Shuqing Zhao
Shuqing Zhao is a broadly-trained forest ecosystem ecologist with a strong background and research experiences in forest ecosystems in Asia and North America. She graduated from the Institute of Applied Ecology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences with a MS degree in forest ecology (thesis on symbiotic nitrogen fixation) in 1999, and Peking University with PhD degree in ecology (dissertation on land use change and the ecological consequences) in 2002. She is interested in many fields related to forest ecology, from land use change, biodiversity, to biogeochemical cycles of water, energy, carbon, and nitrogen, and has produced over 20 papers in international journals. Before being hired by Peking University as a BAIREN Professor in Ecology in 2009, she had spent a few years in North America studying the rates, spatial and temporal patterns, and ecological consequences of landscape changes, and how ecological processes can be scaled from plot to regional levels. At present, she is studying the impacts of reforestation and afforestation on carbon sequestration, and the rates and ecological consequences of urbanization on forestry in China using field measurements, remote sensing and model simulations.