先后于上海交通大学和中国科学院大学获得生态学硕士学位和环境工程专业博士学位，2008年起就职于中国科学院城市环境研究所，现任土壤和地下水环境治理研究团队副研究员，硕士生导师。近几年主持和参与国家高技术研究发展计划(863计划)课题、国家科技重大专项、国家重点研发计划、国家自然科学基金、中国科学院A类战略性先导科技专项、福建省科技计划项目、福建省自然科学基金、厦门市科技计划产学研合作项目等研究项目，研发多种废弃物基土壤调理剂、修复材料、介质土和基质产品，开发一系列土壤环境治理与污染修复技术，并在福建、湖南、广西等地完成多项技术应用示范工程。目前担任国家自然科学基金委项目评审专家、福建省科学技术厅科技计划项目评审专家、厦门市生态环境保护专项资金项目评审专家，入选福建省土壤污染防治工作专家库、福建省环境保护产业协会专家库、厦门市土壤污染防治工作专家库等；长期担任Chemosphere、Environmental Science and Pollution Research、RSC Advances等期刊审稿专家。已在Journal of Hazardous Material、Environmental Pollution、Environmental Geochemistry and Health等期刊上发表学术论文20余篇，获得授权10+项。 

土壤重金属污染修复，城市土壤改良与废弃物资源化利用

[1]Youchi Zhang, Shuang Liu, Shanna Lin, Brian J. Reid, Frédéric Coulon, Chao Cai*. Field verification of low-level biochar applications as effective ameliorants to mitigate cadmium accumulation into Brassica campestris L from polluted soils, Frontiers in Environmental Science. 2023, 1114335

[2]Huang S, Xiao LS, Zhang YC, Wang L, Tang LN*. Interactive effects of natural and anthropogenic factors on heterogenetic accumulations of heavy metals in surface soils through geodetector analysis, Science of the Total Environment. 2021, 789, 147937

[3]Chi H.F., Hou Y.W., Li G.F., Zhang Y.C., Coulon F., Cai C*. In vitro model insights into the role of human gut microbiota on arsenic bioaccessibility and its speciation in soils. Environmental Pollution. 2020, 263: 114580

[4]Jiajun Fan, Chao Cai, Haifeng Chi, Brian J Reid, Frédéric Coulon, Youchi Zhang *, Yanwei* Hou. Remediation of cadmium and lead polluted soil using thiol-modified biochar. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020, 388

[5]Haifeng Chi, Youchi Zhang, Paul N. Williams, Shanna Lin, Yanwei Hou, Chao Cai. In vitro model to assess arsenic bioaccessibility and speciation in cooked shrimp. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2018, 66(18): 4710-4715

[6]Bijing Xiong, Youchi Zhang, Yanwei Hou, Hans Peter H. Arp, Brain J Reid, Chao Cai？. Enhanced biodegradation of PAHs in historically contaminated soil by M. gilvum inoculated biochar. Chemosphere, 2017, 182: 316-324.

[7]Youchi Zhang, Jiajun Fan, Minglai Fu, Yong sik Ok, Yanwei Hou, Chao Cai. Adsorption antagonism and synergy of arsenate (V) and cadmium (II) onto Fe-modified rice straw biochars. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2019, 41: 1755-1766.

[8]Youchi Zhang#, Tingting Chen#, Yongkai Liao, Brian J. Reid, Haifeng Chi, Yanwei Hou, Chao Cai*. Modest Amendment of Sewage Sludge Biochar to Reduce the Accumulation of Cadmium into Rice(Oryza sativa L.): A Field Study, Environmental Pollution, 2016, 216: 819-825

[9]Youchi Zhang*, Huidan Li. Biological Reduction of Hydrogel Encapsulated Fe(III) by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1: Incubation Experiment and Kinetic Modeling. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 2016, 25(2): 1-8

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