2012.9-2015.9: Tongji University, Marine Geology (Ph.D.)
2014.8-2015.1: Visiting Fellowship at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
2009.9-2012.6: Tongji University, Marine Biology (M.Sc)
2005.9-2009.6: Shandong Jianzhu University, Water Supply and Drainage Engineering, (B.Sc)

2018.5-, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Assistant Professor
2015.11-2018.5, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University, Post-doctoral Fellow

1) Biogeochemistry
2) Paleoceanography and Paleoclimates
3) Deep Biosphere

1) Establish the proxy of archaeal ammonia oxidation, Young Teacher Initiation Plan, 200k, 2018.5.1-2021.12.31
2) Identifying the recycling of fossil GDGTs by sediment inhabited archaea using deuterium-labeled technique, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 41606047), 200k, 2017.1-2019.12, PI
3) Explore the role of the ammonia-oxidizing archaea in the late Quaternary Nitrogen cycle in the South China Sea, the post-doctoral Foundation of China (Grant No. 2016M600330), 80k, 2017.1-2018.4, PI

First author
1) Dong L, Jia G*, Li Z, 2019. Archaeal ammonia oxidation plays a part in late Quaternary nitrogen cycle in the South China Sea, Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, 509, 38-46.
2) Dong L, Jia G*, Li Q, Shi J, Li L, Zhang L C, 2018. Intact polar glycosidic GDGTs in sediments settle from water column as evidenced from downcore sediment records, Chemical Geology, 501, 12-18.
3) Dong L, Li L*, Li Q*, Liu J, Chen Y, He J, Wang H, 2015. Basin-wide distribution of phytoplankton lipids in the South China Sea during intermonsoon seasons, Deep Sea Research II, 98, 94-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.07.005i.
4) Dong L, Li L*, Li Q*, Wang H, Zhang L C, 2015. Hydro-climate implications of thermocline (UK’37 and TEXH86) variability in the southern South China Sea over the past 180,000 years, Quaternary Research, 2(83): 370-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2014.12.003.
5) Dong L, Li Q*, Li L*, Zhang L C, 2015. Glacial-interglacial contrast in MBT/CBT proxies in the South China Sea: Implications for marine production of branched GDGTs and continental teleconnection. Organic Geochemistry, 79:74-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.12.008.
6) Dong L, Li L, Wang H, et al., 2012. Assessment of phytoplankton distribution in western tropical Pacific by lipid biomarkers and the environmental impacts. Marine Geology and Quaternary, 2(1): 51-59 (in Chinese with English abstract). 董良, 李丽, 王慧, , 2012. 2008年冬季西太平洋表层海水浮游藻类分布特征-分子有机地球化学研究. 海洋地质与第四纪地质, 2(1): 51-59 (in Chinese with English abstract).
Co-author
1) Zhang Y, Pearson A, Benthien A, Dong L, Huybers P, Liu X, Pagani M, 2019. Refining the alkenone-pCO2 method I: Lessons from the Quaternary glacial cycles, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 260, 177-191.
2) He Y, Hu B, Li J., Lu H., Yan H., Dong L, & Zhou X, 2018. Late-Holocene variation in vertical thermal gradient from the coastal East China Sea: Links to monsoon climate and coastal upwelling. The Holocene, 0959683618810399.
3) Zou L, Hu B, Li J, Dou Y, Xie L, & Dong L, 2018. Middle Holocene Organic Carbon and Biomarker Records from the South Yellow Sea: Relationship to the East Asian Monsoon. Journal of Ocean University of China, 17(4):1-12.
4) Jia G, Wang X, Guo W, Dong L, 2017. Seasonal distribution of archaeal lipids in surface water and its constraint on their sources and the TEX86 temperature proxy in sediments, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122.
5) Ge H, Zhang L C, Versteegh G J, Chen L, Fan D, Dong L, Liu, J, 2016. Evolution of the East China Sea sedimentary environment in the past 14 ka: new insights from tetraethers-based proxies, Science China Earth Sciences, 5: 927-938.
6) Li L, Li Q, Li J, Wang H, Dong L, Huang Y, Wang P, 2015. Late Quaternary n-alkane chain length record indicates a regime shift in the mean hydrological states around 270 ka in the western tropical Pacific, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 427: 79-88.
7) Ge H, Zhang L C, Li J, Versteegh G J, Hu B, Zhao J, Dong L, 2014. Tetraether lipids from the southern Yellow Sea of China: Implications for the variability of East Asia Winter Monsoon in the Holocene. Organic Geochemistry, 70: 10-19.
8) Li J T, Sun Y N, Fang J S, Xie W, Peng X T, Dong L, Wu Z J, Zhou H Y, 2014. Aerobic and Anaerobic Ammonia-Oxidizing Microorganisms in Low Temperature Hydrothermal Fe-Si-rich Precipitates, Geomicrobiology Journal, 31(1): 42-52.
9) Wei Y, Wang J, Liu J, Dong L, et al., 2011. Spatial Variation in archaeal lipids of surface water and core-top sediments in the South China Sea: implications for paleoclimate studies. Applied Environmental Microbiology, 77(21): 7479-7489.