I am a postdoctoral research associate at Nanjing Agricultural University. Currently, I am working with Dr. Shuijin Hu on Loess Plateau grassland. I received my PhD degree in soil ecology at North Carolina State University in 2017 and my Master's degree in ecology from Zhejiang University in 2013. My research interests include climate change, soil microbial ecology, plant-soil microbial interactions, ecosystem C sequestration and nutrient cycling, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.