Faculty
Faculty

Zezhen Pan

Associate Professor

Environmental Science/Environmental Engineering/

Email: zezhenpan@fudan.edu.cn

Address: Environmental Science Building, No. 2205 Songhu Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China

Research Interests

  • Dr. Pan’s research focuses on environmental geochemical processes at soil and mineral-water interfaces, with particular emphasis on interfacial reactions that regulate element cycling and contaminant fate in terrestrial environments. In recent years, her work has centered on natural soil systems, investigating how minerals mediate soil carbon dynamics.

Biography

  • Zezhen Pan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Fudan University. Prior to returning to Fudan, she was a postdoc fellow in the Environmental Microbiology Lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, under the mentorship of Prof. Rizlan Bernier Latmani. She received a B.S. degree in Environmental Science from Beijing Normal Univeristy in 2013, and a Ph.D. degree in Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017.

Prizes and Awards

  • Excellent Young Scholars Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Overseas) (2022)

  • Pujiang Scholar Program, Shanghai (2021)

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) “Japan-Switzerland Young Researchers Exchange Program” Strategic Fellowship (2018)

Key Publications

  • Liu, Q., Shu, Z., Lu, X., Liu, E., Yan, S., Zhu, X., Wang, X., Pan, Z.*, Wang, Z.* Copper-enhanced ferrihydrite Fenton generates dual oxidants for pollutant degradation via surface affinity differentiated pathways. Water Research 2026. 124720

  • Xia, Q., Joshi, P., Pan, Z.*, Lazarov, M., Bartova, B., Xu, X., Prüssmann, T., Kappler, A., Dong, H.*, Weyer, S., Bernier-Latmani, R*. Mineral dynamics revealed by Fe2+-catalyzed recrystallization of U-incorporated goethite. Environmental Science & Technology 2025, 59(48), pp.25900.

  • He, H., Liu, J., Shu, Z., Chen, Y., Pan, Z.*, Peng, C., Wang, X., Zhou, F., Zhou, M., Du, Z., Sun, K., Xing, B., Wang, Z.* Microbially driven iron cycling facilitates organic carbon accrual in decadal biochar-amended soil. Environmental Science & Technology 2024, 58(28), pp.12430.

  • Yang, F., Liu, J., Guo, Q., Zhang, T., Pan, Z.*, and Zhu, X.* Nonextractable residues, an analytical iceberg, contribute significantly to the pool of halogenated organic chemicals in soils across various regions. Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2024, 11(4), pp.342-349.

  • Pan, Z., Loreggian, L., Roebbert, Y., Bartova, B., Hunault, M.O., Weyer, S. and Bernier-Latmani, R., 2024. Pentavalent U reactivity impacts U isotopic fractionation during reduction by magnetite. Environmental Science & Technology, 2024, 58(15), pp.6595-6604.

  • Shu, Z., Liu, Q., Liu, E., Pan, Z.*, Yan, S., Zhang, L., Song, W. and Wang, Z.* Overlooked role of aqueous chromate (VI) as a photosensitizer in enhancing the photochemical reactivity of ferrihydrite and production of hydroxyl radical. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024, 466, p.133557.

  • Xi, G., Gao, X., Zhou, M., Zhai, X., Chen, M., Wang, X., Yang, X., Pan, Z.* and Wang, Z. Migration of ammonium nitrogen in ion-absorbed rare earth soils during and post in situ mining: a column study and numerical simulation analysis. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 2023, 17(8), p.102.

  • Wang, X., Shu, Z., He, H., Zhou, M., Lu, X., Wang, J., Zhang, L., Pan, Z.* and Wang, Z. Arsenopyrite dissolution in circumneutral oxic environments: the effect of pyrophosphate and dissolved Mn (III). Water Research, 2023, 119595.

  • Wen, H., Pan, Z.*, Wang, X., Li, K., Wang, Q., Luo, J., Fu, H., Zhang, L. and Wang, Z.* Dissolution behaviors of a visible-light-responsive photocatalyst BiVO4: Measurements and chemical equilibrium modeling. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023, 443, p.130187.

  • Shu, Z.#, Pan, Z. #, Wang, X., He, H., Yan, S., Zhu, X., Song, W. and Wang, Z*. Sunlight-induced   Interfacial   Electron   Transfer   of   Ferrihydrite under Oxic Conditions: Mineral Transformation and Redox Active Species Production, Environmental Science & Technology., 2022, 56(19), pp 14188-14197.

  • Pan, Z., Roebbert, Y., Beck, A., Bartova, B., Vitova, T., Weyer, S. and Bernier-Latmani, R*. Persistence of the Isotopic Signature of Pentavalent Uranium in Magnetite, Environmental Science & Technology, 2022, 56(3): 1753-1762

  • Pan, Z., Bártová, B., LaGrange, T., Butorin, S.M., Hyatt, N.C., Stennett, M.C., Kvashnina, K.O., Bernier-Latmani, R*. Nanoscale mechanism of UO2 formation through uranium reduction by magnetite. Nature Communications, 2020, 11 (1), pp 1-12.

  • Pan, Z., Zhu, X., Satpathy, A., Li, W., Fortner, J., Giammar, D.E*. Cr(VI) Adsorption on Engineered Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: Exploring Complexation Processes and Water Chemistry. Environmental Science & Technology, 2019, 53 (20), pp 11913-11921.

  • Pan, Z., Li, W., Fortner, J.D., Giammar, D.E*. Measurement and Surface Complexation Modeling of U(VI) Adsorption to Engineered Iron Oxide Nanoparticles. Environmental Science & Technology, 2017, 51 (16), pp 9219-9226.

  • Pan, Z., Giammar, D.E. *, Metha, V., Troyer, L.D., Catalano, J.G., Wang, Z. Phosphate-Induced Immobilization of Uranium in Hanford Sediments. Environmental Science & Technology, 2016, 50 (24), pp 13486–13494.

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