2020.01-present: Associate Professor, Institute of urban environment, CAS

Professor, Institute of urban environment, CAS

2008.04-014.12: Research assistant, Institute of urban environment, CAS

[1]Youchi Zhang, Shuang Liu, Shanna Lin, Brian J. Reid, Frédéric Coulon, Chao Cai*. Field verification of low-level biochar applications as effective ameliorants to mitigate cadmium accumulation into Brassica campestris L from polluted soils, Frontiers in Environmental Science. 2023, 1114335

[2]Huang S, Xiao LS, Zhang YC, Wang L, Tang LN*. Interactive effects of natural and anthropogenic factors on heterogenetic accumulations of heavy metals in surface soils through geodetector analysis, Science of the Total Environment. 2021, 789, 147937

[3]Chi H.F., Hou Y.W., Li G.F., Zhang Y.C., Coulon F., Cai C*. In vitro model insights into the role of human gut microbiota on arsenic bioaccessibility and its speciation in soils. Environmental Pollution. 2020, 263: 114580

[4]Jiajun Fan, Chao Cai, Haifeng Chi, Brian J Reid, Frédéric Coulon, Youchi Zhang *, Yanwei* Hou. Remediation of cadmium and lead polluted soil using thiol-modified biochar. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 388

[5]Haifeng Chi, Youchi Zhang, Paul N. Williams, Shanna Lin, Yanwei Hou, Chao Cai. In vitro model to assess arsenic bioaccessibility and speciation in cooked shrimp. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2018, 66(18): 4710-4715

[6]Bijing Xiong, Youchi Zhang, Yanwei Hou, Hans Peter H. Arp, Brain J Reid, Chao Cai？. Enhanced biodegradation of PAHs in historically contaminated soil by M. gilvum inoculated biochar. Chemosphere, 2017, 182: 316-324.

[7]Youchi Zhang, Jiajun Fan, Minglai Fu, Yong sik Ok, Yanwei Hou, Chao Cai. Adsorption antagonism and synergy of arsenate (V) and cadmium (II) onto Fe-modified rice straw biochars. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2019, 41: 1755-1766.

[8]Youchi Zhang#, Tingting Chen#, Yongkai Liao, Brian J. Reid, Haifeng Chi, Yanwei Hou, Chao Cai*. Modest Amendment of Sewage Sludge Biochar to Reduce the Accumulation of Cadmium into Rice(Oryza sativa L.): A Field Study, Environmental Pollution, 2016, 216: 819-825

[9]Youchi Zhang*, Huidan Li. Biological Reduction of Hydrogel Encapsulated Fe(III) by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1: Incubation Experiment and Kinetic Modeling. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 2016, 25(2): 1-8

Development and integrated demonstration of comprehensive control and re-utilization techniques of the contaminated soils of non-ferrous metal metallurgy in central China, supporting by the National Science and Technology Major Project, 2018-2023 Study on the remediation of heavy metal pollution of soil with biochar-Phosphate composites, supporting by the Science and Technology Project of Xiamen city, 2018-2021

Study on the remediation of soil contamination and demonstration of ecological reconstrucation in shale gas mining zone, supporting by the National Science and Technology Major Project, 2016-2020

Study on the recovery of nutrient from biogas slurry with sewage sludge biochar, supporting by program of international S&T Cooperation of the National Key R&D Project, 2016-2019

Study on influence mechanism of biochar on the dissimilatory biological dissolution of metal minerals in mining soils, supporting by Natural Science Foundation of China, 2014-2016