1.Education:

1992-1995: Ph.D in Soil Science, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISSCAS), Nanjing, CHINA.

1989-1992: M.S in Soil Science, ISSCAS, Nanjing, CHINA.

1985-1989: B.S in Soil Chemistry and Plant Nutrient, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, CHINA.

2. Employment:

March 2004-present: (Professor) Ecological Experimental Station of Red Soil, ISSCAS.

December 1999 –February 2004: (Associate Professor) Soil Sub-Center, Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN), ISSCAS.

March 1999-February 2000: (Rothamsted International Fellow) Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, United Kingdom.

February 1995-January 1996: (Post Doctor) Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Montpellier, France.

August 1992-February 1998: (Research Associate and Assistant researcher) Ecological Experimental Station of Red Soil, ISSCAS, Nanjing, China.

3. Research interest

Key coordinative mechanisms in soil-root-microbe systems to improve nitrogen and phosphorus utilization

Carbon and nitrogen cycling in agro-ecosystems and its optimized management along the climatic transects

Soil degradation and ecological rehabilitation to improve the sustainability of grain production systems

4. Main achievements

His research field is soil nutrient cycling and soil quality evolution in agro-ecosystem from filed to regional scale. He is the principal investigator of the National Key R&D Program “Mechanisms for arable land quality to affect nutrient utilization of chemical fertilizers and their regulation”, and the key project of NSFC “Study on the metabolic theory of ecology driving the formation of soil microbial diversity”.

He has co-authored 70 international peer-reviewed academic papers (indexed by Science Citation Index), 150 papers in Chinese (indexed by Chinese Science Citation Database), 5 monographs and 3 national standards. He was awarded a second-class prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2004 and 2011, respectively.

The main results include: evolution mechanisms of red soil fertility and the countermeasures for red soil degradation, the mechanism of nutrient cycling and balance in farmland and the countermeasures for agricultural non-point source pollution in China, the long-term soil observation standard of Chinese ecosystem. In view of the degradation of acidic red soil (10 million ha) in southern China, the theory and technical model for construction of fertile arable layer were established based on the synergetic improvement of nutrient storage capacity and biological function of soil macroaggregate.

[1] Chen L, Jiang Y*, Liang C, Luo Y, Xu Q, Han C, Zhao Q, Sun B*. Competitive interaction with keystone taxa induced negative priming under biochar amendments. Microbiome, 2019, doi: 10.1186/s40168-019-0693-7

[2] Chen Y, Bonkowski M, Shen Y, Griffiths BS, Jiang Y, Wang X, Sun B*. Root ethylene mediates rhizosphere microbial community reconstruction when chemically detecting cyanide produced by neighbouring plants. Microbiome, 2020.

[3]Jiang Y, Liu M, Zhang J, Chen Y, Chen X, Chen L, Li H, Zhang X-X*, Sun B*,. Nematode grazing promotes bacterial community dynamics in soil at the aggregate level. The ISME Journal, 2017, 11(12): 2705-2717.

[4] Liang Y, Jiang Y, Wang F, Wen C, Deng Y, Xue K, Qin Y, Yang Y, Wu L, Zhou J*, Sun B*. Long-term soil transplant simulating climate change with latitude significantly alters microbial temporal turnover. The ISME Journal, 2015, 9: 2561–2572.

[5] Jiang Y, Liang Y, Li C, Wang F, Sui Y, Suvannang N, Zhou J, Sun B*. Crop rotations alter bacterial and fungal diversity in paddy soils across East Asia. Soil Biology and Biochemsitry, 2016, 95: 250-261.) (SCI)

[6] Wang X, Sun B*, Mao J, Sui Y, Cao X. Structural convergence of maize and wheat straw during two-year decomposition under different climate conditions. Environmental Science and Technology, 2012, 46(13): 7159-7165.

[7]2007.Sun B. Control and Ecological Rehabilitation of Red Soil Degredation, Beijing: Science Press of China, 2011(in Chinese).

[8]Yang L Z, Sun B. Cycling, Balance and Management of Nutrients in Agro-ecosystems in China. Beijing: Science Press of China, 2008(in Chinese).

[9]He YQ, Sun B. Evolvement and Regulate and Control of Red Soil Quality. Beijing: Science Press of China, 2008(in Chinese).

[10]Sun B, Shi JP, Yang LZ. Standard Protocol and Methods for Soil Long Term Observation in Terrestrial Ecosystem. Beijing: China Environmental Science Press. 2007(in Chinese).

Vice President of the Plant Nutrition and Fertilizer Science Society of China (2016-present)

Member of Soil Science Society of ChinaHead Member (2016- present)

Executive Member of Soil Science Society of Jiangsu Province(2016-present)