主要从事 (1)成矿作用过程中矿物结构、成分和同位素记录; (2)非传统稳定同位素在成矿过程中的应用; (3) 与成矿作用相关岩浆性质、演化及动力学背景研究。主持国家重点研发计划子课题专题项目1项、国家自然科学基金青年项目1项、优秀博士后和博士后面上基金项目2项。以第一作者在Economic Geology、American Mineralogist、Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology等期刊发表SCI学术论文15篇。

担任核心期刊《矿床地质》编委，中国地质学会矿床专业委员会委员，国家自然科学基金评审专家，OGR、Lithos等多个SCI期刊评审人。

1、国家重点研发计划：华北克拉通辽东/胶东重要成矿区带金多金属矿深部预测及勘查示范（岩浆-水热体系起源及其与成矿作用的时空关系专题），主持
2、国家自然科学基金：金矿成矿过程中磷灰石的原位微量元素和同位素记录-以新疆哈图金矿为例，主持
3、支持“率先行动”联合资助优秀博士后项目：新疆天山大型金矿硫化物原位微量元素研究，主持
4、博士后面上基金：新疆西天山大型金矿成矿过程中黄铁矿原位硫同位素记录，主持
5、福州大学科研项目：热液矿床成矿机制的研究-来自含氧矿物的结构和成分的约束，主持

1、Zheng, J.H., Chen, B., Liu, S. J., Bao, C. 2022, A Triassic orogenic gold mineralization event in the Paleoproterozoic metamorphic rocks: Evidence from two types of rutile in the Baiyun gold deposit, Liaodong Peninsula, North China Craton. Economic Geology, in press.
2、Zheng, J.H., Shen, P., Feng, W.Y., 2022, Hydrothermal apatite record of ore-forming processes in the Hatu orogenic gold deposit, West Junggar, Northwest China. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 177, 27.
3、Zheng J.H., Shen, P., Feng, W.Y., 2022, Hydrothermal monazite trumps rutile: applying U-Pb geochronology to evaluate complex mineralization ages of the Katbasu Au-Cu deposit, Western Tianshan, Northwest China. American Mineralogist, 107, 1201-1215.
4、Zheng, J.H., Chen, B., Liu, S. J., Bao, C. 2021, Iron isotope fractionation in reduced hydrothermal gold deposits: A case study from the Wulong gold deposit, Liaodong Peninsula, East China. American Mineralogist, 106, 430–442.
5、Zheng J.H., 2020. A synthesis of iron deposits in the eastern Tianshan, NW China. Geoscience Frontiers, 11, 1271–1287.
6、Zheng J.H., Shen, P., Li, C.H., 2020, Ore genesis of Axi post-collisional epithermal gold deposit, western Tianshan, NW China: Constraints from U–Pb dating, Hf isotopes, and pyrite in situ sulfur isotopes. Ore Geology Reviews, 117, 103290
7、Zheng, J.H., Chai, F.M., Feng, W.Y., Yang, F.Q., Shen, P. 2018. Geochemistry and chronology of the early Paleozoic diorites and granites in the Huangtupo volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit, Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Implications for petrogenesis and geodynamic setting. Lithos 302–303, 455–466.
8、Zheng, J.H., Mao, J.W., Yang, F.Q, Chai, F.M, Shen, P. 2017. Petrological and geochemical features of the early Paleozoic granitic gneisses and iron ores in the Tianhu iron deposit, Eastern Tianshan, NW China: Implications for ore genesis. Lithos 286-287, 426-439.
9、Zheng, J.H., Mao, J.W., Yang, F.Q., Chai, F.M., Zhu, Y.F., 2017. Mineralogy, fluid inclusions, and isotopes of the Cihai iron deposit, eastern Tianshan, NW China: implication for hydrothermal evolution and genesis of subvolcanic rocks-hosted skarn-type deposits. Ore Geology Reviews 86, 404–425
10、Zheng, J.H., Chai, F.M., Yang, F.Q., Meng, Q.P., 2017. Geology, genesis, and geodynamic setting of Cihai: an Early Permian diabase-hosted skarn iron deposit in the eastern Tianshan, Northwest China. International Geology Review 59 (10), 1292–1309.
11、Zheng, J.H., Mao, J.W., Chai, F.M., Yang, F.Q., 2016. Petrogenesis of Permian A-type granitoids in the Cihai iron ore district, Eastern Tianshan, NW China: constraints on the timing of iron mineralization and implications for a non-plume tectonic setting. Lithos 260, 371–383.
12、Zheng, J.H., Chai, F.M., Yang, F.Q., 2016. The 401–409 Ma Xiaodonggou granitic intrusion: implications for understanding the Devonian Tectonics of the Northwest China Altai orogen. International Geology Review 58 (5), 540–555.
13、Zheng, J.H., Mao, J.W., Yang, F.Q., Chai, F.M., Liu, F., 2016. Newly discovered native gold and bismuth in the Cihai iron–cobalt deposit, eastern Tianshan, Northwest China. Acta Geologica Sinica-English Edition, 90 (3), 928–938.
14、Zheng, J.H., Mao, J.W., Yang, F.Q., Liu, F., Zhu, Y.F., 2015. The post-collisional Cihai iron skarn deposit, eastern Tianshan, Xinjiang, China. Ore Geology Reviews, 67, 244–254.

2016，“率先行动”优秀博士后联合资助
2018，深圳市高层次人才（后备级）