Service to the discipline
| Member, Standing Advisory Group of Nuclear Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (2004-2012); |
| Scientific Committee Member, ICSU Program Human health and wellbeing in changing urban environment (2012-2014); |
| Associate Editor, Environment International (2012-), from 2004, editorial board member; |
| Associate editorEnvironmental Pollution (2008-2012); from 2004, editorial board member; |
| Advisory Editorial Board: Trends in Plant Science (2009-); |
| Advisor:New Phytologist (2009-); |
| Editorial Board member, Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2011-); |
| Editorial Board, then section editor and Marschner review editor, Plant & Soil (2000-2010); |
| Editor or editorial board member of major Chinese environmental and soil science journals (such as Acta Pedologica Sinica, Acta Ecologica Sinica etc.); |
Invited talks at major international conferences
| Zhu YG. Remediation of soils contaminated with radionuclides. International Conference on Environmental Contamination, Toxicology and Health, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 23-25 September 1998, Hong Kong |
| Zhu YG. Soil-based countermeasures for and remediation of soils contaminated with radionuclides. 5th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, 11-15 July 1999, Vienna, Austria |
| Zhu YG, Kong WD, Chen BD, Nan ZB, Christie P. Soil microbial community: understanding the belowground network for sustainable grassland management. 26 June-1 July 2005, XX International Grassland Congress, Dublin, Ireland |
| Zhu YG. Manipulating rhizosphere processes to minimize the risks associated with soil pollution. 26 August-1 September 2007, Rhizosphere 2 International Conference, Montpellier, France |
| Zhu YG. Arsenic dynamics in the rhizosphere of wetland plants: Redox gradients and microbial processes. 26-27 June 2008, 20th New Phytologist Symposium, Aberdeen, UK |
| Zhu YG. Iron dynamics in the rhizosphere of wetland plants: Coupling of microbial and chemical processes. 14th International Symposium on Iron Nutrition and Interactions in Plants. September 11-15 October 2008, Beijing China |
| Zhu YG. Policies of risk assessment and risk management of agri-food in China: Research experiences and perspectives for heavy metals. International Symposium on “Strategies for Technology Development for Ensuring Agro-Food Safety”, 7-10 July, 2009, Korea |
| Zhu YG. Biogeochemical processes of arsenic in paddy soil. International Symposium of Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth’s Critical Zone. 10-14 October 2009, Hangzhou, China |
| Zhu YG. Managing arsenic in paddy soils to reduce human exposure to arsenic in rice. 17-21 May 2010, The Third International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment, Taiwan |
| Zhu YG. Urbanization in China: Problems and perspectives. 20-23 June 2010, International Urban Environmental Pollution Conference (UEP2010 |
| Zhu YG. Reducing arsenic concentrations in rice. 8-9 July 2010, AquaTrain Final Conference, Orleans, France |
| Zhu YG. Microbe-plant interactions and transformations of arsenic and selenium in soils. 10-15 July 2011, Gordon Research Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology, South Hadley, MA, USA |
| Zhu YG. The role of silicon in mitigating arsenic accumulation in rice plant. The 5th International Conference on Silicon in Agriculture, 13-17 September 2011, Beijing, China |
| Zhu YG. Mending the broken biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen and phosphorus at the urban-rural interface. International Urban Environmental Pollution Conference, (UEP2012), 17-20 June 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Zhu YG. Arsenic in soil-rice systems Microbial ecology perspectives. The 4th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment,22-27 July 2012, Cairns, Australia |
| Zhu YG. Eco-genomics for soil ecological risk assessment. International Conference on Soil Risk Assessment, 6 Dec 2012, Seoul, Korea |
| Zhu YG. Agricultural and environmental benefit of biochar. Sino-German Symposium on Biochar in Agriculture. 14-19 April 2013, Trier, Germany |
| Zhu YG. Future earth in an urbanized China. International Workshop on Future Earth in China, 26-27 September 2013, Beijing, China |
| Zhu YG. Microbial transformation of arsenic in soils and implications for soil remediation. Ecole thématique franco-chinoise-Sino-French training course-AIRECOSOLS 14-18 October, 2013, Nancy, France |
| Zhu YG. Urbanization and human health, Chinese perspectives. The 2nd International Symposium on Environmental Health, 29-30 October 2013, Seoul, Korea |