2019.01-present: Professor at Chengdu Institute of Biology, CAS

2014.12-2015.12 Research fellow at Colorado State University

2012.12-2013.11 Visiting scholar at University of Quebec at Montreal

2010.12-2018.12 Associate professor at Institute of Mountain hazard and Environment, CAS

2007.07-2010.11 Assistant professor at Institute of Mountain hazard and Environment, CAS

Biogeochemical cycling of soil elements; biodiversity and its functions; restoration and rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems

Du CJ, Zhou GY, Gao YH*. 2022. Grazing exclusion alters carbon flux of alpine meadow in the Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 314: 1–14.  

Du CJ, Gao YH*. 2021. Grazing exclusion alters ecological stoichiometry of plant and soil in degraded alpine grassland. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 308: 1–11.  

Du CJ, Gao YH*. Opposite patterns of soil organic and inorganic carbon along a climate gradient in the alpine steppe of northern Tibetan Plateau. Catena, 2020, 186: 1–10.  

Du CJ, Jing J, Shen Y, Liu HX, Gao YH*. Short-term grazing exclusion improved topsoil conditions and plant characteristics in degraded alpine grasslands. Ecological Indicators, 2020, 108: 1–10.  

Du CJ, Wang XD, Zhang MY, Jing J, Gao YH*. 2019. Effects of elevated CO2 on plant C-N-P stoichiometry in terrestrial ecosystems: A meta-analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 650: 697–708.  

Gao YH*, Cooper DJ, Zeng XY. 2018. Nitrogen, not phosphorus, enrichment controls biomass production in alpine wetlands on the Tibetan Plateau, China. Ecological Engineering, 116: 31–34.  

Gao YH*, Cooper DJ, Ma XX. 2016. Phosphorus additions have no impact on plant biomass or soil nitrogen in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Applied Soil Ecology, 106: 18–23.  

Gao YH*, Ma XX, Cooper DJ. 2016. Short-term effect of nitrogen addition on nitric oxide emissions from an alpine meadow in the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 23: 12474–12479.  

Gao YH*, Zeng XY, Xie QY, Ma XX. 2015. Release of carbon and nitrogen from alpine soils during thawing periods in the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 226: 209.  

Gao YH*, Chen H, Schumann M, Wu YY. 2015. Short-term responses of nitrous oxide fluxes to nitrogen and phosphorus addition in a peatland on the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 14: 121–127.  

Gao YH*, Ma G, Zeng XY, Xu SQ, Wang DX. 2015. Responses of microbial respiration to nitrogen addition in two alpine soils on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Environmental Biology, 35: 261–265.  

Gao YH*, Chen H, Zeng XY. 2014. Effects of nitrogen and sulfur deposition on CH₄ and N₂O fluxes in high-altitude peatland soil under different water tables in the Tibetan Plateau. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 60: 404–410.