Dr. Yiming Wang is a stable isotope biogeochemist and paleoclimate scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany. She also holds a lecturer position at the Institute of Geosciences with Friedrich Schiller University.

Dr. Wang’s research integrates lab-derived paleoclimate data with climate models to elucidate the factors controlling the range and rate of climate change under different climate scenarios. She employs big anthropological data alongside climate data to understand the interplay between climate, environment, and human interactions.

Over the past decade, Dr. Wang’s work has focused on climate systems and environments susceptible to anthropogenic climate change, including East Africa and South Asia. She utilizes the compound-specific stable isotopes of terrestrial leaf wax biomarkers preserved in marine sediments to reconstruct past rainfall and vegetation changes.

Currently, Dr. Wang is developing novel proxies, including fecal biomarkers, to reconstruct human demographic changes and land use in ancient society and quantify anthropogenic perturbation to Environment.

Dr. Wang completed her BSc in Geology at Beijing University and later earned her MSc and PhD from the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.