2001年中国科学院广州地球化学研究所博士毕业，后留所工作。先后任助理研究员（2001. 8 – 2003. 4）、副研究员（2003. 5 – 2011. 8）、研究员（2011.9–现今）。曾在澳大利亚University of Wollongong进行访问研究。从攻读博士学位以来一直从事生物-有机地球化学研究。主持多项国家自然科学基金面上、重大项目子课题、中科院知识创新工程重大项目子课题、国家战略先导科技专项课题、973计划子课题。近年来，针对全球变化研究中古生态系统重建与温度定量化重建的难点问题，以有机分子标志化合物为手段，开展了一系列的现代过程和地质记录重建研究，研究工作重点主要包括：① 寻找和发展有机分子环境替代指标；② 应用特征生物标志物与相关替代指标解决重大地质事件时期的气候环境问题；③ 边缘海地区的人类活动对碳埋藏的影响。

分子与同位素地球化学；气候变化和环境演变

2009年：“涂光炽青年人才奖“

1. Zhao Bingyan, Huang Xianyu*, Hu Jianfang*, Shu Junwu, Wang Weiming, Peng Ping’an. Hydroclimate variation during the Mystery Interval in the East Asian Summer Monsoon area. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021, 266: 107075.

2. Liao Weisen, Hu Jianfang*, Zhou Haoda, Peng Ping’an. Climatic and human impact on the environment: Insight from the tetraether lipid temperature reconstruction in the Beibu Gulf, China. Quaternary International, 2020, 536: 75–84.

3. Liao Weisen, Hu Jianfang*, Peng Ping’an. Burial of organic carbon in the Taiwan Strait. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2018, 123:  https://doi.org/10.1029/.

4. Liao Weisen, Hu Jianfang*, Zhou Haoda, Hu Jianhua, Peng Ping’an, Deng Wenfeng. Sources and distribution of sedimentary organic matter in the Beibu Gulf, China: Application of multiple proxies. Marine Chemistry, 2018，206：74–83.

5. Tong Xiaoning, Hu Jianfang*, Xi Dangpeng, Zhu Mengbo, Song Jianzhong, Peng Ping’an. Depositional environment of the Late Santonian lacustrine source rocks in the Songliao Basin (NE China): Implications from organic geochemical analyses. Organic Geochemistry, 2018, 124: 215–227.

6. Wang Mengyuan, Zheng Zhuo*, Man Meiling, Hu Jianfang*, Gao Quanzhou. Branched GDGT-based paleotemperature reconstruction of the last 30,000 years in humid monsoon region of Southeast China. Chemical Geology, 2017, 463: 94–102.

7. Hu Jianfang, Zhou Haoda, Peng Ping’an, Spiro Baruch. Seasonal variability in concentrations and fluxes of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in Huguangyan Maar Lake, SE China: Implications for the applicability of the MBT–CBT paleotemperature proxy in lacustrine settings. Chemical Geology, 2016, 420: 200–212.

8. Cao Huairen, Hu Jianfang*, Peng Ping’an, Xi Dangpeng, Tang Youjun, Lei Yan, Shilling Andrea. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Late Santonian Songliao Paleo-lake. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2016, 457: 290–303.

9. Hu Jianfang, Peng Ping’an*, Liu Meiyu, Xi Dangpeng, Song Jianzhong, Wan Xiaoqiao, Wang Chengshan. Seawater Incursion Events in a Cretaceous Paleo-lake Revealed by Specific Marine Biological Markers. Scientific Reports, 2015, 5: DOI: 10.1038/srep09508.

10. Hu Jianfang, Zhou Haoda, Peng Ping’an, Yang Xiaoqiang, Spiro Baruch, Jia Guodong, Wei Gangjian, Ouyang Tingping. Reconstruction of a paleotemperature record from 0.3–3.7 ka for subtropical South China using lacustrine branched GDGTs from Huguangyan Maar. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2015, 435: 167–176.

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