2008.09-2014.01:  PhD, Cartography and Geographic Information System, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2002.09-2005.07:  M.S, Cartography and Geographic Information System, Lanzhou University, China

1997.09-2001.07:  B.S, Geological Engineering, Central South University, China 

GIS in Water Resources;  

Remote sensing application 

2017.08-2017.10: Visiting scholar, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.

2015.05- present:  Associate Professor, College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University, China.

2007.11- 2015.04:  Lecturer, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, China.

2006.02-2006.06, Visiting scholar, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, China.

2005.07- 2007.10, Teaching Assistant, College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, China. 

1.  《Principles of GIS》

2.  《Design and Implementation of GIS》

3.  《Internet GIS》 

[1]. Yanyun Nian, Zeyu He, Wenhui Zhang, Long Chen. Land Cover Changes of the Qilian Mountain National Park in Northwest China Based on Phenological Features and Sample Migration from 1990 to 2020[J]. Remote Sensing. 2023; 15(4):1074. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15041074(SCI) 
[2]. Siwen Chen, Yanyun Nian, Zeyu He, et al. Measuring the Tree Height of Picea crassifolia in Alpine Mountain Forests in Northwest China Based on UAV-LiDAR[J]. Forests, 2022, 13(8): 1163.(SCI)
[3]. Yanyun Nian, Xin Li, Jian Zhou. Landscape changes of the Ejin Delta in the Heihe River Basin in Northwest China from 1930 to 2010 [J]. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 2017, 38(2): 537-557.(SCI)
[4]. Yanyun Nian, Xin Li, Jian Zhou, Xiaoli Hu. Impact of land use change on water resource allocation in the middle reaches of the Heihe River Basin in northwestern China [J]. Journal of Arid Land. 2013, 6(3): 273-286. (SCI)
[5]. Yanan Su, Xin Li, Min Feng, Yanyun Nian, et al. (2021). High agricultural water consumption led to the continued shrinkage of the Aral Sea during 1992–2015[J]. Science of The Total Environment, 777, 145993.(SCI)
[6]. Xin Li, Guodong Cheng, Yingchun Ge, Hongyi Li, Feng Han, Xiaoli Hu, Wei Tian, Yong Tian, Xiaoduo Pan, Yanyun Nian, et al. Hydrological Cycle in the Heihe River Basin and Its Implication for Water Resource Management in Endorheic Basins [J]. Journal of Geophysical esearch: Atmospheres. 2018, 123(2): 890-914.(SCI)