During the past two decades, studies were focused on the black soil ecology, including fertility assessment, the evolvement of soil organic carbon and nitrogen under different soil managements and their environmental changing, the degradation process of the black soil in Northeast of China, conservation tillage and soil compaction, soil erosion and its control and so on.

1. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Graduated in September 2005
Ph.D of Science in Ecology
2. Northeast Agricultural University
Graduated in May 2001
Master of Science in Soil Science
3. Sichuan University
Graduated in July 1989
Bachelor of Science in Biology

1989-Present: works in Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences after graduation from Sichuan University.
1. 2006-Present: works as senior researcher, leader of the Black soil degradation and its recovery, supervisor of the graduate university of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2. 2007.12-2008.6: visiting and studying in Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).
3. 2002-2006: worked as associate researcher, visiting and studying in Iowa State University in 2003
4. 2000-2002: worked as associate researcher, supervising network monitor for agricultural ecology in Hailun Experimental Station
5. 1995-2000: worked as assistant researcher, studying on the black soil management and supervising the network monitor for agricultural ecology, visiting Romania in 1999
6. 1989-1995: worked as junior researcher, study on tillage research for soil water conservation，attended the International Soil Tillage Conference in Ukraine in 1993.

   

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