EMPLOYMENT
Since 2023.10: Research Associate of F.R.S.-FNRS, Professor of Université catholique de Louvain.
2013.10 – 2023.09: Research Associate of F.R.S.-FNRS, Associate Professor of UCLouvain.
2008.10 – 2013.09: Post-doctoral researcher of F.R.S.-FNRS at UCLouvain.
2007.07 – 2008.09: FSR Post-doc grant from 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
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
2008 – Honorary AXA Research Fund Post-doctoral grant
2008 – Personal grant for research from Cte du Monceau
2006 – Keith Runcorn EGU (European Geosciences Union) Travel Award
2005 – Outstanding student poster prize of the second open science meeting of Past Global Changes Project
2002 – Outstanding graduate student prize in Geosciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2000 – Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences
MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Since 2019 Executive Secretary of the IAMAS International Commission on Climate (ICCL)
Since 2019 Advisory Board Member of the INQUA Paleoclimate Commission
Since 2016 Associate Member of the Belgian National Committee of Geodesy and Geophysics
Since 2015 Member of Steering Group of the PAGES Quaternary Interglacials Working Group
Since 2013 Member of the IAMAS International Commission on Climate (ICCL)
EDITORIAL AND REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
Since 2018 Editor of Climate of the Past
Since 2014 Members of Editorial Board of Global and Planetary Change (2014), Quaternary International (2016), Quaternary Sciences (2017), Quaternary Science Reviews (2020).
Since 2009 Have reviewed papers for 22 scientific journals, including Climate of the Past, Climate Dynamics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Earth-Science Reviews, Geophysical Research Letters, Global and Planetary Change, Journal of Climate, Nature, Nature Geosciences, Nature Communication, Science Advances, Quaternary Science Reviews.
ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
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
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
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.