu, J., Cai, Z., and Jia, Z*. (2012). Nitrification of archaeal ammonia oxidizers in acid soils is supported by hydrolysis of urea. The ISME Journal, 6(10):1978-1984

(5)     Xia, W., Zhang, C., Zeng, X., Feng, Y., Weng, J., Lin, X., Zhu, J., Xiong, Z., Xu J., Cai, Z., and Jia, Z*. (2011). Autotrophic growth of nitrifying community in an agricultural soil. The ISME Journal, 5(7):1226-1236

• Ecophysiology of soil microbial community. The mechanism that leads to the enormous diversity of soil microorganisms is one of the most fascinating questions. The highly divergent ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes (Archaea and Bacteria) thus provide one a great model system in an attempt to deciphering this mechanism;
• The microbial biogeography. Using high-throughout sequencing techniques, we are tying to understand the distribution patterns of microbial community across space and time for a better understanding of their functional consequence on ecosystem functioning.

More than 30 Collaborators in Germany, Japan, the Netherland, USA, and other countries

已指导学生

任改弟  博士研究生  083001-环境科学  

孙明明  博士研究生  071012-生态学  

郑燕  博士研究生  083001-环境科学  

夏围围  博士研究生  083001-环境科学  

路璐  博士研究生  083001-环境科学  

郭志英  硕士研究生  071012-生态学  

包丽君  硕士研究生  077601-环境科学  

周雪  博士研究生  083001-环境科学  

赵俊  博士研究生  083001-环境科学  

张慧敏  硕士研究生  077601-环境科学  

刘蓓  硕士研究生  077601-环境科学  

莫永亮  博士研究生  083001-环境科学  

高威  博士研究生  083001-环境科学  

孙祥鑫  博士研究生  083001-环境科学  

杨丽洁  硕士研究生  077601-环境科学  

宋玉翔  硕士研究生  090301-土壤学  

康辰光  硕士研究生  085229-环境工程  

现指导学生

曹伟伟  博士研究生  083001-环境科学  

宋玉翔  博士研究生  083001-环境科学  

胡耀华  硕士研究生  077602-环境工程