Wei Lijie (; born 2 June 1974) is a Chinese

Antarctic The Antarctic (, ; commonly ) is the polar regions of Earth, polar region of Earth that surrounds the South Pole, lying within the Antarctic Circle. It is antipodes, diametrically opposite of the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antar ...

researcher, best known for her work on the

paleontology Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure ge ...

and

stratigraphy Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification). It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks. Stratigraphy has three related subfields: lithost ...

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...

and the

Early life and education

Wei is from China and was born in Longyao, Hebei on June 2, 1974. She received her master's degree in

and

Lanzhou University Lanzhou University () is a public university in Lanzhou, Gansu, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. Founded in 1909, the ...

in 2006 and got her doctor degree in

structural geology Structural geology is the study of the three-dimensional distribution of rock units with respect to their deformational histories. The primary goal of structural geology is to use measurements of present-day rock geometries to uncover informati ...

at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research,

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...

in 2011.

Career and impact

Wei has been an Associate Professor in the Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences since 2013. Her main research interests are paleontology and stratigraphy, in particular, study of the Cenozoic palynology of Tibet and Antarctica. She leads a research project on the Neogene palynology from the eastern and western margins of the Lambert Glacier of

East Antarctica East Antarctica, also called Greater Antarctica, constitutes the majority (two-thirds) of the Antarctic continent, lying primarily in the Eastern Hemisphere south of the Indian Ocean, and separated from West Antarctica by the Transantarctic ...

. Wei participated in the 26th Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition (October 2009-April 2010) and carried out geological investigation in the Grove Mountains area of East Antarctica. She was the first woman researcher from China to carry out geological research in the Antarctic inland. Wei served as visiting scholar in the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Science, New Zealand from August to October 2011. From 2011-2013 she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Geology and Geophysics,

Selected works

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wei, Lijie Chinese women geologists 1974 births Living people Chinese Antarctic scientists Women Antarctic scientists 20th-century Chinese women scientists 21st-century women scientists Women paleontologists Biologists from Hebei People from Xingtai Writers from Hebei Educators from Hebei Chinese paleontologists