Zhijun Wang
Innsbruck Quaternary Research Group
PhD Project
Speleothems, tufas and travertines from the Tibetan Plateau - Building a paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental framework for archaeological key sites in Southern, Western and Central Tibet
Research Interests
Quaternary climate change
Hydrogeochemistry
Karst research and ecology
Short CV
2012-2017 PhD student (fellowship from the China Scholarship Council), majoring in Earth Sciences at Institute of Geology, University of Innsbruck, Austria
2008–2011 MSc. in Quaternary Geology at the School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, China
Software
MS Office, ArcGIS, CorelDraw, Origin Lab, SPSS, Adobe Photoshop
Publications
Wang, Z., Meyer, M.C., Hoffmann, D.L. (2016): Sedimentology, petrography and early diagenesis of a travertine-colluvium succession from Chusang (southern Tibet). - Sedimentary Geology, 342, 218-236.
Wang, Z., Meyer, M.C., Gliganic, L.A., Hoffmann, D. L., May, J-H. (2017): Timing of fluvial terrace formation and concomitant travertine deposition in the upper Sutlej River (Tirthapuri, southwestern Tibet) and paleoclimatic implications. - Quaternary Science Reviews, 169, 357-377.
Meyer, M.C., Hoffmann, D.L., Aldenderfer, M.S., Haas, W.R., Dahl, J.A., Wang, Z., Degering, D., Schlütz, F. (2017): Response to Comment on "Permanent human occupation of the central Tibetan Plateau in the early Holocene". Science, 357 (6351).
Meyer, M.C., Aldenderfer, M.S., Wang, Z., Hoffmann, D.L., Dahl, J.A., Degering, D., Haas, W.R., Schlütz, F. (2017): Permanent human occupation of the central Tibetan Plateau in the early Holocene. – Science, 355, doi: 10.1126/science.aag0357.