Dr. Yang Zhang

To our great joy, Dr. Yang (Wendy) Zhang managed her way from USA via China to Bremen despite worldwide Corona restrictions. Starting March 1, she holds a 3-year research associate position in our Marine Geophysics / Paleo- and Environmental Magnetics Section. She will take over the teaching of Janna Just, who now works at the Bremen ZMT.

After her master’s degree in Marine Science from China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, Yang Zhang went to Purdue University (USA) to do PhD research on "cycle-scaled magnetostratigraphy for global correlation of selected major paleoclimatic events in the Triassic, Cretaceous and Quaternary". Like her supervisor Prof. James Ogg, a distinguished stratigrapher and co-author of the "Geological Time Scale", she is passionate about climate dynamics on larger geological time scales. For her global stratigraphic correlation of the Carnian (Late Triassic) paleoclimate, she has previously worked on Germanic Triassic sections and thereby familiarized herself with Germany. As shipboard paleomagnetist of IODP Expeditions 367-368 (South China Sea) and 378 (South Pacific Paleogene Climate), Yang Zhang would like to gain new insights into the Eocene-Oligocene transition using paleo-, environmental and biomagnetic methods at Bremen.

Further information:

Dr. Yang Zhang
e-Mail: zhangy@uni-bremen.de
https://scholar.google.de/citations?hl=en