● Since November, 2015  Research Associate in Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

● August, 2019- February, 2020 Guest researcher at the GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

● September, 2012- October, 2015 PhD candidate at the GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

● June, 2011- September, 2011 Volunteer geologist at the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission, Guyana

● September, 2008- July, 2012 MSc in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

● September, 2003- July, 2007 BSc in Bioscience, Xinjiang University, China

 

Paleozoic and Cenozoic reefs, Hypercalcified sponges & Analytical paleobiology in paleocommunity

 

● Youth Innovation Promotion Grant from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (2019) 

● Postgraduate Grant Scheme award from International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS) (2014) 

● Postgraduate Scholarship for Overseas PhD Students from China Scholarship Council (CSC) (2012) 

● Excellent Youth Volunteer of Jiangsu Province (2012)

● WuYisun Scholarship from Nanjing Branch of the CAS (2010-2011)

● DIAO Scholarship from the CAS (2010)

● Honor Student of the CAS (2010 & 2011)

[1] Li Qijian, Sone Masatoshi, Lehnert Oliver & Na Lin, 2019. Early Ordovician sponge-bearing microbialites from Peninsular Malaysia: the initial rise of metazoans in reefs. Palaeoworld. 28(1-2): 80-95.

[2] Jeon Juwan, Li Qijian, Oh Jae-Ryong, Choh Suk-Joo & Lee Dong-Jin, 2019. A new species of primitive stromatoporoid Cystostroma from the Ordovician of East Asia. Geosciences Journal. 23(4):547-556.

[3] Li Qijian, Ernst Andrej, Munnecke Axel, Yu Shenyang & Li Yue, 2018. Early Silurian (Telychian) bryozoan reefs in the epeiric sea of South China: Are heterotroph metazoan buildups promoted by internal waves?. Sedimentary Geology. 376: 50-59

[4] Li Qijian, Li Yue, Zhang Yuandong & Munneck Axel, 2017. Dissecting Calathium-microbial frameworks: The significance of calathids for the Middle Ordovician reefs in the Tarim Basin, northwestern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 474: 66-78.

[5] Li Qijian, Li Yue & Kiessling Wolfgang, 2017. The oldest labechiid stromatoporoids from intraskeletal crypts in lithistid sponge-Calathium reefs. Lethaia. 50(1): 140-148.

[6] Zhang Yuanyuan, Li Qijian, Li Yue, Kiessling Wolfgang & Wang Jianpo, 2016. Cambrian to Lower Ordovician reefs on the Yangtze Platform, South China Block, and their controlling factors. Facies. 62 (3):1-13.

[7] Li Qijian, Li Yue & Kiessling Wolfgang, 2015. The first sphinctozoan-bearing reef from an Ordovician back-arc basin. Facies. 61 (3): 1-9？.

[8] Li Qijian, Li Yue, Wang Jianpo & Kiessling Wolfgang, 2015. Early Ordovician lithistid sponge-Calathium reefs on the Yangtze Platform and their paleoceanographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 425: 84-96.

[9] Li Qijian, Li Yue, & Kiessling Wolfgang, 2015. Allogenic succession in Late Ordovician reefs from southeast China: a response to the Cathaysian orogeny. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences. 64 (1): 68-73？.

[10] Li Qijian, Li Yue & Kiessling Wolfgang, 2014. Early Ordovician sponge-Calathium- microbial reefs on the Yangtze Platform margin of the South China Block. GFF. 136(1): 157-161.

[11] Chen Xu, Zhang Yuandong, Fan Junxuan, Cheng Junfeng & Li Qijian, 2010. Ordovician graptolite-bearing strata in southern Jiangxi with a special reference to the Kwangsian Orogeny. Science China, Earth Sciences, 53(11): 1602-1610.  

[12] Jiang Baoyu, Yao Xiaogang, Niu Yazhuo, Rao Xin & Li Qijian, 2010. Progress on the study of the terrestrial Jurassic in western Liaoning. Earth Science Frontiers, 17 (special issue): 136-137. 

