Longfei Yu

Prof. Longfei Yu is the Principle Investigator of Nitrogen Biogeochemistry Group at Institute of Environment and Ecology, Tsinghua Shenzhen International School. He is the fellow of MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE Actions and the winner of the Guangdong Province Outstanding Youth Fund. In 2016, Longfei Yu received his PhD degree from Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), supervised by Prof. Jan Mulder (Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences). After that, he continued to work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Swiss Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), ETH-Domain.

His major research interest focuses on monitoring and modeling of terrestrial nitrous oxide emissions, nitrogen biogeochemical cycling as well as applications with stable isotope techniques. In recent years, he has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles at top journals including Nature Communications, Global Change Biology and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. He currently serves as committee member of Chinese Nitrogen Working Group, executive Editor-in-Chief for Agriculture Ecosystem & Environment, Editorial Board Member for Frontiers in Environmental Science, Youth Editorial Board Member for Carbon Research and Chinese Journal of Soil Sciences. He is also the reviewer of international top journals such as Nature Food、Nature Communications、Global Change Biology、Global Biogeochemical Cycles and so on.

2012.09-2016.11, Norwegian University of Life Science, Environmental Sciences, Ph.D.

2009.09-2012.07, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Environmental Sciences, M.S.

2005.09-2009.07, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Environmental Engineering, B.E.

2022.03-presesnt, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Assistant Professor.

2020.04-2022.02, Jinan University, Senior Research Associate

2016.12-2020.02, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), ETH Domain, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

1. Executive Guest Editor for Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

2. Editorial Board Member for Frontiers in Environmental Science

3. Editorial Board Member for Carbon Research

4. Youth Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Soil Science

5. Reviewer of the following journals: Nature Food、Nature Communications、Global Change Biology、Global Biogeochemical Cycles、Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics、Environment International。

6. Member of Nitrogen Work Group from Soil Science Society of China

7. Member of American Geophysical Union, European Geophysical Union, Soil Science Society of China, Ecological Society of China

Ecology, 32 hrs, SIGS

Environmental Chemistry, 48 hrs, SIGS

Green Digital Shenzhen, 32 hrs, SIGS

Soil Biogeochemistry，Global Change Ecology，Isotope Geochemistry

My research focuses on terrestrial nitrous oxide emission and its response to global change. Based on field observation, regional-global modeling and data-fusion approach, we aim at quantifying driving mechanisms of nitrous oxide emission at various spatiotemporal scales.

GuangDong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation-General Program (PI)

GuangDong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation-Joint Program (PI)

Open project from Key Laboratory of Karst Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources (PI)

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[1] Sun Z., Wang Y., Li J., Cai M., Wang A., Zhang B., Kang R., & Yu L.* (2024). Isotope identification of nitrogen removal in artificial ponds across a hilly agricultural watershed of southwestern China. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 371, 109093.

[2] Harris E., Yu L., Mohn J., Henne S., Bai E., Barthel M., Bauters M., Boeckx P., Dorich C., Farrell M., Krummel P. B., Loh Z. M., Reichstein M., Six J., Steinbacher M., Wells N. S., Bahn M., & Rayner P. (2022). Warming and redistribution of nitrogen inputs drive an increase in terrestrial nitrous oxide emission factor. Nature Communications, 13, 4310.  

[3] Zhang B., Yu L.*, Wang J., Tang H., Qu Z., & Zhu T. (2022). Effects of warming and nitrogen input on soil N₂O emission from Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: a synthesis. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 326, 109167.

[4] Yu L.*, Harris E., Lewick-Szczebak D., Barthel M., Blomberg M.R.A., Harris S.J., Johnson M.S., Lehmann M.F., Liisberg J., Muller C., Ostrom N.E., Six J., Toyoda S., Yoshida N., Mohn J. (2020) What can we learn from N₂O isotope data? – Analytics, processes and modelling. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 34: e8858.

[5] Yu L.*, Harris E., Henne S., Eggleston S., Steinbacher M., Emmenegger L., Zellweger C., Mohn J. (2020) Atmospheric nitrous oxide isotopes observed at the high-altitude research station Jungfraujoch, Switzerland. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 20: 6495-6519.

[6] Yu L., Zhu J.*, Zhang X., Wang Z., Dörsch P., Mulder J.* (2019) Humid subtropical forests contribute a net methane source: a catchment-scale study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 124.

[7] Yu L., Mulder J.*, Zhu J., Zhang X., Wang Z., Dörsch P. (2019) Denitrification as a major nitrogen sink in forested monsoonal headwater catchments in the sub-tropics: evidence from multi-site dual nitrate isotopes. Global Change Biology. 25: 1765-1778.

[8] Yu L., Wang Y., Zhang X., Dörsch P., Mulder J.* (2017) Phosphorus addition mitigates N₂O and CH₄ emissions in N-saturated subtropical forest, SW China. Biogeosciences. 14: 3097–3109.

[9] Yu L., Kang R., Mulder J., Zhu J., Dörsch P.* (2017) Distinct fates of atmogenic NH₄⁺ and NO₃⁻ in subtropical, N-saturated forest soils.Biogeochemistry. 133: 279–294.

[10] Yu L., Zhu J., Mulder J., Dörsch P.* (2016) Multiyear dual nitrate isotope signatures suggest that N-saturated subtropical forested catchments can act as robust N sinks.Global Change Biology. 22: 3662–3674. Doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13333

1. Guangdong Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholar (2025)

2. Pengcheng Peacock Award, Shenzhen Talent Program (2022)

3. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (2018)