2004-2010 PhD in Paleobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2000-2004 Bachelor in Biology, School of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University
Recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Young Scientists Fund (2019)
2020.02- Present: Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
2019.03-2020.01: Researcher, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2013.02-2019.02: Associate Researcher, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2010.03-2013.01: Assistant Researcher, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2018 Young Paleontologist Title by the Paleontological Society of China
First author on papers selected for Top Ten Advances in Paleontology in 2016 and 2019
2016 Outstanding Young Scientist, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2018 Third Prize of Jiangsu Science and Technology, participant in the project 'Mesozoic Lake Systems in Northern China'
2015 First Prize of Jiangsu Science and Technology, participant in the project 'Late Mesozoic Daohugou Biota and Jehol Biota Insect Fossils'
Research
Paleobiology Paleoecology Molecular Taphonomy
Diagenetic patterns in Cretaceous belemnite rostra from Southern Tibet, China: Evaluating criteria to differentiate well preserved and altered fossils, Zheng Fang, Matthias Alberti*, Juan Li, Yanhong Pan*, 2024
Fossil evidence sheds light on sexual selection during the early evolution of birds, Yibo Zhou, Yanhong Pan*, Min Wang*, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Zhonghe Zhou*, 2024
Review and prospects of paleoproteomics: using collagen as an example, Xin Li, Yanhong Pan*, 2023
Late Triassic-Jurassic bivalve biochronology, palaeogeography and palaeoenvironment of the Junggar Basin, NW China, Jingeng Sha*, Jinhui Cheng, Yaqiong Wang, Yanan Fang, Jiahao Li, Yanhong Pan, 2023
Fungal-induced fossil biomineralization, Mao Luo*, Zhen Li, Mu Su, Geoffrey Michael Gadd*, Zongjun Yin, Michael J. Benton, Yanhogn Pan, Daran Zheng, Tao Zhao, Zibo Li, Yuxuan Chen, 2023
Taphonomic properties of the foot claw sheath from an Early Cretaceous bird specimen Confuciusornis sanctus, Xingjian He, Tao Zhao, Jianfang Hu, Xin Li, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Yanhong Pan*, 2023
Unambiguous evidence of brilliant iridescent feather color from hollow melanosomes in an Early Cretaceous bird, Yanhong Pan*, Zhiheng Li, Min Wang, Tao Zhao, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, 2022
Scales in the Early Cretaceous bird Gansus from China provide evidence on the evolution of avian scales, Tao Zhao, Zhiheng Li, He Zhang, Yanhong Pan*, 2022
An evaluation of the effect of hydrofluoric acid (HF) treatment on keratins, Tao Zhao, Yanhong Pan*, 2022
Silicification of feathers in a modern hot spring in New Zealand, Tao Zhao, Liang Hu, Yanhong Pan, 2022
The sea-level highstand of the Changjiang River estuary in the Holocene revealed from tidal bore deposits, Yujia Liu, Zhiyong Han*, Xusheng Li, Yanhong Pan, Qianqian Yang, Yuwen Zhou, 2022
A potential terrestrial Albian-Cenomanian boundary in the Yanji Basin, Northeast China, Yuting Zhong, Yaqiong Wang*, Baoyao Jia, Man Wang, Liang Hu, Yanhong Pan, 2021
Applications of electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) in palaeontology, Liang Hu, Zhiheng Li, Yanhong Pan*, 2021
An Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with a pintail, Min Wang, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Tao Zhao, Yanhong Pan, Xiaoting Zheng, Xiaoli Wang, Zhonghe Zhou, 2021
Structural colours in diverse Mesozoic insects, Cai Chenyang*, Tihelka Erik, Pan Yanhong*, Yin Ziwei, Jiang Rixin, Xia Fangyuan, Huang Diying, 2020
Experimental maturation of feathers: implications for interpretations of fossil feathers, Zhao Tao, Hu Jianfang, Hu Liang, Pan Yanhong*, 2020
Shajia, a new genus of polyconitid rudist from the Langshan Formation of the Lhasa block, Tibet, and its palaeogeographical implications, Rao Xin*, Skelton Peter W.*, Sano Shin-ichi, Zhang Yiqiang, Zhang Yichun, Pan Yanhong, Cai Huwei, Peng Bo, Zhang Tong, Ma Zhaoxiong, 2020
Spinicaudatans from the Yixian Formation (Lower Cretaceous) and the Daohugou Beds (Jurassic) of Western Liaoning, China, Liang Hu, Tao Zhao, Yanhong Pan*, 2020
New information on the plumage of Protopteryx (Aves: Enantiornithes) from a new specimen, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Xiaoting Zheng, Yanhong Pan, Xiaoli Wang, Yan Wang, Xiaomei Zhang, Zhonghe Zhou, 2020
The molecular evolution of feathers with direct evidence from fossils, Pan Yanhong*, Zheng Wenxia, Sawyer Roger H., Pennington Michael W., Zheng Xiaoting, Wang Xiaoli, Wang Min, Hu Liang, O’Connor Jingmai, Zhao Tao, Li Zhiheng, Schroeter Elen R., Wu Feixiang, Xu Xing, Zhou Zhonghe*, Schweitzer Mary H. *, 2019
Taphonomy of fish concentrations from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Plattenkalk of Southern Germany, Pan Yanhong, Fürsich Franz T., Chellouche Patrick, Hu Liang, 2019
Applications of chemical imaging techniques in paleontology, Pan Yanhong, Hu Liang, Zhao Tao, 2019
High-fidelity preservation of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta) exoskeletons from the Miocene of Shanwang, Hu Liang, Xiang Huaying, Cai Chenyang, Zhao Tao, Huang Diying, Pan Yanhong*, 2019
Archaeorhynchus preserving significant soft tissue including probable fossilized lungs, Xiaoli Wang, Jingmai K. O’Connor*, John N. Maina, Yanhong Pan, Min Wang, Yan Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Zhonghe Zhou*, 2018
First report on occurrence of Pinna Yunnanensis (Chen, 1976) at the Tulong section of Nyalam county, Tibet and preliminary study of its shell structure, Hu Liang, Mu Lin, Pan Yanhong*, 2017
A bizarre Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird with unique crural feathers and an ornithuromorph plough-shaped pygostyle, Min Wang, Jingmai O’Connor, Yanhong Pan, Zhonghe Zhou, 2017
Exceptional preservation of soft tissue in a new specimen of Eoconfuciusornis and its biological implications, Xiaoting Zheng, Jingmai O’Connor*, Xiaoli Wang, Yanhong Pan, Yan Wang, Min Wang, Zhonghe Zhou, 2017
IGCP632 The Jurassic-Cretaceous transition in North Eastern China (western Liaoning and Inner Mongolia): An IGCP meeting and field excursion on the continental Jurassic, Jingeng Sha, Yanhong Pan, Enpu Gong, Vivi Vajda*, 2017
Species of the genus Cypridea Bosquet, 1852 (Ostracoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian and Jiufotang formations of western Liaoning, China, Yaqiong Wang, Wenguang Yang, Yanhong Pan, Huanyu Liao, 2017
Late Cretaceous ostracod fauna from the Shenjiatun section (Songliao Basin, Northeast China): Biostratigraphic and palaeoecological implications, Yaqiong Wang*, Benjamin Sames*, Huanyu Liao, Dangpeng Xi, Yanhong Pan, 2017
Area of Focus
Stress Analysis | Material Properties | Simulation | Energy Resources | Safety Measures | Environmental Impact | Technology Development | Field Testing | Data Analysis | Modeling
