I received PhD in June 2014 from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS), as well as the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I started working at the Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CIGIT) in September 2014 and has been there ever since.

I have published over 50 papers so far, including more than 30 papers by the first and corresponding authors. The first author SCI papers include top journals such as Limnology and Oceanography, Water Research, and Harmful Algae. These papers have been cited more than 2000 times, with H-index=21 (Google Scholar). I have applied for more than 10 patents.

Phytoplankton, algal blooms, water quality and ecology of aquatic systems

1.Jianrong Ma, Boqiang Qin*, Hans W Paerl, Justin D. Brookes, Nathan S Hall, Kun Shi, Yongqiang Zhou, Jinsong Guo, Zhe Li, Xu Hai, Tingfeng Wu, Shengxing Long. 2016. The persistence of cyanobacterial (Microcystis spp.) blooms throughout winter in Lake Taihu, China. Limnology and oceanography, 61(2):711–722. (110 citations). 

2. Jianrong Ma, Justin D. Brookes, Boqiang Qin*, Hans W. Paerl, Guang Gao, Pan Wu, Wei Zhang, Jianming Deng, Guangwei Zhu, Yunlin Zhang, Hai Xu, Hailin Niu. 2014. Environmental factors controlling colony formation in blooms of the cyanobacteria Microcystis spp. in Lake Taihu, China. Harmful algae, 31: 136-142. (136 citations).

3.Jianrong Ma, Boqiang Qin*, Pan Wu, Jian Zhou, Cheng Niu, Jianming Deng, Hailin Niu. 2015. Controlling cyanobacterial blooms by managing nutrient ratio and limitation in a large hyper-eutrophic lake: Lake Taihu, China. Journal of     Environmental Sciences. 27: 80-86. (80 citations).

4.Jianrong Ma, Boqiang Qin*, Hans W. Paerl, Justin D. Brookes, Pan Wu, Jian Zhou, Jianming Deng, Jinsong Guo, Zhe Li. 2015. Green algal over cyanobacterial dominance promoted with nitrogen and phosphorus additions in a mesocosm study at Lake Taihu, China. Environmental science and pollution research. 22 (7), 5041-5049. (60 citations).

5.Yongqiang Zhou, Jianrong Ma(co-first author), Yunlin Zhang*, Boqiang Qin*, Erik Jeppesen, Kun Shi, Justin D Brookes, Robert G Spencer, Guangwei Zhu, Guang Gao. 2017. Improving water quality in China: Environmental investment pays dividends. Water Research, 2017, 118:152-159. (142 citations).

6. Xianfei Huang, Xianliang Wu, Xiangchen Tang, Zhenming Zhang*, Jianrong Ma**, Jiachun Zhang, Huijuan Liu. 2021. Distribution characteristics and risk of heavy metals and microbial community composition around the Wanshan mercury mine in Southwest China, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 227:112897.

7. Xiao Ma, Justin Brookes, Xueli Wang, Yachao Han, Jianrong Ma*, Guangyu Li, Qiao Chen, Shaoqi Zhou*, Boqiang Qin. 2023. Water quality improvement and existing challenges in the Pearl River Basin, China. Journal of Water Process Engineering.

8. Jianrong Ma, Guijun Yang, Boqiang Qin, Xianfu Zhao, Kun Shan, Botian Zhou, Yan Zeng, Jingfu Wang, Jingan Chen. 2023. Mutual feedback between algal blooms and global warming. Journal of oceanography and limnology (in press).

9. Jianrong Ma, Qiao Chen, Xianliang Wu, Hans W Paerl, Justin D. Brookes, Guangyu Li, Yan Zeng Jingfu Wang, Jingan Chen, Boqiang Qin. 2023. Relationship between anthropogenic factors and freshwater quality in Hainan province, south China. Environmental science and pollution research.

10. Boqiang Qin, Guijun Yang, Jianrong Ma, Tingfeng Wu, Wei Li, Lizhen Liu, Jianming Deng, Jian Zhou. 2018. Spatiotemporal Changes of Cyanobacterial Bloom in Large Shallow Eutrophic Lake Taihu, China. Frontiers in Microbiology 9: 451.