Education
2009.9 – 2013.7 Ph. D. student in Physiology. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China; Ph.D. program: Global distributions of Quercus species and their response to climatic changes
2011.10-2012.12 Visiting student in University of Copenhagen
2005.9 – 2008.6 M.S. in Botany. Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China; Master thesis: Geographic Distribution and Potential Distribution Estimation of Pseudotaxus chienii
2001.9 – 2005.6 B.A. in Ecology. College of life science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Work experience
2013.08 – 2015.11 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University,
2008.7 – 2009.8 Research assistant, Network and information center of Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Academic experiences
2015.1-2018.12 Inferring evolutionary origin of the relationship between species diversity and climate of oaks. National Natural Science Foundation of China.
2016.7-2015.10 Patterns and determinants of global diversity of Oaks. Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation.
Awards and Honors
2011-2012 National scholarship for studying abroad fund by China Scholarship Council
2007-2008 Merit student, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Science
2001-2005 Second place scholarship for single-curriculum, Sichuan University
Publications:
Peer reviewed articles
1) Li Y., Wang, Z., Xu, X., Han, W., Wang, Q. (2016) Leaf margin analysis of Chinese woody plants and the constraints on its application for paleoclimatic reconstruction. Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi:10.1111/geb.12498(IF: 5.8, 5-Year IF: 7.6)
2) Xu, X., Wang, Z., Rahbek, C., Sanders, N. J. and Fang, J. (2016) Geographical variation in the importance of water and energy for oak diversity. Journal of Biogeography, 43: 279–288. doi:10.1111/jbi.12620 (IF: 4.0, 5-Year IF: 4.7)
3) Xu, X., Dimitrov, D., Rahbek, C., Wang, Z. (2014). NCBIminer: Sequences harvest from Genbank. Ecography. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01055 (IF: 5.4, 5-Year IF: 5.4)
4) Xu, X., Wang, Z., Rahbek, C., Lessard, J.-P., Fang, J. (2013) Evolutionary history influences the effects of water–energy dynamics on oak diversity in Asia. Journal of Biogeography, 40: 2146–2155. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12149 (IF: 4.0, 5-Year IF:4.7)
5) Xu, X., Wang, Z., Dimitrov D., Rahbek C. (2015) Using NCBIminer to search and download nucleotide sequences from GenBank. Biodiversity Science, 4: 550-555. (in Chinese with English abstract)
6) Xu X., Yang Y, Wang L. 2008. Geographic distribution and potential distribution estimation of Pseudotaxus chienii. Journal of Plant Ecology (Chinese version), 32(5): 1134-1145. (in Chinese with English abstract)
