Work experience:

2006–2008     Assistant Professor. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2009–2018      Associate Professor. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2019–              Professor. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Educational Background:

1996–2000   Biology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China.

2000–2006     Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China.

Visits:

Oct 2006      Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USA

Oct 2007      Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Denver Science Museum, USA

Oct 2009      Institute of Geology of Russian Academy of Sciences Siberia Branch,Ulan-Ude, Russia

Mar 2012     Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, USA

Dec 2016     University of Kansas, USA

July 2018     Institute of Geology, Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan

Nov 2018     University of Governmental College, Faisalabad; Kohat University of Science and Technology, Pakistan

May 2019     Institute of Geology, Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan

Field Experiences:

Early Tertiary of Tajik Basin, Tajikistan (2019, 2018); Early Tertiary of Cholakki and Ganda Kas regions and Neogene of Siwalik groups, Pakistan (2018); Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene mammals in Zanda Basin (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2016) and late Tertiary of Lunpola basin (2009, 2014), Tibet; Early Tertiary of Junggar Basin (2009, 2014-18), Tertiary of Kumkol Basin (2012-2015) and Xokol Basin (2013-2018), Xinjiang; Late Tertiary of Tunggur region, Inner Mongolia, China (2002-05, 2007-09); Late Tertiary of Qaidam Basin, Qinghai Province China (2002, 2004-10, 2016); Early Oligocene mammals of Qujing, Yunnan (2013, 2014, 2018); Tertiary/Quaternary biostratigraphy of Nihewan Basin, Hebei Province, China (2001, 02, 05, 18); Late Tertiary of Linxia Basin, China (2005); Late Pliocene and early Pleistocene mammals in cranny deposits, Queshan, Henan Province and Huainan, Anhui Province (2004); Middle Miocene mammals in Shanwang, Shandong Province (2004); Late Miocene mammals in Tianzhu, Gansu Province, China (2002); Biology resource general investigation in Tianzhu area, Gansu Province, China (1998).

Monograph:

Qiu Zhuding, Li Qiang. 2016. Neogene Rodents from Central Nei Mongol, China. Beijing: Science Press, 1-684.

Articles:

Yang Yanghesan, Li Qiang, ？ucja Fostowicz-Frelika, Ni Xijun. 2019. Last record of Trogontherium cuvieri (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the late Pleistocene of China. Quaternary International, 513: 30-36

Wu Xiujie, Pei Shuwen, Cai Yanjun, Tong Haowen, Li Qiang, Dong Zhe, Sheng Jinchao, Jin Zetian, Ma dongdong, Xing Song, Li Xiaoli, Cheng Xing, Cheng Hai, Ignacio de la Torre, R. Lawrence Edwards, Gong Xicheng, An Zhisheng, Erik Trinkaus, Liu Wu. 2019. Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation. PNAS, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1902396116

Li Qiang, Thomas A. Stidham, Ni Xijun, Li Lüzhou. 2018. Two new Pliocene hamsters (Cricetidae, Rodentia) from southwestern Tibet (China), and their implications for rodent dispersal ‘into Tibet’. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1403443. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1403443

Li Lüzhou, Li Qiang, Lu Xiaoyu, Ni Xijun. 2017. Morphology of an Early Oligocene beaver Propalaeocastor irtyshensis and the status of the genus Propalaeocastor. PeerJ, 5:e3311. Doi: 107717/peerj.3311

Wang Weitao, Zheng Wenjung, Zhang Peizhen, Li Qiang, Eric Kirby, Yuan Daoyang, Zheng Deweng, Liu Caicai, Wang Zhicai, Zhang Huiping, Pang Jianzhang. 2017. Expansion of the Tibetan Plateau during the Neogene. Nature Communications, 8:15887. Doi: 10.1038/ncomms15887

Xu Xiaofeng, Li Qiang, Flynn J. Lawrence. 2017. The beavers (Castoridae) of Yushe Basin. In: Flynn et Wu eds，Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals. Springer. 71-80

Li Qiang, Ni Xijun. 2016.  An early Oligocene fossil demonstrates treeshrews are slowly evolving “living fossils”. Scientific Reports, 6:18627, doi: 10.1038/srep18627

Ni Xijun, Li Qiang, Li Lvzhou, Christopher K. Beard. 2016. Oligocene primates from China reveal divergence between African and Asian primate evolution. Science, 352(6286), 673-677, doi: 10.1126/science.aaf21

Ni Xijun, Li Qiang, Thomas A. Stidham, Li Lüzhou, Lu Xiaoyu, Meng Jin. 2016. A late Paleocene probable metatherian (?deltatheroidan) survivor of the Cretaceous mass extinction. Scientific Reports. 6:38547. DOI: 10.1038/srep38457

Wang Xiaoming, Li Qiang, Gary T. Takeuchi. 2016. Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov. (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, doi: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1169190

Lu Xiaoyu, Ni Xijun, Li Lüzhou, Li Qiang. 2016. Two new mylagaulid rodents from the early Miocene of China. PLoS ONE, 11(8): e0159445. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159445

