Prof. Yasheng Wu is Chinese. He is a professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and an Associate Research Fellow at the CAS. He received his bachelor degree from Nanjing University in 1984, master degree from Institute of Geology of CAS in 1987, and PhD from Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of CAS. He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geology of CAS from 1987 to 1994.

Prof. Wu’s research is focusing on (i) microbial carbonates, (ii) reefs, (iii) paleoecology of calcareous algae, calcareous sponges, reef-building corals and stromatoporoids, (4) mass extinctions across the P-T boundary, and (5) carbon isotopic chemostratigraphy. His main achievements include finding the great global sea-level fall in the latest Permian and the cyanobacterial origin of the P-T boundary microbialites, as well as description of 249 fossils species from the Permian and Ordovician reefs and carbonate strata. He is the executive director of the Paleontological Society of China and a council member of Lithofacies Palaeogeography Branch of the Chinese Society for Mineralogy Petrology and Geochemistry. He is also one of the editorial board members of the Journal of Palaeogeography and Journal of Micropalaeontology. He has published 3 academic monographs and over 100 journal papers on paleontology of carbonates. He won the “Yinzanxun Prize for the distinguished Stratigraphers and Paleontologists” from the China Society of Paleontology in 2009.