1992 HuaZhong Normal University, Biology, B.S.
1998 HuaZhong Agricultural University, Molecular Biology, Ph.D.

2022-present Vice Dean，School of Oceanography
2015-present Distinguished Professor, Shanghai JiaoTong University
2009-2015 Professor, Shanghai JiaoTong University
2006 Visiting professor at University of Georgia, Athens, USA
2003-2009 Senior Researcher, TIO, SOA
1999-2002 Post-Doc, Osnabrueck University, Germany
1998-2003 Assistant Researcher, Third Institute of Oceanography (TIO), State Oceanic Administration (SOA), China

Deep Biosphere, Microbial Geochemical Cycles

Projects in charge in recent 5 years:
A comparative study on the function, flux and scale of microbial carbon metabolism in typical marine sedimentary environment, NSFC, 2,720,000 CNY, 2023.01 – 2027.12
Geochemical element cycle mediated by deep-sea benthic organisms and its environmental effects, The Senior User Project of RV KEXUE, 2,000,000 CNY, 2019.02-2021.12
Acquisition and potential evaluation of hard-to-culture archaeal resources in deep sea, COMRA, 2,600,000 CNY, 2018.06-2020.12
Archaea-mediated carbon cycle mechanism in marine sediments, NSFC, 3,200,000 CNY, 2018.01-2021.12
Microbial-mediated iron release in the deep (methanogenic zone) of deep-sea sediments reduction research, NSFC-ISF, 1,800,000 CNY, 2017.01-2019.12

Attended Cruises:
August 2006. Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrates. R/V Seaward Johnson II and Johnson Sea-Link Submersible
November 2009. Guaymas Cruise. R/V Atlantis and Alvin submersible
September to November 2011. IODP North Pond Expedition. R/V Joides Resolution
November 2014. East Pacific Rise. R/V Atlantis and Alvin submersible

Publications:
More than 90 peer reviewed publications in high-impact international journals including Nat Microbiol, ISME J, PNAS, Environ Microbiol, Appl Environ Microbiol, Geobiology, Sci Rep, Fron Microbiol.

List of representative publications:
Xie, R., Wang, Y., Huang, D., Hou, J., Li, L., Hu, H., ... & Wang, F.* (2022). Expanding Asgard members in the domain of Archaea sheds new light on the origin of eukaryotes. Science China Life Sciences, 65(4), 818-829.
Hou, J., Sievert, S. M., Wang, Y., Seewald, J. S., Natarajan, V. P., Wang, F.*, & Xiao, X.* (2020). Microbial succession during the transition from active to inactive stages of deep-sea hydrothermal vent sulfide chimneys. Microbiome, 8(1), 1-18.
Zhuang, G. C., Xu, L., Liang, Q., Fan, X., Xia, Z., Joye, S. B., & Wang, F. * (2019). Biogeochemistry, microbial activity, and diversity in surface and subsurface deep‐sea sediments of South China Sea. Limnology and Oceanography, 64(5), 2252-2270.
Wang, Y., Wegener, G., Hou, J., Wang, F.,* & Xiao, X.* (2019). Expanding anaerobic alkane metabolism in the domain of Archaea. Nature microbiology, 4(4), 595-602.
Yu, T., Wu, W., Liang, W., Lever, M. A., Hinrichs, K. U., & Wang, F. * (2018). Growth of sedimentary Bathyarchaeota on lignin as an energy source. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(23), 6022-6027.
Niu, M., Fan, X., Zhuang, G., Liang, Q., & Wang, F. * (2017). Methane-metabolizing microbial communities in sediments of the Haima cold seep area, northwest slope of the South China Sea. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 93(9).
He, Y., Li, M., Perumal, V., Feng, X., Fang, J., Xie, J., ... & Wang, F. * (2016). Genomic and enzymatic evidence for acetogenesis among multiple lineages of the archaeal phylum Bathyarchaeota widespread in marine sediments. Nature microbiology, 1(6), 1-9.
Wang, F. P.*, Zhang, Y., Chen, Y., He, Y., Qi, J., Hinrichs, K. U., ... & Boon, N. (2014). Methanotrophic archaea possessing diverging methane-oxidizing and electron-transporting pathways. The ISME journal, 8(5), 1069-1078.
Meng, J., Xu, J., Qin, D., He, Y., Xiao, X., & Wang, F.* (2014). Genetic and functional properties of uncultivated MCG archaea assessed by metagenome and gene expression analyses. The ISME journal, 8(3), 650-659.
Xie, W., Wang, F. (co-first author), Guo, L., Chen, Z., Sievert, S. M., Meng, J., ... & Xu, A. (2011). Comparative metagenomics of microbial communities inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimneys with contrasting chemistries. The ISME journal, 5(3), 414-426.
Chen, Y., Wang, F.(co-first author), Xu, J., Mehmood, M. A., & Xiao, X. (2011). Physiological and evolutionary studies of NAP systems in Shewanella piezotolerans WP3. The ISME journal, 5(5), 843-855.
Wang, S., Xiao, X., Jiang, L., Peng, X., Zhou, H., Meng, J., & Wang, F. * (2009). Diversity and abundance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in hydrothermal vent chimneys of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75(12), 4216-4220.
Wang, F., Zhou, H., Meng, J., Peng, X., Jiang, L., Sun, P., ... & Xiao, X. (2009). GeoChip-based analysis of metabolic diversity of microbial communities at the Juan de Fuca Ridge hydrothermal vent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(12), 4840-4845.
Meng, J., Wang, F. (co-first author), Wang, F., Zheng, Y., Peng, X., Zhou, H., & Xiao, X. (2009). An uncultivated crenarchaeota contains functional bacteriochlorophyll a synthase. The ISME journal, 3(1), 106-116.

Undergradate Courses: Geobiology; Microbial Oceanography and extremophiles

Executive Dean of International Center for Deep Life Investigation
Secretary-General of RDOC-FLUX
European community for ocean research drilling (ECORD), Facility Board Member
ISME Ambassador, International board member
Scientific Committee member of IODP-China
Associate editor for [Frontiers in marine molecular biology and ecology]
Editor for [Applied and Environmental Microbiology], [mLife], [Environment Microbiology]

2009 Nominee of Award for Outstanding Young Woman Scientist in China
2015 Outstanding Young Scientist Award by Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
2018 Jizhong Zhou Outstanding Scientist Award by Chinese Association of Microbial Ecology