Dr. Zhu Dan completed his MSc and PhD degrees in alpine and wetland ecology from the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010 with the studying topic on methane and carbon dioxide emission from alpine lakes on the Tibetan Plateau.

　　In 2012 and 2014 he worked as visiting scholar in Canada (University of Quebec at Montreal and Memorial University of Newfoundland, respectively) to study the greenhouse gases emission from wetlands.

　　In 2013 and 2015 he worked as Ecosystem Analyst in International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal.

　　In last few years his research interests focus on ecosystem management and natural resource utilization of the Himalayan region. There are more than 30 peer-reviewed articles published by him in international journals.

　　1. Jianqing Tian, Dan Zhu, Jinzhi Wang, Bing Wu, Muzammil Hussain, Xingzhong Liu. 2018. Environmental factors driving fungal distribution in freshwater lake sediments across the Headwater Region of the Yellow River, China. Scientific Reports, 8, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-21995-6.

　　2. Dan Zhu, Yan Wu, Huai Chen, Yixin He, Ning Wu. 2016. Intense methane ebullition from open water area of a shallow peatland lake on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Science of the Total Environment, 542, Part A, 57-64.

　　3. Dan Zhu, Ning Wu, Nabin Bhattarai, Krishna Prasad Oli, Kuenzang Tsering, Gopal Singh Rawat, Huai Chen, Gang Yang, Yixin He, Srijana Joshi, Pradyumna Rana, Muhammad Ismail. 2015. A comparative study of daytime-based methane emission from two wetlands of Nepal Himalaya. Atmospheric Environment, 106, 196-203.

　　4. Dan Zhu, Yan Wu, Ning Wu, Huai Chen, Yixin He, Yongmei Zhang, Changhui Peng, Qiu'an Zhu. 2015. Nitrous oxide emission from infralittoral zone and pelagic zone in a shallow lake: Implications for whole lake flux estimation and lake restoration. Ecological Engineering, 82, 368-375.

　　5. Dan Zhu, Ning Wu, Huai Chen, Yongmei Zhang, Qiu’an Zhu, Yan Wu. 2014. Spatial pattern of dissolved organic carbon and its specific ultraviolet absorbance in a wetland complex on the eastern Tibetan Plateau under different scales. Ekoloji, 23, 16-21.

　　6. Dan Zhu, Huai Chen, Xingzhong Yuan, Ning Wu, Yongheng Gao, Yan Wu, Yongmei Zhang, Changhui Peng, Qiu’an Zhu, Gang Yang, Jianghua Wu. 2013. Nitrous oxide emissions from the surface of the Three Gorges Reservoir, Ecological Engineering, 60, 150-154.

　　7. Dan Zhu, Huai Chen, Qiu’an Zhu, Yan Wu, Ning Wu. 2011. High carbon dioxide evasion from an alpine lake: the central role of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon input, Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, doi: 10.1007/s11270-011-1048-6.

　　1. The effect of freezing-thaw cycle on carbon emission from alpine peatlands, 2016-2019, National Natural Science Foundation of China, USD 130,000.

　　2. Restoration of subalpine grassland on the Zoige Plateau, 2016-2020, Ministry of Science and Technology, USD 84,600.

　　3. Carbon assessment and database for wetlands across the Himayalas, 2019-2021, Provincial S&T Bureau of Sichuan, China, USD 30,000.