Presentation (selected):

1.        Li, Q.J., Zhu, Y.H., Pei, J.X., Fabbi, S., Jie, O.Y. and Liao, W.H. (2019) Untangling Lower Miocene reef frameworks: a case study from the Xisha Islands, South China Sea. P217 In Droser, M., Nigel, H. Bonuso, D. Bottjer, D. Eernisse, R. Gaines, A. Hendy, D. Jacobs, J. Miller-Camp, R. Norris, K. Roy, P. Sadler, M. Springer, X. Wang, and Vendrasco M. (eds), IGCP 668 Annual Meeting & 11^th NAPC , 11th North American Paleontological Conference Program with Abstracts.

2.        Li, Q.J., Agematsu, S., Na, L. and Sardsud, A.A. (2019) Stromatolite abundance anomaly in Early Ordovician: the rise of sponge-microbial association? P113-114 In Obut, O.T., Sennikov, N.V. and Kipriyanova, T.P. (eds), 13^th ISOS, Proceedings of 13th International Symposium on the Ordovician System.

3.        Li Q.J., Li Y., Sone M., Lehnert O. and Na L. (2018) Early Ordovician sponge-bearing microbialites from Peninsular Malaysia and thier geobiological significance. P15 In Hughes, N.C.(ed), IGCP 668 Inaugural Meeting, Abstract Volume

4.     Li Q.J., Li Y., Carlton B., Sumrall C., Paton T., Yu S.Y. and Mao Y.Y. (2018) Pelmatozoan meadow attached to Early Ordovician stromatolites: hardground community at the dawn of the golden age for epizoans. P44 In Stigall, A.L., Hembree, D.I. and Freeman, R.L. (eds), Trekking Across the GOBE, IGCP 653 Annual Meeting, Program & Abstracts.

5.     Li Q.J., Steve S., Li Y. and Yu S.Y. (2017) First reef recovery after the end-Ordovician Extinction in South China: mid-Aeronian coral-stromatoporoid reefs from northern Guizhou Province. Paper No. 41-12. GSA Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington.

6.     Li Q.J., Li Y., Zhang Y.D. and Munnecke A. (2016) Dissecting Calathium-microbial frameworks: The significance of calathids for the Middle Ordovician reefs. P38 In IGCP 591 Closing Meeting. Abstracts and Program.

7.     Li Q.J., Li Y. and Kiessling W. (2014) Allogenic succession and its environmental controls in Late Ordovician reefs of the Xiazhen Formation at Zhuzhai, southeast China. P52 In IGCP 591 Annual Meeting. Tartu, Estonia, Abstracts and Program.

8.        Li Q.J., Li Y. and Kiessling W. 2013 Lithistid sponge-Calathium patch reefs on the Yangtze Platform: An Early Ordovician metazoan dominated construction at the dawn of the radiation. P100-101 In Joachim, R., Yang Q., Wang X.D. and Mike R. (eds),Palaeobiology and Geobiology of Fossil Lagerst？tten through Earth History Joint conference of the Pal？ontologische Gesellschaft and the Palaeontological Society of China. Joint conference of the Pal？ontologische Gesellschaft and the Palaeontological Society of China, Abstract Volume.

9.        Li Q.J., Li Y. and Kiessling W. (2013) Early Ordovician sponge- Calathium-microbial reefs on the Yangtze Platform margin of the South China Block. P186 In Lindskog, A. and Mehlqvist, K. (eds), Proceedings of the 3rd IGCP 591 Annual Meeting.

 

● Quantitative analysis of Late Ordovician reefal communities in Zhejiang-Jiangxi border region and its palaeoclimatic implications, National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China (grant no. 41702003), 2018.01-2020.12

● Comparative study between Paleozoic and Cenozoic reef ecosystems, Youth Innovation Promotion Grant (no. 2019310), 2019.01-2022.12