教育经历

1998年，山东大学获理学学士学位；

2007年，中国科学院植物研究所获理学博士学位；

工作经历

2007年至今，在中国科学院植物研究所历任助理研究员、副研究员。

    从事植物演化及其气候与环境变化研究。主持国家自然科学面上基金2项，参加国家科技基础资源调查专项、科技部国际合作项目等多项。先后多次赴北极黄河站、南极长城站及中山站参加科学考察活动，开展南、北极地区是全球气候变化的敏感地区的气候环境与植被关系的研究。在Global Ecology and Biogeography、Geology等期刊发表研究论文30余篇。

国家自然科学基金面上项目“新疆克里雅河流域古绿洲植被演替及其与人类活动关系的研究” （42272003，2023-01 至 2026-12），主持人

国家自然科学基金面上项目“中国东部始新世植被演替与气候变化的研究” （313702542，2014-01 至 2017-12），主持人

国家科技基础资源调查专项课题“绿洲演变与荒漠化过程调查与评估” （2019FY100205，2020-01 至 2022-12），参与。

Yi-Ming Wu, Li-Li Lu, Bin-Sun, David K. Ferguson, Shi-Liang Zhou*, Yu-Fei Wang* and Jian Yang*. 2025. Recognizing Prunus persica (peach) and allied Rosaceae by the morphological characteristics of their fruitstones. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-025-01043-w.

Jian Yang, Francis M. Hueber, Yue-Zhuo Li, Cheng-Sen Li*. 2024. Re-investigation of Bowmanites laxus Halle, 1927, a sphenopsid fructification from the Permian of China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 331: 105214.

Yi-Ming Cui, Wei Wang, David K. Ferguson, Jian Yang* and Yu-Fei Wang*. Fossil evidence reveals how plants responded to cooling during the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition. BMC Plant Biology. 2019, 192: 236-248.

Lin Ding*, Robert A. Spicer*, Jian Yang*, Qiang Xu, Fulong Cai, Shun Li, Qingzhou Lai, Houqi Wang, T.E.V. Spicer, Yahui Yue, A. Shukla, G. Srivastava, M. Ali Khan, S. Bera, and R. Mehrotra. 2017, Quantifying the rise of the Himalaya orogen and implications for then South Asian monsoon. Geology, 45(3): 215-218.

Qian-Qian Zhang, Thierry Smith, Jian Yang*, and Cheng-Sen Li*. 2016, Evidence of a Cooler Continental Climate in East China during the Warm Early Cenozoic. PLoS One, 11(5): e0155507. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0155507.

Jian Yang*, Robert A. Spicer Teresa E. V. Spicer, Nan Crystal Arens, Frédéric M. B. Jacques, Tao Su, Elizabeth M. Kennedy, Alexei B. Herman, David C. Steart, Gaurav Srivastava, Rakesh C. Mehrotra, Paul J. Valdes, Naresh C. Mehrotra, Zhe-Kun Zhou, and Jiang-Shan Lai. 2015, Leaf form-climate relationships on the global stage: an ensemble of characters. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(10): 1113-1125.

Yi-Ming Cui, Bin Sun, Hai-Feng Wang, David Kay Ferguson, Yu-Fei Wang*, 2015, Cheng-Sen Li, Jian Yang*, and Qing-Wen Ma. Exploring the formation of a disjunctive pattern between eastern Asia and north America based on fossil evidence from Thuja (Cupressaceae). PLoS One, 10(9): e0138544. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0138544.

Jian Yang*, Robert A. Spicer, Teresa E. V. Spicer and Cheng-Sen Li. 2011, ‘CLAMP Online’: a new web-based palaeoclimate tool and its application to the terrestrial Paleogene and Neogene of North America. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 91:163–183.

Jian Yang, Yu-Fei Wang*, Robert A. Spicer, Volker Mosbrugger, Cheng-Senb Li*, and Qi-Gao Sun. 2007, Climatic reconstruction at the Miocene Shanwang Basin, China, using leaf margin analysis, CLAMP, coexistence approach, and overlapping distribution analysis. American Journal of Botany. 94(4): 599-608.