Professor Wang Chuanchao from Xiamen University visited Lanzhou University and delivered an academic lecture on September 11, 2024, at the invitation of Professor Dong Guanghui and Professor Ma Minmin from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Reporter:Professor Wang Chuanchao, Xiamen University
Title: "The Formation and Developmental History of the Chinese Nation from the Perspective of Ancient Genomics"
Host: Professor Ma Minmin, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University
Time: Wednesday, September 11, 2024, from 3:30 to 4:30 PM
Venue: Room 603, Guanyun Building, Chengguan Campus, Lanzhou University
Reporter Profile:
Professor Wang Chuanchao is the Director and a Professor at the Institute of Anthropology, Xiamen University, where he also holds a joint appointment as a Professor in the School of Life Sciences. He is the head of the Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Bioanthropology in Philosophy and Social Sciences. Professor Wang has led several prestigious projects, including those funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, major projects by the National Social Science Fund of China (rolling support), general and young scientist projects by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, sub-projects under the National Key R&D Program, and the Fujian Provincial Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He has been recognized as a Ministry of Education Young Yangtze River Scholar and a high-level Category A Talent in Fujian Province. As the first author or corresponding author, he has published over a hundred papers in SCI and SSCI journals, including prestigious outlets like Nature, Science, Nature Communications, Science Bulletin, and Current Biology. His work has finely mapped the genetic structure of East Asian populations, systematically reconstructed the formation history of these populations, provided ancient genomic evidence supporting the common ancestry of the Han and Tibetan peoples and the shared roots of the Austronesian and Zhuang-Dong groups. He has refuted the African origin of modern languages and the Pan-Eurasian agriculture spread hypothesis while developing theories on the origin and spread of the Indo-European languages and advancing the application of human genomic big data in forensic science. Professor Wang has been listed as a Highly Cited Scholar by Elsevier in China for three consecutive years, serves on the editorial boards of more than ten SCI or SSCI journals, and has received numerous honors including the Chinese Youth May Fourth Medal, first and second prizes in the Fujian Provincial Social Sciences Outstanding Achievements Awards, and the Fujian Youth May Fourth Medal.
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