·   2010.9 – 2014.7 Tongji University, Geology, BS

·   2014.9- 2020.3 Tongji University, Marine Science, PhD

·   2020.11 – 2023.6 ETH Zurich, Postdoc

·   2023.6- 2024.6 ETH Zurich, lecturer

Research Interests

·   Biogeochemistry

·   Paleoceanography

Projects

·   “Evolutions of the seawater Mg/Ca since the late Miocene”, ETH Seed grand, 2023-2024, M

·   Shanghai BYL project

Publications

·   Torres-Romero, Ismael *, Zhang, Hongrui*, Reto, Wijker, Clark, Alexander, RcLeod, Rachel, Jaggi, Madalina, Stoll, Heather. “Hydrogen isotope fractionation is controlled by CO2 in coccolithophore lipids”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (2024).

·   Zhang, Hongrui*, Yongsong Huang, Reto Wijker, Isabel Cacho, Judit Torner, Madeleine Santos, Oliver Kost, Bingbing Wei, and Heather Stoll. Iberian Margin surface ocean cooling led freshening during Marine Isotope Stage 6 abrupt cooling events. Nature Communications 14, no. 1 (2023): 5390.

·   Zhang Hongrui*, Zhou Xinquan, Jiang Xiaoying, Hernández‐Almeida Ivan, Liu Chuanlian*. “The source of Pleistocene carbonate below the CCD in the central basin of South China Sea: evidences from coccolith and geochemistry”. Marine Geology (2023).

·   Gerotto, Amanda*, Hongrui Zhang*, Renata Hanae Nagai, Heather M. Stoll, Rubens César Lopes Figueira, Chuanlian Liu, and Iván Hernández-Almeida. Fossil coccolith morphological attributes as a new proxy for deep ocean carbonate chemistry. Biogeosciences 20, no. 9 (2023): 1725-1739.

·   Zhang Hongrui*, Ismael Torres-Romero*, and Heather M. Stoll. Re-examining extreme carbon isotope fractionation in the coccolithophore Ochrosphaera neapolitana. Nature communications 13, no. 1 (2022): 7606.

·   Zhang Hongrui*, Ismael Torres-Romero, Pien Anjewierden, Madalina Jaggi, and Heather M. Stoll. The DIC carbon isotope evolutions during CO2 bubbling: implications for ocean acidification laboratory culture. Frontiers in Marine Science 9 (2022): 2603.

·   Zhang Hongrui*, Liu Chuanlian, Mejía Luz Maria, Stoll Heather. “Accelerate coccolith size separation via repeated centrifugation.” Biogeosciences 18, no. 5 (2021):1909-16.

·   Zhang Hongrui*, Blanco-Ameijeiras Sonia, Hopkinson Brian M., Bernasconi Stefano M., Mejia Luz Maria, Liu Chuanlian, Stoll Heather. “An isotope label method for empirical detection of carbonic anhydrase in the calcification pathway of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 292 (2021):78-93.

·   Zhang Hongrui*, Stoll Heather, Bolton Clara, Jin Xiaobo, Liu Chuanlian. “A refinement of coccolith separation methods: measuring the sinking characteristics of coccoliths.” Biogeosciences 15(15) (2018):4759-75.

·   Zhang Hongrui, Liu Chuanlian*, Jin Xiaobo, Shi Jiangnan, Zhao Shaohua, Jian Zhimin. “Dynamics of primary productivity in the northern South China Sea over the past 24,000 years.” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 12 (2016):4878-91.