Qiuzhen YIN
elic | Louvain-la-Neuve
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EMPLOYMENT
Since 2023.10: Professor at UCLouvain, F.R.S.-FNRS Senior Research Associate (since 2024.10).
2013.10 – 2023.09: Associate Professor at UCLouvain, F.R.S.-FNRS Research Associate.
2008.10 – 2013.09: F.R.S.-FNRS Post-doctoral Researcher at UCLouvain.
2007.07 – 2008.09: FSR Post-doc Researcher at UCLouvain.
2006.10 – 2007.06: F.R.S.-FNRS scholarship for visiting researcher at UCLouvain.
EDUCATION
2006 – Ph.D. Quaternary Geology, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
2001 – Sc. B. Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan.
MAJOR AWARDS AND HONORS
2021 – The Liu Tungsheng Lecturer, Institute of Geology and Geophysics of Chinese Academy Sciences
2019 – The Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal for outstanding young Quaternary scientists of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)
2019 – The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) Early Career Scientist Award
2016 – Charles Lagrange Award, quadrennial, the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts
2006 – Keith Runcorn EGU (European Geosciences Union) Travel Award
2000 – Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences
MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Since 2024 Member of National Committee of Belgian Association of Quaternary Sciences
Since 2019 Executive Secretary of the International Commission on Climate (ICCL) of International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS)
Since 2016 Associate Member of the Belgian National Committee of Geodesy and Geophysics
Since 2013 Member of the International Commission on Climate, IAMAS
2019–2023 Advisory Board Member of the INQUA Paleoclimate Commission
2015–2023 Member of Steering Group of the PAGES Quaternary Interglacials Working Group
EDITORIAL AND REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
– Editor for Quaternary Science Reviews (since 2023), and Climate of the Past (since 2018).
– Guest Editor: Quaternary Science Reviews (2021-2023), Global and Planetary Change (2022-2024) and Quaternary Sciences (2022-2023).
– Editorial Board Member: Global and Planetary Change, Quaternary International, Quaternary Sciences, Evolving Earth.
– Grant Reviewer: European Research Council (ERC), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
– Reviewer for >30 scientific journals, including: Nature, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Earth-Science Reviews, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Climate Dynamics, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Quaternary Science Reviews.
EVALUATION COMMITTEE
– Selection Panel for the AUFRANDE (Australia-France Network of Doctoral Excellence) PhD positions.
– Evaluation committee of F.R.S-FNRS for the “Wallonia-Brussels International Excellence Scholarships”.
– Selection Panel for the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad.
– Scientific committee member of Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research.
TEACHING AT UCLOUVAIN
Since 2025 Co-lecturer (50%) – Thesis tutorial
Since 2020 Lecturer (100%) – Paleoclimate dynamics and modelling
Since 2019 Co-lecturer (50%) – Directed work of climate modelling
2024–2025 Co-lecturer (50%) – Le climat et ses changements (Sabbatical replacement for Prof. Kristof Van Oost).
2013–2019 Co-lecturer (20%-50%) – Supplements in climate system modelling
MAJOR INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES / SERVICE AT UCLOUVAIN
– President of Jury for doctoral thesis defense at Earth and Life Institute (ELI), since 2022.
– Observer of the international scientific commission of F.R.S.-FNRS, 2023, 2025, 2026.
– ELI representative in the UCLouvain supercomputation management committee, since 2018.
– UCLOUVAIN representative in the scientific committee of the F.R.S-FNRS thematic doctoral school "UNITER" (Sciences de l'univers, de l'espace, de la terre et du climat), Since 2019.
ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
2027 Jan. 28-Feb.3: Co-convener of sessions “Impact of sea-level change on climate during past warm and cold periods” and “Mid-Pleistocene and Mid-Brunhes Transitions: observations and forcing mechanisms” at the XXII INQUA Congress, Lucknow, India.
2026 Aug.24-28: Co-organizer of the BELQUA Summer School: “Climate Archives and Investigation Methods”, Brussels, Belgium.
2025 July 20-25: Lead convener of Symposium “JMP07 - Past climate changes and their relevance for the future” at the IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO Joint Assembly 2025, Busan, South Korea.
