Brief CV
Chair Professor, Xiamen University (2020-)
Distinguished Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2014-)
Professor, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences (1998.12-2020)
Research Associate, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor, RCEES, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1988.5-1998.11)
President, Pacific Science Association (2016-)
Past President (2014- ); President (2009-2014), Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)
Member, International Resource Panel of United Nations Environment Program (UNEP/IRP) (2013-)
Vice President, Ecological Society of China (2012-)
Chair, Special Committee on Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Chinese Society of Sustainable Development (2012-)
Member, ICSU (International Council for Science) Committee on Scientific Planning and Review (CSPR) (2009-2015)
Associate Editor, Science Advances (2015-)
Founding Editor-in-Chief, Ecosystem Health and Sustainability (2014-)
Founder and Associate Editor of Environmental Development: Transdisciplinary Journal of SCOPE (2011-)
Associate Editor, Acta Ecologica Sinica (2012-)
Research Interests
Sustainability Ecology;
Environmental Geoscience and Management;
Environmental Ecology
Selected Publications
Xiaoqi Zheng, Yonglong Lu*, Jingjing Yuan, Yvette Baninla, Sheng Zhang, Nils Chr. Stenseth**, Dag O. Hesseng, Hanqin Tian, Michael Obersteiner, Deliang Chen, 2020. Drivers of change in China's energy-related CO2 emissions, PNAS, 117(1), 29-36.
Meng Zhang, Pei Wang, Yonglong Lu*, Xiaotian Lu, Anqi Zhang, Zhaoyang Liu, Yueqing Zhang, Kifayatullah Khan, Suriyanarayanan Sarvajayakesavalu, 2020. Bioaccumulation and human exposure of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in vegetables from the largest vegetable production base of China, Environment International, 135, 105347.
Pei Wang*, Yonglong Lu**, Hongqiao Su, Chao Su, Andrew C Johnson, Longfei Yu, Alan Jenkins, 2020. Managing health risks of perfluoroalkyl acids in aquatic food from a river-estuary-sea environment affected by fluorochemical industry, Environment International, 138, 105621.
Yonglong Lu*, Yueqing Zhang, Xianghui Cao, Chenchen Wang, Yichao Wang, Meng Zhang, Robert C. Ferrier, Alan Jenkins, Jingjing Yuan, Mark J Bailey, Deliang Chen, Hanqin Tian, Hong Li, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Zhongxiang Zhang, 2019. Forty years of reform and opening up: China’s progress toward a sustainable path, Science Advances, 5: eaau9413.
Pei Wang, Meng Zhang, Yonglong Lu*, Jing Meng, Qifeng Li, Xiaotian Lu, 2019. Removal of perfluoalkyl acids (PFAAs) through fluorochemical industrial and domestic wastewater treatment plants and bioaccumulation in aquatic plants in river and artificial wetland, Environment International, 129:76-85.
Shuai Song, Yonglong Lu*, Tieyu Wang, Sheng Zhang, Andrew Sweetman, Yvette Baninla, Yajuan Shi, Zhaoyang Liu, Jing Meng, Jing Geng, 2019. Urban-rural gradients of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in soils at a regional scale: Quantification and prediction, Journal of Environmental Management, 249: 109406.
Hongqiao Su, Yajuan Shi, Yonglong Lu*, Pei Wang, Meng Zhang, Andrew Sweetman, Kevin Jones, Andrew Johnson, 2017. Home produced eggs: An important pathway of human exposure to perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) around a fluorochemical industrial park in China, Environment International, 101:1-6.
Zhaoyang Liu, Yonglong Lu*, Yajuan Shi, Pei Wang, Kevin Jones, Andrew J. Sweetman, Andrew C. Johnson, Meng Zhang, Yunqiao Zhou, Xiaotian Lu, Chao Su, Suriyanarayanan Sarvajayakesavaluc, Kifayatullah Khan, 2017. Crop bioaccumulation and human exposure of perfluoroalkyl acids through multi-media transport from a mega fluorochemical industrial park, China, Environment International, 106:37-47.
Hongqiao Su, Yonglong Lu*, Pei Wang, Yajuan Shi, Qifeng Li, Yunqiao Zhou, Andrew C. Johnson, 2016. Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in indoor and outdoor dusts around a mega fluorochemical industrial park in China: Implications for human exposure, Environment International, 94:667-673.
