LOICZ Regional Node East Asia

Prof. Yongming Luo is the director of the East Asia Node, Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ), and the executive vice director of Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (YICCAS). He obtained his PhD degree in soil chemistry at the Queen’s University of Belfast in the UK in 1997. Since 1998 he has been a professor of the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing. He was also appointed as a professor at the Zhejiang University in 2000. During the period from 2008 to 2011, he was also the director of the Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Chinese Academy of Science. Dr. Yongming Luo was appointed as a vice director and professor at YICCAS in February 2011 and the executive vice director in November 2011.
Research interests of Dr. Yongming Luo mainly focus on soil chemistry, soil pollution and remediation, regional soil environmental quality and risk management. He has more than 20 years of experience in fundamental and applied researches in the areas of soil chemistry and remediation sciences with more than 300 (co-)authored scientific papers and 10 book chapters and books. He has also obtained 9 patents in China. In the last decade, Dr. Yongming Luo has headed more than 20 large (inter)national multidisciplinary research projects which includes 4 projects of international cooperation with the UK, the Netherland, Australia and Japan funded by Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). He was awarded the “National Outstanding Young Scientist” by NSFC in 2001, and rated one of the “100 Outstanding Young Scientists” by CAS in 2000. Furthermore, Dr. Yongming Luo holds several important academic positions in soil environment and pollution remediation. He is the chief-scientist of National High-tech Research and Development Projects (863) of the MOST, the expert group member of the Geoscience Division in the NSFC, member of the Committee of Ecological and Environmental Science and Technology of the CAS, member of ICOBTE, member of the International Society of Phytotechnology, general-secretary of the Global Soil Remediation Network-Asian Centre. He is also the associated editor of Soil (a Chinese journal) and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Phytoremediation and of the Chinese Science Bulletin. Besides, he used to be the chief-scientist of State Major Basic Research and Development Program (973) of the MOST, consultant member and deputy group leader for the National Soil Contamination Survey of Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, expert group member of “863” projects in the field of Resource and Environment of MOST, chairman of Soil Environment Committee, Chinese Society of Soil Science.

Dr. Jianhui Tang is the coordinator and deputy director of East Asia Node, LOICZ. He obtained his PhD degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2007, and MSc degree from Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2003. He works as environmental geochemist in Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, CAS, since April of 2007. His research interests focus on 1) distribution and sources of legacy and emerging organic contaminants in the coastal environment; 2) transport, flux and fate of contaminants from the terrestrial sources to the coastal and oceanic environment.

Ms. Chengfei Ying now works as a secretary of LOICZ East Asia Node, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, mainly assisting in handling the general affairs of the office. She obtained her M.A. degree in English Language and Literature at Nanjing Normal University in China in 2007. During the period from 2007 to 2012, she has worked as a Lecturer in English Teaching at Zhejiang Agricultural & Forestry University in Hangzhou. She is a member of the Translators Association of Zhejiang Province. While in 2011-2012, she has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, Texas A&M University in America. Her research interests mainly focus on 1) Translation Theories and Practice; 2) ESL education. She has been involved in some projects in these fields and published many articles and one book in English. Furthermore, Ms. Chengfei Ying is also interested in English Public Speaking. She has tutored many students and coached some of them to win prizes in various competitions.