基本情况
曹英杰，教授，博士生导师，中山大学“百人计划”引进人才。
主要从事同位素环境生物地球化学研究，负责学院环境及生态系统元素循环示踪平台建设，示踪平台仪器设备配备齐全，涵盖质谱（包括同位素质谱）、色谱、能谱及光谱分析子平台。合计发表学术论文80篇，撰写专著3部，其中以第一或通讯作者在Water Research、Journal of Hydrology等水环境与水资源领域主流期刊共发表论文40余篇。承担主持了国家重点研发子课题、国家自然科学基金、广东省自然科学基金、广州市自然科学基金及高校基本业务费项目多项，并主持和参与了多项社会服务项目，荣获广东省环境学会一等奖3项。
目前主要开拓方向为同位素有机地球化学及传统同位素的非传统应用，欢迎相关方向学生及科研人员加入课题组开展研究工作。
教育经历
2001.09-2005.07 吉林大学 水文与水资源工程 工学学士
2005.09-2008.07 河海大学 水文学及水资源 工学硕士
2008.09-2012.07 中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所 自然地理 理学博士
2009.10-2013.09 日本千叶大学 绿地环境 农学博士
工作经历
2010.10-2015.02 日本农研机构农村工学研究所 助理研究员
2013.10-2015.02 日本千叶大学 园艺学研究科 博士研究员
2015.12-至今 中山大学，环境科学与工程学院，讲师，副教授
2026.01-至今 中山大学，环境科学与工程学院，教授
讲授课程
本科课程：地下水污染与调查方法、水环境学及实习、环境土壤学及实习、环境统计学、地理信息系统、水环境数学模型
研究生课程：水环境污染与修复、水文地球化学基础
研究方向
同位素生物地球化学、同位素水文学、水环境污染溯源等
主持项目情况（年份排序）：
（1）国家重点研发计划，集群区污染物高精度识别与风险筛查技术研究，子课题“存量及增量污染物来源解析及污染历史反演”，2023YFC3709701，2023-12-01至2027-11-30，主持，在研
（2）国家自然科学基金-面上项目，粤港澳大湾区城镇化河流氮素来源解析及迁移转化研究：基于多相多形态氮同位素示踪的探索，2021-2024，主持，结题
（3）国家重点研发计划，有色金属矿区地下水污染防控技术体系，子课题“有色金属矿区地下水迁移通道与重金属污染过程识别”，2020-2023，主持，结题
（4）广东省自然科学基金-面上项目，基于三维荧光光谱及同位素技术的桉树种植流域溶解性有机物输出特征和来源解析，2019-2020，主持，结题
（5）广东省科技计划项目，VOCs及石油类化合物场地污染原位ORC加速微生物修复技术研发与应用，课题“土壤气抽提VOCs色谱在线分析技术研发”，2018-2019，主持，结题
（6）国家重点研发计划，海水抽水蓄能电站前瞻技术研究-海水抽水蓄能电站环境影响评估与生态修复关键技术，子课题“海水抽水蓄能电站地下水渗漏监测预警”，2017-2021，主持，结题
（7）国家自然科学基金-青年基金，基于CFCs及多同位素示踪技术的城乡交错带地下水硝酸盐污染源解析及迁移转化规律研究，2016-2018，主持，结题
代表论著
Xuan, Y., X. Cai, L. Wang, Y. Chang, X. Lu and Y. Cao* (2025). "Nonlinear pattern of indirect N2O emission factor with increasing nitrate in urban rivers: driven by microbial and algal-mediated N transformations." Journal of Hydrology 661: 133815.
Xin, H., X. Chen, S. Lin, H. Luo, Y. Cao*, C. Y. Tang and G. Liu (2024). "Resource utilization of coal chemical waste salt by bipolar membrane electrodialysis with thermal pretreatment." Desalination 580: 117553.
Ye, H., C. Tang, Y. Cao* and E. Hou (2023). "Sources and fates of particulate organic matter in inland waters with complex land use patterns." Science of The Total Environment: 162568.
Xuan, Y., G. Liu, Y. Zhang and Y. Cao* (2022). "Factor affecting nitrate in a mixed land-use watershed of southern China based on dual nitrate isotopes, sources or transformations?" Journal of Hydrology: 127220.
Xuan, Y., Y. Mai, Y. Xu, J. Zheng, Z. He, L. Shu and Y. Cao* (2022). "Enhanced microbial nitrification-denitrification processes in a subtropical metropolitan river network." Water Research 222: 118857.
Ye, H., C. Tang and Y. Cao* (2021). "Sources and transformation mechanisms of inorganic nitrogen: Evidence from multi-isotopes in a rural-urban river area." Science of The Total Environment 794: 148615.
Li, X., C. Tang, Y. Cao* and X. Li (2021). "Isotope and isotopomer ratios of dissolved N2O as indicators of nitrogen apportionment and transformation in shallow groundwater in Dongguan, southern China." Journal of Hydrology 600: 126514.
Li, L., Zhang, Y.*, Wang, J., Lu, S., Cao, Y., Tang, C., Yan, Z. and Zheng, L. (2020) History traces of HCHs and DDTs by groundwater dating and their behaviours and ecological risk in northeast China. Chemosphere 257, 127212.
Li, X., Yao, H., Yu, Y., Cao, Y. and Tang, C*. (2020) Greenhouse gases in an urban river: trend, isotopic evidence for underlying processes, and the impact of in-river structures. Journal of Hydrology 591.
Sun, H., He, Z., Zhang, M., Yen, L., Cao, Y., Hu, Z., Peng, Y*. and Lee, S.Y. (2020) Spatial variation of soil properties impacted by aquaculture effluent in a small-scale mangrove. Marine Pollution Bulletin 160, 111511.
