Dr. Zuo Qiang, Professor 

Prof. Zuo was born in Hubei, China on August 4, 1965.

Postal address: College of Resources and Environment, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, P. R. China.

Tel.: 86-10-6289 2504;  Fax: 86-10-6263 3596.

E-mail: qiangzuo@cau.edu.cn 

1. Education & Visiting Experiences :

　　1982.09-1986.07 Dept. of Geology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.  Major: Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology.  Graduated in July, 1986, B. Sc. in Geology

　　1986.09-1991.10 Dept. of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Wuhan Univ. of  Hydraulic and Electric Engineering (WUHEE), Wuhan, China.  Major: Irrigation and Drainage Engineering.  Graduated in Oct., 1991, Ph. D. in Engineering

　　1991.11-1993.10 Institute of Agricultural Water Management, Beijing Agricultural  Univ. (now renamed as China Agricultural Univ., CAU), Beijing, China.  Major: Soil Physics.  Status: a postdoctoral researcher

　　1995.10-1996.04 Visited Soil and Water Research Inst., Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt.

　　2003.01 Visited French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France

　　2004.11 Visited Dept. of Renewable Resources, College of Agriculture, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA

　　2009.10 Visited Copenhagen University and Aarhus University, Denmark

2. Employment:

　　1993-  Dept. of  Soil and Water Sciences, College of Resources and Environment, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

　　           Position: associate professor (1993-2001), professor (2001-present)

　　1997-2001 Head of Ecological and Agricultural Water-saving Experimental Station in Dengkou, Inner Mongolia, College of Resources and Environment, China Agricultural University, Dengkou, Inner Mongolia, China

　　2000-2003 Head of Agricultural Water Management Institute, College of Resources and Environment, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

　　2003-2005 Program Director of Water Resources Science, Dept. of Engineering and Material Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Beijing, China

　　2009.11-12 Irrigation and Water Management Specialist (TCDC Expert) for promoting agricultural growth and sustainable food security in Timor-Leste, invited by FAO, UN

3. Interests: dynamics of fluids transport in porous media; irrigation and drainage engineering; soil physics.

4. Recent Research Grants (2010-  ):

　　(1) 2007-2010 took part in a Key Program project “The transformation, transport and control of nitrogen and phosphorous in irrigated farmland”, which was sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, 50639040).

　　(2) 2007-2011 took part in a National Key Basic Research Special Funds program "Farmland water cycling and efficient water use in agriculture in Haihe river basin", which was sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, P. R. China (2006CB403406)

　　(3) 2008-2010 took charge of a General Program project “Root water-nitrogen uptake of winter wheat under salinity stress and their effects on water and saline transport in soils”, which was sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, 50779065).

　　(4) 2009-2013 took part in a Special Fund for Agro-Scientific Research in the Public Interest program "Research and demonstration of coordinated technological models on effective and safe agriculture in using the saline or alkaline lands in Northern Xinjiang", which was sponsored by Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Finance, P. R. China (200903001-3)

　　(5) 2012-2015 taking part in a General Program project “Dynamics of soil water and salt under the conditions of elutriation and draining salt using subsurface pipes in the cotton field with drip irrigation in the saline-alkali soils of Xinjiang”, which was sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, 41171185).

　　(6) 2012-2016 taking charge of a Key Program project “Effects and mechanisms of ground cover rice production system (GCRPS) for saving water, preventing nitrogen pollution and reducing emissions of greenhouse gases”, which was sponsored by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, 51139006).

5. Recent Peer-reviewed Publications (2010-  ):

　　(1) Zhu, X., Q. Zuo and J. Shi, 2010, Analyzing soil soluble phosphorus transport with root-phosphorus-uptake applying an inverse method. Agricultural Water Management, 97（2）: 291–299.

　　(2) Zhu, X., Q. Zuo and J. Shi，2010，Validation of the inverse method for estimating average root-phosphorus-uptake rate and its application to soil column experiment with winter wheat seedlings，ACTA Pedologica Sinica，47（5）：913-922 (in Chinese with English abstract).

　　(3) Wang, L., J. Shi, Q. Zuo and X. Zhu，2011，Establishing and validating the root water uptake model of winter wheat under salt stress conditions，Transactions of the CSAE，27（1）：112-117 (in Chinese with English abstract).

　　(4) Shi, J., S. Wang and Q. Zuo，2011，Simulating soil water dynamics in a soil-winter wheat system based on the root nitrogen mass density distribution, Journal of Nanjing University (Natural Sciences)，47（3）：308-317 (in Chinese with English abstract).

　　(5) Wang, L., J. Shi, Q. Zuo, W. Zheng and X. Zhu, 2012, Optimizing parameters of salinity stress reduction function using the relationship between root-water-uptake and root nitrogen mass of winter wheat, Agricultural Water Management, 104（2）: 142-152.

　　(6) Li, X., J. Shi and Q. Zuo，2012，Problems and improvements of plastic mulched drip irrigation for cotton plantation in Xinjiang --- Feasibility of application for combining double degradable films mulch with subsurface drip irrigation，Agricultural Engineering，2（10）：29-35 (in Chinese with English abstract).

　　(7) Shi, J., A. Ben-Gal, U. Yermiyahu, L. Wang and Q. Zuo, 2013, Characterizing root nitrogen uptake of wheat to simulate soil nitrogen dynamics, Plant and Soil, 363(1-2): 139-155.

　　(8) Zuo, Q., R. Zhang and J. Shi, 2013, Characterization of the root length density distribution of wheat using a generalized function. In: “Enhancing understanding and quantification of soil-root growth interactions”, Edited by D. Timlin and L. R. Ahuja L.  American Society of Agronomy Publisher, pp. 93-117.

　　(9) Liu, M.，S. Lin, M. Dannenmann, Y. Tao, G. Saiz, Q. Zuo, S. Sippel, J. Wei, J. Cao, X. Cai, K. Butterbach-Bahl，2013, Do water-saving ground cover rice production systems increase grain yields at regional scales? Field Crops Research, 150:19-28.

　　(10) Ning, S., Q. Zuo, J. Shi, S. Wang, Z. Liu, 2013, Water use efficiency and benefit for typical planting modes of drip-irrigated cotton under film in Xinjiang, Transactions of the CSAE, 29(22): 90-99 (in Chinese with English abstract).