王向東

1983年畢業於南京大學地質系，1992年獲中國科學院南京地質古生物研究所博士學位，1997年至1999年日本學術振興會博士後(日本福岡大學地球圈科學系客座研究員)。1999年入選中國科學院“百人計劃”，2005年獲得國家自然科學基金委“傑出青年基金”資助，新世紀百千萬人才工程國家級人選。2000年起任中科院南京地質古生物研究所研究員，2008年-2018年任中科院南京地質古生物研究所副所長。2018年11月起任南京大學地球科學與工程學院教授。 ^[1] 

國際地層委員會石炭紀地層分會主席;國際化石刺絲胞協會理事;中國古生物學會常務理事;《地層學雜誌》副主編;《Geological Journal》執行編輯;《Palaeoworld》、《Journal of Earth Science》、《地質學報》、《古生物學報》編委。 ^[1] 

石炭紀年代地層學及GSSP(金釘子)研究;晚古生代大冰期及環境變化;晚古生代珊瑚化石生物學和古生態學;晚古生代古生物多樣性;泛岡瓦納和古特提斯古生物地層學等。 ^[1] 

2022年5月2日，由南京古生物所陳吉濤研究員與南京大學王向東教授、美國加州大學戴維斯分校伊莎貝爾·蒙特尼資教授等領銜的國際合作團隊在國際著名的科學期刊《美國科學院院報》（PNAS）上合作發表一項重要研究成果：與當前地球環境類似的約3億年前的晚古生代大冰期期間，曾發生一次短暫的巨量碳排放事件，引起了海洋缺氧及海洋生物多樣性顯著降低。 ^[2] 

完善石炭紀-二疊紀全球性和區域性年代地層系統，作為參與者在中國廣西建立了二疊系樂平統底界金釘子;識別出四射珊瑚的多樣性演替與晚古生代古環境變遷密切相關;在東特提斯地區識別出可能與晚古生代冰期有關的旋迴性沉積特徵;恢復滇西泛岡瓦納各個微板塊的演化歷史。發表學術論著100多篇。 ^[1] 

Wang Xiangdong, Mohammad N. Gorgij and Yao Le, 2019. A Cathaysian rugose coral fauna from the upper Carboniferous of central Iran. Journal of Paleontology.

Wang Xiangdong, Hu Keyi, Qie Wenkun, Sheng Qingyi, Chen Bo, Lin Wei, Yao Le, Wang Qiulai, Qi Yuping, Chen Jitao, Liao Zhuoting, Song Junjun. 2019. Carboniferous integrative stratigraphy and time scale of China. Science China Earth Sciences 61, doi: 10.1007/s11430-017-9253-7. ( SCI )

Wang Xiangdong, Yao Le, Lin Wei, 2018. Permian rugose corals of the world. Geological Society Special Publication 450: 165-184.

Chen Jitao, Isabel P. Montañez, Qi Yuping, Shen Shuzhong, and Wang Xiangdong. 2018. Strontium and carbon isotopic evidence for decoupling of pCO2 from continental weathering at the apex of the late Paleozoic glaciation. Geology 46: 395-398. (SCI)

Wu Huaichun, Fang Qiang, Wang Xiangdong, Linda A. Hinnov, Qi Yuping, Shen Shu-zhong, Yang Tianshui, Li Haiyan, Chen Jitao, and Zhang Shihong. 2018. An ~34 m.y. astronomical time scale for the uppermost Mississippian through Pennsylvanian of the Carboniferous System of the Paleo-Tethyan realm. Geology 47: 83-86. (SCI)

Yao, L., Aretz, M., Chen, J.T., Webb, G.E., Wang Xiangdong. 2017. Global microbial carbonate proliferation after the end-Devonian mass extinction: Mainly controlled by demise of skeletal bioconstructors. Scientific Reports 6: 39694; doi: 10.1038/srep39694. (SCI)

Sheng, Q.Y., Wang Xiangdong, Brenckle, P., Huber, B.T. 2018. Serpukhovian (Mississippian) foraminiferal zones from the Fenghuangshan section, Anhui Province, South China: implications for biostratigraphic correlations. Geological Journal 53: 45-57.(SCI)

Yao, L., Wang Xiangdong. 2016. Distribution and evolution of Carboniferous reefs in South China. Palaeoworld 25: 362-372. (SCI)

Yao, L., Aretz, M., Li, Y., Wang Xiangdong. 2016. Gigantoproductid brachiopod storm shell beds in the Mississippian of South China: implications for their paleoenvironmental and paleogeographical significances. Geologica Belgica, 19/1-2: 57-67. (SCI)

