1983-1990: Bachelor and Master's Degree from Peking University, Department of Geology
Received National Outstanding Youth Fund
First batch of 'New Century Millions of Talents Project' national candidate
1990-present: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - from Intern Researcher to Professor
1993.10-11: Collaboration with Amoco Corporation, Houston
1995.12-1996.9: Collaboration with the Department of Geology, Montreal, Canada
1999.11-2000.1: Collaboration with the Department of Biology, Harvard University
National Outstanding Youth Fund
Eighth Jiangsu Province Youth Science and Technology Award
Special Paper Award at the American Geological Society Conference
Silver Hammer Award by the Chinese Geological Society
Top Ten Science and Technology Stars of Nanjing
Yin Zanxun Award of the Fifth Chinese Paleontological Society
First batch of 'New Century Millions of Talents Project' national candidate
Jiangsu Province '333 Project' candidate
2005 Science in China Person of the Year
2006 First Outstanding Teacher of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Third Chinese Academy of Sciences Award for Innovation Culture Construction
Jiangsu Province Science Popularization Advanced Individual
Research
Early life evolution and environmental background Origin and early evolution of multicellular organisms Fossil evidence of the origin and radiation of eukaryotes Earth's environment in the early Archean
New micropaleontological data from Neoproterozoic Sinian Doushantuo phosphorite rocks, Wengan, Guizhou Province, southwestern China, Yuan Xunlai and H.J. Hofmann, 1998
Pyritized chuarids with excystment structures from the late Neoproterozoic Lantian Formation in Anhui, South China, Yuan Xunlai, Xiao Shuhai, Li Jun, Yin Leiming, and Cao Ruiji, 2001
Towering sponges in an Early Cambrian Lagersta¨tte: Disparity between nonbilaterian and bilaterian epifaunal tierers at the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition, Yuan Xunlai, Shuhai Xiao, Ronald L. Parsley, Chuanming Zhou, Zhe Chen, Jie Hu, 2002
The Neoproterozoic Quruqtagh Group in eastern Chinese Tianshan: evidence for a post-Marinoan glaciation, Xiao, S., Huiming Bao, Haifeng Wang, A J Kaufman, Chuanming Zhou, Guoxiang Li, Xunlai Yuan, Hongfei Ling, 2004
Phosphatized multicellular algae in the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China, and the early evolution of florideophyte red algae, Xiao, S., A. H. Knoll, X. Yuan, and C. M. Pueschel, 2004
Sulfate oxygen-17 anomaly in an Oligocene ash bed in mid-North America: Was it the dry fogs?, Bao, Huiming; Thiemens, Mark H.; Loope, David B.; Yuan, Xun-Lai, 2003
New constraints on the ages of Neoproterozoic glaciations in south China, Chuanming Zhou, R Tucker, Shuhai Xiao, Zhanxiong Peng, Xunlai Yuan, Zhe Chen, 2004
Skeletogenesis and asexual reproduction in the earliest biomineralizing animal Cloudina, Hua Hong, Chen Zhe, Yuan Xunlai, Xiao Shuhai, Zhang Luyi, 2005
A uniquely preserved Ediacaran fossil with direct evidence for a quilted bodyplan, Shuhai Xiao, Bing Shen, Chuanming Zhou, Guwei Xie, Xunlai Yuan, 2005
Lichen-like symbiosis 600 million years ago, Xunlai Yuan, Shuhai Xiao, T.N., Taylor, 2005
Protists of the upper Mesoproterozoic Ruyang Group in Shanxi Province, China, Yin Leiming, Yuan Xunlai, Meng Fanwei and Fu Jie, 2005
Cellular and Subcellular Structure of Neoproterozoic Animal Embryos, James W. Hagadorn, Shuhai Xiao, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Stefan Bengtson, Neil J. Gostling, Maria, Pawlowska, Elizabeth C. Raff, Rudolf A. Raff, F. Rudolf Turner, Yin Chongyu, Chuanming Zhou, Xunlai Yuan, Matthew B. McFeely, Marco Stampanoni, Kenneth H. Nealson, 2006
Rare helical spheroidal fossils from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo lagerstätte: Ediacaran animal embryos come of age?, Shuhai Xiao, James W. Hagadorn, Chauming Zhou, Xunlai Yuan, 2007
Ultrastructural and Geochemical Characterization of Archean–Paleoproterozoic Graphite Particles: Implications for Recognizing Traces of Life in Highly Metamorphosed Rocks, James D. S., Leiming Y, Robert J. B., A. J. Kaufman, Fanwei M., Jie H., Bing S. Xunlai Y., Huiming B., and Shuhai X., 2007
Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, Kathleen A. M., Jing Huang, Xuelei Chu, Ganqing Jiang, Alan J.Kaufman, Chuanming Zhou, Xunlai Yuan and Shuhai Xiao, 2008
New morphological observations for Paleoproterozoic acritarchs from the Chuanlinggou Formation, North China, Yongbo Peng, Huiming Bao, Xunlai Yuan, 2009
SHRIMP zircon U–Pb age constraints on Neoproterozoic Quruqtagh diamictites in NW China, Bei Xu, Shuhai Xiao, Haibo Zou, Yan Chen, Zheng-Xiang Li, Biao Song, Dunyi Liu, Chuanming Zhou, Xunlai Yuan, 2009
Carbon and sulfur isotope chemostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Quanji Group of the Chaidam Basin, NW China: Basin stratification in the aftermath of an Ediacaran glaciation postdating the Shuram event, Bing Shen, Shuhai Xiao, Chuanming Zhou, Alan J. Kaufmand, Xunlai Yuan, 2010
Timing the deposition of 17O-depleted barite at the aftermath of Nantuo glacial meltdown in South China, Zhou Chuanming, Bao Huiming, Peng Yongbo, Yuan Xunlai, 2010
Ediacaran seawater temperature: evidence from inclusions of Sinian halite, Fanwei Meng, Pei
