Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Faculty and Staff
MA Jiao
MA Jiao

Title: Associate Professor

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E-mail: majiao@ivpp.ac.cn

Education and Appointments

Education:

(1) 2014-09 to 2019-06, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, History of Science and Technology, Master & Ph.D.

(2) 2018-03 to 2019-02, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Forschungsbereich Paläobiologie, Universität Tübingen, Germany, PhD Exchange
(3) 2010-09 to 2014-06, Wuhan University, Archaeology and Museology, B.A.

Academic Work Experience:

(1) 2025-10 to 2026-09, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Forschungsbereich Paläobiologie, Universität Tübingen, Germany, Visiting Researcher
(2) 2021-10 to Present, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Paleoenvironment Department, Associate Researcher/Professor

(3) 2019-08 to 2021-09, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellow


Research Interests

Stable Isotopes, Paleoecology, Cenozoic Mammals, Quaternary Environment and the Evolution of Mammals and Hominins

Public Services
Honors

(1) Ma Jiao; 2021 Chinese Academy of Sciences Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2021 (Ma Jiao)

(2) Ma Jiao; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Outstanding Graduate, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019


Selected Publications

(1) Ma, J., Bocherens, H., Tong, H., Pei, S., Wu, X., Liu, W., 2026. Paleoenvironments of the late Middle Pleistocene Hualongdong, east-central China and their implications for the hominin evolution in eastern Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews 373, 109746.

(2) Ma, J., Wang, S., Deng, T., 2024. When the woolly rhinoceroses roamed East Asia: a review of isotopic paleoecology of the genus Coelodonta from the Tibetan Plateau to northern Eurasia. Front. Ecol. Evol. 12, 1377000.

(3) Ma, J., Sun, B., Bocherens, H., Deng, T., 2023. Dietary niche reconstruction of Pliocene and Pleistocene Equidae from the Linxia Basin of northwestern China based on stable isotope analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 614, 111416.

(4) Ma, J., Wang, Y., Baryshnikov, G.F., Drucker, D.G., McGrath, K., Zhang, H., Bocherens, H., Hu, Y., 2021. The Mammuthus-Coelodonta Faunal Complex at its southeastern limit: A biogeochemical paleoecology investigation in Northeast Asia. Quaternary International 591, 93–106.

(5) Ma, J., Wang, Y., Jin, C., Hu, Y., Bocherens, H., 2019. Ecological flexibility and differential survival of Pleistocene Stegodon orientalis and Elephas maximus in mainland southeast Asia revealed by stable isotope (C, O) analysis. Quaternary Science Reviews 212, 33–44.

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