2007/09–2013/12，兰州大学，西部环境与气候变化研究院，博士；
2003/09–2007/06，兰州大学，资源环境学院地理系，学士。

主要关注干旱区第四纪环境变化，沙漠形成与演化。熟悉古地磁、26Al/10Be埋藏测年等第四纪测年方法；采用粒度、环境磁学、元素地球化学、有机地球化学等指标，进行古环境重建。现研究侧重于中国不同沙区第四纪古生态、古水文和古环境变化的综合研究。
 

2023/1-今，兰州大学，资源环境学院，副教授，硕士生导师。
2014/2022/12，兰州大学，资源环境学院，讲师。

本科生课程：水文学与水资源，沙漠学
研究生课程：磁性地层与新生代环境

长期从事干旱区古环境研究，聚焦于沙漠形成与演化。自2008年以来，先后在腾格里沙漠、巴丹吉林沙漠、库布齐沙漠、古尔班通古特沙漠、塔克拉玛干沙漠、毛乌素沙地和浑善达克沙地开展自主岩心钻探，获取了大量沙漠岩心资料；基本确立了中国主要沙漠形成的年代框架以及沙漠环境变化过程；现主要开展不同沙漠的综合对比研究。近五年发表论文10余篇，其中第一作者或通讯作者SCI论文6篇，包括Quaternary Science Reviews，Catena等一流期刊论文4篇。以本人建立的腾格里沙漠钻孔年代框架为基础的关于腾格里沙漠干湿周期分析的论文，表在国际顶刊PNAS上（2021年，三作），进一步提升了沙漠岩心钻探工作的影响力。先后主持国家自然科学基金委青年和面上项目，作为项目骨干参与国家自然科学基金委重点项目、科技部“二次青藏科考”、基础资源专项调查等多项国家级项目。

1.	毛乌素沙地形成年代、物质来源和干湿变化模式研究（国家自然科学基金，重点项目，批准号：42030505），项目骨干，2021-2025。
2.	第二次青藏高原综合科学考察研究(批准号，2019QZKK0601，负责人：姚檀栋)（the second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (STEP), Grant No. 2019QZKK0602），项目骨干，2022.11-2024.10。
3.	第三次新疆综合科学考察专题，塔克拉玛干沙漠形成演化环境事件调查（项目批准号：2021xjkk0302 ），项目骨干，2021.11-2024.10。 
4.	腾格里沙漠25万年以来干湿变化主导周期及其对东亚夏季风演化的启示，国家自然科学基金，面上项目，批准号：42274100），项目骨干，2021-2025。

