Shan Huang

Dr. Shan Huang is an Assistant Professor in Paleobiology at the University of Birmingham, affiliated with the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. She holds a PhD in Ecology from the University of Georgia and advanced degrees in Ecology and Translation from Imperial College London and Sun Yat-sen University. Her research focuses on macroecology and macroevolution, particularly biodiversity dynamics across space and time, emphasizing the interplay between evolutionary history and environmental transitions. She employs interdisciplinary methods, integrating large datasets from ecology, paleontology, and geoscience to study processes shaping biodiversity. Her work spans organismal systems like mammals, marine bivalves, and parasites.

Her research interests include understanding broad-scale biodiversity patterns, extinction mechanisms, body size evolution, and climate impacts. She has held postdoctoral positions at institutions such as the Senckenberg Biodiversity & Climate Research Centre and the University of Chicago. Dr. Huang’s recent publications explore topics like marine bivalve extinction vulnerability, mammalian body size evolution, and parasite dynamics under climate change. She actively supervises doctoral projects in biodiversity dynamics and future blue food systems.

While no explicit scientific awards are noted, her extensive publication record reflects significant contributions to macroecological and paleobiological research. She collaborates widely, evidenced by co-authored papers in journals like Nature Communications and Global Ecology and Biogeography. Her work bridges theoretical frameworks with empirical data, addressing critical questions about biodiversity’s past, present, and future states.