Yongsong Huang

Yongsong Huang is a Chinese-American organic geochemist, biogeochemist and astrobiologist, and is a professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He researches the development of lipid biomarkers and their isotopic ratios as quantitative proxies for paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental studies and subsequent application of these proxies to study mechanisms controlling climate change and environmental response to climate change at a variety of time scales.

Education Huang received a B.Sc. in geochemistry from University of Science and Technology of China in 1984, then received a M.S. in Analytical Chemistry from Sichuan University. After graduating from the University of Bristol, he joined the lab of Katherine H. Freeman at Pennsylvania State University as a postdoctoral research associate.

According to Scopus, he has published 187 research articles so far with 9681 citations and has an H-index of 55.

Notable student advisees Juzhi Hou (Ph.D. 2008) William D'Andrea (Ph.D. 2008) Jaime Toney (Ph.D. 2011) Elizabeth Thomas (Ph.D. 2014) Climate change as the dominant control on glacial-interglacial variations in C3 and C4 plant abundance.