2014.2 - Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS. Professor.
2013.9 – 2013.12 School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University (UK), Advanced Academic Visitor.
2011.7- 2018.12 Science communication web: Fossil web (http://www.uua.cn/), Chief executive.
2009.3 – 2010.3, Cardiff University (UK), Postdoctoral.
2009.1- 2014.1 Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS. Associate Professor.
2000.9 - 2006.9 Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS. Ph.D
2000.7, Nanjing University. Bachelor of Science.
1) Biodiversity and evolution of early land plants and their palaeoenvironment background.
The related study includes Devonian floras reconstruction and comparison based on plant fossil materials from Xinjiang China, South China, New York State (USA), Venezuela and Antarctica; fossil plant systematics, taxonomy, palaeophytogeography and evolutionary botany; and growth model of the earliest forest-forming plants.
2) Quantitative and systematical study and artificial intelligence of palaeontology and stratigraphy.
The related study includes analyzing and mining big data of palaeontology and stratigraphy to discover potential knowledge; powering Geobiodiversity database, fossil images database and their websites (geobiodiversity.com and fossil-ontology.com); understanding the ontology of ancient organisms in the geological ages.
3) Science communications.
Organic combination of scientific research and science communication work. Writing scientific books and articles and giving open talk to the public.
九三学社江苏省委：2015, 2016年度社会服务先进个人
Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grants: XDA19050101) [2018-2022]
Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grants: XDB26010502) [2018-2022]
National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 41772012)
Fund of State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Wang K, Xu H-H* Liu B-C, Bai J, Wang Y, Tang P, Lu J-F, Wang Y. 2023. Shallow-marine testate amoebae with internal structures from the Lower Devonian of China. iScience. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106678.
Zong RW, Edgecombe GD, Liu BC, Wang Y, Yin JY, Ma J, Xu HH*. 2023. Silurian freshwater arthropod from northwest China. Papaers in Palaeontology. E1488. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1488
Liu B-C, Wang K, Zong R-W, Bai J, Yang N, Wang Y, Xu H-H*. 2023. Frenguellia (Lycopsida) from the uppermost Devonian of West Junggar, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, NW China, and its implications on protolepidodendralean leaf morphology and paleophytogeography. Journal of Palaeogeography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jop.2023.03.004.
Xu H-H*, Niu Z, Chen Y-S. 2023. A multi-dimensional dataset of Ordovician to Silurian graptolite specimens for virtual examination, global correlation and shale gas exploration. Earth Science System Data. In press.
Wang K, Xu H.H., Yin L.M., 2022. A palynological assemblage from the Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of Shandong Province, China, and its implications to the transition from algae to land plants. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 301, 104645.
Bai J., Guo X-W, Liu B-C, Lu H-N, Xu H-H., 2022. Report of Sublepidodendron (Lycopsida) from the Upper Devonian borehole core of the CSDP-2 Well, South Yellow Sea, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 300, 104623. Doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104623.
Xu H-H, Yang N, Bai J, Wang Y, Liu F, Ouyang S. 2022. Palynological assemblage of the Lower Devonian of Hezhang, Guizhou, southwestern China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 297, 104561. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104561
Wang Y., Bai J., Liu B-C., Wang Y., Xu H.-H. 2022. New insights into the South China Lower Devonian flora based on fossils from Hezhang, Guizhou Province. Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, B377, no. 1847, 20210312. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0312
Liu B-C, Wang K, Zong R, Wang Y, Xu H-H*. 2021. Morphology and nomenclature of Barsassia (Lycopsida) from the Middle Devonian of West Junggar, Xinjiang, China. Plants, 10, 2631. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10122631
Liu B-C, Bai J, Wang Y, Yang N, Xu H-H*, 2021. On the discovery of Gilboaphyton (Lycopsida) from the Upper Devonian of East Junggar, Xinjiang, and its global distribution. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 292, 104473.
Bai, L., Huang, P., Yang, N., Ju, W., Liu, J., Basinger J.F., Xu H.*, Xue, J.*, 2021. A new Late Devonian flora from Sonid Zuoqi, Inner Mongolia, northeastern China. Journal of Paleontology. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2021.93
Wang, H., Lei, X., Zhang, H., Jarzembowski, E. A., Xu, H. 2021. New find of Houia (Arthropoda: Euchelicerata) from the Lower Devonian of Guangxi, South China. Geological Journal, 56, 5910-5913. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4199.
Xu H-H*, Niu Z-B, Chen Y-S. 2020. A status report on a section-based stratigraphic and palaeontological database – the Geobiodiversity Database, Earth System Science Data, 12, 3443–3452, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3443-2020.
Xu H-H*, Wang Y, Chen Y-S, Huang P, Zhang X-L, Wang Y, Qiao L, Lu J-F. 2020. Spatio-temporal distribution of Leclercqia (Lycopsida), with its new discovery from the Middle to Upper Devonian of Yunnan, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 560. 110029.
Zheng D, Chang Su-Chin, Algeo T, Zhang H, Wang B, Wang H, Wang J, Feng C, Xu H-H*, 2020. Age constraint for an earliest Famennian forest and its implications for Frasnian-Famennian boundary in West Junggar, Northwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 552, 109749.
Zhang X, Liu J, Wang Y, Xu H-H. 2020. The earliest known Spongeliomorpha from the Lower Devonian of the northwestern Yangtze Platform, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 551, 109772.
