News & Openings

📰 News

2026

🌍 I will be starting my new position as a Principal Investigator at East China Normal University, Shanghai.

2025

🧪 My leading paper “A novel bacterial protein family catalyzing nitrous oxide reduction” was published in Nature and highlighted in Research Briefing (August 2025).

🌍 A collaborative review article “Nitrous oxide sources, mechanisms and mitigation” was published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (August 2025).

2024

🗞 Invited to write a Nature News & Views article: Nitrogen-hungry bacteria added to farm soils curb greenhouse-gas emissions.

🧬 My first leading paper “Sustained bacterial N₂O reduction at acidic pH” was published in Nature Communications.

2023

🥳 Ph.D. awarded in December 2023.

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🧑‍🔬 Openings

The He Lab at East China Normal University is recruiting motivated researchers interested in:

• Environmental microbiology
  
• Microbial greenhouse gas cycling
  
• Multi-omics and microbial physiology

Postdoctoral Researchers

Applicants should send a CV and research statement.

Graduate Students

Prospective students are welcome to apply through the ECNU graduate program.

📧 Contact: ghe3@vols.utk.edu or 121838345@qq.com