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.); |