Wenjuan Huang

Wenjuan Huang is an Ecosystem Ecologist specializing in soil biogeochemistry and climate change. She joined the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Iowa State University in 2024. Her research focuses on soil carbon and nutrient cycling in both nature and managed ecosystems, with the aim to improve soil health and mitigating climate change. She integrates field measurements, lab incubation and mechanistic models to understand how plant-microbial-mineral interactions affect soil carbon persistence and nutrient availability/retention.