About Me



祖鹏娟 Pengjuan Zu

Pengjuan.zu [at] gmail.com

Address:

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich

Department of Environmental Systems Science

Schmelzbergstrasse 9

CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland


Links: ORCiD GoogleScholar

Research Employment

09.2021 - Information ecology

Group leader (SNSF PRIMA Grantee), ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2020 - 2021 Theoretical ecology

SNSF SPARK Grantee, EAWAG, Switzerland

20172020 Postdoc researcher

Global change and biodiversity

Project leader, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Structural Ecology (PI: Prof. Serguei Saavedra)
Postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Chemical Ecology (PI: Prof. Phil Stevenson)

Postdoc at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London, UK

2016 Quantitative Genetics (PI: Prof. Wolf Blanckenhorn)
Research assistant at University of Zurich, Switzerland

2011 Pollination Ecology (PI: Prof. Jon Ågren)
Field assistant at Uppsala University, Sweden

Education

2012 - 2017 PhD Evolutionary Biology, University of Zürich, Switzerland
(Supervisor:
Prof. Florian P. Schiestl)

2009 - 2011 MSc Ecology and Conservation, Uppsala University, Sweden
(Supervisor: Prof. Jon Ågren)

2005 - 2009 BSc Bioscience, Beijing Normal University, China

2005 - 2009 Minor Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China

Grants and awards

2020 Swiss National Science Foundation PRIMA (2021 - 2026)

2020 Swiss National Science Foundation SPARK (2020 - 2021)

2017 Swiss National Science Foundation Early Postdoc Mobility

2016 Georges and Antoine Claraz-Schenkung Foundation, Switzerland

2016 ESEB Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award

2015 Georges and Antoine Claraz-Schenkung Foundation, Switzerland


Science communication

2020-12-03 Whispering trees, Yvonne Vahlensieck, Horizons (The Swiss Research Magazine) highlighted my research.

2020-06-19 Using information theory to decode network coevolution, Ricard Solé, Science

2020-06-18 Deceptive plant smells: camouflaging with odour, Phil Stevenson

Miscellaneous

Exciting life as an Ecologist

Recorded talk on Evolution meeting 2016