"Yuxiu Resource and Environment · Chinese and Foreign Lectures" Series Fall Semester 2025 Schedule
Venue: B105, Qinling Hall
Reporter: Associate Professor Zhao Guanlan
Time: 14:30-15:30, September 25, 2025
Title: From Latin America to Europe: A Global Health Exploration Journey from a Regional and National Studies Perspective
Reporter Profile:
Zhao Guanlan (MD, MPH, Ph.D.), Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, and Master's supervisor. He holds a prestigious Cum-Laude doctoral degree from the University of Alicante, Spain, and has completed postdoctoral research at Zhejiang University and as a visiting scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is honored as a "Feitian Scholar" distinguished young professor in Gansu Province and has been selected for the Youth Talent Program of China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Think Tank. Professor Zhao is a principal investigator in numerous important research projects, including the National Social Science Fund Youth Project, Gansu Province Key R&D Program Program, CAST Annual Project, European and American Alumni Association Annual Projects, Spanish SDG Promotion Research Project, and "First-Class Discipline Partner Plan" of Lanzhou University, among others. Also, he participated in multiple international cooperation projects such as Save the Children. Additionally, he has published over 20 papers in top international journals and book chapters, with many of these articles appearing as first author or corresponding author. He has contributed to three textbooks, including the ninth edition of the national textbook for preventive medicine majors, widely used in Chinese universities. He holds various influential roles in national and international academic organizations, such as the Scientific Committee of Rural Health (ICOH), the International Society for Global Health (ISoGH), the Spanish Society of Epidemiology (SEE), and the Social Medicine Branch of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association. Within Lanzhou University, he is also the Secretary-General of the Health Management and Development Research Center and the Public Health Management Committee of the Gansu Provincial Preventive Medicine Association. Furthermore, he serves as a Youth Editorial Board Member for Global Health Research and Policy, Health Care Science, and Chinese General Practice.
Reporter: Professor Xia Huan
Time: 14:30-15:30, October 9, 2025
Title: My European Study Tour
Reporter Profile:
Xia Huan is a Professor at the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University. She was jointly trained at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark (2020.11-2022.08). Her primary research focuses on Paleolithic environmental archaeology on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. By introducing, optimizing, and developing emerging ancient protein methods, she achieved a series of breakthrough understandings in the study of prehistoric human activity history and survival strategies. She discovered Denisovan fossils dating back 42000 years ago, providing the latest record of Denisovan survival and offering the first empirical evidence of the spatio-temporal overlap between Denisovans and early modern humans in East Asia. Furthermore, she discovered the survival strategies of Denisovans on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, who utilized a broad spectrum of animal resources, and first revealed their adaptive strategies in the diverse and changing environments of eastern Eurasia during the late Middle to Late Pleistocene. As a primary author, she has published over 20 papers in leading journals such as Nature, Science, and Chinese Science Bulletin. Her research achievements have been recognized with awards such as the "Top Ten Advances in China's Geographical Science Research" in 2024 by the Geographical Society of China (as the primary contributor) and the "Top Ten Sci-tech Progress of Chinese Higher Education Institutions" in 2019 by the Ministry of Education (as the third contributor). She also serves as a Youth Editorial Board Member for Earth and Environmental Sciences for Chinese Science Bulletin & Science Bulletin and is a committee member of the Paleolithic Archaeology Committee of the Chinese Archaeological Society.
Reporter: Professor Zeng Huiying
Time: 14:30-15:30, October 16, 2025
Title: Insights and Reflections on Studying Abroad
Reporter Profile:
Zeng Huiying, a "Changjiang Young Scholar" recognized by the Ministry of Education, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, and State Key Laboratory of Natural Product Chemistry. He has been selected successively as a Gansu Provincial Leading Talent, and an expert in the "Curriculum Ideology and Politics" expert database of Xinhua Net. Additionally, he is a "Cuiying Scholar" at Lanzhou University, and he has won many awards, including the Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, the Gansu Province Young Teacher Achievement Award, a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian government, First Prize in the Northwest Division of the National College Student Chemistry Experiment Innovation Design Competition (Supervisor), Longji Teaching Core Award of Lanzhou University, Outstanding Student Ideological and Political Worker at Lanzhou University, and First Prize in Lanzhou University's "Curriculum Ideology and Politics" Lecture Competition. He has presided over one research project on higher science education of the China Association of Higher Education, one teaching reform project in higher education in Gansu Province, multiple school level teaching reforms, published multiple teaching papers, and one article in Gansu Daily. He primarily engages in research on green chemistry, and his findings have been published in top-tier journals such as Acc. Chem. Res., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., JACS, CCS Chem., ACS Catal., Chem. Sci., Green Chem., and Fundamental Res. His work has been highlighted by media outlets like Chem. Eng. News and Org. Chem. Portal. He currently serves on the youth editorial boards of Green Synthesis & Catalysis and Chinese Chemical Letters.
Reporter: Professor Zhang Junzhou
Time: 14:30-15:30, November 20, 2025
Title: Sharing My Two Study Experiences at Harvard University
Reporter Profile:
Zhang Junzhou is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University. His research interests focus on global environmental change and ecological responses, with particular emphasis on the growth dynamics of trees in cold and arid regions and the interaction between water-carbon supply relationships and climate factors. Professor Zhang is responsible for the construction, observation, and management of the Liancheng Field Station. In recent years, his research has clarified the growth dynamics of major conifer species in the Qilian Mountains and their physiological responses to climate factors. He has also explored the relationship between tree radial changes and trunk sap flow, providing insights into the climatic factors that limit tree water physiology over different time scales. Based on forest inventory data and area-based plot surveys, he clarified the dynamics of carbon density variation in Picea crassifolia (Qinghai spruce) forests in the Qilian Mountains, as well as the key influencing factors. Professor Zhang has successively led several research projects, including a General Program and a Young Scientists Fund Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), a China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (CPSF) project, and a sub-project under the Special Fund for Guiding Local Science and Technology Development. He has also participated as a key researcher in NSFC Joint Fund projects and the National Key R&D Program. Over the past five years, his total research funding has reached 3.05 million CNY. He has published 26 papers in prestigious journals such as Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Catena, Tree Physiology, Journal of Hydrology, and Acta Ecologica Sinica. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to scientific research, including the "Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award" from both Lanzhou University and Gansu Province. Professor Zhang has visited Harvard University twice for academic exchanges and has established long-term collaborative relationships with prestigious institutions such as Harvard University, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft, WSL), and University of Vermont.
Reporter: Young Researcher Zheng Guoxiong
Time: 14:30-15:30, December 4, 2025
Title: Sharing My Experience of Studying Abroad in Switzerland
Reporter Profile:
Dr. Zheng Guoxiong, a Young Researcher at the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, and a Master's supervisor, specializes in remote sensing of frozen-circle disasters and climate change. He has published more than 40 papers in leading academic journals such as Nature Climate Change and Science Bulletin. Dr. Zheng is currently leading multiple significant projects, including Young Scientists Fund Program and General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Special Sub-project of the National Key R&D Program. His exceptional research has earned him prestigious awards, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Special Award and provincial-level accolades such as the First Prize for Natural Science Award and Science and Technology Progress Award. Additionally, Dr. Zheng has been invited to serve as a reviewer for Nature and more than 30 other academic journals. He was also awarded funding from the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to undertake a two-year collaborative research program at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, from 2019 to 2021.
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
September 28, 2025
