About

Mang Lin (林莽)

Education:

• Ph.D. in Chemistry (2018), University of California San Diego

• M.Sc. in Environmental Science (2013), Sun Yat-sen University

• B.Sc. in Environmental Science (2008), Sun Yat-sen University

Academic Employment:

• Professor, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2020-present)

• Associate Professor, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019)

• JSPS Postdoc Research Fellow, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2018-2019)

• GEP Graduate Research Fellow, University of California San Diego (2013-2018)

• Research and Teaching Assistant, Sun Yat-sen University (2008-2013)

Awards:

• Guangdong Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award, Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province (2025)

• 2024 Rising Stars in Environmental Research, ACS Environmental Au (2025)

• Young Scientist Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2024)

• China Youth Science and Technology Award, China Association for Science and Technology (2024)

• Emerging Investigator Award, International Association of GeoChemistry - Applied Geochemistry (2024)

• CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2023)

• D.F. Hou Award, Chinese Society for Mineralogy Petrology and Geochemistry (2023)

• Chancellor's Dissertation Medal (Physical Sciences), UC San Diego (2018)

• Chemistry and Biochemistry Outstanding Dissertation Award, UC San Diego (2018)

• JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan (2018)

• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (2017)

• Chemistry and Biochemistry Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship, UC San Diego (2017)

• Guangzhou Elite Project Doctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad (2013)

• Chongton Environmental Group Scholarship (2012)

• National Graduate Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China (2012)

Research Grants:

• NSFC: Mechanisms and applications of mass-independent isotope fractionation (Co-PI; PI: H. Bao; 2025-2029)

• NSFC: Multiple sulfur and oxygen isotope planetary chemistry (PI; 2024-2028)

• CAS: Prebiotic chemistry driven by radiolysis (PI; 2024-2026)

• NSFC: Evolution of lithosphere and response of Earth's Surface (Co-PI; PI: Q. Wang; 2021-2025)

• CIFAR: Global Scholars of "Earth 4D: Subsurface Science & Exploration" (PI; 2023-2025)

• NSFC: Oxygen isotope effects in water radiolysis and implications for Mars (PI; 2021-2024)

• NSFC: Origins of S-MIF signatures in the lunar regolith: A preliminary investigation (PI; 2023)

• CAS: Searching for novel mechanisms of S-MIF and implications towards the early Earth (PI; 2019-2023)

• Start-Up Fund: Isotope Geochemistry (PI; 2019-2022)

• JSPS: Understanding the nitrogen cycle over the Tibetan Plateau using a novel isotopic approach (Co-PI; PI: N. Yoshida; 2018-2019)

Professional Service:

• Editorial Board Member of Chemical Geology, Acta Geochimica

• Reviewer for hundreds of manuscripts submitted to 43 journals including PNAS, Science Advances, Nature journals (Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Communications Earth & Environment, Scientific Data, Scientific Reports), ACS journals (Analytical Chemistry, ES&T, ES&T Letters, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, Crystal Growth and Design), AGU Journals (GRL, JGR, Earth and Space Science), EGU journals (ACP, The Cryosphere), National Science Review, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Geology, Chemical Geology, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Hydrology, Palaeo-3, International Journal of Climatology, Applied Geochemistry, Acta Geochimica, Solid Earth Sciences, Geochemical Journal, Microchemical Journal, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Research, Atmospheric Environment, Science of the Total Environment, The Innovation Geoscience, Eco-Environment & Health, Aerosol and Air Quality Research, Atmospheric Pollution Research, Frontiers in Marine Science, Sustainable Chemistry One World

• Reviewer of proposals submitted to NSFC, MOST-PRC, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, STFC-UK (Astronomy Grants Panel), and Frontier Research in Chemistry Foundation

• Session conveners/chairs for AGU (2023) and Goldschmidt (2020)

Lin was born and grew up in Guangzhou. After six years of study in Guangzhou No.2 Middle/High School, he was enrolled in the environmental science undergraduate program of Sun Yat-sen University. Lin started his research career as a fulltime research assistant in Sun Yat-sen University after receiving his B.Sc. degree in environmental sciences (2008). During this research assistant period (2008-2011), he mainly worked on urban air pollution problems with Prof. John Chuen-Yu Chan, but also started to learn isotope geochemistry by himself. He attended the IsoCamp summer school in University of Utah at 2009. He also visited Prof. Xuhui Lee's Lab at Yale University (2009) and Prof. Mark Thiemens' Lab at University of California San Diego (2011) to learn isotope analytical techniques. In 2011, he decided to go to graduate school. He stayed in John Chuen-Yu Chan's group for his master research, in which he collaborated with Mark Thiemens to study Tibetan Plateau atmospheric and glacial environments using radiosulfur. After he received his M.Sc. degree in environmental sciences from Sun Yat-sen University at 2013, he moved to California to start his Ph.D. study in department of chemistry and biochemistry at University of California San Diego under supervision of Mark Thiemens.

As a Ph.D. student in the research track of analytical and atmospheric chemistry, Lin focused on developing and improving sulfur isotope analytical techniques to solve various problems in atmospheric chemistry for both present days and geological past. His Ph.D. dissertation "Development of new analytical techniques for measuring radiosulfur in terrestrial samples to understand the present-day and Archean atmospheric sulfur cycles" was selected as one of the Chemistry & Biochemistry Outstanding Dissertations in 2018. He also received the Chancellor's Dissertation Medal in Physical Sciences in 2018. Following the strong tradition of interdisciplinary research in the Thiemens Lab and chemistry department, Lin expanded his research interests to physical chemistry, cosmochemistry, and planetary sciences during his time in University of California San Diego. He also worked on triple oxygen isotope measurements in Martian meteorites and laboratory simulation of photochemistry in the Martian atmosphere with his labmate Dr. Robina Shaheen. After receiving Ph.D. in chemistry from University of California San Diego (2018), he spent one year as a JSPS postdoctoral research fellow at Tokyo Tech hosted by Prof. Naohiro Yoshida, where he was able to work on a wide range of research topics (multiple isotopes in nitrate, clumped isotopes in carbonate and methane, radiation and prebiotic chemistry) closely with colleagues (Drs. Shohei Hattori, Naizhong Zhang, Ruiqin Yi, Jim Cleaves, etc.) from the Department of Chemical Science and Engineering and Earth-Life Science Institute.

Lin moved back to Guangzhou in 2019. He joined the State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry (SKLaBIG) at Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 2020. In 2025, the State Key Laboratory of DEep Earth ProcEsses and Resources (DEEPER) was created in part by incorporating the former SKLaBIG, and Lin served as the director of DEEPER. He will continue developing isotope analytical techniques, exploring mysteries of isotope chemistry, and utilizing them as tools for solving problems in Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences. He will also study chemical processes in deep planetary interior and in deep time. 

• Office: Research Building 626 at GIGCAS

• Lab: Isotope Building 203, 204, 206, 214 at GIGCAS

• Email: linm at gig.ac.cn

• Tel: +86-20-85292396

• Twitter: @mlinchem