Daquan Sun

soil scientist

Researcher ID: www.researcherid.com/rid/AAC-6003-2021
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4421-5444

daquan.sun@bc.cas.cz
+420 728 169 097

Soil & Water Research Infrastructure

Biology Centre CAS
Na Sádkách 7, 370 05 České Budějovice
Czech Republic

Education and Academic Positions

2018 - present Postdoc, Soil & Water Research Infrastructure, Biology Centre CAS, Czech Republic
2016 - 2018 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Soil Science College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
2014 - 2015 Joint-PhD student, Environmental Microbiology, University of California, Riverside, USA
2012 - 2015 PhD Agronomy, Shenyang Agricultural University, China

Research Interests

Pyrolysis for waste management and the role of pyrogenic carbon in soil C sequestration
Soil microbial community functions
Plant grow promoting bacteria and their use in agriculture

Teaching Interests

Pyrogenic carbon and its use for sustainable agriculture and the mitigation of climate change

Scientific Activities

Sun, D., Hale, L., Kar, G., Soolanayakanahally, R. and Adl, S., 2018. Phosphorus recovery and reuse by pyrolysis: Applications for agriculture and environment. Chemosphere, 194, 682-691.

Sun, D., Lan, Y., Xu, E.G., et al., 2016. Biochar as a novel niche for culturing microbial communities in composting. Waste Management, 54, 93-100.

Sun, D., Hale, L., Crowley, D., 2016. Nutrient supplementation of pinewood biochar for use as a bacterial inoculum carrier. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 1-8.

Sun, D., Meng, J., Xu, E. G., & Chen, W., 2016. Microbial community structure and predicted bacterial metabolic functions in biochar pellets aged in soil after 34 months. Applied Soil Ecology, 100, 135-143.

Sun, D., Meng, J., Liang, H., et al., 2015. Effect of volatile organic compounds absorbed to fresh biochar on survival of Bacillus mucilaginosus and structure of soil microbial communities. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 15, 271-281.

Awards

Grants

Project leader of 3 grant project (H2020-MSCA-European Union, National Science Foundation, and Mitacs Elevate)

Awards and Recognitions

2020 – 2022 H2020-MSCA-IF, European Union
2015 Excellent Ph.D. thesis award
2013 National Ph.D. Scholarship
2012 Excellent M.S. thesis award
H-index: 9
Number of publications: 17
Sum of Times Cited without self-citations: 240

Membership of Professional Societies

European Geoscience Union (2019 –2020; 2021 – present) and American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America (2015 –2016).