Xueru is a visiting scholar at the University of East Anglia (UEA) between 2022 and 2023. She received her PhD in agricultural environmental protection from the Southwest University, China in 2016. She currently holds a permanent position as a lecturer/researcher in Shenyang Agricultural University and is studying on the functional changes of methane-cycling organisms (both aerobes and anaerobes) and ammonia oxidizers in association with land conversion.

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