Xiaoping Yang

Professor Xiaoping Yang obtained his doctoral degree in physical geography, environmental geology and bioclimatology at Göttingen University of Germany in 1992. He is now based at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research interests include dryland environments and their geological and historical changes, specifically geomorphology and paleoclimatology during the Late Quaternary. He has carried out research on the aeolian landforms, dust sources, climate changes, desertification, ground water, evolution of oasis in the arid and semi-arid regions of northern China. One of his studies was to have recognized wetter epochs at around 30 ka and during the mid-Holocene in the hyper-arid Badain Jaran and Taklamakan Deserts in northwestern China. Currently he is exploring Chinese deserts' responses to global changes mainly using geological, geochemical and hydrological approaches.

Professor Xiaoping Yang has been selected to enroll himself in the 'Hundreds of Talents' of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was warded the "Outstanding Young Scientists" Grant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.