Guo Zhengtang

Who is Guo Zhengtang?

Professor Guo Zhengtang Simplified Chinese: 郭正堂, Pinyin: Guō Zhèngtáng born: 1964, is a renowned Cenozoic geologist in China.

Guo was born in Shuozhou, Shanxi Province in 1964. He received his B.A. of Quaternary geology from Peking University in 1983, and earned Ph.D. of soil science from the University of Pierre & Marie Curie, France in 1990.

Guo's research mainly focuses on the eolian sediments of the Chinese Loess Plateau and ancient climate change. He was the Director-general of the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences during 2002-2006. He was a Vice-President of the INQUA Commission on Paleoclimates. He and his colleagues extended the loess records in China from ~8 Ma to ~22 Ma.