1.	Baofeng Li*, Qi Feng, Zaijun Li*, Fei Wang, Chongwen Luo, Ruolin Li, Han Hu, 2024. Provenance of surface dune sands in the Gurbantunggut Desert, northwestern China: Qualitative and quantitative assessment using geochemical fingerprinting. Geomorphology, 452, 109115.
2.	Fei Wang*#; Zaijun Li*#; Xiaoyun Sun; Jie Zhao; Yuxin Fan; Dunsheng Xia; Ramamoorthy Ayyamperumal; Baofeng Li; Early Cretaceous (late Barremian−Early Albian) expanding aeolian activity in East Asia: Evidence from the stratigraphic evolution of aeolian deposition in the Baiyin-Jingyuan Basin, northern China, GSA Bulletin, 2024, 136: 487-512.
3.	Xiaoyun Sun; Fei Wang#; Yuxin Fan; Zaijun Li#; Xin Liu; Jie Zhao; Baofeng Li; Dunsheng Xia; Transformation of lakebed into a major soluble-salt-bearing dust source for Asia since the midpleistocene, Global and Planetary Change, 2023, 230: 104282.
4.	Zaijun Li*#, Fei Wang*#, Chongwen Luo, Chengying Liu, Xin Wang, Shengli Yang, Ramamoorthy Ayyamperumal, Junhui Zhang, Baofeng Li, Yuxin Fan, 2022. Enhanced drying of the Tengger desert , northwest margin of East Asian summer monsoon during warming interglacials after 500 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews 293, 107735.
5.	Qida Jiang, Zaijun Li*, Qingzhen Hao, 2022. Modern sand supply of the Tengger Desert and temporal variations in sand provenance driven by northern Hemisphere glaciation. Catena, 214.
6.	Li, B.*, Feng, Q., Li, Z., Wang, F., Yu, T., Guo, X., Xi, H., 2022. Geochemical characteristics of surface aeolian sand in the Badain Jaran Desert, northwestern China: Implications for weathering, sedimentary processes and provenance. CATENA 219, 106640.
7.	Zong, Haoran, Xiao Fu*, Zaijun Li, Yujie Guo, Xiaoping Yang, 2022. Multi-Method PIRIR Dating of Sedimentary Sequences at the Southern Edge of the Gurbantunggut Desert, NW China and Its Palaeoenvironmental Implications. Quaternary Geochronology 70: 101300.
8.	Fei Wang*#, Zaijun Li*#, Xiaoyun Sun, Baofeng Li, Xin Wang, Fahu Chen, 2021. A 1200 ka stable isotope record from the center of the Badain Jaran Desert, Northwestern China: implications for the variation and interplay of the westerlies and the Asian Summer Monsoon. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 22, e2020GC009575.
9.	Liu, Chengying, Junsheng Nie*, Zaijun Li, Qingqing Qiao, Jordan T. Abell, Fei Wang, and Wenjiao Xiao*. 2021. Eccentricity Forcing of East Asian Monsoonal Systems over the Past 3 Million Years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118 (43), 1–7.
10.	Xin Wang*; Barbara Carrapa; Yuchen Sun; David L. Dettman; James B. Chapman; Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein; Mark T. Clementz; Peter G. DeCelles; Mi Wang; Jie Chen; Jay Quade; Fei Wang; Zaijun Li; Ilhomjon Oimuhammadzoda; Mustafo Gadoev; Gerrit Lohmann; Xu Zhang; Fahu Chen*, 2020. The role of the westerlies and orography in Asian hydroclimate since the late Oligocene. Geology, 48(7), 728-732.
11.	Lu, H.*, Jia, J., Yin, Q., Xia, D., Gao, F., Liu, H., Fan Y., Li Z., Wang X., André Berger, Oimuhammadzoda I., Gadoev M., 2020. Atmospheric dynamics patterns in southern central Asia since 800 ka revealed by loess‐paleosol sequences in Tajikistan. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(17), e2020GL088320.
12.	Li, B.*, Feng, Q., Li, Y., Li, Z., Wang, F., Wang, X., Guo, X., 2020. Stable oxygen and carbon isotope record from a drill core from the Hetao Basin in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in northern China and its implications for paleolake evolution. Chemical Geology 557, 119798.
13.	Wang, X.*, Carrapa, B., Chapman, J. B., Henriquez, S., Wang, M., DeCelles, P. G., Li Z., Wang F., Oimuhammadzoda I., Gadoev .M, Chen F.*, 2019. Parathethys last gasp in central Asia and late Oligocene accelerated uplift of the Pamirs. Geophysical Research Letters 46(21), 11773-11781.
14.	Chen, F., Fu, B., Xia, J., Wu, D., Wu, S., Zhang, Y., Sun, H., Liu, Y., Fang, X., Qin, B., Li, X., Zhang, T., Liu, B., Dong, Z., Hou, S., Tian, L., Xu, B., Dong, G., Zheng, J., Yang, W., Wang, X., Li, Z., Wang, F., Hu, Z., Wang, J., Liu, J., Chen, J., Huang, W., Hou, J., Cai, Q., Long, H., Jiang, M., Hu, Y., Feng, X., Mo, X., Yang, X., Zhang, D., Wang, X., Yin, Y., Liu, X., 2019b. Major advances in studies of the physical geography and living environment of China during the past 70 years and future prospects. Science China Earth Sciences 62, 1665-1701.
15.	Wang, Fei*, Zaijun Li, Xin Wang, Baofeng Li, Fahu Chen, 2018. Variation and Interplay of the Siberian High and Westerlies in Central-East Asia during the Past 1200 kyr. Aeolian Research 33: 62–81.
16.	Zaijun Li*, Fei Wang, Xin Wang, Baofeng Li, Fahu Chen, 2018. A Multi-Proxy Climatic Record from the Central Tengger Desert, Southern Mongolian Plateau: Implications for the Aridification of Inner Asia since the Late Pliocene. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 160, 27–37.
17.	王鑫*, 王蜜, 李再军, 王飞, 勾晓华, 2022.强化学科交叉——构建多元化地球科学通识课程. 高等理科教育, 3, 53-60.