Qiaomei Fu (Jiangxi, People's Republic of China, 1982) is a Chinese Paleontologist and researcher. She is the director of the ancient DNA laboratory at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing. Her research focuses on the first modern humans who settled in Asia, where they may have arrived more than 100,000 years ago.[1][2]
Qiaomei Fu | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 March 1982 |
| Occupation(s) | Paleontologist, Researcher |
| Known for | Director of the ancient DNA laboratory at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing |
Biography
editQiaomei Fu was born in Jiangxi Province, China, next to Poyang Lake in 1983. From a very young age, she showed an interest in science. She received her Master's degree in Archaeological science from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009.[3][4]
In 2009, she joined the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, directed by the Swedish geneticist Svante Päabo, to write her doctoral thesis. She completed her thesis on the genomics of ancient humans in 2013. She then joined the genetics department at Harvard Medical School in Boston as a postdoctoral researcher in the team of American professor David Reich, a geneticist of ancient human populations.In this laboratory, she succeeded in sequencing the oldest Homo sapiens DNA recorded outside of Africa and the Near East.[5]
Works
editAt Harvard she published several articles reviewing the history of early European humans (contributing to the ancestry of contemporary Europeans).[6]
References
edit- ^ Stadler, Marta Macho (2019-12-17). "Qiaomei Fu, destacada científica china especializada en homininos asiáticos". Mujeres con ciencia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- ^ 关晓萌. "Female Chinese scientist blazes new research trail". www.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- ^ "Qiaomei Fu | Innovators Under 35". www.innovatorsunder35.com. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- ^ "中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所". www.ivpp.cas.cn. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- ^ Callaway, Ewen (2014-10-01). "Oldest-known human genome sequenced". Nature. 514 (7523): 413–413. doi:10.1038/514413a. ISSN 1476-4687.
- ^ Fu, Qiaomei; Posth, Cosimo; Hajdinjak, Mateja; Petr, Martin; Mallick, Swapan; Fernandes, Daniel; Furtwängler, Anja; Haak, Wolfgang; Meyer, Matthias; Mittnik, Alissa; Nickel, Birgit; Peltzer, Alexander; Rohland, Nadin; Slon, Viviane; Talamo, Sahra (June 2016). "The genetic history of Ice Age Europe". Nature. 534 (7606): 200–205. doi:10.1038/nature17993. ISSN 1476-4687.