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Junxuan Fan
Personal ProfileJUNXUAN, FAN, Distinguished Professor School of Earth Sciences and Engineering Nanjing University 163# Xianlin Avenue Nanjing 210023, P.R. China Email: jxfan@nju.edu.cn, fanjunxuan@gmail.com
EDUCATION: B.Sc. – Nanjing University, July 1995 M.Sc. – Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, July 1998 Ph.D. – Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, August 2001
ACADEMIC AWARDS: Best Paper Award 2005 of Journal of Paleontology, May 2006 Science and Technology Progress Award of Jiangsu Province (1st class), 2009 Best Paper Award of 10th CAS Scientific Database Symposium, 2010 Outstanding Young Scientist of the Palaeobiological Society of China, October 2011 Best Paper Award of 11th CAS Scientific Database Symposium, 2012
ACADEMICEXPERIENCE: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS – Assistant Research Professor, Sep., 2001 – Jan., 2005 Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS – Associate Research Professor, Feb., 2005 – 2008 St. Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS – Research Professor, Feb., 2009 – Oct., 2018 Nanjing University – Distinguished Professor, Nov., 2018 – present
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Geological big data Numerical stratigraphy and High-performance computing (HPC) Evolution of life Ordovician and Silurian black shales and graptolites
PROFESSIONALACTIVITIES: IUGS Big Science Program “Deep-time Digital Earth”, Secretary General, 2019-2024 ICS Subcomission on Timescale Calibration, Voting member, 2020-2024 Palaeontological Society of China - Paleoecology Division, Chair, 2019-present China Commission of Stratigraphy – Division on Geochemical stratigraphy and quantitative stratigraphy, Vice-chairman, 2013-present Global and Planetary Change, Editor, 2021-present Palaeontologia Electronica, Handling Editor, 2021-present Geoscience Data Journal, Regional Editor, 2020-present
Educational BackgroundWork ExperienceAcademic ServiceResearch IntersetsTeachingResearch ProjectsNational Key R&D Program of China “Global paleogeographic reconstruction and deep-time big data”, co-PI, 3 Million Yuan, 2019-2023 National Distinguished Young Scientist Grant Quantitative stratigraphy, paleobiology and paleogeography, PI, 3.5 Million Yuan, 2018-2022 PublicationsOver 140 research articles on peer-review journals. Fivty papers published in the past five years are listed here: - Sun, Z. Y.*, Štorch, P., Fan, J. X.*, Melchin, M. J., Suyarkova, A., in press. Lower Aeronian graptolites of the genera Rastrites and Stavrites: systematics, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography. Papers in Palaeontology. - Yang, S. C., Hu, W. X., Wang, X. L., Fan, J. X., in press. Nitrogen isotope evidence for a redox-stratified ocean and eustasy-driven environmental evolution during the Ordovician–Silurian transition. Global and Planetary Change. - Li, C., Zhang, J. P., Li, W. J., Botting, J., Chen, Q., Fan, J. X., Zhang, Y. D., 2021. Multiple glacio-eustatic cycles and associated environmental changes through the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) in South China. Global and Planetary Change, 207: 103668. - Deng, Y.Y., Fan, J.X.*, Zhang, S.H., Fang, X., Chen, Z.Y., Shi, Y.K.*, Wang, H.W., Wang, X.B., Yang, J., Hou, X.D., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y.D., Chen, Q., Yang, A.H., Fan, R., Dong, S.C., Xu, H.Q., Shen, S.Z., 2021. Timing and patterns of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event and Late Ordovician mass extinction: Perspectives from South China. Earth-Science Reviews, 220: 103743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103743 - Shi, Y. K.*, Wang, X. D., Fan, J. X., Huang, H., Xu, H. Q., Zhao, Y. Y., Shen, S. Z. 2021. Carboniferous-earliest Permian marine evolutionary biodiversification event (CPBE) during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. Earth-Science Reviews, 220: 103699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103699 - Wang, X.D.*, Hu, K.Y.*, Shi, Y.K.