☘️ About Me
Hi! I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), advised by Jinwei Dong (董金玮). Prior to CAS, I graduated from China Agricultural University with a master’s degree, advised by Geli Zhang (张戈丽), and from Henan Agricultural University with a bachelor’s degree.
Now I am working on the impact of climate & land use change on avian influenza spillover. If you are also interested in this topic and are seeking any form of academic cooperation, please feel free to email me at qiang.hhz@gmail.com!
My research interest spans disciplines and primarily focuses on leveraging state-of-the-art satellite, citizen science, epidemiological data, and machine learning to investigate the impacts of climate and land use changes on One Health. Previously, I have also investigated the effects of climate extremes on agroecosystems.
🔥 News
- 2025.09 🎉🎉🎉 Thrilled that my first Nature Research paper is now published in Nature Food, showing energy shortages undermine agricultural drought resistance in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea!
- 2024.11 🎉🎉🎉 My academic website is now live!
📝 Research
Global Change-Induced Zoonotic Spillover
📚 Peer-reviewed
My full publication list is shown on my Google Scholar.
(†: equal contribution, *: corresponding author)
Energy shortages undermine agricultural drought resistance in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Q Zhang, J Dong*, Z Xu, W Nam, J Yang, Y Zhang, Y Qin, S Gao, S Huang, H Tian, Q Yu, Q Ge*
Nature Food, 2025
- The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) suffers greater agricultural losses than the Republic of Korea under milder droughts
- Energy shortages, exacerbated by trade sanctions, have limited the DPRK’s irrigation capacity, further impairing its drought resistance and food security
Coupling GEDI LiDAR and optical satellite for revealing large-scale maize lodging in Northeast China
Q Zhang, G Zhang*, Y Zhang*, X Xiao, N You, Z Li, H Tang, T Yang, Y Di, J Dong*
Earth’s Future, 2024
- The first application of GEDI in agricultural disaster assessment
- GEDI footprints can well reveal changes in maize height caused by typhoons
- LSWI provides a robust wall-to-wall mapping of crop lodging
Unraveling the spatial-temporal patterns of typhoon impacts on maize during the milk stage in Northeast China in 2020
Q Zhang, G Zhang, X Xiao, Y Zhang, N You, Y Di, T Yang, Y He, J Dong*
European Journal of Agronomy, 2024
- LSWI is the prior indicator for assessing typhoon disturbance in maize
- Week-long lagging impacts of typhoons on maize growth lasted until the end of the growing season
- Spatial-temporal compensation mitigates typhoon impacts on maize in the entire region
Spatiotemporal genotype replacement of H5N8 avian influenza viruses contributed to H5N1 emergence in 2021/2022 panzootic
J Zeng†, F Du†, L Xiao, H Sun, L Lu, W Lei, J Zheng, L Wang, S Shu, Y Li, Q Zhang, K Tang, Q Sun, C Zhang, H Long, Z Qiu, K Zhai, Z Li, G Zhang, Y Sun, D Wang, Z Zhang, SJ Lycett, GF Gao, Y Shu, J Liu, X Du*, J Pu*
Journal of Virology, 2024
- The 2020 outbreak of the H5N8 G1 genotype instead of the G0 genotype produced reassortment opportunities and led to the emergence of a new H5N1 virus with G1’s HA and MP genes
- The spatial-temporal coincidence between the outbreak of the H5N8 G1 virus and the bird autumn migration may have expanded the H5 viral spread
Spatiotemporal patterns of paddy rice production change in China during 1980–2018
Q Zhang, G Zhang*, D Zhu, Y Di, T Yang, R Liu, J Dong
Resources Science (资源科学) (Cover paper, Chinese paper with English abstract), 2022
🧑🎨 In process
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💬 Presentations
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Q Zhang, J Dong, and X Xiao. “The Impact of Anthropause During COVID-19 on the Activity of Avian Influenza Host Birds.” AGU Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 9-13 December, 2024. (iPoster)
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Q Zhang and J Dong. “The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on avian influenza host birds in China.” International Conference on One Health, Haikou, Hainan, China, 11–14 August, 2024. (Oral)
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Q Zhang. “Seasonal and spatial compensations mitigated the effects of typhoons on maize in Northeast China in 2020.” The 3rd Global Land Programme (GLP) Asia Conference, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, September, 2021. (Oral, Online)
📖 Education
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2022.09 - Present
Ph.D. Student, Geographic Information Science
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Advisor: Jinwei Dong (董金玮)
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2020.09 - 2022.06
M.E., Earth Resources & Environment
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Advisor: Geli Zhang (张戈丽)
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2016.09 - 2020.06
B.M., Land Resources Management
Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
GPA rank: 1/59
🎖 Honors and Awards
Honors and Scholarships
- 2024 Merit Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (¥1,500 / ~US$220; Top 5%)
- 2023 Merit Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (¥1,500 / ~US$220; Top 5%)
- 2021 National Scholarship for Graduate Students (¥20,000 / ~US$3,000; Top 0.2%)
- 2021 Merit Student, China Agricultural University (Top 5%)
- 2019 National Encouragement Scholarship (¥5,000 / ~US$750; Top 3%)
- 2019 Merit Student, Henan Province (Top 0.3%)
- 2018 National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students (¥8,000 / ~US$1,200; Top 0.2%)
- 2018 Merit Student, Henan Agricultural University (Top 5%)
- 2017 National Encouragement Scholarship (¥5,000 / ~US$750; Top 3%)
Awards and Competitions
- 2019 First Prize, National College Student Land-Use Planning Competition (Rank 2/60+)
- 2019 Second Prize, “Challenge Cup” Innovation Competition, Henan Province
- 2018 Third Prize, National Geography Science Presentation Competition (National Division; Rank 4/20)
- 2018 First Prize, National Geography Science Presentation Competition (Northern Division; Rank 1/50+)
- 2017 First Prize, Freshman Football Tournament, Henan Agricultural University