Josep Penuelas visited China the first two weeks of May 2018 as grantee of the Distinguished Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Science.

Josep Peñuelas During his stay Prof. Penuelas gave talks and conducted seminars in various centres: Institute of Urban Environment (CAS) in Xiamen, Nanjing Institute of Soil Sciences, Jiaxing Institute of Agricultural Sciences, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences (Peking University, Beijing), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (CAS), Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences (CAS) in Beijing.

He also visited several field sites and farms where to initiate new studies of human genes, microbiota and pollutants  expansion. These meetings with colleagues and students of the different centres have been very enriching and have promoted cooperation between the ERC Synergy Imbalance-P project and current and future ecological and environmental research activities in China.