Dr. Xiaoe Yang is Yangtze River Scholar Professor at Zhejiang University, China, ASA Fellow; receiver of Outstanding Yang Scientist from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Special Experts (Academee) from Zhejiang Provincial Government, Outstanding Young Women in Rice Science from International Rice Research Institute, the state outstanding contribution of young and middle-aged experts; National March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetter from China Women Federation, National Advanced Female Worker from China Federation of Trade Unions, etc. She takes leadership of National Key Discipline –Agricultural Resource and Environment, the Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Ecosystem Health, Ministry of Education of China, the president of Trace Elements and Health Society of Zhejiang, and committee of several national societies and international meeting organizations. She is also the editorial board members of several international and national journals.

   Dr. Yang now is research leader at College of Resource and Environment Science, was founder and Director MOE Key Lab of Environmental Remediation and Ecological Health. Her main research areas include environmental ecology of plant nutrition, phytoremediation of contaminated soils and waters, micronutrient nutrition human health. She has been in charge of over 20 large research programs as principal researcher, secured research funding totaling 9 billion Yuan RMB from central government and provincial agencies as well as Agricultural Bureau in the last 10 years. Dr. Yang has authored or co-authored 3 books, 14 book chapters, 270 international and 160 national refereed publications. Her publications were cited >13000 times by refereed scholarly journals, and she has an H index of 62. In addition, she has obtained 36 patents and 15 of them have been transferred to the enterprises concerned. Parts of her research have been achieved 6 prizes for the advancement in science and technologies from education ministry of China and Zhejiang provincial government.     

     Dr. Yang has developed over nine courses for graduates, two courses for undergraduates, supervised/co-supervised over 100 graduates among them are 61 PhD and 40 MS graduate students. Supervised 13 postdoctoral fellows. She serves editorial board and reviewer for several

refereed international and international journals, national and international funding agencies, and provided 13 invited keynote presentations at international conferences.

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