Areas of Focus
- Ediacaran stratigraphy and paleogeography
- Early Cambrian paleontology, biostratigraphy, and paleogeography
- Early Cambrian trilobites and archaeocyathans systematics, biozones, evolution, and extinction events
Work Experience
- 2005/08 - 2006, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France, Researcher
- 2006/04 - 2011/03, Nanjing University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Lecturer
- 2011/03 - Present, Nanjing University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Associate Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2002/09 - 2005/10, PhD in Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1999/09 - 2002/07, Master's in Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 1995/09 - 1999/07, Bachelor's in Geology, Jilin University (formerly Changchun College of Geology)
Publications
- New archaeocyaths from the early Cambrian of Shaanxi and Guizhou proviences, South China, Aihua Yang, Kexing Yuan, 2012
- Early Cambrian archaeocyathan zonation of the Yangtze Platform and their biostratigraphic implications, Aihua Yang, Zhu Maoyan, Yuan Kexing, Francoise Debrenne, Zhang Junming, 2013
- Early Cambrian eodiscoid trilobites of the Yangtze Platform and their Stratigraphic implications, Aihua Yang, Zhu Maoyan, Zhang Junming, Li Guoxiang, 2004
- Early Cambrian Archaeocyathan zoneation of the Yangtze Platform and its Biostratigraphic Implications, Aihua Yang, Zhu Maoyan, Francoise Debrenne, Yuan Kexing, Jean Vannier, Zhang Junming, Li Guoxiang, 2005
- Evolution and massive extinction of the archaeocyaths on the Yangtze Platform, Aihua Yang, Zhu Maoyan, Zhang Juning, Yuan Kexing, 2006
- Integrated Ediacaran (Sinian) chronostratigraphy of South China, Maoyan Zhu, Junming Zhang, Aihua Yang, 2007
- Hexactinellid sponges from the Early Cambrian black shale of South Anhui, China, Wen Wu, Ai-hua Yang, Dorte Janussen, Michael Steiner, Mao-yan Zhu, 2005
- U-Pb Ages from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China, Daniel Condon, Maoyan Zhu, Samuel Bowring, Wei Wang, Aihua Yang, Yugan Jin, 2005
