About Jiansheng Lian’s work
Jiansheng Lian held a Croucher Visitorship at the Open University of Hong Kong from December 2002 to June 2003. At the time, Lian was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
LIAN Jiansheng holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Sun Yat-sen University, a Master of Science degree in Ecology from the Kunming Institute of Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Marine Biology from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He possess relevant diving qualification for research work and experienced in outdoor field research. He is mainly engaged in the study of benthic community ecology, ecosystem ecology and ecological modeling. He was the Deputy Director of the Daya Bay Marine Biology Comprehensive Experimental Station, engaged in the research of nutritional dynamics and the regeneration mechanism of nutrition in the Daya Bay ecosystem. He was a visitor researcher of the Ocean Institute of the University of Wales (UK), the Chesapeake Biolaboratory (CBL) of the Bay Estuary Environmental Research Centre of the University of Maryland, the Swire Institute of Oceanography of the University of Hong Kong and the Open University of Hong Kong.