Chen Bo, Joachimski M. Michael, Wang Xiang-dong, Shen Shu-zhong, Qi Yu-ping, Qie Wen-kun. 2016. Ice volume and paleoclimate history of Late Paleozoic Ice Age from conodont apatite oxygen isotopes from Naqing (Guizhou, China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 448：151-161. (SCI)

Chen Jitao, Montanez Isabel P., Qi Yuping, Wang Xiangdong, Wang Qiulai, Lin Wei. Coupled sedimentary and δ13C records of late Mississippian platform-to-slope successions from South China: Insight into δ13C chemostratigraphy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 448: 162-178. (SCI)

Yao Le, Wang Xiangdong, Lin Wei, Kershaw Y. S., Qie Wenkun. Middle Viséan (Mississippian) coral biostrome in central Guizhou, southwestern China and its palaeoclimatological implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 448：179-194. (SCI)

Qie Wenkun, Liu Jiangsi, Chen Jitao, Wang Xiangdong, Mii Horng-sheng, Zhang Xionghua, Huang Xing, Yao Le, Algeo Thomas J., Luo Genming. 2015. Local overprints on the global carbonate δ13C signal in Devonian-Carboniferous boundary successions of South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 418: 290-303. (SCI)

Yao Le, Qie Wenkun, Luo Genming, Jiu Jiangsi, Algeo Thomas, Bai Xiao, Yang Bo, and Wang Xiangdong.2015. The TICE event: Perturbation of carbon-nitrogen cycles during the mid-Tournaisian (Early Carboniferous) greenhouse-icehouse transition. Chemical Geology 401: 1-14. (SCI)

Qi Yuping, Nemyrovska Tamara I., Wang Xiangdong, Chen Jitao, Wang Zhihao, Lane H. Richard, Richards Barry C., Hu Keyi, Wang Qiulai.2014. Late Visean - early Serpukhovian conodont succession at the Naqing (Nashui) section in Guizhou, South China. Geological Magazine 151(2): 254-268. (SCI)

Qi,Y.P., Lance L.L., Tamara, I.N., Wang Xiangdong, Hu, K.Y., Wang, Q.L. 2016. Late Bashkirian and Early Moscovian Conodonts from the Naqing Section, Guizhou, South China. Palaeoworld 25: 170-187.(SCI)

Qie, W.K., Wang, X.D., Zhang, X.H., Ji, W.T., Grossman, E.L., Huang, X., Liu, J.S., Luo, G.M. 2016. Latest Devonian to earliest Carboniferous conodont and carbon isotope stratigraphy of a shallow-water sequence in South China. Geological Journal 51: 915-935. (SCI)

Wang Yue, Sadler Peter M., Shen Shu-zhong, Erwin Douglas H., Zhang Yi-chun, Wang Xiang-dong, Wang Wei, Crowley James L., Henderson Charles M. 2014. Quantifying the process and abruptness of the end-Permian mass extinction. Paleobiology 40(1): 113-129. (SCI)

Wang Xiangdong, Qie Wenkun, Sheng Qingyi, Qi Yuping, Wang Yue, Liao Zhuoting, Shen Shuzhong, Ueno K., 2013. The Carboniferous and Lower Permian of South China, sedimentologic cycles and biotic events. Geological Society Special Publication 376: 33-46.

Wang Xiang-dong, Lin Wei, Shen Shu-zhong, Chaodumrong Pol, Shi G.R., Wang Xiao-juan, Wang Qiu-lai. 2013. Early Permian rugose coral Cyathaxonia faunas from the Sibumasu Terrane (Southeast Asia) and the southern Sydney Basin (Southeast Australia): paleontology and paleobiogeography. Gondwana Research 24: 185-191. (SCI)

Chen Bo, Joachimski Michael M., Shen Shu-zhong, Lambert Lance L., Lai Xu-long, Wang Xiang-dong, Chen Jun, Yuan Dong-xun. 2013. Permian ice volume and palaeoclimate history: Oxygen isotope proxies revisited. Gondwana Research 24. (SCI)

Groves, J.R., Wang Yue, Qi Yuping, Richards B., Ueno K., Wang Xiangdong. 2012. Foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Visean-Serpukhovian (Mississippian) Boundary interval at slope and platform sections in southern Guizhou (South China). Journal of Paleontology 86(5): 753-774. (SCI)

Lin Wei, Wang Xiangdong, Poty Edouard, Aretz Markus. 2012. Late Visean to Early Serpukhovian Rugose Corals from Yashui Section, Guizhou, South China. Geologica Belgica 15(4): 329-339. (SCI)

Shen S.Z., Crowley J.L., Wang Y., Bowring S.A., Erwin D.H., Sadler P.M., Cao C.Q., Rothman D.H., Henderson C.M., Ramezani J., Zhang H., Shen Y.A., Wang X.D., Wang W., Mu L., Li W.Z., Tang Y.G., Liu X.L., Liu L.J., Zeng Y., Jiang Y.F., Jin Y.G., 2011. Calibrating the end-Permian mass extinction. Science 334: 1367-1372. (SCI)

