2008年在加拿大滑铁卢大学（University of Waterloo）获得地球与环境科学学院博士学位。2008至2015年在广东省生态环境与土壤研究所工作，主要从事微生物燃料电池原理与应用、微生物胞外呼吸菌的电子传递机制及其环境生态应用、厌氧土壤有机质降解与甲烷生成的微生物机制等。

1．土壤胞外呼吸菌多样性与生态功能；

2．土壤碳-铁循环的微生物机理；

3．厌氧微生物种间相互作用机理；

4．土壤有机污染微生物修复技术；

5．厌氧生物水处理机理与技术。

微生物燃料电池原理与应用

1. L. Zhuang , J. Tang (co-first author), Y. Wang , M. Hu, and S Zhou*. Conductive iron oxide minerals accelerate syntrophic cooperation in methanogenic benzoate degradation. Journal of Hazardous Materials 2015, 293, 37-45.

2. L. Zhuang, J.-L. Xu, J. Tang, and S. Zhou*. Effect of Ferrihydrite Biomineralization on Methanogenesis in an Anaerobic Incubation from Paddy Soil. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 2015, 120, 876-886.

3. S. Zhou, J. Xu, G.-Q. Yang, and L. Zhuang*. Methanogenesis affected by the co-occurrence of iron(III) oxides and humic substances. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 2014, 88, 107-120.

4. L. Zhuang*, L. Gui, R.-W. Gillham, and R.-C. Landis. Laboratory and Pilot-Scale Bioremediation of Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) Contaminated Soil. Journal of Hazardous Materials 2014, 264, 261-268.

5. J. Xu, L. Zhuang*, G.-Q. Yang, Y. Yuan, and S. Zhou*. Extracellular quinones affecting methane production and methanogenic community in paddy soil. Microbial Ecology 2013, 66, 950-960.