2025 July 1-5: Co-convener of Symposium 76 “Orbital-scale climate variability and cross-scale climate effects” at the the 8th Assembly of Earth System Science, Shanghai, China.
2023 Nov.30-Dec.1: Host and organiser of the international workshop on “High and low latitude climate variability and their interactions across time scales”, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
2023 July: Lead convener of symposium “M04 Past Climate Changes and Their Relevance for the Future” at the 28th IUGG General Assembly, Berlin, Germany.
2023 July: Co-convener of the session “Understanding regional and global monsoons changes across timescales” at the XXI INQUA Congress, Roma, Italy.
2022 May: Co-convener of the “Interglacial diversity” session at the EGU General Assembly.
2021 Oct.: Co-convener of the “Climate Change” session at the third China-Belgium Science & Technology exchange symposium, Belgium.
2019 Jul. – Co-Convener of session JP6 “Past changes in the atmosphere, oceans and cryosphere, and their relevance for future climate” at the General Assembly 2019 of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Montreal, Canada.
2017 Aug. - Lead convener of session A1.2 “Reconstructing and understanding the Pleistocene” at the 2017 joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Assembly, Cape Town, South Africa.
2017 Jun. - Co-organizer of the International workshop on “Asian monsoon variability and dynamics”, Xian, China.
2015 Dec. - Co-Conveners of the session PP53A “Astronomical Forcing of Past Climate” at AGU, San Francisco, USA.
2015 Oct. - Member of Scientific Organizing Committee of The International Symposium on Aeolian Deposits in Earth History. Beijing.
2015 Jul. - Lead convener of session P04 “Understanding Interglacial Climate” at the XIX Congress of International Union for Quaternary Science (INQUA), Nagoya, Japan.
2015 Jun. - Lead convener of session A1.2 “Reconstructing and understanding the Pleistocene” at the General Assembly 2015 of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Prague, Czech Republic.
2014 Sep. - Member of Scientific organizing Committee of the Milankovitch Anniversary UNESCO Symposium: Water management in transition Countries as impacted by climate and Other Global Changes, Lessons from Paleoclimate, and Regional issues. Belgrade.
2013 July - Lead convener of session A1.1 “Reconstructing and understanding the Pleistocene” at Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly 2013, Davos.
2013 Mar. - Host of the 5th workshop of Past Interglacials Workgroup of PAGES, Louvain la Neuve.
2010 Dec. - Co-chair of the session of “interglacial climate variability” at AGU, San Francisco.
INVITED SEMINARS AND LECTURES
2026 July 28: Peking University, Beijing, China. Invited lecture on “Orbital-scale paleoclimate modelling” at the “Paleoclimate Modelling” summer school.
2026 May 6: China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. Invited online lecture on “Paleoclimate modelling” for the graduate course "Quaternary Environment Reconstruction Technology".
2025 July 28: First Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Qingdao, China. Invited seminar on “Astronomically-driven climate changes across time scales”.
2025 July 8: University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. Invited seminar on “Orbitally-driven climate changes on different time scales across the globe and East Asia”.
2025 July 6-8: Peking University, Beijing, China. Invited lecture on “Orbital-scale paleoclimate modelling” at the “Paleoclimate Modelling” summer school.
2024 June 21: China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. Invited online lecture on “Paleoclimate modelling” for the graduate course "Quaternary Environment Reconstruction Technology".
2023 July 23 - 28: School of Earth Sciences, University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. Invited seminars on paleoclimate modelling and astronomical theory of paleoclimate.
2023 July 4-6: The BEST (Board of European Students of Technology) international summer school, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Invited lectures on "Past climate changes and their relevance for the future".
2023 Feb. 21-23: Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Netherlands. Invited seminar on “Insolation triggered abrupt cooling at the end of interglacials and implication for the future”.
2021 Nov.22: Liu Tungsheng Lecture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Invited lecture on “Astronomically induced abrupt climate changes and implication for the future”.
2021 Nov. 15: Earth Surface System Science Forum, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. Invited seminar on “Astronomically induced abrupt climate changes and implication for the future”.
2021 Sep. 23: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany. Invited seminar on “Insolation triggered abrupt climate changes at the end of interglacials”.
