·   2003.9-2006.10：Tongji Univ.，Marine Geology，Ph.D

·   2000.9-2003.6：Jilin Univ.，Marine Geology，M.

·   1996.9-2000.6：Jilin Univ.，Petroleum and nature gas exploration，B.Sc

·   2006.10-, Tongji University, lecturer

Teaching

Courses：

·   《Geological Integrated Practice 》(undergraduate course)

·   《Modern Analytical techniques》(postgraduate course)

Students

Current students ：

·   Master：1

·   Doctor：0

Former students ：

·   Master：0

·   Doctor：0

Research Interests

·   Cosmogenic nuclides and its application in geosciences

·   Sediment source to sink processes from river to sea

·   Past climatic and environmental changes reconstruction by sediments

·   Detrital zircon U-Pb dating and LA-ICP-MS techniques

Projects

·   Aeolian record in the Aral Sea and its investigation on climatic and environmental changes since late Holocene, NFSC, 200,000 yuan

·   Detrital zircon U-Pb Chronology and heavy mineral in situ geochemistry in the Yangtze to East China Sea source to sink system. Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai, 200,000yuan.

Publications

·   Huang, X., Oberhänsli, H., von Suchodoletz, H., Prasad, S., Sorrel, P., Plessen, B., Mathis, M., Usubaliev, R., 2014. Hydrological changes in western Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) during the Holocene as inferred from a palaeolimnological study in lake Son Kul. Quat. Sci. Rev. 103, 134–152. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.09.012

·   Mathis, M., Sorrel, P., Klotz, S., Huang, X., Oberhänsli, H., 2014. Regional vegetation patterns at lake Son Kul reveal Holocene climatic variability in central Tien Shan (Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia). Quat. Sci. Rev. 89, 169–185. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.01.023

·   Qiang, M., Y. Liu, Y. Jin, L. Song, X. Huang, and F. Chen, 2014.Holocene record of eolian activity from Genggahai Lake, northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 589-595. doi:10.1002/2013GL058806.

·   He, M., Zheng, H., Huang, X., Jia, J., Li, L., 2013. Yangtze River sediments from source to sink traced with clay mineralogy. J. ASIAN EARTH Sci. 69, 60–69. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.10.001

·   Huang, X., Oberhänsli, H., von Suchodoletz, H., Sorrel, P., 2011. Dust deposition in the Aral Sea: implications for changes in atmospheric circulation in central Asia during the past 2000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 3661-3674.

·   Prins, M.A., Zheng, H., Beets, K., Troelstra, S., Bacon, P., Kamerling, I., Wester, W., Konert, M., Huang, X., Ke, W., Vandenberghe, J., 2009. Dust supply from river floodplains: the case of the lower Huang He (Yellow River) recorded in a loess-palaeosol sequence from the Mangshan Plateau. J. Quat. Sci. 24, 75–84. doi:10.1002/jqs.1167

·   Jia J., Zheng, H., Huang, X. et al., .Detrital zircon U-Pb ages of late Cenozoic Sediments from the Yangtze delta: Implication for the evolution of the Yangtze River. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2010, 15, 1520-1528

·   Zheng, H., Huang, X., Ji, J., Liu, R., Zeng, Q. and Jiang, F. Ultra-high rates of loess sedimentation at Zhengzhou since Stage 7: Implication for the Yellow River running through the Sanmen Gorge. Geomorphology，2007, 85(3-4):131-142

·   Zheng, H., Huang, X., Butcher, K. Lithostratigraphy, petrography and facies analysis of the Late Cenozoic sediments in the foreland basin of the West Kunlun. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 2006, 41(1):61-78