Wei Lijie | |
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Alma mater | Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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Paleontology Stratigraphy |
Institutions | Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences |
Wei Lijie ( Chinese: 韦利杰; born 2 June 1974) is a Chinese Antarctic researcher, best known for her work on the paleontology and stratigraphy of Tibet and the Antarctic. [1] [2]
Wei is from China and was born in Longyao, Hebei on June 2, 1974. She received her master's degree in paleontology and stratigraphy at Lanzhou University in 2006 [3] and got her doctor degree in structural geology at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. [4]
Wei has been an Associate Professor in the Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences since 2013. [5] Her main research interests are paleontology and stratigraphy, in particular, study of the Cenozoic palynology of Tibet and Antarctica. [1] [2] She leads a research project on the Neogene palynology from the eastern and western margins of the Lambert Glacier of East Antarctica. [6]
Wei participated in the 26th Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition (October 2009-April 2010) and carried out geological investigation in the Grove Mountains area of East Antarctica. [7] She was the first woman researcher from China to carry out geological research in the Antarctic inland. [7] [8]
Wei served as visiting scholar in the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Science, New Zealand from August to October, 2011. [9] From 2011-2013 she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. [10]
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