Li Lüzhou, Ni Xijun, Lu Xiaoyu, Li Qiang. 2016. First record of Cricetops rodent in the Oligocene of southwestern China. Historical Biology. Doi: 10.1080/08912963.2016.1196686

Zhijie J. Tseng, Wang Xiaoming, Li Qiang, Xie Guangpu. 2016. Pliocene bone-cracking Hyaeninae (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Zanda Basin, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Historical Biology, 28(1-2): 68-76

Deng Tao, Wang Hongjiang, Wang Xiaoming, Li Qiang, Zhijie J. Tseng. 2016. The Late Miocene Hipparion (Equidae, Perissodactyla) fossils from Baogeda Ula, Inner Mongolia, China. Historical Biology, 28(1-2): 52-67

Xiaoming Wang, Yang Wang, Qiang Li, Z. Jack Tseng, Gary T. Takeuchi, Tao Deng, Guangpu Xie, Mee-mann Chang, NingWang. 2015. Cenozoic vertebrate evolution and paleoenvironment in Tibetan Plateau: Progress and prospects. Gondwana Research, 27: 1335-1354

Deng Tao, Wang Xiaoming, Wang Shiqi, Li Qiang, Hou Sukuan. 2015. Evolution of the Chinese Neogene mammalian faunas and its relationship to uplift of the Tibetan Plateau. Advances in Earth Science, 30(4): 407-415

Thomas A. Stidham, Xiaoming Wang, Qiang Li, Xijun Ni. 2015. A shelduck coracoid (Aves: Anseriformes: Tadorna) from the arid early Pleistocene of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Palaeontologia Electronica. 18.2.24A: 1-10

Li Qiang, Xie Guanpu, Gary T. Takeuchi, Deng Tao, Zhijie J. Tseng, Grohe C., Wang Xiaoming. 2014. Vertebrate fossils on the roof of the world: Biostratigraphy and geochronology of high-elevation Kunlun Pass Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau, and basin history as related to the Kunlun strike-slip fault. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 411:46-55

Li Qiang, 2015. Brachyscirtetes tomidai, a new Late Miocene dipodid (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Siziwang Qi, central Nei Mongol, China. Historical Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2014.996218.

Li Qiang, Wang Xiaoming. 2015. Discovery of Neogene beavers (Castoridae, Mammalia) in central Qaidam Basin, and their paleoenvironmental significance. Quaternary Sciences, 35（3）：584-595

Li Qiang, Wang Xiaoming. 2015. Into Tibet: an early Pliocene dispersal of fossil zokor (Rodentia: Spalacidae) from Mongolian Plateau to the hinterland of Tibetan Plateau. PLoS ONE, 10(12): e0144993. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144993

Li Qiang, Wang Xiaoming. 2014. Qaidamomys fortelii, a new Late Miocene murid from Qaidam Basin, north Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China. Ann. Zool. Fennici. 51:17-26

Wang Xiaoming, Zhijie J. Tseng, Li Qiang, Gary T. Takeuchi, Xie Guanpu. 2014. From ‘thrid pole’ to north pole: a Himalayan origin for the arctic fox. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281:20140893

Wang Xiaoming, Li Qiang, Xie Guanpu. 2014. Earliest record of Sinicuon in Zanda Basin, southern Tibet and implications for hypercarnivores in cold environments. Quaternary International. 355: 3-10

Li Qiang, Wang Xiaoming, Xie Guanpu, Yin An. 2013. Oligocene-Miocene Mammalian Fossils from Hongyazi Basin and Its Bearing on Tectonics of Danghe Nanshan in Northern Tibetan Plateau. PLOS ONE, 8(12): e82816. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082816

2008-2010 National Nature Science Foundation of China: The relation between the mammalian evolution and the Pliocene environmental changes in Zhada Basin, Tibet (grant no. 40702004). PI.

2008-2009 State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, CAS) (grant no. 083106). PI.

2009-2010 NSFC-RFBR: The evolution, biodiversity and dispersal events of ochotonids and arvicolids during Pliocene in Northern China and Baikalian region in context of Global Change (grant no. 40911120091). PI.

2008-2009 Waitt Grants Programs of the National Geographic Society (USA): Reconnaissance for fossil vertebrates in the Zanda Basin, southwestern Tibetan Plateau (grant no. W22-08). PI.

2012-2014 National Science Foundation of USA (International Collaborative Research): High-resolution, multi-proxy Miocene-Pleistocene climate and environmental record from the high-elevation Zhada basin, SW Tibetan Plateau (grant no. EAR-1227212). Co-PI.

2015-2018 National Nature Science Foundation of China: Cenozoic mammals from Danghe Nanshan region and evolution of the endemic fauna in Tibetan Plateau. (grant no. 41472002). PI.

2019-2020 Special Exchange Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences: Early Cenozoic paleoenvironment around the former Para-Tethys Sea in Tajikistan and western China.

2018-2023 Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences: Vertebrates evolution response to the uplift of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. (grant no. XDB26030304)