Songlin Wu
Professor / PhD Supervisor
Soil organo-mineral interactions, ecological rehabilitation of mine wastes, and biogeochemical element cycling.
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Songlin Wu is a professor and PhD supervisor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Over the past decade, he has held postdoctoral and research positions at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and The University of Queensland. His research focuses on ecological rehabilitation of mine tailings and degraded soils.
His work approaches soil formation from the perspective of pedogenesis, examining how soil structure and ecological functions develop in engineered and degraded substrates. He focuses on root- and rhizosphere microbe-mediated organo-mineral interactions, biogeochemical element cycling, and the mechanisms that regulate the transformation of mine wastes into soil-like media.
He has published more than 80 SCI papers, including more than 40 first-author or corresponding-author papers in journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, New Phytologist, iScience, and npj Materials Sustainability.
He serves as a Section Editor for Plant and Soil, an Associate Editor for Environmental Geochemistry and Health, and an early-career editorial board member for Soil & Environmental Health and Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology. He is also a member of the European Association of Geochemistry, Soil Science Australia, and the International Mycorrhiza Society, and has reviewed for more than 50 international journals including Environmental Science & Technology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, and Water Research.
Research directions: soil organo-mineral interactions and ecological rehabilitation; pedogenesis and ecological reconstruction of mine wastes; biogeochemical cycling of elements.