Summary
Xiaoying Gong is a Professor with 8+ years of post-PhD research and teaching experience specializing in plant ecophysiology and grassland science, based in the Greater Munich area. Her work focuses on carbon and oxygen isotope discrimination in C3 and C4 plants, 13CO2 labeling to trace carbon allocation, and the interactions of nutrient, water availability and grazing on ecosystem productivity. She has led and co-managed funded projects at Technische Universität München and now directs research and mentoring at Fujian Normal University, supervising graduate students and coordinating multidisciplinary teams. Xiaoying combines rigorous isotope-enabled gas-exchange methods with field experiments, bridging leaf-level physiology to ecosystem-scale carbon fluxes. Fluent in cross-cultural research settings between Germany and China, she brings both deep methodological expertise and practical ecosystem management insights. An underappreciated strength is her integration of experimental labeling techniques with long-term grazing and nutrient manipulations to reveal real-world drivers of grassland functioning.
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