Wang Y., Xu H.-H.*, Wang Y., 2020. Morphology, nomenclature and potential paleophytogeographic implication of Demersatheca contigua (Zosterophyllopsida) from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan and Guangxi, southwestern China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 277, 104209.
Xu H-H, Wang Y, Tang P, Fu Q, Wang Y. 2019. Discovery of Lower Devonian plants from Jiangxi, South China and the pattern of Devonian transgression after the Kwangsian Orogeny in the Cathaysia Block. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 531, 108982.
Guo X-W, Xu H-H？, Zhu X-Q, Pang Y-M, Zhang X-H, Lu H-N, 2019. Discovery of Late Devonian plants from the southern Yellow Sea borehole of China and its palaeogeographical implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 531, 108444.
Wang Y., Xu H-H, Wang Y, Fu Q, 2018. A further study of Zosterophyllum sinense Li and Cai (Zosterophyllopsida) based on the type and the new specimens from the Lower Devonian of Guangxi, southwestern China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 258, 112–122.
Xu H-H, Fu Q, Wang Y. 2018. A new protolepidodendrid lycopsid from the Middle Devonian of Hunan, South China and its palaeogeographic implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 256, 63–69.
Wang D-M, Zhang Y-Y, Liu L, Xu H-H*, Qin M, Liu L, 2017. Reinvestigation of the Late Devonian Shougangia bella and new insights into the evolution of fern-like plants, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2017.1289269.
Xu H-H, Berry CM, Stein W, Wang Y, Tang P, Fu Q. 2017. Unique growth strategy in the Earth’s first trees revealed in silicified fossil trunks from China. PNAS. 114, 12009–12014.
Xu, H.-H., Wang, Y., Tang, P., Wang, Y., 2017. A new diminutive euphyllophyte from the Middle Devonian of West Junggar, Xinjiang, China and its evolutionary implications. Alcheringa. 41, 524–531
Xu H-H, Wang Y., 2016. The earliest cormose rhizomorph of putative lycopsid affinity from the Middle Devonian of West Junggar, Xinjiang, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 226, 54–57.
Zheng D-R, Xu H-H, Wang J, Feng C-Q, Zhang H-C, Chang S-C. 2016. Geochronologic age constraints on the Middle Devonian Hujiersite flora of Xinjiang, NW China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 463: 230–237.
Wang D-M, Xu H-H*, Xue J-Z, Wang Q, Liu L, 2015. Leaf evolution in early-diverging ferns: insights from a new fern-like plant from the Late Devonian of China. Annals of Botany, 115: 1133-1148.
Xu H-H, Xue J-Z, Wang Q. 2015. Notes on a fertile rhyniophytoid from the Lower Devonian of Guangxi, southwestern China. Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 27, 294-298.
Xu H-H, Marshall JEA, Wang Y, Zhu H-C, Berry CM, Wellman CH. 2014. Devonian spores from an intra-oceanic volcanic arc, West Junggar (Xinjiang, China) and the palaeogeographical significance of the associated fossil plant beds. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 206: 10-22.
Xu H-H, Feng J, Jiang Q, Wang Y, 2013. Report of Drepanophycus Goppert (Lycopsida) from the Middle Devonian of Xinjiang, China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 51: 765-772.
Xu H-H, Wang Y, Wang Q, 2012. A new homosporous, arborescent lycopsid from the Middle Devonian of Xinjiang, Northwest China. Palaeontology, 55: 957-966.
Xu H-H, Zong R-W, Wang Q. 2012. New materials of Sphinxiocarpon, a seed-like organ of putative lycopsid affinity, from the Late Devonian of Hubei, China. Palaeoworld. 21: 131-136.
Xu H-H, Marshall JEA, Berry CM, Wang Y, Zhu HC, Wellman CH. 2012. Mid Devonian megaspores from Yunnan and North Xinjiang, China: Their palaeogeographical and palaeoenvironmental significances. Palaeoworld. 21: 11-19.
Xu H-H, Berry CM, Wang Y, Marshall JEA. 2011. A new species of Leclercqia Banks, Bonamo et Grierson (Lycopsida) from the Middle Devonian of North Xinjiang, China, with a possible climbing habit. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 172, 836-846.
Xu H-H, Wang Y. 2011. A neotype for Colpodexylon gracilentum Dou (Lycopsida) from the Middle Devonian of North Xinjiang, China. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 49: 372-378.
Xu H-H. 2011. Re-examination of specimens attributed to Sawdonia curstipa Wang and Hao (zosterophyll) from the Middle Devonian of Xinjiang, China. Palaeoworld. 20: 357-361.
Xu H-H, Berry CM, Wang Y. 2011. Morphological study on the Devonian zosterophyll Serrulacaulis Hueber and Banks: new materials and emendation. Palaeoworld. 20: 322-331.
Xu Hong-He, Wang Qi. 2009. Reconsideration of a specimen attributed to Leclercqia complexa (Lycopsida) from the Lower Devonian of Sichuan, South China. Review of Palaeonbotany and Palynology. 153: 331-335.
Xu Hong-He, Berry C M. 2008. The Middle Devonian lycopsid Haskinsia from the Ruppert Coast, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. Review of Palaeonbotany and Palynology. 150: 1-4.
Xu Hong-He, Wang Y, 2008.
Xu Hong-He, Wang Y, C M Berry, Cai C-Y. 2008.
Xu Hong-He, Wang Q. 2008. A nomenclatural note of the Middle Devonian herbaceous lycopsid Protolepidodendron. Acta Palaeont Sinica 47: 256-259.