1990: Ph.D., Physical Geography, Lanzhou University.
1987: M.Sc., Physical Geography, Lanzhou University.
1984: B.Sc., Physical Geography, Lanzhou University.

Loess study, Climate change, Environmental change, Environmental archaeology and prehistoric civilization evolution

2018-present: Research Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2018-2023: Director, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2007-2018: Vice-President (responsible for research), Lanzhou University.
2005-2016: Director, Key Laboratory of West China’s Environmental System, Ministry of Education, China.
2001-2008: Director, Centre for Arid Environment and Paleoclimate Research (CAEP)
2001-2006: Visiting Professor, University of College of London, UK.
1999-2005: Dean, College of Earth and Environment Sciences.
1994-2017: Professor, Department of Geography, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
1992-1994: Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Lanzhou University.
1990-1994: Lecturer, Department of Geography, Lanzhou University.

Society/Commission President
  Silk Road Civilizations and Environments Commission, IGU (2024-present)
Society/Commission Vice-President
  Environment Evolution Commission, IGU (2012-present)
  Chinese Geography Society (2025-present)
  The China Society on Tibet Plateau (2020-present)

2019-2024, Tibetan Plateau Earth System. NSFC Excellent Research Groups Project.
2018-2023, Climate change in the Arid Central Asia and its impact on civilization along Silk Road. National key research and development program. 
2018-2022, Climate Change and Sensitive Ecosystem Responses and Adaption in Arid and Semi-Arid Northern China. Key NSFC Project.
2017-2021, Study on Prehistoric Human Adaptation to High-elevation and Low-oxygen Environment in Northern Tibetan Plateau. Special NSFC Project.

2016, Member, The World Academy of Science (TWAS)
2015, Academician, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
2005, National Excellent Scientist
1996, China Youth Science and Technology Award

2018-2023, Climate change in the Arid Central Asia and its impact on civilization along Silk Road. National Key Research and Development Program. 
2018-2022, Climate Change and Sensitive Ecosystem Responses and Adaption in Arid and Semi-Arid Northern China. Key NSFC Project.
2017-2021, Study on Prehistoric Human Adaptation to High-elevation and Low-oxygen Environment in Northern Tibetan Plateau. Special NSFC Project.

