Research fields

Stable isotope biogeochemistry; Co-evolution of environment and life

Education

Ph.D: 2013-2017, Geochemistry, University of Science and Technology of China

B.S.: 2007-2011, Geochemistry, University of Science and Technology of China

Employment

2020-present Associate research fellow, Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China

2017-2019 Postdoc fellow, Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China

Major publications

(1) Guijie Zhang*, Xiaolin Zhang*, Dandan Li, Haishui Jiang, Yilun Xu, Menghan Li, Yanan Shen, Evidence for the expansion of anoxia during the Smithian from a quantitative interpretation of paired C-isotopes. Global and Planetary Change, 103551.

(2) Dandan Li, Xiaolin Zhang*, Dongping Hu, Da Li, Guijie Zhang, Xu Zhang, Hong-Fei Ling, Yilun Xu, Yanan Shen, Multiple S-isotopic constraints on paleo-redox and sulfate concentrations across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in South China. Precambrian Research, 2020, 349: 105500.

(3) Dandan Li*, Xiaolin Zhang*, Xu Zhang, Hao Zhu, Shanchi Peng, Lilin Sun, Yanan Shen, A paired carbonate–organic 13C approach to understanding the Cambrian Drumian carbon isotope excursion (DICE), Precambrian Research, 2020, 349: 105503.

(4) Dandan Li, Xiaolin Zhang, Dongping Hu, Xiaoyan Chen, Wei Huang, Xu Zhang, Menghan Li, Liping Qin, Shanchi Peng, Yanan Shen*, Evidence of a large 13Ccarb and 13Corg depth gradient for deep-water anoxia during the Late Cambrian SPICE event. Geology, 2018, 46(7): 631-634

(5) Jiaheng Shen*, Ann Pearson*, Gregory A. Henkes, Yi Ge Zhang, Kefan Chen, Dandan Li, Scott D. Wankel, Stanley C. Finney, Yanan Shen, Improved efficiency of the biological pump as a trigger for the Late Ordovician glaciation. Nature Geoscience, 2018, 11, 510-514.

(6) Dandan Li, Xiaolin Zhang*, Kefan Chen, Guijie Zhang, Xiaoyan Chen, Wei Huang, Shanchi Peng, Yanan Shen, High-resolution C-isotope chemostratigraphy of the uppermost Cambrian stage (Stage 10) in South China: implications for defining the base of Stage 10 and palaeoenvironmental change. Geological Magazine, 2017, 154(06): 1232-1243.

(7) Guijie Zhang, Xiaolin Zhang, Dongping Hu, Dandan Li, Thomas J. Algeo, James Farquhar, Charles M. Henderson, Liping Qin, Megan Shen, Danielle Shen, Shane D. Schoepfer, Kefan Chen, Yanan Shen*, Redox chemistry changes in the Panthalassic Ocean linked to the end-Permian mass extinction and delayed Early Triassic biotic recovery, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017, 114(8): 1806-1810.

(8) Guijie Zhang, Xiaolin Zhang, Dandan Li, James Farquhar, Shuzhong Shen, Xiaoyan Chen, Yanan Shen*, Widespread shoaling of sulfidic waters linked to the end-Guadalupian (Permian) mass extinction, geology, 2015, 43(12): 1091-1094.