Ding Zhongli
Director
Geoglogy and Earth Science
School of Earth Science Zhejiang University
China
Biography
Ding Zhongli Prof. Ding, a Quaternary geologist, was born in Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province in 1957. He graduated in 1982 from the Department of Geology, Zhejiang University, and obtained his Ph.D.from the CAS Institute of Geology (the predecessor of today's CAS Institute of Geology and Geophysics, IGGCAS) in 1988. Prof. Ding served as the director of IGGCAS from 2000 to 2007. He was elected the academician of the Chinese Academy of Science in 2005, and became the vice president of CAS in 2008. Prof.Ding engaged in the study of quaternary geology and paleoenvironment research. Based on the sedimentation of red beds of tertiary system and the quaternary loess, he reconstructed the historical record of arid area in north China during the past seven million years
Research Interest
Geoglogy and Earth Science
