Areas of Focus
- Past global changes, elemental carbon records and fire, vegetation history, biomarkers and paleoenvironment reconstruction, paleoclimate environmental changes in East Asia since the late Cenozoic
Work Experience
- 2008-Present: Associate Professor at Nanjing University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2000-2001: Graduate studies at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2001-2006: Master and PhD studies at Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2006-2008: Postdoctoral research at Tongji University, School of Ocean and Earth Science
Publications
- Vegetation evolution on the central Chinese Loess Plateau since late Quaternary evidenced by elemental carbon isotopic composition, Zhou, B., Shen, C.D., Zheng, H.B., Zhao, M.X., 2009
- Climate and vegetation variations since the LGM recorded by biomarkers from a sediment core in northern South China Sea, Zhou, B., Zheng, H.B., Yang, W.G., Taylor, D., Lu, Y.H., Wei, G.J., Li, L., Wang, H., 2012
- Late Pliocene–Pleistocene expansion of C4 vegetation in semiarid East Asia linked to increased burning, Zhou, B., Shen, C.D., Sun, W.D., Bird, M., Ma, W.T., Taylor, D., Liu,W.G., 2014