*, Chen, J.T., Yang, S.R., Ye, X.Y., Li, X.M., Song, Y.F, Chen, B., Sheng, Q.Y., Chang, X.L., Zhang, Y.C., Fan, J.X., Shen, S.Z., 2021. The missing upper Carboniferous in the Cimmerian Continent: A critical review. Earth-Science Reviews, 217: 103627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103627 - Li, N., Li, C., Algeo, T. J., Cheng, M., Jin, C.S., Zhu, G.Y., Fan, J.X., Sun, Z.Y., 2021. Redox changes in the outer Yangtze Sea (South China) through the Hirnantian Glaciation and their implications for the end-Ordovician biocrisis. Earth-Science Reviews, 212: 103443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103443 - Wang, C. S.*, Hazen, R. M., Cheng, Q. M., Stephenson, M. H., Zhou, C.H., Fox, P., Shen, S. Z., Oberhänsli, R., Hou, Z. Q., Ma, X. G., Feng, Z. Q., Fan, J. X., Ma, C., Hu, X. M., Luo, B., Wang, J. L., Schiffries, C. M., 2021. The Deep-time Digital Earth program: data-driven discovery in geosciences. National Science Review, 8(9): nwab027. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab027 - Zhang, S. H.*, Fan, J.X., Morgan, C.A., Henderson, C.M., Shen, S.Z.*, 2021. Quantifying the middle–late Cambrian trilobite diversity pattern in South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 570: 110361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110361 - Chen, Z.Y., Männik, P., Fan, J.X., Wang, C.Y., Chen, Q., Sun, Z.Y., Chen, D.Y., Li, C., 2021. Age of the Silurian Lower Red Beds in South China: Stratigraphical evidence from the Sanbaiti section. Journal of Earth Science, 32(3): 524-533. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-020-1350-6 - Shen, S.Z.*, Yuan, D.X.*, Henderson, C.M., Wu, Q., Zhang, Y.C., Zhang, H., Mu, L., Ramezani, J., Wang, X.D., Lambert L.L., Erwin, D.H., Hearst, J.M., Xiang, L., Chen, B., Fan, J.X., Wang, Y., Wang, W.Q., Qi, Y.P., Chen, J., Qie, W.K., Wang, T.T., 2020. Progress, problems and prospects: An overview of the Guadalupian Series of South China and North America. Earth-Science Reviews, 211: 103412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103412 - Liu, Y., Li, C., Fan, J.X., Peng, P.A., Algeo, T.J., 2020. Elevated marine productivity triggered nitrogen limitation on the Yangtze Platform (South China) during the Ordovician-Silurian transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 554: 109833. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109833 - Hou, Z.S., Fan, J.X., Henderson, C.M., Yuan, D.X., Shen, B.H., Wu, J., Wang, Y., Zheng, Q.F., Zhang, Y.C., Wu, Q., Shen, S.Z.*, 2020. Dynamic paleogeographic reconstructions of the Wuchiapingian Stage (Lopingian, Late Permian) for the South China Block. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 546: 109667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109667 - Zhong, Y.Y., Wu, H.C., Fan, J.X., Fang, Q., Shi, M.N., Zhang, S.H., Yang, T.S., Li, H.Y., Cao, L.W., 2020. Late Ordovician obliquity-forced glacio-eustasy recorded in the Yangtze Block, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 540, 109520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109520. - Stephenson, M.H., Cheng Q.M., Wang C.S., Fan J.X., Oberhänsli, R., 2020. Progress towards the establishment of the IUGS Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) programme. Episodes, 43(4): 1057-1062. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020057 - Fan, J.X., Shen, S.Z.*, Erwin, D.H., Sadler, P.M., MacLeod, N., Cheng, Q.M., Hou, X.D., Yang, J., Wang, X.D., Wang, Y., Zhang, H., Chen, X., Li, G.X., Zhang, Y.C., Shi, Y.K., Yuan, D.X., Chen, Q., Zhang, L.N., Li, C., Zhao, Y.Y., 2020. A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity. Science, 367: 272–277. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax4953 - Na Li, Chao Li*, Junxuan Fan, Thomas J. Algeo, Detian Yan, Guangyou Zhu, Shiyong Wu, Shida Tang, Meng Cheng, Chengsheng Jin, 2019. Sulfate-controlled marine euxinia in the semi-restricted inner Yangtze Sea (South China) during the Ordovician-Silurian transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 534: 109281. - Sun Zong-yuan, Fan Jun-xuan*, Wu Lei, Chen Qing, Chen Zhong-yang, Li Chao. 2019. Stratigraphy of the Lungmachi black shales from the Huaying drill core in southwestern China and its palaeogeographic implications. Palaeoworld, 28(3): 295-302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2019.01.001 - Zhanhong Liu, Thomas J. Algeo*, Xusheng Guo, Junxuan Fan*, Xuebin Du, Yongchao Lu, 2017. Paleo-environmental cyclicity in the Early Silurian Yangtze Sea (South China): Tectonic or glacio-eustatic control? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 466: 59-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.11.007 Honors and AwardsGroup |