Zhuo Chen Lecturer

Department of Marine Science

Phone: 022-60601106

Location: Room 215, Building 8-A, Binhai Central Campus,

Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China

E-mail：zhuochen@tust.edu.cn

Research Interests

My research focuses on biological oceanography, with particular emphasis on the ecological processes of marine phytoplankton and eukaryotic microbial communities.

Education

Ph.D. in Engineering, College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Sept. 2019 – Jul. 2022

M.S. in Science, College of Marine Science and Environmental Engineering, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Sept. 2016 – Jul. 2019

B.S. in Agriculture, College of Fisheries, Tianjin Agricultural University

Positions & Employment

Lecturer, College of Marine Science and Environmental Engineering, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Jul. 2026 – Present

Research Assistant, Biological Oceanography Research Group, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Oct. 2025 – Jun. 2026

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Sept. 2022 – Sept. 2025

Research Projects

1) Open Research Fund of the Tianjin Key Laboratory, Mechanisms of Phytoplankton Niche Differentiation and Nutrient Metabolism Regulation Driven by Ocean Stratification in the Eastern Indian Ocean, Principal Investigator

2) National Key Research and Development Program of China, Research on Ecological Environment Monitoring, Assessment, and Pollution Control Technologies in Bohai Bay, Participant

3) National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Mechanisms of Single-Cell Silicon Accumulation in Synechococcus and Its Role in Regulating the Silicon and Carbon Cycles in the Eastern Indian Ocean, Participant

Key Publications：

1) Gu, T., Chen, Z., Hutchins, D. A., Sun, J.*. 2025. Urea-driven nitrification contributes to N2O production in the oligotrophic euphotic ocean. The ISME Journal, wraf281.

2) Gu, T., Chen, Z., Sun, J.*, 2025. Contrasting greenhouse gas dynamics along a coastal-to-oligotrophic ocean continuum. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 10(6): 999–1010.

3) Gu, T., Chen, Z., Sun, J.*, 2025. Variability of microbial network complexity and stability along the size-fraction particles in the global ocean. Global and Planetary Change 104859.

4) Chen, Z., Gu, T., Sun, J.*, 2024. Dispersed limitation and homogeneous selection drive the eukaryotic microbial community assembly and network stability in the coastal China sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2024, 11: 1444870.

5) Sun, J.*, Chen, Z., Xu, K., Lin, M., 2024. Editorial: Marine biodiversity under global climate change. Journal of Sea Research 102555.

6) Wu, X., Yuan, X., Liu, X., Wang, X., Chen, Z., Gu, T., Zhang, G., Gong, X., Sun, J.*, 2024. Distributions and controlling processes of the carbonate system in the Eastern Indian Ocean during autumn and spring. Frontiers in Marine Science 11, 1343690.

7) Chen, Z., Gu, T., Sun, J.*, 2023. Disentangling environmental effects on picophytoplankton communities in the Eastern Indian Ocean. Environmental Research 225, 115635.

8) Chen, Z., Gu, T., Sun, J.*, 2023. Community assembly and network stability of picoeukaryotic plankton communities in the northeast Indian Ocean. Progress in Oceanography 219, 103157.

9) Yan, W., Chen, Z., Zhang, L., Wang, F., Zhang, G., Sun, J.*, 2023. Nanophytoplankton and microphytoplankton in the western tropical Pacific Ocean: its community structure, cell size and carbon biomass. Frontiers in marine science 1147271.

10) Chen, Z., Gu, T., Wang, X., Wu, X., Sun, J.*, 2022. Oxygen gradients shape the unique structure of picoeukaryotic communities in the Bay of Bengal. Science of the Total Environment 814, 152862.

11) Chen, Z., Sun, J.*, Gu, T., Zhang, G., Wei, Y., 2021. Nutrient ratios driven by vertical stratification regulate phytoplankton community structure in the oligotrophic western Pacific Ocean. Ocean Science 17, 1775–1789.

12) Chen, Z., Sun, J.*, Chen, D., Wang, S., Yu, H., Chen, H., Wang, M.,2021. Effects of Ocean Currents in the Western Pacific Ocean on Net-Phytoplankton Community Compositions. Diversity-Basel 13, 428.

13) Wei, Y., Sun, J.*, Chen, Z., Zhang, Z., Zhang, G., Liu, X., 2021. Significant contribution of picoplankton size fraction to biogenic silica standing stocks in the Western Pacific Ocean. Progress in Oceanography 102516.

14) M. Shahanul Islam, Sun, J.*, Zhang, G., Chen, Z., Zhou, H., 2021. Environmental influences on sinking rates and distributions of transparent exopolymer particles after a typhoon surge at the Western Pacific. Scientific reports 11: 11377.

15) Liu, Y., Sun, J.*, Wang, X., Liu, X., Wu, X., Chen, Z., Gu, T., Wang, W., Yu, L., Guo, Y., 2021. Fluorescence characteristics of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in the Eastern Indian Ocean: a case study of three subregions. Frontiers in Marine Science 8, 742595.

16) Wei, Y., Chen, Z., Guo, C., Zhong, Q., Wu, C., Sun, J.*, 2020. Physiological and ecological responses of photosynthetic processes to oceanic properties and phytoplankton communities in the oligotrophic Western Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Microbiology 11: 1774.

17) Chen, Z., Sun, J.*, Zhang, G. Community Structure of Net-Collected Phytoplankton in the Tropical Western Pacific during Autumn 2016. Marine Sciences (in Chinese), 2018.