At the invitation of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Researcher Hao Qingzhen from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, will visit our university for academic exchange and deliver a lecture on April 16, 2026. All faculty members and students are welcome to attend!
Title: Paleoclimate Research: Understanding the Present through the Past
Reporter: Researcher Hao Qingzhen, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Time: 14:30-15:30, April 16, 2026 (Thursday)
Venue: Room A112, Qinling Hall, Yuzhong Campus, Lanzhou University
Reporter Profile:
Hao Qingzhen, born in 1971, is a Researcher at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Chair Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2016. He currently serves as Deputy Director of the Discipline Center for Environmental Change and Carbon Cycle at the National Key Laboratory of Lithospheric and Environmental Coevolution, Director of the Teaching and Research Section of Quaternary Geology at UCAS, Vice Chair of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Loess and Pedostratigraphy Working Group, and a Council Member of the 11th China Association for Quaternary Research. He formerly served as an editor of Quaternary International and an editorial board member of Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), among others. His research primarily focuses on late Cenozoic aeolian sediment stratigraphy and paleoclimate. He has achieved innovative results in areas including Neogene aeolian sediment magnetostratigraphy and environmental magnetic properties of the western Loess Plateau, Quaternary loess and glacial-interglacial climate dynamics, and the provenance of the Xiashu loess. His first-author and corresponding-author papers have been published in journals such as Nature, Science Advances, and Geology, with over 7,800 SCI citations. He has received awards including the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award (ranked second).
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
April 16, 2026
