Biography

Dr. Fengfeng Zheng is mainly engaged in the research of biogeochemistry. His research interests are to study the structure, biological sources, and distribution characteristics of microbial ether lipids in soil, ocean and other environments by combining high-resolution mass spectrometry, compound-specific isotope analysis and high-throughput sequencing.

Educational Background

2012/9-2018/9, Ph.D. in Marine biology, Tongji University

2009/9-2012/6, M.S. in Geology, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

2005/9-2009/6, B.S. in Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University

Professional Experience

2018/12 to 2021/07, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology 

2021/08 to present, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology

Publications

1. Fengfeng Zheng; Yufei Chen; Wei Xie; Songze Chen; Haodong Liu; Tommy J Phelps; Chuanlun Zhang*; Diverse biological sources of core and intact polar isoprenoid GDGTs in terrace soils from southwest of China: Implications for their use as environmental proxies, Chemical Geology, 2019, 522: 108-120.

2. Fengfeng Zheng#; Yufei Chen #; Xiaotong Tang; Jianqiang Su; Yongguan Zhu; Chuanlun Zhang*; Changes in archaeal ether lipid composition in response to agriculture alternation in ancient and modern paddy soils, Organic Geochemistry, 2019, 138: 103912.

3. Zheng Fengfeng, Chen Yufei, Wang Yongli, Hong Yiguo, Liu Weiguo, Zhang Chuanlun; Influence of seasonal temperature variation and pH disparity on bGDGTs thermometers in soils (In Chinese), Earth Science, 2018, (S1): 71-83.

4. Yufei Chen; Fengfeng Zheng; Songze Chen; Haodong Liu; Tommy J Phelps; Chuanlun Zhang*; Branched GDGT production at elevated temperatures in anaerobic soil microcosm incubations, Organic Geochemistry, 2018, 117: 12-21.

5. Zheng FengFeng; Zhang ChuanLun*; Chen YuFei; Li FuYan; Ma CenLing; Pu Yang; Zhu YuanQing; Wang YongLi; Liu WeiGuo; Branched tetraether lipids in Chinese soils: Evaluating the fidelity of MBT/CBT proxies as paleoenvironmental proxies, Science China Earth Sciences, 2016, 59(7): 1353-1367.

6. Zhang, C. L., J. Wang, J. A. Dodsworth, A. J. Williams, C. Zhu, K. U. Hinrichs, Fengfeng Zheng and B. P. Hedlund. In situ production of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in a great basin hot spring (USA). Frontiers in Microbiology, 2013, 4: 181.

7. Huan Yang, Fengfeng Zheng, Wenjie Xiao and Shucheng Xie. Distinct distribution revealing multiple bacterial sources for 1-O-monoalkylglycerol ethers in terrestrial and lake environments. Science China Earth Sciences, 2014, doi: 10.1007/s11430-014-5016-z.

8. Yufei Chen, Chuanlun Zhang, Jia Chengling, Fengfeng Zheng, & Chun Zhu, Tracking the signals of living archaea: A multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) method for detection of trace amounts of intact polar lipids from the natural environment. Organic Geochemistry, 2016, 97: 1-4.

9. Xueying Li, Fengfeng Zheng, Yufei Chen, Wenting Guo, Tingting Zhang, Anyi Hu, Changping Yu & Chuanlun Zhang. The spatial distribution of archaeal lipids in a mesoscale subtropical watershed, Southeast China. Science China Earth Sciences, 2016, 59 (7): 1317-1328.

10. Jiayi Lu, Huan Yang, Fengfeng Zheng, Xinyue Dang, Yang Li and Shucheng Xie. Contrasting distributions of bacterial branched tetraethers along a soil-river-lake transect in the arid region of Northwestern China. Geochemical Journal, 2016, 50 (3): 249-265.

11. Fuyan Li, Fengfeng Zheng, Yongli Wang, Weiguo Liu, Chuanlun Zhang. Thermoplasmatales and methanogens: Potential association with the Cren production in Chinese soils. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017, 8:1200