"Yuxiu Resource and Environment · Chinese and Foreign Lectures" Series
Spring Semester 2026 Schedule
Venue: B105, Qinling Hall
Reporter: Youth Researcher, Zhang Kai
Time: 16:30-17:30, April 23, 2026 (Thursday)
Title: Sharing of Overseas Study and Work Experience
Reporter Profile:
Zhang Kai is a Youth Researcher at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University. He received his Ph.D. in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems from Nanjing Normal University. During his doctoral studies, he was sponsored by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to conduct joint research at Mälardalen University, Sweden (2022). He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2024–2025). His main research interests include spatial distribution modeling of solar radiation, urban photovoltaic potential assessment, and geographic artificial intelligence (GeoAI). In recent years, he has published five first-author papers in TOP-tier journals in SCI Zone 1. He has also co-authored 18 SCI papers in high-impact international journals such as Nature Communications, Science Bulletin, and Scientific Data. He has led one graduate research innovation project funded by Jiangsu Province. Currently, he serves as the Secretary of the Young Geographers Working Group of the Asian Geographical Association and has been invited to serve as a reviewer for journals including Information Geography and Springer Nature Computer Science.
Reporter: Assoc. Prof. Peng Tingjiang
Time: 16:30-17:30, May 7, 2026 (Thursday)
Title: From 36°N to 51°N: Visiting the UK for Academic Exchange
Reporter Profile:
Peng Tingjiang is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University. He graduated from the Geography Base Class of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University in 2007, and received his Ph.D. in Physical Geography from Lanzhou University in 2012. He served as a Lecturer at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University from 2013 to 2019, and has been an Associate Professor at the same school since 2019. From September 2024 to August 2025, he was a visiting scholar at the Organic Geochemistry Unit, University of Bristol, UK. His research focuses on the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its eco-environmental effects, as well as biogeochemistry. Using Cenozoic basin sediments, Quaternary loess, and stratified landforms on the northeastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau as research archives, he employs biomarkers to quantitatively reconstruct the paleotemperature and paleoclimate history of the region since the Neogene, providing biogeochemical evidence for interpreting tectonic–climate–ecological coupling. He has published 20 papers as first or corresponding author in journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Chemical Geology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, and Geomorphology. He has led Youth and General projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and participates in key NSFC projects, the Second Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition, and the Academic Growth Collection Project of Senior Scientists.
Reporter: Assoc. Prof. Wang Xiaohui
Time: 16:30-17:30, May 21, 2026 (Thursday)
Title: The Golden Path and Plain Hard Work
Reporter Profile:
Wang Xiaohui is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Public Health, Lanzhou University. She serves as the Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University. She received her Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University (USA), the University of California, Los Angeles (USA), and the University of Sydney (Australia). She previously served as a consultant to the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific of the World Health Organization (WHO). She is currently the Deputy Chair of the Public Health Specialty Committee of the STAR (Scientificity, Transparency, Applicability, and Ranking) Working Group, and a member of the Primary Medical Education Professional Committee of the Chinese Medicine Education Association. Her research focuses on evidence-based health policy and management, and health system research. She has led projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), provincial natural science foundations, and international collaborations. As a principal investigator or key member, she has led or participated in more than 10 projects, including international collaborative projects, National Key R&D Programs of China, and NSFC projects. She has published over 100 academic papers. She has supervised 27 master's students, including two international students.
Reporter: Prof. Xie Mingzheng
Time: 16:30-17:30, May 28, 2026 (Thursday)
Title: A University by the Red Sea: My "Bumps and Stumbles" During One Year at KAUST
Reporter Profile:
Xie Mingzheng is a Professor at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University. He received his Ph.D. from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2015. From 2022 to 2023, he was a visiting scholar at the Catalysis Center of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. His research focuses on the design of environmental functional materials and their applications in clean energy and environmental remediation. He has led projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC General and Youth Programs) and the Gansu Provincial Youth Science and Technology Talent Support Project, among others. He received the Second Prize of Gansu Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. He has published over 80 academic papers in journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, Nano-Micro Letters, and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, with an H‑index of 36. Since 2021, he has been responsible for organizing the Western China division of the National College Student Municipal Environmental AI+Innovation Practice Ability Competition.
Reporter: Prof. Liu Junzhi
Time: 16:30-17:30, June 4, 2026 (Thursday)
Title: Sharing of Study Experience in Switzerland
Reporter Profile:
Liu Junzhi is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Center for the Pan-Third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University. He has been selected as a Young Changjiang Scholar of the Ministry of Education, a Leading Talent of Gansu Province, and a Young Feitian Scholar of Gansu Province. He serves as Chair of the Early Career Scholars Committee of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Association (iEMSs) and Chair of the Education and Outreach Working Group of the Open Modeling Alliance (OpenMI). His research focuses on land surface process modeling. He has independently designed and developed the modular and parallelized watershed modeling framework SEIMS and the watershed carbon cycle model WISE. The parallel algorithms he proposed have been adopted by major domestic and international models such as the Grid-Xin'anjiang Model, LISFLOOD, and WEP-L. He has led projects including the Regional Joint Fund Key Project, General Project, and Youth Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He has published over 100 journal papers, including more than 50 as first or corresponding author, with a total citation count exceeding 7,000 (H‑index 35). He holds 11 authorized national invention patents and 10 software copyrights. He has received over 10 honors, including the First Prize of Natural Science of Gansu Province, the Second Prize of Natural Science of the Ministry of Education, the Special Prize for Geoinformation Science and Technology Progress, and one of the Top Ten Research Advances in Geographical Science of China.
Reporter: Assoc. Prof. Bi Jian
Time: 16:30-17:30, June 11, 2026 (Thursday)
Title: Resources, Environment, and the Future: My Studies and Explorations in the United States
Reporter Profile:
Bi Jian is an Associate Professor at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University. He received his Ph.D. in Geography (Remote Sensing) from Boston University, USA. After completing his Ph.D., he conducted postdoctoral research at NASA Ames Research Center and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he was deeply involved in multiple international collaborative projects in the fields of global change and ecosystem remote sensing. His research findings have been published in journals such as Nature, PNAS, and Environmental Research Letters, systematically investigating key scientific issues including the ecological response of the Amazon rainforest to extreme drought, global vegetation dynamics, and carbon cycle change mechanisms in semi-arid regions. This work has provided important evidence and methodological innovations for understanding changes in the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. His recent work has been published in journals such as Earth System Science Data and International Journal of Remote Sensing.
