2013: PhD, Paleoclimatology, Lanzhou University

Past Global Climate Change, Desert formation and evolution

2023-now: Associater Professor, Master Advisor. Key laboratory of west China’s Environmental System (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University.
2014.04-2022/12: Lecturer, Key laboratory of west China’s Environmental System (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environment Sciences, Lanzhou University.

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.