Xuan, Y., Tang, C., Liu, G. and Cao, Y*. (2020) Carbon and nitrogen isotopic records of effects of urbanization and hydrology on particulate and sedimentary organic matter in the highly urbanized Pearl River Delta, China. Journal of Hydrology 591, 125565.
Cao Y, Xuan Y, Tang C* et al. Temporary and net sinks of atmospheric CO2 due to chemical weathering in subtropical catchment with mixing carbonate and silicate lithology. Biogeoscience, 2020
Li, X., C. Tang, and Y. Cao* et al., A multiple isotope (H, O, N, C and S) approach to elucidate the hydrochemical evolution of shallow groundwater in a rapidly urbanized area of the Pearl River Delta, China. Science of The Total Environment, 2020: p. 137930.
Xuan, Y., C. Tang, and Y. Cao*, Mechanisms of nitrate accumulation in highly urbanized rivers: evidence from multi-isotopes in the Pearl River Delta, China. Journal of Hydrology, 2020: p. 124924.
Xuan, Y., Y. Cao, C. Tang* et al., Changes in dissolved inorganic carbon in river water due to urbanization revealed by hydrochemistry and carbon isotope in the Pearl River Delta, China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020.
Wen, J., Tang, C., Cao, Y.*, Li, X., 2020. Understanding the inorganic carbon transport and carbon dioxide evasion in groundwater with multiple sulfate sources during different seasons using isotope records. The Science of the total environment, 710: 134480.
Wu, M., He Z., Fung, S., Cao Y. Guan, D.*, Peng, Y.*, Lee, S., 2020. Species choice in mangrove reforestation may influence the quantity and quality of long-term carbon sequestration and storage. The Science of the total environment, 714: 136742-136742.
Xuan, Y., Tang, C., Cao, Y.*, Li, R., Jiang, T., 2019. Isotopic evidence for seasonal and long-term C and N cycling in a subtropical basin of southern China. Journal of Hydrology: 123926.
Li X., Tang, C., Cao, Y.*, Li, X., 2019. Carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur isotopic features and the associated geochemical processes in a coastal aquifer system of Pearl River Delta, China. Journal of Hydrology, (moderate revision)
Wen, J., Tang, C., Cao, Y.*, Li, X., Chen, Q., 2019. Assessment of trace metals in an aquifer with river-groundwater interaction: The influence of colloidal redistribution and porous matrix change on the migration of metals. Chemosphere, 223: 588-598
Li, R. Tang, C., Li, X., Jiang T., Shi Y., Cao, Y.*, 2019. Reconstructing the historical pollution levels and ecological risks over the past sixty years in sediments of the Beijiang River, South China. Science of The Total Environment, 649: 448-460.
Cai, Y., Cao, Y., Tang, C.*, 2019. Evidence for the Primary Role of Phytoplankton on Nitrogen Cycle in a Subtropical Reservoir: Reflected by the Stable Isotope Ratios of Particulate Nitrogen and Total Dissolved Nitrogen. Frontiers In Microbiology, 10.
Wen, J., Tang, C., Cao, Y.*, Li, X., Chen, Q., 2018. Hydrochemical evolution of groundwater in a riparian zone affected by acid mine drainage (AMD), South China: the role of river–groundwater interactions and groundwater residence time. Environmental Earth Sciences, 77(24): 794.
Li, R., Tang, C., Cao, Y.*, Jiang, T., Chen, J., 2018. The distribution and partitioning of trace metals (Pb, Cd, Cu, and Zn) and metalloid (As) in the Beijiang River. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 190(7): 399.
Pan, M., Wu, Z., Tang, C.,Guo, K., Cao, Y., Fang, J.*, 2018. Emerging investigators series: comparative study of naproxen degradation by the UV/chlorine and the UV/H2O2 advanced oxidation processes. Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 4(9): 1219-1230.
Jiang, T., Zhong M.*, Cao Y., Zou L., Lin B., Zhu A., 2016. Simulation of Water Quality under Different Reservoir Regulation Scenarios in the Tidal River. Water Resources Management, 30(10): 1-15.
Cao, Y., Tang, C.*, Cao, G., Wang, X., 2016. Hydrochemical zoning: natural and anthropogenic origins of the major elements in the surface water of Taizi River Basin, Northeast China. Environmental Earth Sciences, 75(9): 1-14.
Cao, Y., Tang, C.*, Song, X., Liu, C., Zhang, Y., 2016. Identifying the hydrochemical characteristics of rivers and groundwater by multivariate statistical analysis in the Sanjiang Plain, China. Applied Water Science, 6(2): 169-178.
Cao, Y., Tang, C.*, Han, Z., Yoko, S., Li, X., 2016. Interpreting the seasonal and long-term trend of nitrate in both groundwater and spring water in a typical headwater wetland with well-defined groundwater flow pathways. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 16(5): 1327-1338.
Cao, Y., Tang, C.*, Song, X., Liu, C., 2015. Major ion chemistry, chemical weathering and CO2 consumption in the Songhua River basin, Northeast China. Environmental Earth Sciences, 73(11): 7505-7516.
Cao, Y., Tang, C.*, Song, X., Liu, C., Zhang, Y., 2013. Residence time as a key for comprehensive assessment of the relationship between changing land use and nitrates in regional groundwater systems. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 15(4): 876-885.
Cao, Y., Tang, C.*, Song, X., Liu, C., Zhang, Y., 2012. Characteristics of nitrate in major rivers and aquifers of the Sanjiang Plain, China. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 14(10): 2624-2633.