1.	Xia, H.#, Zhang, D.J.#*, Wang, J.#, Fagernäs, Z.#, Li, T., Li, Y.X., Yao, J.T., Lin, D.P., Troché, G., Smith, G. M., Chen, X.S., Cheng, T., Shen, X.K., Han, Y.Y., Olsen, J. V., Shen, Z.W., Pei, Z.Q., Hublin, J.-J., Chen, F.H.*, Welker, F.*, 2024. Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave. Nature, 632, 108–113.
2.	Chen, F.*, Man, W.M., Wang, S.J., Esper, J., Meko, D., Büntgen, U., Yuan, Y.J., Hadad, M., Hu, M., Zhao, X.E., Roig, F., Fang, O.Y., Chen, Y.P., Zhang, H.L., Shang, H.M., Yu, S.L., Luo, X., He, D.M.*, Chen, F.H.*, 2023. Southeast Asian ecological dependency on Tibetan Plateau streamflow over the last millennia. Nature Geoscience, 16, 1151–1158.
3.	Chen, F.H.*, Duan, Y.W., Hao, S., Chen, J., Feng, X.P., Hou, J.Z., Cao, X.Y., Zhang, X., Zhou, T.J., 2023. Holocene thermal maximum mode versus the continuous warming mode: problems of data-model comparisons and future research prospects. Science China Earth Sciences, 66, 1683–1701.
4.	Chen, F.H.*, Xie, T.T., Yang, Y.J., Chen, S.Q., Chen, F., Huang, W., Chen, J.*, 2023. Discussion of the “warming and wetting” trend and its future variation in the drylands of Northwest China under global warming. Science China Earth Sciences, 66, 1241–1257.
5.	Wang, X.M., Ge, Q.S., Geng, X., Wang, Z.S., Gao, L., Bryan, B.A., Chen, S.Q., Su, Y.N., Cai, D.W., Ye, J.S., Sun, J.M., Lu, H.Y., Che, H.Z., Cheng, H., Liu, H.Y., Liu, B.L., Dong, Z.B., Cao, S.X., Hua, T., Chen, S.Y., Sun, F.B., Luo, G.P., Wang, Z.T., Hu, S., Xu, D.Y., Chen, M.X., Li, D.F., Liu, F., Xu, X.L., Han, D.M., Zheng, Y., Xiao, F.Y., Li, X.B., Wang, P., Chen, F.H.*, 2023. Unintended consequences of combating desertification in China. Nature Communications 14, 1139. 
6.	Chen, F.H., Ding, L., Piao, S.L., Zhou, T.J., Xu, B.Q., Yao, T.D., Li, X., 2021. The Tibetan Plateau as the engine for Asian environmental change: the Tibetan Plateau Earth system research into a new era. Science Bulletin, 66: 1263-1266.
7.	Chen, F.H., Chen, S.Q., Zhang, X., Chen, J.H., Wang, X., Gowan, E.J., Qiang, M.R., Dong, G.H., Wang, Z.L., Li, Y.C., Xu, Q.H., Xu, Y.Y., Smol, J.P., Liu, J.B., 2020. Asian dust-storm activities dominated by Chinese dynasty changes since 2000 BP. Nature Communications, 11, 992.
8.	Chen, F.H., Zhang, J.F., Liu, J.B., Cao, X.Y., Hou, J.Z., Zhu, L.P., Xu, X.K., Liu, X.J., Wang, M.D., Wu, D., Huang, L.X., Zeng, T., Zhang, S., Huang, W., Zhang, X., Yang, K., 2020. Climate change, vegetation history, and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review. Quaternary Science Reviews, 243, 106444.
9.	Chen, F.H., Welker, F., Shen, C.-C., Bailey, S.E., Bergmann, I., Davis, S., Xia, H., Wang, H., Fischer, R., Freidline, S.E., Yu, T.-L., Skinner, M.M., Stelzer, S., Dong, G.R., Fu, Q.M., Dong, G.H., Wang, J., Zhang, D.J., Hublin, J.-J., 2019. A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau. Nature, 569: 409-412.
10.	Chen, F.H., Chen, J.H., Huang, W., Chen, S.Q., Huang, X.Z., Jin, L.Y., Jia, J., Zhang, X.J., An, C.B., Zhang, J.W., Zhao, Y., Yu, Z.C., Zhang, R.H., Liu, J.B., Zhou, A.F., Feng, S., 2019. Westerlies Asia and monsoonal Asia: Spatiotemporal differences in climate change and possible mechanisms on decadal to sub-orbital timescales. Earth-Science Reviews, 192: 337-354.
11.	Liu, J.B, Rühland, K.M., Chen, J.H., Xu, Y.Y., Chen, S.Q., Chen, Q.M., Huang, W., Xu, Q.H., Chen, F.H*. Smol, J.P, 2017. Aerosol-weakened summer monsoons decrease lake fertilization in the Chinese Loess Plateau. Nature Climate Change, 7(3):190–194.
12.	Chen, F.H., Dong, G.H., Zhang, D.J., Liu, X.Y., Jia, X., An, C.B., Ma, M.M., Xie, Y.W., Barton, L., Ren, X.Y., Zhao, Z.J., Wu, X.H., and M. K. Jones, 2015, Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 BP. Science, 347(6219): 248-250.
13.	Chen, F.H., Xu, Q.H., Chen, J.H., Birks, H.J.B., Liu, J.B., Zhang, S.R., Jin, L.Y., An, C.B., Telford, R.J., Cao, X.Y., Wang, Z.L., Zhang, X.J., Selvaraj, K., Lu, H.Y., Li, Y.C., Zheng, Z., Wang, H.P., Zhou, A.F., Dong, G.H., Zhang, J.W., Huang, X.Z., Bloemendal, J., and Rao, Z.G., 2015, East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation. Scientific Reports, 5, 11186.
14.	Chen, F.H., Li, G.Q., Zhao, H., Jin, M., Chen, X.M., Fan, Y.X., Liu, X.K., Wu, D. and Madsen, D., 2014, Landscape evolution of the Ulan Buh Desert in northern China during the late Quaternary. Quaternary Research, 81(3): 476–487.
15.	Chen, F.H., Chen, X.M., Chen, J.H., Zhou, A.F., Wu, D., Tang, L.Y., Zhang, X.J., Huang, X.Z., and Yu, J.Q., 2014, Holocene vegetation history, precipitation changes and Indian summer monsoon evolution documented from sediments of Xingyun Lake, southwest China. Journal of Quaternary Research, 29(7): 661–674.
16.	Chen, F.H., Qiang, M.R., Zhou, A.F., Xiao, S., Chen, J.H. and Sun, D.H., 2013, A 2000-year dust storm record from Lake Sugan in the dust source area of arid China. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118(5): 2149-2160.
17.	Chen, F.H., Chen, J.H., Holmes, J.A., Boomer, I., Austin, P., Gates, J.B., Wang, N.L., Brooks, S.J. and J.W. Zhang, 2010, Moisture changes over the last millennium in the Arid Central Asia: a review, synthesis and comparison with monsoon region. Quaternary Science Review, 29(7-8): 1055-1068.
18.	Chen, F.H., Yu, Z.C., Yang, M.L., Ito, E., Wang, S.M., Madsen, D.B., Huang, X.Z., Zhao, Y., Sato, T., Birks, H.J.B., Boomer, I., Chen, J.H., An, C.B., Wünnemann, B., 2008, Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27: 351–364.
19.	Chen, F.H., Bloemendal, J., Feng, Z.D., Wang, J.M., Parker, E. and Z.T. Guo, 1999, East Asian monsoon variations during Oxygen Isotope Stage 5: evidence from the northwestern margin of the Chinese loess plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews, 18(8-9): 1127-1135.
20.	Chen, F.H., Bloemendal, J., Wang, J.M., Li, J.J. and Oldfield, F., 1997. High-resolution multi-proxy climate records from Chinese loess: evidence for rapid climatic changes over the last 75 kyr. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 130(1-4): 323-335.

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