☘️ 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

• 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)

Earth's Future

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

European Journal of Agronomy

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

Journal of Virology

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

Resources Science

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

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💬 Presentations

• 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)
  

• 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)
  

• 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

• 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)
  
  

• 2020.09 - 2022.06
  M.E., Earth Resources & Environment
  China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
  Advisor: Geli Zhang (张戈丽)
  
  

• 2016.09 - 2020.06
  B.M., Land Resources Management
  Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
  GPA rank: 1/59
  
  

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024     Merit Student of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Top 5%)
• 2023     Merit Student of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Top 5%)
• 2021     National Scholarship (Top 0.2%)
• 2021     Merit Student of China Agricultural University (Top 5%)
• 2019     National Encouragement Scholarship (Top 3%)
• 2019     Merit Student of Henan Province (Top 0.3%)
• 2018     National Scholarship (Top 0.2%)
• 2018     Merit Student of Henan Province (Top 5%)
• 2017     National Encouragement Scholarship (Top 3%)

      Competition

• 2019     First Prize in the National College Student Land Use Planning Competition (2/60)
• 2019     First Prize in the Henan Province Challenge Cup Competition
• 2018     Third Prize in the National Geography Science Presentation Competition (4/20)
• 2018     First Prize in the Northern Division of the National Geography Science Presentation Competition (1/50+)
• 2017     First Prize in the Henan Agricultural University Freshman Football Tournament