Research Team
See here for current opportunities to join the team.
Research Assistant
Research interest: Community ecology, ecosystem ecology
PhD student
Research interest: Plant-herbivore interaction
PhD student
Research interest: Plant community ecology, Biogeography
Master student
Research interest: Plant functionial traits; leaf venation network
Master student
Research interest: Plant translocation; climate change
Master student
Research interest: Vegetation classification; Tree dynamics
Master student
Research interest: TBD
Master student
Research interest: TBD
PhD student (2024-)
Research interest: TBD
Master student (2024-)
Research interest: TBD
Lab Alumni
Postdoc (2016-2021)(Currently Associate Professor at Hainan University)
Research interest: Microbial ecology, Plant-microbical interaction
Research Assistant (2016-2021)(Currently Associate Professor at Lushan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Research interest: Forest ecology, Community ecology
PhD student (2017-2021)(Currently Associate Professor at Shanxi Agriculture University)
Research interest: Macroecology, Community ecology
Visiting Student (2018.02-06)
PhD student at Univ. of Alberta, Canada (Currently postdoc at Univ. of Alberta)
Visiting student (2019.09-2020.01)
PhD student at Aarhus Univ., Denmark
Research interest: Global change ecology, Species distributions, Reforestation
Master student (2018-2021)
Research interest: Biodiversity conservation
Master student (2018-2021)
Research interest: Butterfly diversity
Master student (2017-2020)
Research interest: Remote sensing, Biodiversity
PhD student (2017-2022)(Currently Assistant professor in Shanxi)
Research interest: Conservation ecology, Urban ecology
Master student (2019-2022)
Research interest: Community ecology
Master student (2019-2022)
Research interest: Microbial ecology, Microbial biogeography
Research Assistant
(2016.08-2017.02)
PhD student (2018-2023)(Currently Postdoc at ETH Zurich)
Research interest: Population ecology, Demography, Distributional range limits
PhD student (2019-2023)(Currently Associate professor at Xinjiang Normal University)
Research interest: Macroecology, Community ecology
Master student (2020-2023)
Research interest: Remote sensing applications in Ecology
PhD student (2017-2023)
Research interest: Conservation Biogeography
Postdoc (2021-2024)
Research interest: Remote sensing applications
Master student (2019-2022) & Research Assistant (2022-2024)
Research interest: Community ecology
PhD student (2020-2024)
Research interest: Remote sensing, Community ecology
Master & PhD student (2017-2024)
Research interest: Biodiversity along elevational gradients, Community assembly
Master student (2021-2024)
Research interest: Community ecology
Master student (2021-2024)
Research interest: Island Biogeography
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)