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News

Research in motion, beyond the paper.

Updates on publications, collaborations, visits, team milestones and public engagement.

01 · Lab timeline

Recent progress

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012026.10

Recognition

Associate Prof. Zezhen Pan has been selected for the 10th Outstanding Young Scholar Award of the Soil Science Society of China, becoming the first recipient from Fudan University.

022026.09

Projects & collaborations

The project “Survey of Water Quality and Aquatic Ecological Conditions in China–Vietnam Transboundary Rivers” has been approved under the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National Key R&D Program of China, as part of its “Comprehensive Scientific Surveys of Southwest China and the Beibu Gulf Region” initiative. Guangxi University leads the project, with Prof. Zimeng Wang serving as a subproject leader.

032026.09

Recognition

Prof. Zimeng Wang has been appointed SEP Endowed Chair Professor at Fudan University. The chair was endowed by Jin Yang, chairman of SEP Analytical, who holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Fudan.

042026.08.31

Publications

The paper “Optimized Sequential Extraction for Organic-Bound Manganese in Soils: Enhancing the Characterization of Mn(III) Species” by Xingxing Wang, Xiaohan Lu and colleagues was accepted by Geoderma.

052026.08.27

Recognition

The collaborative project “Development and Application of an Integrated System for Water and Soil Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration in Ion-Adsorption Rare-Earth Mining Areas” received the Second Prize of the 2025 Jiangxi Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China, the project included Fudan University’s work on modelling pollutant transport at mine sites and across the watershed.

062026.08.26

Public engagement

Prof. Zimeng Wang was invited by Guangming Daily to contribute the expert commentary “Human Judgement Is Indispensable,” reflecting on human reading, judgement and accountability in AI-assisted scholarly publishing.

072026.08

Publications

Congratulations to visiting scholar Associate Prof. Zhe Wang on the acceptance of his study on mass-conservative assessment of lanthanum-based sediment phosphorus inactivation in Water Research.

082026.07

Public engagement

Prof. Zimeng Wang, an alumnus of the Cyrus Tang Young Scholars Program, attended the Cyrus Tang Foundation’s workshop on designing social-impact projects in Suzhou.

092026.07

Academic service

After six years of editorial leadership, Prof. Zimeng Wang concluded his term as Editor-in-Chief of Applied Geochemistry and continues to support the journal as an Honorary Consulting Editor.

102026.07

Team development

Congratulations to three alumni as they begin new professional chapters: PhD graduate Enyang Liu has joined Yangtze Industrial Investment Group, master’s graduate Jinfeng Li has joined Envision Energy, and master’s graduate Yujie Fu has joined Jiangnan Shipyard. We wish them bright futures and always welcome them back.

112026.07

Academic service

Prof. Zimeng Wang attended the 11th National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology in Beijing, joining fellow participants in discussions on strengthening China’s science and technology capacity and advancing high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.

122026.06

Projects & collaborations

The team received funding from the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment for a 2026–2027 project on molecular recognition, quantitative detection and environmental processes of plastic-derived oligomers in soil.