Zengyu Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate professor
Email:zengyu.zhang@qq.com;zhang.z@cqu.edu.cn
Address: College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University,
Chongqing, 400045, China.
1.Research interest
My research interests are on biogeophysics and hydrogeophyscis. including 2 aspects:
[1] Transport and transformation of materials in soils under hydrological effects.
[2]Application of geo-electrical methods on soil and groundwater processes.
Keywords:Vadose zone, Groundwater, Geo-electrical methods.
2.Education
●2016.11 - 2020.10, PhD in Environmental Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
Advisor: Dr. Alex Furman.
●2013.09 - 2016.06, M. Sc. in Municipal Engineering, Chongqing University, China.
Advisor: Prof. Chun Yang & Prof. Zhe Li.
●2009.09 - 2013.06, B. Sc. in Water Science & Engineering, Chongqing University, China.
3.Professional experience
●2023.04 - , Associate Professor,College of Environment and Ecology, Chongqing University
●2020.11 - 2022.11, Postdoc, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Advisor: Dr. Moshe Shenker & Dr. Yona Chen.
4.Research grants
PI
●2025.01 - 2027.12, Brain-Gain Plan of New Chongqing - Young Elite Program,￥500K.
●2024.01 - 2026.12, National Natural Science Foundation Project - Youth Science Foundation Project (42307071),
Studying key processes mechanisms of nanoparticle transport in the vadose zone based on a high spatiotemporal
resolution identification method,￥300K.
●2024.01 - 2026.12, Chongqing Human Resources and Social Security Bureau Project - Returning Overseas Chinese
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Program (the 2ndlevel, cx2023023), The study of identifying and predicting
the performance evolution of permeable reaction barriers based on the spectral induced polarization method,
￥80K.
●2023.04 - 2026.04, Research start-up funding in Chongqing University,￥200K.
Main participant
●2023.06 - 2024.05, Fundamental research funds for the top Chinese universities,￥1.05M.
●2020.12 - 2022.11, Nano and tiny particlefertilizers: modifications and development,₪465K.ICL Group Ltd..
●2018.09 - 2021.12, Increasing water availability through agricultural groundwater recharge, $72K.
The U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD, IS-5125-18).
●2017.09 - 2020.12, The German-Israeli Water Technology Cooperation Program:
Improved degradation and enhanced infiltration rates in SAT by hydraulic manipulation,€113K.
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF;02WIL1451A)
and the Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (MOST;WT1601/2689).
●2015.03 - 2017.09, Non-invasive, non-destructive monitoring of vadose zone processes, $20K.
The Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman Foundation (Technion - University of Waterloo collaboration).
5.Publications
ResearchGate:www.researchgate.net/profile/Zengyu_Zhang
GoogleScholar:https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?user=SDrD-bQAAAAJ&hl=en
ORCID:0000-0002-2159-9329
*Corresponding author
English paper
●Zengyu Zhang*, Anniet Laverman, Adrian Mellage,AlexFurman*.
Microbial community structure and function in a sandy soil column under dynamic hydrologic regimes.Journal of Hydrology, 2024.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131797.
●Zengyu Zhang, Yona Chen, Daniel Mandler, Moshe Shenker*.
Transport of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles coated with polyacrylic acid under unsaturated water flow in soil columns. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2023, 69(2): 124-136.doi.org/10.1080/00380768.2022.2163457.
●Zengyu Zhang*, Alex Furman*.
Statistical analysis for biogeochemical processes in a sandy column with dynamic hydrologic regimes using spectral induced polarization (SIP) and self-potential (SP). Geophysical Journal International, 2023, 233(1): 564-585.doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac452.
●Zengyu Zhang*, Alex Furman.
Redox dynamics at a dynamic capillary fringe for nitrogen cycling in a sandy column. Journal of Hydrology, 2021, 603: 126899.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126899.
●Zengyu Zhang, Alex Furman*.
