About Yan Wang’s work
From December 2005 to June 2006, Yan Wang held a Croucher Visitorship at the Open University of Hong Kong. At the time, Wang was based at Jinan University.
Biography
Wang Yan has been teaching at Jinan University since 1997, and has served as a Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Institute of Hydrobiology, an Associate Researcher in the Department of Environmental Engineering, and a researcher at the Red Tide and Water Environment Research Center of the College of Life Science and Technology. She has participated in the Arctic scientific expedition, the Abisko Scientific Research Station of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the flora and aquatic biology of the polar and subpolar ecosystems, and the visiting scholar of the Open University of Hong Kong and the Virginia Institute of Oceanography at the University of William and Mary. In recent years, she has studied the taxonomy and life history, physiological and ecological characteristics, dynamic distribution of species and biodiversity of typical and important harmful algae in coastal red tide areas of China.