土壤學博士、生物學博士後，安徽農業大學特任教授、博士生導師。中國/美國土壤學會會員、第三次全國土壤普查剖面技術領隊、第三次全國土壤普查安徽省專家技術指導組成員、中國國際“網際網路+”大學生創新創業大賽專家庫成員、 安徽省耕地土壤污染防治專家委員會委員、安慶市糧棉油產業科技特派團成員、《Eco-Environment & Health》青年編委、《Life Basel》客座編輯和《土壤與作物》特邀編輯。2009年和2016年分別於安徽科技學院和南京農業大學獲得農學學士和博士學位，2014.09-2015.09在美國喬治亞理工學院進行訪問學習，2016.09-2021.09在安徽農業大學開展博士後工作。研究興趣集中於土壤生態與健康方面，具體工作主要圍繞土壤微生物群落格局及構建原理、複合功能菌株篩選和菌劑創製、秸稈肥料化及其套用、中低產田生物障礙消減和肥力提升、高標準農田建設項目區耕地質量等級評價、縣級土壤普查技術支撐和質量控制指導等展開。承擔國家自然科學基金青年和面上項目、安徽省自然科學基金、安徽省高校自然科學研究等研究重大項目等10餘項，發表The ISME Journal、Proceedings of the Royal of Society、Soil Biology & Biochemistry、農業工程學報、中國農業科學和土壤學報等學科主流期刊論文60餘篇，主編省級規劃教材1部、參編論著3部，申請/授權國家發明專利14件、國際發明專利2件，編制安徽省地方標準2項，獲2019年、2022年安徽省科學技術進步二等獎、2022農林牧副漁豐收獎三等獎、2022植物營養與肥料科學技術二等獎等，指導本科生獲第七屆中國國際“網際網路+”大學生創新創業大賽銀獎等省級以上大學生創新創業大賽獎勵13項。。
Luyao Song,Teng Yang,Shangguang Xia,Zhong Yin,Xu Liu,Shaopeng Li，Ruibo Sun,Hongjian Gao,HaiyanChu,Chao Ma*. Soil depth exerts stronger impact on bacterial community than elevation in subtropical forests of Huangshan Mountain. Science of the Total Environment, 2022, 158438
Chao Ma, Yingduo Liu, Jing Wang, Lixiang Xue, Pengfu Hou*, Lihong Xue, Linzhang Yang. Warming increase the N2O emissions from wheat fields but reduce the wheat yield in a rice-wheat rotation system. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 2022, 337: 108064
Zhifeng He, Xinrun Yang, Jing Xiang, Zelu Wu, Xinyi Shi, Ying Gui, Manqiang Liu, Yusef Kianpoor Kalkhajeh, Hongjian Gao, Chao Ma*. Does Straw Returning Amended with Straw Decomposing Microorganism Inoculants Increase the Soil Major Nutrients in China’s Farmlands? Agronomy 2022, 12, 890.
Xin Gong, Ziyun Zhang, Hui Wang, Huixin Li, Feng Hu, Manqiang Liu, Lin Jiang, Xiaoyun Chen and Chao Ma*. Synergies between heat disturbance and inoculum size promote the invasion potential of a bacterial pathogen in soil. Microorganisms 2022, 10, 630.
Wenbo Li, Zhifeng He, Liangping Wu, Shaojun Liu, Laichao Luo, Xinxin Ye, Hongjian Gao*, Chao Ma*. Impacts of co-culture of rice and aquatic animals on rice yield and quality: A meta- analysis of field trials. Field Crops Research, 2022
Chao Ma#, Xi Chen#, Jingzhi Zhang, Yuanpeng Zhu, Yusef Kianpoor Kalkhajeh, Rushan Chai, Xinxin Ye, Hong-jian Gao*, Wenying Chu, Jing-dong Mao, Michael L. Thompson. Linking chemical structure of dissolved organic carbon and microbial community composition with submergence-induced soil organic carbon mineralization.Science of the total environment. 2019, 692: 930-939
Shao-peng Li, Jiaqi Tan, Xian Yang, Chao Ma*, Lin Jiang*. Niche and fitness differences determine invasion success and impact in laboratory bacterial communities. The ISME Journal, 2019, 13(2) :402–412 （Nature子刊，自然指數期刊）
Chao Ma, Shao-peng Li, Zhichao Pu，Jiaqi Tan，Manqiang Liu*，Jing Zhou，Huixin Li，Lin Jiang*, Different effects of invader-native phylogenetic relatedness on invasion success and impact: A meta-analysis of Darwin' s naturalization hypothesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 2016, 283(1838): 1~8 （自然指數期刊）
Chao Ma, Manqiang Liu*, Hui Wang, Chenying Chen, Wenqing Fan, Bryan Griffiths, Huixin Li, Resource utilization capability of bacteria predicts their invasion potential in soil, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2015, 81: 287~290
