Name: Zhang Gan (张干)

Title: Professor

Phone: +86 20 8529 0805

Email: zhanggan@gig.ac.cn

Website: http://www.sklog-1.cn/gzhang/；http://www.garden-of-excellence.cn/gz/

        Dr Zhang obtained his BSc (1987) and MSc (1990) from Nanjing University, and PhD (1995) from Chinese Academy of Sciences. He did his postdoctoral study (2000-01) in Reading University, the UK. He has been working in Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) since 1995, and was appointed senior research scientist (professor) in 1999. He currently serves as the deputy director of GIG, and director of the State Kay Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry (SKLOG). He leads a research group working in the areas of organic pollution and organic geochemistry, in particular on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), persistent mobile toxics (PMTs) and carbonaceous aerosols etc. He supervises the Accelerated Mass Spectrometry facility (GIG-CAMS) dedicated to environmental radiocarbon (¹⁴C) analysis. He has published more than 350 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals, with a total citation of >15,000 times and an H index of >60 (ESI). He has been one of the Elsevier highly cited Chinese researchers since 2014. He was the supervisor of >40 PhD students. 

Dr Zhang’s current research interests include: (i) fate of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in regional environment; (ii) development of radiocarbon analysis techniques and its application in environmental sciences; and (iii) environmental pollution and health.

1. Mao, S.;  Zhang, G.*;  Zhao, S.;  Li, J.;  Liu, X.;  Cheng, Z.;  Zhong, G.;  Malik, R. N.; Liu, X., High Abundance of Unintentionally Produced Tetrachlorobiphenyls (PCB47/48/75, 51, and 68) in the Atmosphere at a Regional Background Site in East China. Environmental science & technology 2019.

2. Ma, H.;  Li, J.;  Wan, C.;  Liang, Y.;  Zhang, X.;  Dong, G.;  Hu, L.;  Yang, B.;  Zeng, X.;  Su, T.;  Lu, S.;  Chen, S.;  Khorram, M. S.;  Sheng, G.;  Wang, X.;  Mai, B.;  Yu, Z.*; Zhang, G.*, Inflammation Response of Water-Soluble Fractions in Atmospheric Fine Particulates: A Seasonal Observation in 10 Large Chinese Cities. Environmental science & technology 2019.

3. Jiang, H.;  Zhong, G.*;  Wang, J.;  Jiang, H.;  Tian, C.;  Li, J.;  Zhao, S.;  Yu, Z.;  Morawska, L.; Zhang, G., Using Polyurethane Foam-based Passive Air Sampling Technique to Monitor Monosaccharides at a Regional Scale. Environmental science & technology 2018.

4. Mao, S.;  Li, J.;  Cheng, Z.; Zhong, G.;  Li, K.; Liu, X.; Zhang, G.*, Contribution of Biomass Burning to Ambient Particulate Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons at a Regional Background Site in East China. Environmental Science & Technology Letters 2018, 5 (2), 56-61.

5. Zhang, X.;  Li, J.*;  Mo, Y.;  Shen, C.;  Ding, P.; Wang, N.;  Zhu, S.;  Cheng, Z.;  He, J.;  Tian, Y.;  Gao, S.;  Zhou, Q.;  Tian, C.;  Chen, Y.; Zhang, G.*, Isolation and radiocarbon analysis of elemental carbon in atmospheric aerosols using hydropyrolysis. Atmospheric Environment 2019, 198, 381-386.

6. Liu, J.;  Li, J.*;  Ding, P.; Zhang, Y.;  Liu, D.; Shen, C.; Zhang, G., Optimizing isolation protocol of organic carbon and elemental carbon for C-14 analysis using fine particulate samples. Atmospheric Environment 2017, 154, 9-19.

7. Liu, D.;  Li, J.*; Cheng, Z.;  Zhong, G.;  Zhu, S.; Ding, P.;  Shen, C.; Tian, C.;  Chen, Y.; Zhi, G.; Zhang, G., Sources of non-fossil-fuel emissions in carbonaceous aerosols during early winter in Chinese cities. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2017, 17 (18), 11491-11502.

8. Liu, J.; Mo, Y.; Li, J.*; Liu, D.; Shen, C.; Ding, P.; Jiang, H.; Cheng, Z.;  Zhang, X.;  Tian, C.;  Chen, Y.; Zhang, G., Radiocarbon-derived source apportionment of fine carbonaceous aerosols before, during, and after the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing, China. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 2016, 121 (8), 4177-4187.

9. Liu, D.; Lin, T.*; Shen, K.; Li, J.; Yu, Z.; Zhang, G., Occurrence and Concentrations of Halogenated Flame Retardants in the Atmospheric Fine Particles in Chinese Cities. Environmental Science & Technology 2016, 50 (18), 9846-9854.

10. Zheng, Q.; Nizzetto, L.*; Li, J.; Mulder, M. D.; Sáňka, O.; Lammel, G.;  Bing, H.;  Liu, X.;  Jiang, Y.;  Luo, C.; Zhang, G.*, Spatial Distribution of Old and Emerging Flame Retardants in Chinese Forest Soils: Sources, Trends and Processes. Environmental Science & Technology 2015, 49 (5), 2904-2911.