CV
Education
- Ph.D., Geology, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), 2016
- Visiting Ph.D. student, Johns Hopkins University, 2014-2016
- M.S., Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University, 2012
- B.S., Geology, Jilin University, 2009
Work experience
- Assistant Professor, Peking University, 2020-present
- Assistant Research Professor, Pennsylvania State University, 2019-2020
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Pennsylvania State University, 2017-2018
- Postdoctoral Researcher, George Mason University, 2016-2017
- Research Assistant, China University of Geosciences, 2012-2016
- Research Assistant, Jilin University, 2009-2012
Research interests
Paleoclimatology; paleohydrology; astronomical forcing; sedimentology; Earth-system modeling; data assimilation; time-series analysis; software development.
Selected awards and honors
- 2026 Sun Shu Prize, International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS)
- 2025 The 4th “China Sun Shu Award”
- 2025 Major Advances in Chinese Paleontology in 2024, Paleontological Society of China
- 2025 Stanford/Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists
- 2024 Stanford/Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists
- 2024 Outstanding Editorial Group Member, National Science Review
- 2021 National Young Talents Program
- 2021 Peking University Boya Young Fellow
- 2021 AGU Outstanding Reviewer
Research grants and projects
- Jan. 2025-Dec. 2027, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Original Exploration Program, “Revealing Carbon Release Sources and Processes of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum through Cross-Sphere Isotope Data Assimilation (Main Application)” (42450195), PI
- Jan. 2025-Dec. 2028, National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Cyclostratigraphy of the secular resonance transition event of planetary orbits in the early Cenozoic chaotic Solar System” (42472050), PI
- Dec. 2022-Nov. 2027, National Key R&D Program of China (2022YFF0802900), “Temporal and spatial evolution of orbital scale ocean deoxygenation during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum”, PI
- Nov. 2021-Oct. 2026, National Key R&D Program of China (2021YFA0718200), “Metal stable isotope geochemical technique for tracing the evolution of the Earth’s habitability in the middle Proterozoic”, Co-PI
- Jan. 2022-Dec. 2025, National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas), “Astrochronology and past global change”, PI
- Jan. 2021-Dec. 2024, National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 42072040), “Study on the mechanism of lake level and sea level changes in the Early Triassic of China and Germany based on sedimentary noise modeling”, PI
- Jan. 2021-Dec. 2022, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 7100603368), “High resolution astrochronology and paleoclimate change”, PI
- July 2021-June 2022, Hubei Key Laboratory of Critical Zone Evolution, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan (No. 2021F07), “Sea level reconstruction from the Lower Triassic Xiejiacao section of Guangan, Sichuan”, PI
- Mar. 2017-Dec. 2020, Heising-Simons Foundation award (No. 2016-011), “Paleoclimate Data Assimilation for Deep Time”, took part
- Sept. 2016-Feb. 2017, NSF-Standard Grant-OCE-1303605, “Collaborative Research: The relationship between multi-year droughts in California, coupled ocean-atmosphere climate oscillations and climate forcing”, took part
- Sept. 2014-Aug. 2016, China Scholarship Council (No. 201406410029), “Astrochronology of Triassic Type Stratigraphic Sections in South China”, PI
- Jan. 2014-Dec. 2016, National Science Fund of China for Excellent Young Scholars (No. 41322013), “Astronomical cycles and Deep-time Global Change”, took part
- Jan. 2014-Dec. 2016, National Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China (No. 41302113), “Recognition of Milankovitch cycles from the Xujiahe Formation in the Western Sichuan basin and the establishment of astronomical time scale”, took part
- Jan. 2012-Dec. 2014, National Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China (No. 41102004), “Study of the Carboniferous conodont in the central Jilin area”, took part
- Sept. 2012-Dec. 2014, The National Basic Research Program (973 Program), “Climate and Environment Evolution in the late Mesozoic Greenhouse” (No. 2012CB822000-G), took part
- 2011-2012, Program of Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education, China, “Late Paleozoic Phytogeography of Yanbian area, Jilin”, Co-PI
- 2011-2012, China Geological Survey, “Stratigraphic Correlation of the Carboniferous-Permian in Tianshan-Xingmeng Tectonic Region”, took part
- 2011-2012, Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, “Stratigraphy of the Devonian-Carboniferous in the Northeastern China and Prospects of Hydrocarbon Resources”, took part
- Sept. 2009-June 2012, National Strategic Research Center of Oil & Gas, “Hydrocarbon Resources Investigation in the Late Paleozoic in Songliao Basin and adjacent area” (14B09XQ1201), took part
Professional service and activities
Committee
- 2025-2030, Vice Chairman, Committee on Palaeogeographic Reconstruction Technology and Big Data, International Society of Palaeogeography
- 2022-Present, Committee Member, Anthropocene Research Society, Geological Society of China
Editorial board
- 2021-2027, Editorial Group Member, National Science Review
- 2026-2027, Youth Editorial Board Member, Science Bulletin
- 2025-Present, Youth Editorial Board Member, Continent and Life Evolution
