2011.07 – 2012.02, State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.

2012.02 – present, Key Laboratory of Reservoir Aquatic Environment, Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chongqing, China.

2015.03 – 2016.03, Guest Scientist, Sustainable Agroecosystems, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Zurich, Switzerland.

2018.07 – 2018.10, Visiting Scholar, Center for Microbial Ecology, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, United States.

Soil structure and C/N cycling

Scientific research

1. Ping Huang, Jiabao Zhang*, Anning Zhu, Xiuli Xin, Congzhi Zhang, Donghao Ma, Shan Yang, Zakaria Mira, Shengjun Wu. Coupled water and nitrogen (N) management as a key strategy for the mitigation of gaseous N losses in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2015, 51(3): 333-342

2. Ping Huang, Jiabao Zhang*, Anning Zhu, Xiaopeng Li, Donghao Ma, Xiuli Xin, Congzhi Zhang, Shengjun Wu, Gina Garland, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira. Nitrate accumulation and leaching potential reduced by coupled water and nitrogen management in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain. Science of the Total Environment, 2018, 610: 1020-1028

3. Kai Zhu, Maohua Ma, Yiguo Ran, Zhimei Liu, Shengjun Wu*, Ping Huang*. In mitigating CO2 emission in the reservoir riparian: The influences of land use and the dam-triggered flooding on soil respiration. Soil & Tillage Research, 2020, 197, 104522

4. Yan Liu, Maohua Ma*, Yiguo Ran, Xuemei Yi, Shengjun Wu, Ping Huang*. Disentangling the effects of edaphic and vegetational properties on soil aggregate stability in riparian zones along a gradient of flooding stress. Geoderma, 2021, 385, 114883

Yiguo Ran, Kai Zhu, Shengjun Wu, Yue Zhou, Wenjuan Li, Maohua Ma*, Ping Huang*. Conservative agriculture facilitates soil carbon, nitrogen accumulation, and aggregate stabilization under periodic flooding regimes. CATENA, 2022, 209, 105783