Yongsong Huang

Yongsong Huang
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China (B.Sc.)
Sichuan University (M.S.)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (Ph.D.)
University of Bristol (Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic geochemistry, paleoclimatology, astrobiology
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
Pennsylvania State University
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Brown University
Doctoral advisorGeoffrey Eglinton

Yongsong Huang is a Chinese-American organic geochemist, biogeochemist and astrobiologist, and is a professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He researches the development of lipid biomarkers and their isotopic ratios as quantitative proxies for paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental studies and subsequent application of these proxies to study mechanisms controlling climate change and environmental response to climate change at a variety of time scales.