- 2024-Present, Youth Editorial Board Member, Acta Sedimentologica Sinica
- 2023, Invited Editorial Member, Quaternary Sciences
Conference chair and convener
- 2026, The 7th International Palaeogeography Conference, Mendoza, Argentina, Convener, T7-7: Astronomical forcing of palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental systems
- 2026, The 5th International Stratigraphic Congress (STRATI), Kunshan, Jiangsu, China, Co-Convener, G12: Cyclostratigraphy and its applications in geochronology and paleoclimatology
- 2026, European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, Co-Convener, Session CL4.1: Orbital forcing of global and regional events throughout Earth history
- 2026, The 9th Chinese Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Earth Sciences & The 4th Summit Forum on Spatial Earth Big Data, Hefei, Anhui, China, Co-Convener, Topic: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and the Evolution of Habitable/Early Earth
- 2025, The 3rd National Symposium on Data-Driven Earth Science Development, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China, Co-Convener, Topic 24: AI Paradigms in Big Data Earth Science Research
- 2025, Conference on Earth System Science (Shanghai), Convener, Basin Sedimentary Systems and the Evolution of the Global Water Cycle
- 2025, Conference on Earth System Science (Shanghai), Co-Convener, Paleoocean and Paleoclimate of the Greenhouse Earth
- 2025, Conference on Earth System Science (Shanghai), Co-Convener, Pre-Cenozoic Orbital Forcing and Global Change
- 2025, 8th National Sedimentology Conference, Co-Convener, High-Resolution Chronostratigraphy of Fine-Grained Sediments
- 2025, 8th National Sedimentology Conference, Co-Convener, Orbitally Driven Environmental and Climate Evolution
- 2024, AGU Fall Meeting, Co-Chair, PP53G: Astronomical Forcing of Earth’s Paleoclimate System II (Oral)
- 2024, AGU Fall Meeting, Co-Chair, PP51B: Astronomical Forcing of Earth’s Paleoclimate System I (Poster)
- 2024, 2nd National Symposium on Data-Driven Geosciences, Co-Convener, Session 1: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Paradigm in Earth Science Research
- 2024, The 6th International Conference of Palaeogeography, Co-Chair, T7-8: Astronomical Forcing of Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironmental Systems
- 2023, AGU Fall Meeting, Co-Chair, PP01: Online Poster Session for Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology I
- 2023, AGU Fall Meeting, Chair and Primary Convener, PP21D: Cyclostratigraphy and Astronomical Forcing of Earth’s Paleoclimate System I Poster
- 2023, AGU Fall Meeting, Chair and Primary Convener, PP24B: Cyclostratigraphy and Astronomical Forcing of Earth’s Paleoclimate System II Oral
- 2023, Conference on Earth System Science (Shanghai), Chair and Convener, Session 36 Long-period orbital forcing of Earth system evolution
- 2023, Conference on Earth System Science (Shanghai), Chair and Convener, Session 37 Paleoenvironmental reconstruction during periods of global warming
- 2022, AGU Fall Meeting, Chair and Primary Convener, PP11C: Cyclostratigraphy and Astronomical Forcing of Earth’s Paleoclimate System I Online Poster Discussion
- 2022, AGU Fall Meeting, Chair and Primary Convener, PP13B: Cyclostratigraphy and Astronomical Forcing of Earth’s Paleoclimate System II Oral
- 2022, AGU Fall Meeting, Chair and Primary Convener, PP25D: Cyclostratigraphy and Astronomical Forcing of Earth’s Paleoclimate System III Poster
- 2022, AGU Fall Meeting, Co-chair and co-convener, PP14A: Ocean Deoxygenation During Past Hyperthermals I Online Poster Discussion
- 2022, AGU Fall Meeting, Co-chair and co-convener, PP22D: Ocean Deoxygenation During Past Hyperthermals II Poster
- 2021, AGU Fall Meeting, Primary Convener, PP006: Cyclostratigraphy and Astronomical Forcing of Earth’s Paleoclimate System
- 2021, GSA Annual Meeting, Co-convener, T171: Data-Driven Approaches Deciphering Water and Carbon Cycles in Earth-Surface Systems
- 2021, Virtual European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Co-Convener, CL1.8/SSP2.4: Climate response to orbital forcing
- 2020, AGU Fall Meeting, Chair and Primary Convener, Topical Session: Astronomical Forcing and Past Climate Cycles
- 2020, Goldschmidt Conference, Co-chair and co-convener, Topical Session: New Developments in Deep-Time Paleoceanography: Geochemical Proxies, Cyclostratigraphy & Data Analysis
- 2019, AGU Fall Meeting, Chair and Primary Convener, Topical Session: Cyclostratigraphy and Astronomical Forcing of Past Climates
- 2019, AGU Fall Meeting, Chair and Primary Convener, Topical Session: Chrono-stratigraphy using Magnetic Methods
- 2018, AGU Fall Meeting, Chair and Primary Convener, Topical Session: Cyclostratigraphy and Astrochronology in Deep Time
- 2018, International Symposium on Deep-time Environmental & Climatic Extremes and Biotic Responses, Wuhan, China, Co-Chair, Session: Triassic
- 2018, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Co-Convener, Session CL1.31: Climate response to orbital forcing
- 2017, AGU Fall Meeting, Co-chair and co-convener, Topical Session PP42B: Cyclostratigraphy and Astronomical Forcing of Past Climates
- 2017, GSA Annual Meeting, Co-chair and co-convener, Topical Session T47: Recent Developments in Cyclostratigraphy
Proposal referee
- China: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- USA: National Science Foundation (NSF)
- UK: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Germany: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG)
- Poland: Polish National Science Centre (NCN)
- Netherlands: Dutch Research Council (NWO)