Dr. Ding He is a male researcher and doctoral supervisor, currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oceanography at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is also a member of the Ocean Chemistry Branch of the China Society of Oceanography. Dr. He has led over 20 national and provincial-level research projects, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, and various ecological conservation funds from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. In 2021, he received the first prize in the National Youth Teachers' Geological Teaching Skills Competition, and in 2023, he was awarded the Rising Star Award in Environmental Research by the American Chemical Society journal ACS Environmental Au, one of only six recipients worldwide. Dr. He has authored 95 papers in leading international academic journals, including Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Environmental Science & Technology, Geophysical Research Letters, Water Research, Science Advances, Science Bulletin, and Earth Science Review, with 27 papers in journals indexed by Nature. Among these, he is the first or corresponding author of 55 papers, including 20 papers in Nature-indexed journals. Additionally, he has authored three research reports for U.S. state governments and serves as an editor and reviewer for multiple international journals.
DREAMs: Data-driven appRoaches for Exploring organic geochemistry of Aquatic ecosysteMs
The molecular fingerprint provides rich detail information for the organic carbon cycle process, but there are still great challenges in interpreting the biochemical implications. Therefore, our DREAM group is trying to build a fingerprint database of organic carbon molecules along the river to ocean continuum to carry out data-driven interdisciplinary research.