2021 Jan. 21: Club des Amateurs d'Astronomie of the University of the Third Age of Namur, Belgium. Invited lecture on “De la Théorie Astronomique des Paléoclimats au Réchauffement Global”.
2017 June 10-30: Invited lectures on paleoclimate modelling and astronomical theory of paleoclimate. China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
2015 Aug. 23-30: Invited lecture on “Speleothems and climate models” at the 2nd International Summer School on Speleothem Science, Oxford, United Kindom.
2015 June 16: China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China.
2014 Mar.15-Apr.2: Key Lab of Plateau Lake Ecology and Global Change, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China.
2013 Oct. 19: Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, AMHERST, USA.
2012 Jun. 8: International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, USA.
2011 Sep. 13-16: Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xian, China.
2011 Aug. 29: Institute of Geology and Geophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
2011 Aug. 27: Institute of Tibetan Plateau, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
2010 Oct. 16: Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
2009 Mar. 19-20: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Netherlands.
2008 Nov. 24: Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Department of Geology and Soil Science, Geological Institute, Gent University.
2008 Jan. 20-25: Austral Summer Institute VIII on Oceanography and Climate Change: past, present and future scenarios, Department of Oceanography, University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AT WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES
2024 Nov 4-5: International conference on “Milanković’s Theory of Climate Changes-Hundred Years Afterwards”, Belgrade, Serbia. Invited keynote talk on “Past Climates, a key for the future”.
2024 Oct 25-28: International Workshop on “Drilling Through Time: Decoding Orbital- and Millennial-scale Climate Changes”, Xi’an, China. Invited talk on “Diverse response of global vegetation to astronomical forcing and ice sheets from orbital to millennial timescales”.
2024 May 29-31: LIGA workshop: Spatial Patterns of Last Interglacial Arctic climate change, Stockholm University, Sweden. Invited talk on “How is MIS-5e different from other interglacials and the future in the Arctic region in LOVECLIM1.3 transient simulations”.
2023 July: The XXI INQUA Congress, Roma, Italy. Invited talk on “Diverse response of global terrestrial vegetation to astronomical forcing, CO2 and ice sheets from orbital to millennial timescales”.
2021 Oct: The symposium on “The geological evolution of hydrological cycle”, Shanghai, China. Invited talk on “Interglacial climate change, water cycle and astronomical forcing”.
2021 May: The symposium on “Low-high latitude and bi-hemisphere interactions”, Beijing, China. Invited talk on “The effect of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets on East Asian precipitation and temperature since the mid-Pleistocene”.
2019 Jul 25-31: The 20th INQUA Congress, Dublin, Ireland.
2019 Jul 8-18: The 27th IUGG General Assembly, Montreal, Canada.
2017 Dec. 11-15: AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, USA.
2017 Jun. 11-14: International workshop on “Asian monsoon variability and dynamics”, Xian, China.
2015 Dec. 8: Empreinte des climats et des hommes dans les sols et paléosols - Mémoires de nos jardins. Paris, France.
2015 Nov. 9-11: PAGES Quaternary Interglacials (QUIGS) “Warm Extremes” Workshop. Cambridge, UK.
2015 Oct. 12-15: The International Symposium on Aeolian Deposits in Earth History. Beijing, China.
2014 Sep. 3-5: Milankovitch 135 Anniversary UNESCO Symposium. Water management in transition countries as impacted by climate and other global changes, Lessons from paleoclimate, and Regional scale. Belgrade, Serbia.
2014 May 23: iCLIPS users committee meeting, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel.
2013 Mar. 4-6: PAGES Working Group on Past Interglacials 5th Workshop, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
2012 July 2-5: PAGES Working Group on Past Interglacials (PIGS) 4th Workshop, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
2010 Mar. 20-30: INTERDYNAMIK Seminar, Bremen, Germany.
2009 Sep. 22-25: Milutin Milankovitch 130 Anniversary Symposium: "Climate Change at the eve of the second decade of the century, Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects", Belgrade, Serbia.
2008 Oct. 2-4: PAGES Past Interglacials Workshop, Bernin, France.
2008 May 27-29: From the Geologic Past to the Uncertain Future, a Symposium Honoring Andre Berger, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
2006 Apr. 2-7: General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union.