Education and experience

• 1979-1983 studied in the Geography Department of Nanjing University
• 1983-1986 studied in the Geography Department of Nanjing University (Master's degree)
• 1986-1989 studied in the Department of Oceanography, Nanjing University (PhD student)
• 1997-1998 Senior Visiting Scholar, University of Washington

Academic Title

• Served as an executive director of the Chinese Society of Quaternary Science
• Served as the deputy director of the Coastal Ocean Professional Committee,
• Served as a director of the Chinese Geographical Society
• Served as chairman of the Jiangsu Geographical Society
• Member of the Geographical Science Professional Committee of the Ministry of Education
• Vice President of Jiangsu Education Society
• Chairman of the Geography Education Professional Committee

Honors and Awards

• The first National Youth Geographical Science and Technology Award, 1992
• National Education Promotion Plan, Ministry of Education Young Teacher Award, 2001
• Outstanding Young Key Teacher Award of the Ministry of Education, 2002
• Host of National Excellent Courses, 2004
• Nominated by the Ministry of Education for the First Prize of Natural Science, National Science and Technology Progress Award, 2004
• First Prize of Jiangsu Excellent Teaching Achievement, 2005
• The Second Famous Teacher of Jiangsu Province, 2006
• First Prize of Jiangsu Excellent Teaching Achievement, 2009
• Leader of the National Teaching Team of Modern Physical Geography, 2009
• First Prize of Jiangsu Excellent Teaching Achievement, 2013
• Second Prize of National Excellent Teaching Achievement, 2014
• Second Prize of Jiangsu Excellent Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2014
• The 2nd National Outstanding Geographical Science and Technology Worker, 2014
• National Excellent Geography Textbook for Colleges and Universities, 2019

Research projects

• Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China "Study on Mid-Holocene Storm Surge Frequency in the Central Coast of Jiangsu", presided over, 1993-1995.
• National 908 Special "Survey on the Use of Sea Areas in Jiangsu Province", host, 2006-2009.
• The National Natural Science Foundation of China project "Research on Ancient Yangtze River Channel and Paleoflow near Nanjing during the Last Glacial Period", presided over, 2009-2011.
• The National Natural Science Foundation of China "Research on the Sensitivity of Different Stable Carbon Isotopes of Tree Rings to Climate Response: A Case Study of Masson Pine in China", 2013-2016.
• The Ministry of Education bidding project "National Curriculum Standard Middle School Geography Textbook Series Revision", presided over, 2014-2020.

Journal Articles

• [1] Wang Jian, Wang Yongjin, Liu Zechun, Li Jianqing, Xi Ping, 1999. Cenozoic environmental evolution of the Qaidam Basin and its implications for the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and the drying of the central Asia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 152:37-47.
• [2] Wang Jian et al., 2001. Taihu Lake, lower Yangtze drainage basin:evolution, sedimentation rate and the sea level. Geomorphology, 41:183-193.
• [3] Wang Jian, Bai Shibiao, Liu Ping, Li Yanyan, Gao Zhengrong, Qu Guixian and Cao Guangjie,2009. Channel sedimentation and erosion of the Jiangsu reach of the Yangtze River during the last 44 years. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms 34, 1587–1593
• [4] Jian Wang et.al, 2010. Tidal Couplet Formation and Preservation, and Criteria for Discriminating Storm-Surge Sedimentation on the Tidal Flats of Central Jiangsu Province, China. Journal of Coastal Research, 26(5):985-990
• [5] Wang Jian, G. Raisbeck, Xu XB, F. Yiou, Bai SB, 2006. In Situ Cosmogenic 10Be dating of the Quaternary glaciations in the southern Mountain Shaluli on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Science in China Seri D: Earth Science , 49 (12):1291-1298.
• [6] Wang jian, et al., 2001. Discrimination of depositional seasonality of tidal flat sediment in northern Jiangsu Province, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 46:104-107.
• [7] Wang Linlin, Wang Jian(T), Wang Jie, et al, 2021. Probing the impact of Solar System dynamics on Holocene North Atlantic cold events at the millennial-scale. Quaternary International.
• [8] Wang Jian, Zhu Xiaohua, Xu Yonghui. 1998. Fractal Analysis Applied to Faults and Earthquakes  A Case Study of China. ACTA SEISMOLOGICA JOURNAL, 11 (3):349-353.
• [9] Sun wei, Wang Jian (corresponding author), et al.,2017. Contrast analysis between the trajectory of planetary system and the periodicity of solar activity. Annales Geophysicae.2017,35:659-669.
• [10] Qi-Peng Zhang, Jian Wang (corresponding authors), Hong-Liang Gu, Zhi-Gang Zhang and Qian Wang, 2018. Effects of Continuous Slope Gradient on the Dominance Characteristics of Plant Functional Groups and Plant Diversity in Alpine Meadows. Sustainability, 10, 4805; doi:10.3390/su10124805.
• [11] Zhang Zhigang, Wang Jian (corresponding authors), Xu Xiaobin, Bai Shibiao, Chang Zhiyang, 2015. Cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al Chronology of the Last Glaciation of the Palaeo-Daocheng Ice Cap, Southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau [J]. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 89(2): 575-584.
• [12] Sun Wei, Wang Jian (corresponding author), Chen Jinru, Wang Ying, Liu Fugang, Yu Guangming, 2017. The planetary conjunction index and the change of planetary system heliocentric longitude and spectrum analysis in the past two thousand years. Science Bulletin 62(5), 407 -419.
• [13] Zhang Zhigang, Wang Jian (corresponding authors), Zhang Mengyuan, Mei Jing, 2017. Feasibility study on cosmic nuclide exposure dating of debris on moraine ridges. Geological Review, Volume 63, Issue 6, 1576-1584.

Published works

• Edited by Wang Jian, Modern Physical Geography, Higher Education Press, 2001.
• Edited by Wang Jian, Modern Physical Geography (Second Edition), Higher Education Press, 2010.
• Edited by Wang Jian, Modern Physical Geography Practice Course, Higher Education Press, 2006.
• Wang Jian, editor-in-chief, Bai Shibiao and Chen Xia, deputy editors, Guidance Outline for Comprehensive Internship of Jiangsu Coastal Geography. Beijing: Science Press, 2012.
• Wang Jian, Editor-in-Chief, Jiangsu Coastal Tidal Flats and Their Utilization Potential. Ocean Press, 2012.
• Wang Jian, Editor-in-Chief, Geography (Compulsory One), Shandong Education Press, 2020.

Contact
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