Zhaoyang Liu, Yonglong Lu*, Tieyu Wang, Pei Wang, Qifeng Li, Andrew C. Johnson, Suriyanarayanan Sarvajayakesavalu, Andrew J. Sweetman, 2016. Risk assessment and source identification of perfluoroalkyl acids in surface and ground water spatial distribution around a mega-fluorochemical industrial park, China, Environment International, 91:69-77.
Yajuan Shi, Ruoshi Wang, Yonglong Lu*, Shuai Song, Andrew C. Johnson, Andrew Sweetman, Kevin Jones, 2016. Regional multi-compartment ecological risk assessment: Establishing cadmium pollution risk in the northern Bohai Rim, China, Environment International, 94: 283-291.
Yonglong Lu*, Jingjing Yuan, Martin Visbeck, Steve Fletcher, Guizhen He, 2016. Rate oceans’ capital to help achieve SDGs, Nature, 537:34.
Yonglong Lu*, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Martin Visbeck, Anne-Sophie Stevance, 2015. Five priorities for the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Nature, 520:432-433.
Yonglong Lu*, Alan Jenkins**, Robert C. Ferrier, Mark Bailey, Iain J. Gordon, Shuai Song, Jikun Huang, Shaofeng Jia, Fusuo Zhang, Xuejun Liu, Zhaozhong Feng, Zhibin Zhang, 2015. Addressing China’s Grand Challenge of Achieving Food Security Whilst Ensuring Environmental Sustainability, Science Advances, 1, e1400039.
Yonglong Lu*, Shuai Song, Ruoshi Wang, Zhaoyang Liu, Jing Meng, Andrew J. Sweetman, Alan Jenkins, Robert C. Ferrier, Hong Li, Wei Luo, Tieyu Wang, 2015. Impacts of Soil and Water Pollution on Food Safety and Health Risks in China, Environment International, 77: 5-15.
Shijie Liu, Yonglong Lu*, Shuangwei Xie, Tieyu Wang, Kevin C. Jones, Andrew J. Sweetman, 2015. Exploring the fate, transport and risk of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) in a coastal region of China using a multimedia model, Environment International, 85:15-26.
Shijie Liu, Yonglong Lu*, Tieyu Wang, Shuangwei Xie, Kevin C. Jones, Andrew J. Sweetman, 2014. Using gridded multimedia model to simulate spatial fate of Benzo[α]pyrene on regional scale, Environment International, 63: 53-63.
Guizhen He, Lei Zhang, Author Mol, Yonglong Lu*, Jianguo Liu, 2013. Revising China's Environmental Law, Science, 341:133.
Shuangwei Xie, Yonglong Lu*, Tieyu Wang, Shijie Liu, Kevin Jones, Andy Sweetman, 2013. Estimation of PFOS emission from domestic sources in the eastern coastal region of China, Environment International, 59: 336-343.
Shuangwei Xie, Tieyu Wang*, Shijie Liu, Kevin C. Jones, Andrew J. Sweetman, Yonglong Lu*, 2013. Industrial source identification and emission estimation of perfluorooctane sulfonate in China, Environment International, 52:1-8.
Yonglong Lu, John Giesy, Laura Holliday, Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, The National Academies Press, 2007, Washington, D.C.
Teaching Experience
Sustainability Ecology
Research Funding
International Partnership Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Global Ecological Effects of Coastal Development (GECD) (2020-2024)
National Key R & D Program: Coupling Relationship and Regulation Mechanism between Urbanization and Regional Ecology (2017-2021)
NSFC-UNEP Cooperation Program: Ecological Effects and Sustainable Management of Coastal Mining and Mineral Resource Applications (2018-2022)
Awards and Honors
Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2012-)
Foreign Member, Academia Europaea (AE) (2019-)
Scientific Chinese Outstanding Contribution Award (2019)
Science Prize for Development Promotion by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2018)
Green Design International Contribution Award by World Green Design Organization (2016)
Excellent Expert with Special Allowance by the State Council of China (2015)
SCOPE Distinguished Achievement Award (2014)
National Award for Outstanding Young and Middle Aged Scientist (2014)
Excellent Graduate Supervisor Award by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2014)
The 2nd National Prize for Advancement of Science and Technology (2007)
CAS-BHP Billiton Award for Scientific Research (2005)
The 3rd Prize for Advancement of Science and Technology by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1994)
The 2nd Prize for Advancement of Science and Technology by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1993)
