CUI Jinglan

2015-2020, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Geography and Resource Management, Ph.D.

2016, University of Vienna, Eurasia-Pacific Scholarship Exchange Program

2010-2013, Zhejiang University, Environmental Engineering, M.S.

2006-2010, Ocean University of China, Environmental Engineering, B.S.

2026-Present, East China Normal University, School of Geographic Sciences, Researcher

2021-2026, Zhejiang University, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellow/Associate Researcher

2020-2021, Zhejiang Jialan Environmental Technology Co., Ltd., Environmental Engineer

2013-2015, Huzhou Environmental Protection Bureau (now Huzhou Ecological Environment Bureau), Environmental Engineer

Cui Jinglan is a researcher at the School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, a Zijiang Young Scholar, and a doctoral supervisor. She received her Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, during which she participated in an exchange program at the University of Vienna. She previously served as a postdoctoral fellow and associate researcher at Zhejiang University.

She is mainly engaged in research on the impacts of climate change on carbon and nitrogen cycles. As first author, she has published papers in international journals such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, and Nature Communications, and her research outputs have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers.

She has led a Youth Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and a research topic under the Pioneer Program of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology, received first-tier funding in the National Postdoctoral Research Performance Evaluation, and participated in major projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and cooperative projects with the United Nations Environment Programme.

Associate Editor, Earth Critical Zone

Editorial Board Member, Advances in Meteorology

Current Research: Impacts of climate change on ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles and adaptation. This research constructs coupled human-natural carbon and nitrogen cycle models, analyzes the multi-scale feedback mechanisms of carbon and nitrogen cycles in agricultural, grassland, and forest ecosystems driven by climate change, and proposes climate change adaptation strategies and climate-smart industry development pathways.

Future Directions: Synergistic pathways for pollution reduction and carbon mitigation under climate change. Integrating big data analysis, model simulation, and field experiments, this research investigates the fate and transformation processes of pollutants in the environment and their interaction mechanisms with carbon and nitrogen cycles, and analyzes the key driving factors and regulatory pathways of the synergistic effects of pollution reduction and carbon mitigation under climate change.

Master's and doctoral students, as well as postdoctoral fellows, are welcome to apply!

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund Project, Mechanisms and Regulation of Precipitation Change Impacts on Nitrogen Cycling in Zhejiang Croplands, 2025-01 to 2027-12, In Progress, Principal Investigator

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 18th Batch Special Funding, 2025-07 to 2026-07, Completed, Principal Investigator

Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Agricultural Technology Pioneer Project Sub-topic, Maturation and Scenario Application of Key Technologies for Carbon Sequestration and Emission Reduction in Rice Paddies, 2022-01 to 2024-12, Completed, Principal Investigator

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Major Project, Synergistic Regulation and Optimization Pathways for Pollution Reduction and Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils, 2026-01 to 2030-12, In Progress, Participant

National Natural Science Foundation of China, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) International Cooperation and Exchange Project, Synergies Towards the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through Agricultural Nitrogen Management, 2023-01 to 2027-12, In Progress, Participant

Representative Publications:

Cui, Jinglan; Zheng, Miao; Bian, Zihao; Pan, Naiqing; Tian, Hanqin; Zhang, Xiuming; Qiu, Ziyue; Xu, Jianming; Gu, Baojing*. Elevated CO2 levels promote both carbon and nitrogen cycling in global forests. (2024) Nature Climate Change, 14 (5), 511–517.

Cui, Jinglan; Zhang, Xiuming; Reis, Stefan; Wang, Chen; Wang, Sitong; He, Peiying; Chen, Hongyi; van Grinsven, Hans J.M.; Gu, Baojing*. Nitrogen cycles in global croplands altered by elevated CO2. (2023) Nature Sustainability, 6 (10), 1166–1176.

Cui, Jinglan; Deng, Ouping; Zheng, Miao; Zhang, Xiuming; Bian, Zihao; Pan, Naiqing; Tian, Hanqin; Xu, Jianming; Gu, Baojing*. Warming exacerbates global inequality in forest carbon and nitrogen cycles. (2024) Nature Communications, 15 (1), 9185.

Cui, Jinglan; Gao, Yujing; van Grinsven, Hans; Zheng, Miao; Zhang, Xiuming; Ren, Chenchen; Ma, Tinghui; Xu, Jianming; Gu, Baojing*. Adaptive mitigation of warming-induced food crisis and nitrogen pollution. (2025) Environmental Science & Technology, 59 (7), 3527–3536.

Cui, Jinglan; Gao, Yujing; Cheng, Luxi; Zhang, Xi; Deng, Ouping; Zheng, Miao; Xie, Zhongrui; Grinsven, Hans J. M. van; Lorenzo Rosa; Gu, Baojing*. Asymmetric shifts in precipitation alter nitrogen use strategies in global croplands. (2026) Global Change Biology, 32 (4), e70863.

Publication List (Updating):

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jinglan-Cui/research