2017- : Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

2012- 2017: Associate Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

2009-2012: Research Associate, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan

2009：Ph.D., Physical Geography, College of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, China.

2004：B.S., Physics, Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, China

Ecological Remote Sensing

13. *Han, L., Tsunekawa, A., Tsubo, M., He, C. and *Shen, M., 2014. Spatial variations in snow cover and seasonally frozen ground over northern China and Mongolia, 1988？2010. Global and Planetary Change, 116: 139-148. (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 3.16)

12. Shen, M., Zhang, G., Cong, N., Wang, S., Kong, W., & Piao, S. (2014). Increasing altitudinal gradient of spring vegetation phenology during the last decade on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 189–190, 71-80. (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 3.42)

11. *Shen, M., Tang, Y., Chen, J., Yang, X., Wang, C., Cui, X., Yang, Y., Han, L., Du, J., Li, L., *Zhang, G., & Cong, N. (2014). Earlier-season vegetation has greater temperature sensitivity of spring phenology in Northern Hemisphere. PLoS ONE, 9(2): e88178. (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 3.73)

10. *Shen, M., Tang, Y., Desai, A.R., Gough, C., & Chen, J. (2014). Can EVI-derived land surface phenology be used as a surrogate for phenology of canopy photosynthesis? International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35(2), 1162-1174. (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 1.14)

9. *Shen, M., Sun, Z., Wang, S., Zhang, G., Kong, W., Chen, A., & Piao, S. (2013). No evidence of continuously advanced green-up dates in the Tibetan Plateau over the last decade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 110, E2329 (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 9.74)

8. *Shen, M., Tang, Y., Chen, J., & Yang, W. (2012). Specification of thermal growing season in temperate China from 1960 to 2009. Climatic Change, 114, 783–798 (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 3.63)

7. Shen, M., Tang, Y., Chen, J., Zhu, X., & Zheng, Y. (2011). Influences of temperature and precipitation before the growing season on spring phenology in grasslands of the central and eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 151, 1711-1722 (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 3.42)

6. *Shen, M. (2011). Spring phenology was not consistently related to winter warming on the Tibetan Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108, E91-E92 (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 9.74)

5. Shen, M., Chen, J., Zhu, X., Tang, Y., & Chen, X. (2010). Do flowers affect biomass estimate accuracy from NDVI and EVI? International Journal of Remote Sensing, 31, 2139-2149 (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 1.14)

4. Shen, M., Chen, J., Zhu, X., & Tang, Y. (2009). Yellow flowers can decrease NDVI and EVI values: evidence from a field experiment in an alpine meadow. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 35, 99-106 (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 0.99)

3. Chen, J., *Shen, M., Zhu, X., & Tang, Y. (2009). Indicator of flower status derived from in situ hyperspectral measurement in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecological Indicators, 9, 818-823 (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 2.89)

2. Chen, J., *Shen, M., & Kato, T. (2009). Diurnal and seasonal variations in light-use efficiency in an alpine meadow ecosystem: causes and implications for remote sensing. Journal of Plant Ecology-UK, 2, 173-185 (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 1.35)

1. Shen, M., Tang, Y., Klein, J., Zhang, P., Gu, S., Shimono, A., & Chen, J. (2008). Estimation of aboveground biomass using in situ hyperspectral measurements in five major grassland ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Plant Ecology-UK, 1, 247-257 (SCI, IF₂₀₁₂ = 1.35)