2000/09-2004/07，Beijing Forestry University, Balchelor, Biology

2004/09-2007/07，Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, M. S., Botany

2008/03-2010/02，Andong National University, M. S., Historical Geology

2010/03-2013/08，Andong National University, Ph. D., Historical Geology

 

After working in Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontolgy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, I have focused on the taxonomy, diversity change and paleoecology of Devonian corals and stromatoporoids. By conducting the morphometric statistical analysis of important taxa of Paleozoic corals and stromatoporoids, I found the earliest known Catenipora from North China and proved that the halysitid tabulate corals should be an independent order of the subclass Tabulata. I also systematically collected samples from various typical sections in South China, Xinjiang, and Tibet, and investigate the distributions, species-level of diversity change, biotic interactions and community changes of Devonian tabulate corals and stromatoporoids by large amounts of thin sections and acetate serial peels, especially for the recovery of coral-stromatoporoid reefs after the F-F crisis which was neglected by most previous studies. My detailed work on the taxonomy and diversity of corals and stromatoporoids will improve our understanding on the paleogeographic comparisons between continents and plates by concrete examples and evdidences.

Kun Liang, Wenkun Qie, Luozhong Pan, Baoan Yin, morphometrics and palaeoecology of syringoporoid tabulate corals from the upper Famennian (Devonian) Etoucun Formation, Huilong, South China, Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2019, 99: 101-115

Kun Liang, Robert J. Elias, Dong-Jin Lee, Morphometrics, growth characteristics, and phylogenetic implications of Halysites catenularius (Tabulatta, Silurian, Estonian), Journal of Paleontology, 2018, doi: 10.1017/jpa.2018.73
    Kun Liang, Robert J. Elias, Dong-Jin Lee, The early record of halysitid tabulate corals, and morphometrics of Catenipora from the Ordovician of north-central China, Papers in Palaeontology, 2018, 4(3): 363-379

Kun Liang, Robert J. Elias, Suk-Joo Choh, Dong-Chan Lee, Dong-Jin Lee, Morphometrics and paleoecology of Catenipora (Tabulata) from the Xiazhen Formation (Upper Ordovician), Zhuzhai, South China, Journal of Paleontology, 2016, 90(6): 1027-1048

Kun Liang, Dong-Jin Lee, Robert J. Elias, Helje P？rnaste, Mari-Ann M？tus, Growth characteristics of Protoheliolites norvegicus (Tabulata; Upper Ordovician; Estonia), Palaeontology, 2013, 56(4): 867-891

Juwan Jeon, Kun Liang*, Mirinae Lee, Kershaw Steven, Earliest known spatial competition between stromatoporoids: evidence from the Upper Ordovician Xiazhen Formation of South China, Journal of Paleontology, 2019, doi: 10.1017/jpa.2019.63

Juwan Jeon, Kun Liang*, Jino Park, Suk-Joo Choh, Dong-Jin Lee, Late Ordovician stromatoporoids from the Xiazhen Formation of South China: Paleoecological and paleogeographical implications, Geological Journal, 2018, doi: 10.1002/gj.3401

 

After working in Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, I have got the following projects as chief investigator:

“New technology and New methods” fund of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

“Comparative studies on the morphometrics and growth characteristics of Chinese and Estonian Halysitidae” of National Science Foundation of China

“Systematic and paleoecology of Devonian stromatoporoids” of State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy