Wenjiao Xiao - Biography#

Wenjiao was born on 30th December 1967 in China. He obtained his PhD at the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1995. Wenjiao became a full professor in 2003 at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS, and became the President and a full professor in the Xinjiang Branch of the CAS in 2020. He was elected as an Academician of the CAS in 2019. His research fields include structural geology, tectonics, sedimentology, geochronology, paleogeography, geophysics, metallogeny and continental monsoon systems. His outstanding achievements include defining the geodynamic processes and their link to the continent growth mechanism, metallogeny and continental monsoon systems in Eurasia. Wenjiao has published 490 papers in international journals, including Nature Communications, Communications Earth & Environment, PNAS, Reviews of Geophysics, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, EPSL, Geology, GSA Bulletin, and Tectonics, and edited several special issues in international journals. His work has been highly cited, with a total citation of 27,546 and H-index of 77 (Web of Science, July 2022) or a total citation of 36,409 and H-index of 89 (GoogleScholar, July 2022), and he is a Thomson Reuters/Clarivate High Cited Researcher. Wenjiao is very active and plays a leading role in some international programs, including a co-leader of IGCP 592 and 662. In recognition of his scientific achievements, Wenjiao is Fellow of the Geological Society of America and Member of the Leibniz Society in Berlin, Germany. He is a Science Editor of Geological Society of America Bulletin and is/was an Advisory Editor, Subject Editor, Associate Editor, or editorial board member of several international scientific journals, including Episodes, Gondwana Research, International Journal of Earth Sciences, Journal of the Geological Society of London, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Ore Geology Reviews, and Terra Nova,. He has got the Huang Jiqing Award of the Geological Society of China, the Outstanding Youth Researcher of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Special Award and the First Award of the Science and Technology Award of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Innovation Award, the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award of China, and the National Innovation Medal of China.