Dr Shan Huang PhD

Dr Shan Huang

Assistant Professor in Paleobiology

Contact details

Email
s.huang.7@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Huang is a macroecologist interested in understanding broad-scale biodiversity dynamics in space and time, particularly about the role of history in shaping the biota. Her primary research approach is to synthesize large data sets of both extinct and extant organismal systems and their environmental templates to investigate processes that give rise to the dramatic temporal and spatial variation in different aspects of biodiversity and its future.

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Qualifications

  • PhD in Ecology, University of Georgia
  • MSc in Scientific, Technical & Medical Translation with Translation Technology, Imperial College London
  • MSc in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation, Imperial College London
  • BSc in Biological Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University

Biography

2023-present Assistant Professor in Paleobiology, University 麻豆精选

2019-2022 Postdoc fellow funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG; an Eigene Stelle grant), Senckenberg Biodiversity & Climate Research Centre.

2015-2019 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Senckenberg Biodiversity & Climate Research Centre.

2012-2015 Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago (Advisor: Dr. David Jablonski)

2012 PhD, Unviersity of Georgia (Advisor: Dr. Sonia Altizer & Dr. John Gittleman)

Postgraduate supervision

Shan is happy to supervise projects on large-scale dynamics of biodiversity, from the deep-time history to the future, especially:
- the ecology and evolution of body size
- extinction mechanisms
- morphological consequences of extinctions
- the future of our blue food
- macroecology in parasites

Research

Macroecology & Macroevolution: Biodiversity dynamics in time and space.

Shan is broadly interested in understanding broad-scale biodiversity dynamics, in space and time, particularly the dramatic temporal and spatial variation in different aspects of biodiversity. She investigates the processes underlying biodiversity patterns, with an emphasis on the role of history in shaping global and regional biota, including evolutionary history of the organisms (e.g. extinction, range dynamics and morphological evolution) and historical environmental transitions (e.g. landscape evolution and paleoclimate change).

Shan takes an interdisciplinary approach to research by synthesising large datasets from ecology, evolution, palaeontology, geoscience, etc. She also integrates knowledge from studying various organismal systems, including terrestrial mammals, marine bivalves, and infectious diseases.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Huang, S, Edie, SM, Collins, KS, Crouch, NMA, Roy, K & Jablonski, D 2023, '', Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, 4639.

Huang, S, Saarinen, J, Eyre, A, Eronen, J & Fritz, S 2022, '', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 2463-2474.

Morales-Castilla, I, Pappalardo, P, Farrell, MJ, Aguirre, AA, Huang, S, Gehman, AM, Dallas, T, Gravel, D & Davies, TJ 2021, '', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 376, no. 1837, 20200360.

Teitelbaum, CS, Amoroso, CR, Huang, S, Davies, TJ, Rushmore, J, Drake, JM, Stephens, PR, Byers, JE, Majewska, AA & Nunn, CL 2020, '', Ecography, vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 1316-1328.

Pappalardo, P, Morales-Castilla, I, Park, AW, Huang, S, Schmidt, JP & Stephens, PR 2020, '', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 182-193.

Song, H, Huang, S, Jia, E, Dai, X, Wignall, PB & Dunhill, AM 2020, '', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 117, no. 30, pp. 17578-17583.

Dallas, T, Gehman, ALM, Aguirre, AA, Budischak, SA, Drake, JM, Farrell, MJ, Ghai, R, Huang, S & Morales-Castilla, I 2019, '', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 804-813.

Stephens, PR, Altizer, S, Ezenwa, VO, Gittleman, JL, Moan, E, Han, B, Huang, S & Pappalardo, P 2019, '', Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 88, no. 7, pp. 1017-1028.

Huang, S, Meijers, MJM, Eyres, A, Mulch, A & Fritz, SA 2019, '', Journal of Biogeography, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 1777-1791.

Park, AW, Farrell, MJ, Schmidt, JP, Huang, S, Dallas, TA, Pappalardo, P, Drake, JM, Stephens, PR, Poulin, R, Nunn, CL & Davies, TJ 2018, '', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 285, no. 1874, 20172613.

Dallas, TA, Aguirre, AA, Budischak, S, Carlson, C, Ezenwa, V, Han, B, Huang, S & Stephens, PR 2018, '', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 27, no. 12, pp. 1437-1447.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Huang, S, Eyres, A, Fritz, SA, Eronen, JT & Saarinen, J 2023, . in I Casanovas-Vilar, LW van den Hoek Ostende, CM Janis & J Saarinen (eds), Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 Years of the NOW Database of Fossil Mammals. 1 edn, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, Springer, pp. 79鈥�93.

Editorial

Huang, S, Farrell, M & Stephens, PR 2021, '', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, vol. 376, no. 1837, 20200350.

Letter

Huang, S, Tucker, MA, Hertel, AG, Eyres, A & Albrecht, J 2021, '', Ecology Letters, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 1408-1419.

Review article

Farrell, MJ, Park, AW, Cressler, CE, Dallas, T, Huang, S, Mideo, N, Morales-Castilla, I, Davies, TJ & Stephens, P 2021, '', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 376, no. 1837, 20200351.