Dr. Zhuang Ping is the associate Professor of South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science. She received her doctorate in environmental science from Sun Yat-sen University In 2007. She was a senior visiting scholar at Cornell University in 2012 and National University of Ireland (Galway) in 2016.

Dr. Zhuang’s research interests focus on the bioavailability of toxic metals in soils to crops, animals, and humans, considering all of the properties of soils that modify this bioavailability. Ultimately, these researches have several goals, protecting food crops from toxic metal contaminants, minimizing heavy metals uptake, and developing methods for testing and remediating contaminated soils. Dr. Zhuang has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including 28 SCI papers by the first or corresponding author. The total number of citations more than 3000, and two papers were selected into ESI high cited papers, of which the highest number of citations of one of papers exceed 850. H-index is 23. She won the second prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2020.

Mao, P, Wu JT, Li F, Sun S, Huang R, Zhang LL, Mo JM, Li ZA*, Zhuang P*, Joint approaches to reduce cadmium exposure risk from rice consumption, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022, 429(5): 128263

Dong ML, Huang R, Mao P, Lei L, Li YX, Li YW, Xia HP, Li ZA*, Zhuang P*, Immobilization of Cadmium by Molecular Sieve and Wollastonite Is Soil pH and Organic Matter Dependent, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(10), 5128; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105128

Sun S, Zhou XF, Li YW, Li YX, Xia HP, Li ZA, Zhuang P*. 2020. Use of dietary components to reduce bioaccessibility and bioavailability of cadmium in rice. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 68, 4166？4175

Sun S, Zhou XF, Cui XY, Fan YX, McBride MB, Li YW, Li YX, Li ZA*, Zhuang P*, Exogenous plant growth regulators improved phytoextraction efficiency by Amaranths Hypochondriacus L. in Cd contaminated soil. Plant Growth Regulation. 2020, 90(1): 29-40

Zhuang P*, Sun S, Zhou XF, Mao P, McBride BM, Zhang CS. Li YW, Xia HP, Li ZA, 2020. Bioavailability and bioaccessibility of cadmium in contaminated rice by in vivo and in vitro bioassays. Science of the Total Environment 719, 137453

Su F. Li ZA, Li YW, Xu L, Li YX, Li SY, Chen HF, Zhuang P*, Wang FG*. Removal of total nitrogen and phosphorus using single or combinations of aquatic plants, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 4663; doi:10.3390/ijerph16234663

Sun S, Zhou XF, Li ZA, and Zhuang P*. In vitro and in vivo testing to determine Cd bioaccessibility and bioavailability in contaminated rice in relation to mouse chow. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019, 16(5), 871-882

Li F, Li ZA*, Mao P, Li YW, Li YX, McBride MB, Wu JT, Zhuang P*, 2019. Heavy metals availability, bioaccessibility and leachability in contaminated soil: Effects of pig manure and earthworms, Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26(20):20030-20039

Zhuang P, Sun S, Su F, Li F, Zhou XF, Mao P, Li YW, Li ZA*, Zhang CS. 2018. Dietary strategies to reduce the oral bioaccessibility of cadmium and arsenic in rice. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25:33353–33360

Zhuang P, Sun S, Li YW, Zou B, Li YX, Mo H, Li ZA*. 2018. Oral bioaccessibility and exposure risk of metal(loid)s in local residents near a mining-impacted area, Hunan, China. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 15, 1573.

Lu HP, Li ZA*, Wu JT, Shen Y, Li YW, Zou B, Tao YT, Zhuang P*. 2017. Influences of calcium silicate on chemical forms and subcellular distribution of cadmium in Amaranthus hypochondriacus L. Scientific Reports. 7:40583

Zhuang P, Li YW, Zou B, Feng Su, Zhang CS, Mo H, Li ZA*. 2016. Oral bioaccessibility and human exposure of cadmium and lead from market vegetables in Pearl River Delta, South China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 23(23): 24402-24410.

Zhuang P, Zhang CS, Li YW, Zou B, Mo H, Wu KJ, Wu JT, Li ZA*. 2016. Assessment of influences of cooking on cadmium and arsenic bioaccessibility in rice, using an in vitro physiologically-based extraction test. Food Chemistry. 213: 206–214