Wenjiao Xiao#
| Membership Number: | 6332 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3518-0526 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present President and Full Professor, Xinjiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2011 - present Full Professor, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2003 - present Full Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1999 - 2003 Associate Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1998 - 1999 Associate Professor, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1997 - 1998 Assistant Professor, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1995 - 1997 Postdoc researcher, Institute of Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2012 - 2015 Honorary Professor, The University of Hong Kong, China (4 years)
- 2005 - 2020 Adjunct Professor, The University of Waterloo, Canada (12 years)
Fields of Scholarship
- Plate tectonics
- Accretionary complex
- Ophiolite
- Structural geology
- Paleogeography of Eurasia
- Continental evolution and monsoon systems
- Accretionary orogenesis and metallogeny of the Altaids in Central Asia
- Sedimentary basin
- Geochronology
- Geophysics
Honours and Awards
- 2021 The Special Award, Science and Technology Award of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
- 2021 The Ho Leung Ho Lee Innovation Award
- 2020 The National Innovation Medal of China
- 2019 Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2018 Member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences (Berlin), Germany
- 2017 Fellow of the Geological Society of America
- 2012 The Second Award, National Natural Science Award of China
- 2012 The First Award, Science and Technology Award of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China
- 2010 Huang Jiqing Award, Geological Society of China
- 2009 Excellent Field-work Researcher, Ministry of Science and Technology of China
- 2007 Outstanding Youth Researcher of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
- 2004 Excellent Individual Researcher of the National Basic Science Program of China