Soil redox dynamics under dynamic hydrologic regimes - A review. Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 763: 143026.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143026.
●Zhe Li*,Zengyu Zhang, Jinsong Guo, Anbang Wen, Fang Fang.
Soil-air greenhouse gas fluxes influenced by farming practice in reservoir drawdown area: a case at the Three Gorges Reservoir in China. Journal of Environmental Management, 2016, 181: 64-73.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.05.080.
●Zhe Li*,Zengyu Zhang, Yan Xiao, Jinsong Guo, Shengjun Wu, Jing Liu.
Spatio-temporal variations of carbon dioxide and its gross emission regulated by artificial operation in a typical hydropower reservoir in China. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2014, 186: 3023-3039.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-013-3598-0.
●Zhe Li*, Lunhui Lu, Pingyu Lv,Zengyu Zhang, Jinsong Guo.
Imbalanced stoichiometric reservoir sedimentation regulates methane accumulation in China's Three Gorges Reservoir. Water Resources Research, 2020, 56(9): e2019WR026447.doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026447.
●Yang Huang, Lindsey MW Yasarer, Zhe Li*, Belinda SM Sturm,Zengyu Zhang, Jinsong Guo, Yu Shen.
Air-water CO2and CH4emissions along a river-reservoir continuum: a case study in the Pengxi River, a tributary of the Yangtze River in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2017, 189: 223.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-5926-2.
Chinese paper
●Zengyu Zhang, Zhe Li*, Fang Fang, Jinsong Guo, Hongtao Gao, Jing Feng, Jing Liu.
Preliminarystudy of N2O emission and denitrification at early exposure period in Pengxi River drawdown area, Three Gorges Reservoir. Journal of Lake Sciences, 2014, 26(6), 923-930.doi.org/10.18307/2014.0615.
●Zhe Li*,Zengyu Zhang, Zhonghua Yang, Jinsong Guo, Jing Liu, Dan Li, Yan Xiao.
Effects of water velocity on the change of algae in situ growth rate in Pengxi River backwater zone,
Three Gorges Reservoir. Journal of Lake Sciences, 2015, 27(5), 880-886.doi.org/10.18307/2015.0514.
●Fang Fang*, Hongtao Gao,Zengyu Zhang, Zhiwei Sun, Zhe Li, Jinsong Guo.
The influencing factors of N2O emission and denitrification in the soil of water-level-fluctuation zone in the
Three Gorges Reservoir area. Journal of Chongqing University, 2013, 36(11), 93-100.doi.org/10.11835/j.issn.1000-582X.2013.11.015.
●Jing Feng, Zhe Li*, Bin Yan, Liping Zhang, Jinsong Guo, Fang Fang,Zengyu Zhang.
In situ growth rate of dominant algae species in Pengxi River of the Three Gorges Reservoir.
Journal of Lake Sciences, 2014, 26(2), 235-242.doi.org/10.18307/2014.0210.
Patent
●Zhe Li,Zengyu Zhang, Xiao Yao, Yan Xiao, Jinsong Guo, Fang Fang.
A modified sediment trap used in turbulent flow. Invention patent number: CN2014203563969.
6.Award and Honors
●2023.10, The high-level talent in Chongqing, China.
●2016.11 - 2020.10, The China Scholarship Council - Technion Joint Scholarship.
●2012.03, Meritorious Prize in Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, the U.S.
Administeredby the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Application & National Security Agency, the U.S.
7. Presentations
●2019.12, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2019. San Francisco, the U.S.. Oral presentation.
Non-invasive geo-electrical monitoring of nitrogen transformation processes across a dynamic capillary fringe. H13A-07.https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AGUFM.H13A..07Z/abstract.
●2019.04, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2019. Vienna, Austria. Poster.
Non-invasive geo-electrical monitoring of nitrogen transformation processes across a dynamic capillary fringe. EGU2019-207.https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/EGU2019-207.pdf.