Buggisch W., Wang Xiandong, Alekseev Alexander S, Joachimski Michael M. 2011. Carboniferous-Permian carbon isotope stratigraphy of successions from China (Yangtze platform), USA (Kansas) and Russia (Moscow Basin and Urals). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 301: 18-28. (SCI)

Wang Xiangdong, Qi Yuping, Lambert Lance, Wang Zhihao, Wang Yue, Hu Keyi, Lin Wei, and Chen Bo. 2011. A Potential Global Standard Stratotype-Section and Point of the Moscovian Stage (Carboniferous). Acta Geologica Sinica 85(2): 366-372. (SCI)

Zhang Feng and Wang Xiangdong*. 2011. Special lateral increase in a Permian rugose coral Kepingophyllum aksuense Wu et Zhow. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 85(2): 465-470. (SCI)

Wang Xiangdong, Zhang Y Q, Lin W. 2010. Carboniferous-Permian rugose coral Cyathaxonia faunas in China. Science China Earth Sciences 53: 1864-1872. (SCI)

Wang Xiangdong, Shen Shuzhong & Ian Somerville. 2009. Carboniferous and Permian biota, integrative stratigraphy, sedimentology, palaeogeography, and palaeoclimatology. Palaeoworld, 18(2-3):77-212. (SCI)

Wang Xiang-dong and Wang Xiaojuan. 2007. Extinction patterns of Late Permian (Lopingian) corals in China. Palaeoworld 16:31-38 (SCI)

Wang Xiangdong, Shen Shuzhong & Wang Yue. 2007. Conference Report: The XVI International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian (ICCP 2007). Episodes, 27(4): 300-301. (SCI)

Wang Xiangdong, Sugiyama, T., Kido, E. & Wang Xiaojuan. 2006. Permian rugose coral faunas of Inner Mongolia-Northeast China and Japan: paleobiogeographical implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 26: 369-379. (SCI)

Wang Xiangdong, Wang Xiaojuan, Zhang Feng & Zhang Hua. 2006. Diversity patterns of the Carboniferous and Permian rugose corals in South China. Geological Journal, 41(3): 329-343. (SCI)

Wang Xiang-dong, Sugiyama T. and Zhang Feng. 2004. Intraspecific variation in a new solitary rugose coral, Commutia exoleta, from the Lower Carboniferous of the Baoshan Block, Southwest China. Journal of Paleontology 78(1): 77-83. (SCI)

Wang Xiang-dong, Shen Shuzhong, Sugiyama, T. & West, R.R. 2003. Late Paleozoic corals of Xizang (Tibet) and West Yunnan, southwestern China: successions and paleobiogeography. Palaeobiogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 191: 385-397. (SCI)

Wang Xiang-dong and Jin Yugan，2003: Carboniferous Biostratigraphy of China. In: Zhang Wen-tang and Palmer A.R. (eds.): Biostratigraphy in China. Beijing and New York, Science Press，281-330.

Wang Xiang-dong & Sugiyama T. 2002. Permian coral faunas of eastern Cimmerian Continent and paleogeographical implications. Journal of Asian Earth Scicences 20(6): 589-597. (SCI)

Wang Xiang-dong, Shi, G.R. & Sugiyama, T. 2002. Permian of West Yunnan, southwest China: a biostratigraphic synthesis. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 20(6): 647-656. (SCI)

Wang Xiang-dong, Ueno, K., Mizuno, Y., Sugiyama, T., 2001. Late Paleozoic faunal, climatic, and geographic changes in the Baoshan block as a Gondwana-derived continental fragment in southwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 170(3-4): 197-223. (SCI)

Wang Xiang-dong and Tetsuo Sugiyama, 2001. Middle Permian rugose corals from Laibin, Guangxi, South China. Journal of Paleontology 75(4): 758-782. (SCI)

Wang Xiang-dong, Sugiyama T. and Nagai K. 2001. Permo-Carboniferous coral faunas from Paleo-Tethys in the Changning-Menglian belt, West Yunnan, Southwest China. Gondwana Research 4 (4): 818-819.

Wang Xiang-dong and Tetsuo Sugiyama, 2000. Diversity and extinction patterns of Permian coral faunas of China. Lethaia 33: 285-294. (SCI) ^[1] 

國家自然科學二等獎(排名第三);江蘇省科技進步獎一等獎(排名第三);新世紀百千萬人才工程國家級人選;江蘇省有突出貢獻中青年專家;尹贊勳地層古生物學獎。 ^[1]