Dr. ZHANG Li

Dr. ZHANG Li 張莉

Assistant Lecturer

Room 342, 3/F, Science Centre North Block
3943 5495
Dr. ZHANG Li

Education

2019 Ph.D. Geomicrobiology Miami University
2012 B.S. Geology Peking University

Academic Employments

2023 – present Assistant Lecturer, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2019 – 2022 Research Affiliate (Bioinformatician), Illinois Sustainable Technology Center

Research Fields and Current Research Interests

  • Impact of environmental factors such as salinity on microbial communities
  • Mineral-microbe-metal(iron) interactions
  • Microbial remediation of nitrate
  • Nitrogen biogeochemical cycling

Honours and Awards

2018 Student Oral Presentation Award (top six), 55th Annual International Meeting of the Clay Minerals Society
2015 Ph.D. Dissertation Scholarship for the outstanding doctoral student, Miami University

Teaching

Current

EESC1001 Exploring Earth and Environmental Sciences

EESC1009 Introductory Practical Course in Earth and Environmental Sciences

EESC2110 Geoscience Field Study

EESC2270 Introduction to Environmental Science

EESC3330 Biogeochemistry

EESC3510 Environmental Microbiology

EESC4510 Statistical Methods

College Affiliation in CUHK

Chung Chi College

Selected Recent Publications

  1. Zhao, L., Shao, H., Zhang, L., Panno, S.V., Kelly, W.R., Lin, T.Y., Liu, W.T., Flynn, T.M. and Berger, P. (2022). Impact of salinity origin on microbial communities in saline springs within the Illinois Basin, USA. Environmental Microbiology, 24(12), 6112-6127. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16241
  2. Dong H., Huang L., Zhao L., Zeng Q., Liu X., Sheng Y., Shi L., Wu G., Jiang H., Li F., Zhang L., Guo D., Li G., Hou W. and Chen H. (2022). A critical review of mineral–microbe interaction and co-evolution: mechanisms and applications. National science review, 9(10), nwac128. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwac128
  3. Zhang L., Dong H., Kukkadapu R. K., Jin Q. and Kovarik L. (2019) Electron transfer between sorbed Fe(II) and structural Fe(III) in smectites and its effect on nitrate-dependent iron oxidation by Pseudogulbenkiania sp. strain 2002. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 265, 132–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.08.042

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