The European Association of Geochemistry has awarded former postdoc in the Geobiology Lab, Feifei Zhang, with the F.G. Houtermans Award. After postdoc years at Yale and in our group, Dr. Feifei Zhang, joined the Faculy as full-time professor at Nanjing University. The Houtermans award recognizes exceptional contributions to geochemistry by an early career scientist.
Feifei Zhang is recognized for his important contributions to analysis of biosphere-environment co-evolution based on non-traditional isotopes (Fe, U, Li, Ca, Ba, Tl) combined with numerical modeling. His doctoral research helped to establish the carbonate U-isotope proxy as a global-ocean redox indicator, opening new avenues of research in paleoceanographic studies. His more recent work has focused on development of isotopic proxies for continental weathering, marine productivity, and ocean acidification.
The 2024 Houtermans Award Lecture will be presented at the Goldschmidt2024 Conference in Chicago, USA, in August 2024. Read more about Prof. Feifei Zhang here.