About Tian Yan’s work
Based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tian Yan held a Croucher Visitorship at the Open University of Hong Kong from September 2009 to March 2010.
Biography
Yan Tian graduated from Fudan University in 1990 with a major in Biochemistry, conducted collaborative research at Biologische Anstalt Helgoland in Germany in 1996-97, and was a visiting scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999-00 and the Open University of Hong Kong in 2009-10. At present, as the Chief Scientist, he is presiding over the special project of scientific and technological basic resources investigation "Investigation and Open Database Construction of Toxic and Harmful Algae and Algal Toxins in China's Coastal Waters", and has successively participated in the project "Key Process and Disaster Prevention and Control of Multi-source Harmful Algal Blooms" of the "Beautiful China" project of the Class A Strategic Pilot Science and Technology Special Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the "Causes and Countermeasures of Large-scale Green Tide in the Yellow Sea Area" of the Aoshan Science and Technology Innovation Program Project. His research interests include harmful algal blooms and marine ecotoxicology.