Research Team

See here for current opportunities to join the team.

Jingye Li（黎敬业）
Postdoc (2025-)
Research interest: Plant distributions and climate change

Wenqin Tu（涂文琴）
Postdoc (2025-)
Research interest: Plant diversity

Xiaoran Wang（王潇然）
Master and PhD student (2020-)
Research interest: Plant-herbivore interaction

Pengcheng Liu（刘鹏程）
PhD student (2021-)
Research interest: Plant community ecology, Biogeography

Yuetong Wang (王悦桐)
PhD student (2024-)
Research interest: Tree growth and climate change

Yuwen Ji（嵇煜雯）
PhD student (2025-)
Research interest: TBI

Yongru Wu（武泳如）
PhD student (2025-)
Research interest: TBI

Min Guan (关敏)
Master student (2023-)
Research interest: Plant biogeography

Pu Zheng (郑普)
Master student (2023-)
Research interest: Vegetation dynamics

Li Huang (黄莉)
Master student (2024-)
Research interest: Plant community ecology

Cuiyi Jiang（蒋翠憶）
Master student (2025-)
Research interest: TBI

Liming Lai（赖丽茗）
Master student (2025-)
Research interest: TBI

Lab Alumni

Lan Liu (刘兰)
Postdoc (2016-2021)(Currently Associate Professor at Hainan University)

Zhaochen Zhang (张昭臣)
Research Assistant (2016-2021)(Currently Associate Professor at Lushan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Houjuan Song (宋厚娟)
PhD student (2017-2021)(Currently Associate Professor at Shanxi Agriculture University)

Zachary MacDonald
Visiting Student (2018.02-06)
PhD student at Univ. of Alberta, Canada (Currently postdoc at Univ. of Alberta)

Ditte Arp Jensen
Visiting student (2019.09-2020.01)
PhD student at Aarhus Univ., Denmark

Oukai Zhang (张讴凯)
Master student (2018-2021)

Xuan Lv (吕璇)
Master student (2018-2021)

Jiaxin Kong (孔嘉鑫)
Master student (2017-2020)

Xin Wang (王昕)
PhD student (2017-2022)(Currently Assistant professor in Shanxi)

Yaoshun Lu (卢尧舜)
Master student (2019-2022)

Luwen Ma (马璐雯)
Master student (2019-2022)

Mengwei Shen (沈梦伟)
Research Assistant
(2016.08-2017.02)

Xianyu Yang (杨贤宇)
PhD student (2018-2023)(Currently Postdoc at ETH Zurich)

Zhongping Tian (田中平)
PhD student (2019-2023)(Currently Associate professor at Xinjiang Normal University)

Li Shu（舒丽）
Master student (2020-2023)

Yuzhuo Wang (王宇卓)
PhD student (2017-2023)

Meichen Jiang (蒋美琛)
Postdoc (2021-2024)

Hongwei Zhang (张宏伟)
Master student (2019-2022) & Research Assistant (2022-2024)

Jiale Chen (陈佳乐)
PhD student (2020-2024)(Currently Postdoc at Wuhan Univ.)

Ran Zhang (张然)
Master & PhD student (2017-2024)

Fang Wang（王芳）
Master student (2021-2024)

Xiaofan Shang（商晓凡）
Master student (2021-2024)

Shiyu Ma (马诗钰)
Research Assistant (2023-2024)

Jingchao Zhao（赵静超）
Master student (2022-2025)

Junhong Chen（陈俊红）
Master student (2022-2025)

Mufan Sun（孙慕梵）
Master student (2022-2025)

Zhijing Xie (谢致敬): Visiting PhD student (2021.11-2021.12)

Fenglin Zhang (张凤麟): Master student at ECNU (2016-2019)

Xinyang Wang (王鑫洋): PhD student at ECNU (2023-2024)

Antony Njogu: Postdoc (co-supervised with Prof. Dingliang Xing) (2021-2022)

Tingsheng Huang (黄庭升): Visiting Master student from Univ. of Tainan, Taiwan (2018.02-07)

Le Chang (常乐): Visiting Master student from Qingdao Agriculture Univ.(2017.07)

Weilin Wang (王玮霖): Visiting undergraduate student from Wuhan Univ.(2018.07)

Anyu Chen (陈安禹): Undergraduate student at ECNU (2017-2018)

Xingda Liu (刘兴达): Undergraduate student at ECNU (2018-2019)

Junzhe Xu (许俊哲): Undergraduate student at ECNU (2018-2019)

Zijing Luo (罗梓菁): Undergraduate student at ECNU (2020-2021)

Aiqun Zeng (曾艾群): Undergraduate student at ECNU (2019,2022-2023)

Zhuo Yang (杨卓): Undergraduate student at ECNU (2021-2022)

Tao Liu (刘涛): Undergraduate student at ECNU (2021-2022)