王向东
南京大学教授、博士生导师。email：xdwang@nju.edu.cn.
1983年毕业于南京大学地质系，1992年获南京古生物所博士学位并留所工作，先后任助理研究员、副研究员、研究员。1997年至1999年，日本学术振兴会博士后（日本福冈大学地球圈科学系客座研究员）。1999年入选中国科学院“百人计划”并获“引进海外杰出人才”，2005年获得国家自然科学基金委“杰出青年基金”资助，新世纪百千万人才工程国家级人选。
主要学术成绩：
完善石炭纪-二叠纪全球性和区域性年代地层系统，作为参与者在中国广西建立了二叠系乐平统底界金钉子；识别出四射珊瑚的多样性演替与晚古生代古环境变迁密切相关；在东特提斯地区识别出可能与晚古生代冰期有关的旋回性沉积特征；恢复滇西泛冈瓦纳各个微板块的演化历史。发表学术论著100多篇(部)。
研究兴趣：
石炭纪年代地层学及gssp(金钉子)研究；晚古生代大冰期及环境变化；晚古生代珊瑚化石生物学和古生态学；晚古生代古生物多样性；泛冈瓦纳和古特提斯古生物地层学等。
目前的研究重点：
1. 石炭-二叠纪大冰期华南的生物多样性变化及古环境。
2. 石炭纪生物地层学和年代地层学。
3. 晚古生代珊瑚化石系统古生物学。
研究领域：
晚古生代生物地层学及年代地层学，石炭-二叠纪大冰期及古环境
国际国内学术任职：
国际地层委员会石炭系分会主席；中国古生物学会常务理事，中国古生物学会古生态专业委员会主任；《地层学杂志》副主编；《geological journal》执行编辑，《palaeoworld》，《journal of earth science》，《地质论评》编委。
获奖及荣誉：
国家自然科学二等奖（排名第三）；江苏省科技进步奖一等奖（排名第三）；新世纪百千万人才工程国家级人选；江苏省有突出贡献中青年专家
承担科研项目情况：
中国科学院先导性专项b的子课题：石炭-二叠纪大冰期与生态响应（400万）（主持）；
基金委重大项目子课题：石炭-二叠纪大冰期华南的生物多样性变化及古环境（425万）（主持）；
国家科技部基础性项目：中国古生代区域综合地层及标准化石图集（2014-2018），1040万。
发表的主要论文目录：
wang xiangdong, yao le, lin wei, 2017. permian rugose corals of the world. in lucas, s.g. and shen, s.z. (eds). the permian timescale. geological society special publication 450.
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. 2017. serpukhovian (mississippian) foraminiferal zones from the fenghuangshan section, anhui province, south china: implications for biostratigraphic correlations. geological journal doi:10.1002/gj.2877.（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. sci china earth sci, 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. (special issue).
wang xiang-dong and wang xiaojuan. 2007. extinction patterns of late permian (lopingian) corals in china. palaeoworld 16:31-38
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)