Dr. Haiyan Wang is a professor at the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University. She received a bachelor’s degree of science in agronomy from Shandong Agricultural University in 2002 and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Zhejiang University in 2007. She joined the Institute of Nuclear Agriculture, Zhejiang University, in 2007 and was promoted to associate professor in 2010. She visited the Department of Plant Soil Microbiology at Michigan State University in the United States from 2012 to 2015 and was promoted to professor in 2020. She hosted 10 national-level projects and 6 provincial and ministerial-level projects. She is the vice president of the Chinese Society of Atomic Agriculture, the director of the Isotope Tracing Professional Committee, the deputy director of the Key Open Laboratory of Nuclear Agriculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the deputy director of the Key Research Laboratory of Nuclear Agriculture of Zhejiang Province, and the executive director of the Zhejiang Society of Atomic Agriculture. Her research directions are isotope tracing and environmental ecological health, biotransformation and metabolic degradation of agricultural chemicals, the relationship between biochar and crop yield, and pollutant metabolism and environmental health risk assessment.
Dr. Xinqiang Zheng is an associate professor in the Tea Research Institute, Zhejiang University. She received her M.S. in life science from Zhongshan University in 2001 and her Ph.D. in human environmental sciences from Ochanomizu University, Japan, in 2005. From 2005 to 2009, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Tea Research Institute, Zhejiang University. Then, in 2009, she joined the Tea Research Institute, Zhejiang University, as an associate professor. She has presided over more than 20 scientific research projects, including 6 national projects and more than 10 provincial and ministerial projects. She serves as a post scientist of China Agriculture Research System, director of the Genetic Improvement Laboratory. Her research direction is tea biotechnology and tea resource utilization.
