Personal Profile

Changjiang Distinguished Professor, second-level professor, principal investigator of the research group “Ecological Effects of Environmental Change” (EEEC, http://www.eeec.net.cn/). As the first and corresponding author, he has published 102 SCI papers in international environmental and ecological journals, including one paper in Science Advances, one paper in Nature Food, and ten papers in Global Change Biology, with four ESI Highly Cited Papers and Hot Papers, and four cover papers. The paper published in Science Advances was selected as a highlight and reported in Science. Up to now, he has published a total of 154 SCI papers, with 77 papers in Chinese core journals. According to the statistics from Google Scholar, his articles have been cited 5500 times, with an h-index of 43. He has authored 2 Chinese monographs as the first author and 4 chapters in English monographs. According to the recent ranking of top scientists in global plant science and agronomy published by Research.com, he is ranked 46th nationwide. He was also selected in the fourth edition of the global top 2% scientists released by Stanford University in the United States.

Representative Achievements

1.Zhaozhong Feng, Pin Li, Xiangyang Yuan et al. (2021). Surface Ozone Pollution in China and its Ecological Environmental Effects (Chinese). Higher Education Press, Beijing. ISBN: 978-7-04-055826-5.

2. Zhaozhong Feng, Yansen Xu , Kazuhiko Kobayash, et al. (2022).  Ozone pollution threatens the production of major staple crops in East Asia. Nature Food, 3: 47-56. （highly cited paper）

3. Evgenios Agathokleous, Zhaozhong Feng*, Elina Oksanen, et al. (2020). Ozone affects plant, insect, and soil microbial communities: A threat to terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity. Science Advances, 6, eabc1176

4. Zhaozhong Feng, Evgenios Agathokleous, Xu Yue, et al. (2021). Emerging challenges of ozone impacts on Asian plants: Actions are needed to protect ecosystem health. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 7:1, 1911602. （cover paper）

5. Zhaozhong Feng*, Xiangyang Yuan, Silvano Fares, et al. (2019). Isoprene is more affected by climate drivers than monoterpenes: a meta-analytic review on plant isoprenoid emissions. Plant Cell & Environment, 42, 1939-1949. （cover paper）

6. Zhaozhong Feng, Alessandra De Marco, Alessandro Anav, et al. (2019). Economic losses due to ozone impacts on human health, forest productivity and crop yield across China. Environment International 131: 104966 （highly cited paper）

7. Pin Li, Zhaozhong Feng*, Vicent Calatayud, Xiangyang Yuan, Yansen Xu, Elena Paoletti (2017). A meta‐analysis on growth, physiological, and biochemical responses of woody species to ground‐level ozone highlights the role of plant functional types. Plant Cell and Environment, 40, 2369-2380. （highly cited paper）

8. Evgenios Agathokleous*, Zhaozhong Feng*, Josep Peñuelas (2022). Ozone pollution disrupts plant-pollinator systems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 37(11): 939-941.

9. Zhaozhong Feng*, Johan Uddling, Haoye Tang, Jianguo Zhu, Kazuhiko Kobayashi (2018). Comparison of crop yield sensitivity to ozone between open-top chamber and free-air experiments. Global Change Biology, 24: 2231-2238.

10. Zhaozhong Feng*, Patrick Büker, Hakan Pleijel, Lisa Emberson, Per Erik  Karlsson, Johan Uddling* (2018). A unifying explanation for variation in ozone sensitivity among woody plants. Global Change Biology, 24(1): 78-84. （亮点论文）

Published books

1.      Effects of Ozone on Forests

2.      Contribution of Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen to Ozone Pollution in China

3.      Effects of Ozone on Chinese Trees

4.      Effects of Ozone on Crops in China

5.      Surface Ozone Pollution in China and Its Ecological Environmental Effects (Chinese)

6.      Identification of Visible Symptoms of Ozone in Chinese Plants (Chinese)

Educational background

09/2001-07/2004: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Ph.D., major: Ecology

09/1998-07/2001: Lanzhou university, Master, major: Ecology

09/1994-07/1998: Qufu Normal University, Bachelor, major: Chemistry Education

Work Experience

06/2019-present: Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Ecology and Applied Meteorology, Professor, Vice Dean;

Promoted to Dean in November 2022

01/2019-06/2019: Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Professor

03/2013-12/2018: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Researcher; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor

03/2011-02/2013: University of Gothenburg, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Researcher

04/2009-02/2011: The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Agriculture, JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Special Research Fellow

08/2007-10/2007: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Genomic Biology, Visiting Scholar

07/2007-03/2009: The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Agriculture, Eco-Frontier Fellowship Special, Research Fellow

07/2006-06/2009: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Associate Researcher

07/2004-06/2006: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Assistant Researcher

Social Affiliation

1.      Science of the Total Environment, Associate Editor

2.      Environmental Ecology (Chinese), Associate Editor

3.      Journal of Environmental Sciences, Editorial Board Member

4.      Ecosystem Health & Sustainability, Editorial Board Member

5.      Journal of Plant Ecology, Editorial Board Member

6.      Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, Editorial Board Member

7.      Journal of Plant Ecology (Chinese), Editorial Board Member

8.      Journal of Applied Ecology (Chinese), Editorial Board Member

9.      Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (Chinese), Editorial Board Member

10.   Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (Chinese), Editorial Board Member

11.   International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) 8.04 (Impacts of Global Change and Air Pollution), Deputy Head

12.   Member of the National Environmental Standards Expert Committee

13.   Council Member of the Chinese Society for Ecological Economics

14.   Committee Member of the Pollution Ecology Special Committee, Chinese Ecological Society

15.   Committee Member of the Soil Analysis Technology Working Committee, Chinese Society of Soil Science

16.   Council Member of the Jiangsu Provincial Society for Environmental Science

Research Area

1.      Ecological and environmental effects of ozone pollution

2.      Plant-Soil-Atmosphere interactions

3.      Carbon sequestration and emission reduction in farmland

4.      Emission patterns of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) and their responses to environmental changes

Research Group

Ecological Effects of Environmental Change, EEEC

http://www.eeec.net.cn/

Our research group primarily employs field-based in-situ observation, and controlled experiments to simulate environmental changes. We utilize advanced techniques, including Open Top Chambers (OTCs) and Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment platforms (FACE), as primary tools for our investigations. We investigate the combined impacts of air pollution and climate change factors (elevated surface O3 and CO2, warming, aerosols, etc.) on the ecological function of agricultural ecosystems.

Our focus lies on exploring the compound effects on plants (photosynthetic physiology, plant water physiology, etc.), soil (key microorganisms mediating carbon and nitrogen transformations, soil characteristics), plant-soil interfaces, soil-atmosphere interfaces, and response and adaption of ecosystem-scale carbon and nitrogen cycling processes under environmental changes.