Zuosinan Chen

RESEARCH FUNDINGS

As PI:

• 01 Oct 2023 - 30 Sep 2025, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tree water use under changing snow/rain seasonality: The forgotten tree-induced upward preferential flow in boreal soils (BoTWU), funded by the Horizon Europe (199,694.40 EUR)
• 01 Sep 2023 - 31 Aug 2027, Academy Research Fellowship, Boreal Forest WATER Fluxes under changing rain-snow seasonality (BFF-Water), funded by Research Council of Finland (782,552 EUR)
• 15 Nov 2021 - 14 Nov 2023, Postdoctoral Fellowship of China - 'Responses of night-time tree water uptake to weather extremes for afforestation species in Northern China’, funded by Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation (80k CNY) (after getting this very competitive funding, I investigated tree water uptake at both leaf and whole tree level with a focus on night-time patterns by applying high-resolution leaf transpiration and stem sap flow measurement, as well as leaf physiological trait monitoring)
• 01 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2015, Joint Graduate Training Base Project - 'Water consumption of forest plantations and its environmental response under different forest structures in Beijing’, funded by Graduate School of Beijing Forestry University (30k CNY) (I studied how tree water uptake and its environmental sensitivities differ between species, ages, density, and forest structures)

As a contributor:

I have participated in one research project in Finland funded by the Research Council of Finland (SNOMLT, 448 kEUR, PI Assoc Prof Pertti Ala-aho) and 5 research projects in China funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Technology Support Foundation of China, Chinese Ministry of Education, and State Forest Administration of China (ca. 634 kEUR in total, PI Prof Zhiqiang Zhang). The topics cover forest ecohydrology, snow hydrology, water and carbon fluxes in forest ecosystems, forest management, water resource management, and catchment hydrology.

GRANTS

Since Sep 2011, when I started my academic career as a Master student, I have obtained grants of ca. 70k EUR, e.g., WATSON STSM grant funded by COST Action, ArcI Visit Grant funded by University of Oulu, and the Excellence Learning Graduate Student Grant and National Grant funded by China.

INVITED/HIGHLIGHT TALKS

• Boreal tree water uptake and forest hydrology under changing seasonal precipitation: In-situ water isotope and water flux measurements. 11 Oct, 2024. Wine & Science seminar. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• In-situ high-resolution measurements of stable water isotopes along the snow-soil-tree pathway. International Lysimeter and Ecotron workshop. 19 Mar - 21 Mar, 2024. Munich, Germany.
• Challenges and opportunities for high-latitude boreal ecohydrology. Water Conservation Forum - Academic Seminar. Nov 8 2023. Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
• High-resolution in-situ water flux and water isotope measurements in northern environments: do boreal trees use more summer rainfall or less when the winter snowfall is reduced? The 12th International Workshop on Sap Flow. 31 Oct - 3 Nov, 2023. Rotorua, New Zealand.