2016年博士毕业于中国科学院南京土壤研究所，期间受国家留学基金委资助赴美国洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室公派交流一年。现就职于中国科学院生态环境研究中心。研究成果发表于《Soil Biology and Biochemistry》、《Ecology》等国际主流学术期刊。

土壤微生物生态学

国家自然科学基金青年基金：北京东灵山林线上下土壤微生物的时空分异研究，2018/01 -2020/12，41701273，26 万，主持。

［1]Congcong Shen, Yuan Ge, Teng Yang, Haiyan Chu. Verrucomicrobial elevational distribution was strongly influenced by soil pH and carbon/nitrogen ratio. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2017, 17: 2449-2456. ［2]Congcong Shen, Yu Shi, Yingying Ni, Ye Deng, Van Nostrand Joy D, Zhili He, Jizhong Zhou, Haiyan Chu. Dramatic increases of soil microbial functional gene diversity at the treeline ecotone of Changbai Mountain. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016, 7: 1184. ［3]Congcong Shen, Yingying Ni, Wenju Liang, Jianjun Wang, Haiyan Chu. Distinct soil bacterial communities along a small-scale elevational gradient in alpine tundra. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015, 6: 582. ［4]Congcong Shen, Wenju Liang, Yu Shi, Xiangui Lin, Huayong Zhang, Xian Wu, Gary Xie, Patrick Chain, Paul Grogan, Haiyan Chu. Contrasting elevational diversity patterns between eukaryotic soil microbes and plants. Ecology, 2014, 95: 3190–3202. ［5]Congcong Shen, Jinbo Xiong, Huayong Zhang, Youzhi Feng, Xiangui Lin, Xinyu Li, Wenju Liang, Haiyan Chu. Soil pH drives the spatial distribution of bacterial communities along elevation on Changbai Mountain. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2013, 57: 204–211.