About Yongcun Zhao’s work
From September 2013 to March 2014, Yongcun Zhao held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Institute of Education. At the time, Zhao was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Zhao Yongcun received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Shenyang Agricultural University in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and his Ph.D. from Nanjing Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. Since graduation, he has been working in the Nanjing Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include quantitative soil science, which mainly includes spatial variability, multi-scale decomposition, optimal sampling design and digital mapping of soil organic carbon and heavy metals, dynamic simulation of soil organic carbon in farmland, and estimation of soil carbon sequestration potential and uncertainty evaluation of soil organic carbon. He has carried out academic exchanges in Germany, the United States, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries. He won the 2005 President Excellence Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the 2006 Jiangsu Province Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation.