2017年9月-2023年6月  兰州大学，地理学（硕博连读），博士（导师：黄小忠 教授）
2013年9月-2017年6月  江西师范大学，地理科学（荣誉学士学位班），学士

湖泊藻类与环境变化

2025年9月至今  兰州大学资源环境学院，青年研究员
2024年9月-2024年10月  俄罗斯科学院西伯利亚分院考古学与民族学研究所，学术交流
2023年8月-2025年9月  兰州大学资源环境学院，萃英博士后（合作导师：勾晓华 教授、黄小忠 教授）

1. Continent and Life Evolution青年编委
2. Quaternary Science Reviews、Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology、Global and Earth Surface Processes Change、Scientific Reports等期刊审稿人
3. 中国地理学会会员、中国第四纪科学研究会会员、中国古生物学会孢粉学分会会员

1. 开展湖泊水生生物（盘星藻、硅藻和枝角类）现代过程研究，建立生物―关键环境因子转换函数模型，用于古环境定量重建
2. 解析内陆干旱区过去两百年湖泊水生生物的群落生态转换过程及其驱动机制
3. 揭示全新世暖期（距今约6500-3600年）气候变化对中亚史前人群迁移的影响

1. 中国地理学会2023年度“中国地理科学十大研究进展”（第三完成人），2024
2. 中国地理学会微体与古环境研究工作组“优秀报告奖”，2024
3. ANSO丝绸之路国际论坛暨第二届ATES科学会议“最佳海报奖”，2023
4. 中国地质学会学术年会“优秀论文摘要奖”，2023

1. 国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目（C类）“天山中段山地与绿洲湖泊全新世暖期多种水生生物演化及其环境意义”（2025.01-2027.12；42401178），30万，主持（在研）
2. 青年研究员科研启动费，2025.10-2030.09，100万元，主持（在研）
3. 国家资助博士后研究人员计划（B档）“阿尔泰山全新世植被覆盖度重建及其对气候变化和人类活动的响应”（2023.08-2025.08；GZB20240282），36万，主持（结题）
4. 中国博士后科学基金特别资助项目“内陆干旱区湖泊过去200年水生生物群落演化及其驱动机制分析”（2023.08-2025.08；2025T180095），18万，主持（结题）
5. 中国博士后科学基金面上资助项目“干旱半干旱区湖泊表层沉积硅藻现代过程研究及其古环境重建”（2023.08-2025.08；2024M751255），8万，主持（结题）
6. 中央高校基本科研业务费 博士后创新项目（2024.07-2026.06；lzujbky-2024-pd03），10万，主持

第一/通讯作者
1. Xiang, L.X., Huang, X.Z.*, Sun, M.J., Panizzo, V.N.*, Huang, C., Zheng, M., Chen, X.M., Chen, F.H., 2023. Prehistoric population expansion in Central Asia promoted by the Altai Holocene Climatic Optimum. Nature Communications, 14, 3102.
2. Xiang, L.X., Huang, X.Z.*, Zhang, J.W., Huang, C., Schwalb, A., Zhang, J.F., Rudaya, N., Sun, M.J., Mu, X.Y., Li, Y., Luo, D.R., Muhammad, F., Zhang, W.S., Wang, W.J., Wang, T., Zheng, M., Ren, X.X., Zhang, J., Zhang, E.Y., Gou, X.H., Chen, F.H., 2024. First Pediastrum–temperature transfer function and its application to mid-to-late Holocene reconstruction in Central Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews 327, 108516.
3. Xiang, L.X., Chen, X.M., Huang, C., Sun M.J., Xiao, Y.L, Hu, Y., Huang, X.Z.*, 2021. Divergent patterns of Holocene hydro-climatic evolution in arid central Asia and the Asian summer monsoon margin indicated by Pediastrum records. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 582, 110662.
4. Xiang, L.X., Huang, X.Z.*, Huang, C., Chen, X.M.*, Wang, H.P., Chen, J.H., Hu, Y., Sun, M.J., Xiao, Y.L., 2021. Pediastrum (Chlorophyceae) assemblages in surface lake sediments in China and western Mongolia and their environmental significance. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 289, 104396.
5. Xiang, L.X., Zhang, D.L., Wang, W.J., Farqan, M., Song, X.Q., Yan, C.Z., Li, Y., Chen, X.M., Qiang, M.R., Chen, G.J., Zhang, K., Liu, J.B., Gou, X.H., Jeppesen, E., Huang, X.Z.*, 2025. Long-term biotic responses and anthropogenic impacts in dryland lake ecosystems of northwestern China over the past two centuries. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 675, 113075.
6. Wang, W.J.#, Xiang, L.X.#, Li, Y.*, Suo, Q., Song, X.Q., Zhang, Y., Huang, C., Muhammad, F., Wang, T., Ren, X.X., Chen, S.Q., Chen, G.J., Huang, X.Z.*, 2024. Modern distribution of Cladocera in lakes of northern China and western Mongolia and its environmental implications. Fundamental Research. Accepted., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fmre.2024.09.004. （#共同一作）
7. Farqan, M., Xiang, L.X.*, Deng, J.Y., Chen, H.M., Wang, W.J., Yu, S.W., Zhu, Z.Z., Yan, C.Z., Huang, C., Liu, X., Wang, T., Mu, X.Y., Huang, X.Z.*, 2025. Modern surface sediment diatom assemblages and conductivity modeling in Northern China. Ecological Indicators 179, 114229. （*共同通讯作者）
8. Farqan, M., Xiang, L.X.*, Jiang, L., Wang, W., Zheng, M., Mu, X., Liu, X., Song, X., Zhu, Z., Ayyamperumal, R., Huang, X.*, 2025. Diatom assemblages indicated ecological shifts over the past two centuries in Bosten Lake, northwest China: Natural and anthropogenic forcings. Quaternary International 716, 109629. （*共同通讯作者）
9. Xiao, Y.L.#, Xiang, L.X.#, Huang, X.Z.*, Mills, K., Zhang, J., Chen, X.M., Li, Y., 2021. Moisture changes in the northern Xinjiang basin over the past 2, 400 years as documented in pollen records of Jili Lake. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 741992. （#共同一作）
其他作者
10. Fontana, L., Sun, M.J., Huang, X.Z.*, Xiang, L.X., 2019. The impact of climate change and human activity on the ecological status of Bosten Lake, NW China, revealed by a diatom record for the last 2000 years. The Holocene. 2019, 29(12): 1871–1884.
11. Huang, X.Z.#*, Zhang J.#, Storozum, M., Liu, S.S., Gill, J.L., Xiang, L.X., Ren, X.X., Wang, J.L., Qiang, M.R., Chen, F.H., Grimm, E.C. 2020. Long-term herbivore population dynamics in the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its implications for early human impacts. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 275. 104171.
12. Huang, X.Z.*, Sun, M.J., Xiang, L.X., Zhang, E.Y., Zhang, J., Grimm, E. 2020. The effect of diatoms on the grain size of lake sediments: a case study of the sediments of Lake Kanas. Journal of Paleolimnology, 63, 101-111.
13. Huang, X.Z.*, Xiang, L.X., Lei, G.L., Sun M.J., Qiu M.H., Storozum M., Huang C., Munkhbayar C., Demberel O., Zhang J., Zhang J.W., Chen X.M., Chen J.H., Chen F.H., 2021. Sedimentary Pediastrum record of middle–late Holocene temperature change and its impacts on early human culture in the desert-oasis area of northwestern China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 265, 107054.
14. Wang J.L., Huang, X.Z.*, Zhang, J., Xiang, L.X., Xiao, Y.L., Fontana, L., Ren, X.X., Wang, Z.L.*, 2020. Pollen record of humidity changes in the arid western Qilian Mountains over the past 300 years and comparison with tree-ring reconstructions. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, 562426.
15. Zhang, J., Huang, X.Z.*, Zhang, S.R., Ren X.X., Xiao, Y.L., Wang, J.L., Xiang, L.X., Xu, Q.H., Birks, H.J.B., 2021. Cycles of grazing and agricultural activity during the historical period and its relationship with climatic and societal changes in northern China. Land Degradation & Development, 32(11), 3315–3325.
16. Zhang, J., Huang, X.Z.*, Qiang, M.R., Demberel O., Wang, W.J., Zheng, M., Xiang, L.X., Hu, Y., Xiao, J.L., 2022. Increasing spring insolation in the late Holocene intensified aeolian activity in dryland Asia, Geophysical Research Letters, 49(24), e2022GL101777.
17. Li, Y., Huang, X.Z.*, Xiang, L.X., Zhang, J., Xu, Y., Tian, L.H., Jin, Y.X., Jin, X., Zhao, Y.T., Ren, L.L., Zhao, H.*, 2022. Holocene hydroclimatic change in the Altai Mountains and its impact on human migration. Catena, 219:106617.
18. Li, Y.*, Huang, X.Z.*, Xiang, L.X., Zhang, J., Xu, Y., 2022. Influence of Lateglacial meltwater influx from alpine glaciers on the aquatic ecosystem of Kanas Lake in the Altai Mountains, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 604, 111214.
19. Zhang, J., Huang, X.Z.*, Wang, J.L., Bradshaw, R.H., Wang, T., Xiang, L.X., Luo, D.R., Wang, Z.L, Chen, F.H.*, 2022. An inverse relationship between moisture and grazing intensity in an arid mountain-basin system. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 46(2), 310–322.
20. Cao, H.H., Huang, X.Z.*, Xiang, L.X., 2023. Soil erosion caused the increasing Holocene radiocarbon reservoir effect of Lake Kanas in the Altai Mountains. Radiocarbon, 65(2), 343–356.
21. Huang, X.Z.*, Huang, C., Xu, Y., Zheng, M., Ren, X.X., Chen, X.M., Hu, Y., Wang, T., Xiang, L.X., Zhang, J., Chen, F.H., 2023. Body size of fossil Pediastrum in lake sediments as an indicator of temperature variation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 625, 111687.
22. Wang, T., Huang, X.Z.*, Zhang, J.*, Luo, D.R., Zheng, M., Xiang, L.X., Sun, M.J., Ren, X.X., Sun, Y.H., Zhang, S.R., 2023. Vegetation cover dynamics on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau since late Marine Isotope Stage 3. Quaternary Science Reviews, 318, 108292. 
23. Hu, Y., Huang, X. Z.*, Demberel, O., Zhang, J., Xiang, L.X., Gundegmaa, V., Huang, C., Zheng, M., Zhang, J.W., Qiang, M.R., Xiao, J.L., Chen, F.H., 2024. Quantitative reconstruction of precipitation changes in the Mongolian Altai Mountains since 13.7 ka. Catena, 234, 107536.
24. Ren, X., Huang, C., Zhu, Z.Z., Wang, L., Wang, N., Mu, X.Y., Luo, D.R., Zhang, J., Xiang, L., Huang, X.Z.*, 2024. Anthropogenic forest degradation and its impact on soil erosion in the mountainous region of northern China. Catena, 243, 108217.
25. Huang, C., Huang, X.Z.*, Li, J.B., Wang, L., Jiang, L., Xiang, L.X., Zhang, J., Hu, Y., Mu, X.Y., Zheng, M., Ren, X.X., Wang, T., Zhang, J.W., Lei, G.L., Demberel, O., Liu, X., Rudaya, N., Schwalb, A., Duan, Y.W., Xiao, J.L., Chen, F.H., 2024. Western Mongolian Plateau exhibits increasing Holocene temperature. Global and Planetary Change, 242, 104577.
26. Chen, L., Huang, Y.L., Qiu, M.H., Li, Z.L., Yang, R., Li, M.J., Sun, H.L., Xiang, L.X., Zhang, S.J., Huang, X.Z.*, Zhou, A.F.*, 2025. Human settlement and destructive activities disrupt the positive contribution of dust to plant biomass growth over the past 2000 years. Global and Planetary Change, 244, 104640.
27. Hu, Y., Huang, X.Z.*, Li, Y., Chen, H.M., Demberel, O., Zhang, J., Xiang, L.X., Wang, L., Mu, X.Y., Ren, X.X., Zhang, J.W., Qiang, M.R., Xiao, J.L., 2025. Holocene Fire Dynamics in the Altai Mountains and Its Driving Factors. Geophysical Research Letters 52, e2025GL116309.
28. Li, Y.*, Liu, X.X., Wang, W.J., Xiang, L.X., Hu, Y., Jeppesen, E., Demberel, O., Zolbayar, J., Huang, X.Z.*, 2025. Lateglacial and Holocene hydroclimatic variability documented by Cladocera of Tolbo Lake in the Altai Mountains, western Mongolia. Quaternary Science Reviews 351, 109186.
29. Wang, T., Huang, X.Z.*, Zhang, J., Wang, N., Muhammad, F., Luo, D.R., Xiang, L.X., Huang, C., Zheng, M., Wei, H.C., 2025. Dynamics of animal grazing intensity on the central-eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau during the middle-late Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 355, 109272.
30. Zheng, M., Huang, X.Z.*, Wang, N., Qiu, M.H., Zhang, J., Xiang, L.X., Chen, S.J., Farqan, M., Min, R.Q., Wang, T., Huang, C., Ren, X.X., Hu, Y., Wang, W.J., Chen, L., Dong, G.H., 2025. Late Holocene extreme dust events in the arid Central Asia recorded by lake sediments in Tien Shan. Quaternary Science Reviews 368, 109568.
31. 黄小忠*, 向丽雄, 张恩源, 孙明杰, 2019. 全新世中期7 ka前后降温事件对中国北方植被生态的影响. 第四纪研究, 39(3), 687-700.