September 1, 1993–July 1, 1997: Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Undergraduate.

November 1, 2000–January 24, 2005: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Claude Bernard Lyon, PhD.

Working experience

August, 1997–December, 2000: Research Assistant at NIGPAS.

January, 2001–March, 2005: Assistant Professor at NIGPAS.

March, 2005–January, 2009: Associate Professor at NIGPAS.

February, 2009–Present. Research Professor at NIGPAS.

Professional activities

1. Chief editor of Palaeoentomology

2. Advisor member of Cretaceous Research

3. Editorial member of Journal of Stratigraphy

4. Editorial member of Vertebrata Palasiatica

5. Voting member of the Jurassic Subcommission of International Commission of Stratigraphy

6. Communications member of the Cambrian Subcommission of International Commission of Stratigraphy

7. Honorary member of International Palaeoentomological Society

1. Mesozoic insects and amber biota

2. Cambrian explosion and exceptional faunas

3. Integrated study on the Mesozoic terrestrial stratigraphy, especially the Jurassic of China

1. Chen Junyuan, Huang Diying, Li Chiawei, 1999: An early Cambrian craniate-like chordate. Nature, 402: 518–522.

2. Chen Junyuan, Huang Diying, 2002: A possible Lower Cambrian chaetognath (arrow worm). Science, 298: 187.

3. Chen Junyuan, Huang Diying, Peng Qingqing, Chi Huimei, Wang Xiuqiang, Feng Man, 2003: The first tunicate from the Early Cambrian of South China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 100: 8314–8318.

4. Huang Diying, Chen Junyuan, Vannier J., Saiz Salinas J. I., 2004: Early Cambrian sipunculan worms from southwest China. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 271: 1671–1676.

5. Huang Diying, Engel M. S., Cai Chenyang, Wu Hao, Nel A., 2012: Diverse transitional giant fleas from the Mesozoic era of China. Nature, 483: 201–204.

6. Huang Diying, Nel A., Cai Chenyang, Lin Qibin, Engle M. S., 2013: Amphibious flies and paedomorphism in the Jurassic period. Nature, 495: 94–97.

7. Cai Chenyang, Thayer M. K., Engel M. S., Newton A. F, Ortega-Blanco J, Wang Bo, Wang Xiangdong, Huang Diying, 2014: Early origin of parental care in Mesozoic carrion beetles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 111 (39): 14170–14174.

8. Huang Diying (Ed.), 2016: The Daohugou Biota. Shganghai Science and Technology Publisher, Shanghai. 332pp

9. Huang Diying, Hormiga, G., Cai Chenyang, Su Yitong, Yin Zongjun, Xia Fangyuan, Giribet, G., 2018: Origin of spiders and their spinning organs illuminated by mid-Cretaceous amber fossils. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2 (4), 623–627.

10. Huang Diying, 2019: Jurassic integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China. Science China – Earth Sciences, 32 (1), 223–255.

Recent publications

1. Fu, Y., Azar, D., Huang Diying, 2020. A new species of the extinct family Minlagerrontidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous research, 107, 104270.

2. Hakim, M., Azar, D., Huang Diying. 2020. A unique manicapsocid (Psocodea: Amphientometae) from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous research, 107, 104278.

3. Fu, Y., Huang Diying, 2020. Jurocercopis grandis Wang & Zhang, 2009 from the Jiyuan Basin and Daohugou beds of northern China and its morphological revision (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha, Cercopoidea). Palaeoentomology, 3 (1), 087–095.

4. Fu, Y., Huang Diying, 2020. A new fossil cercopoid from the middle Jurassic Ordos and Jiyuan basins, northern China (Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha). Historical Biology, pp.1–6.

5. Fu, Y. Huang Diying, 2020. New data on fossil mimarachnids (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Fulgoroidea) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeoentomology, 3 (3), 317–331.

6. Fu, Y., Huang Diying, 2020. The enigmatic arthropod Duraznovis gallegoi from the Late Triassic of Argentina is a cicadomorphan head (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Palaeoentomology, 3 (3), 245–247.

7. Fu, Y., Huang Diying, 2020. Revision of the genus Jiaotouia (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea) with description of a new species from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 104558.

8. Huang Diying, Schubnel, T., Nel, A., 2020: A new middle Permian orthopteran family questions the position of the Order Titanoptera (Archaeorthoptera: Orthoptera). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 1–6.

9. Drohojowska, J., Szwedo, J., ？y？a, D., Huang Diying, Müller, P., 2020. Fossils reshape the Sternorrhyncha evolutionary tree (Insecta, Hemiptera). Scientific Reports, 10, 11390.

10. Qu, T., Yin, Z., Huang, D., Cai, C., 2020. First Mesozoic brachypsectrid beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Brachypsectridae). Cretaceous Research, 106, 104190.

11. Tihelka, E., Huang, D., Cai, C., 2020. New data on Ommatidae (Coleoptera) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 106, 104253.

12. Garrouste, R., Schubnel, T., Huang, D., Azar, D., Cai, C., Nel, A., 2020. Sexual conflict during Mesozoic: The first Cretaceous damsel bug in Burmese amber (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nabidae). Cretaceous Research, 108, 104344.

13. Huang, D., Zhang, H., Cai, C., 2020. Professor Qi-Bin Lin and palaeoentomology of China. Palaeoentomology 3(1), 2–5.

14. Li, Y., Tihelka, E., Huang, D., Cai, C., 2020. Specialized variegated mud-loving beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Heteroceridae). Palaeoentomology, 3 (1), 59–67.

15. Fu, Y., Cai, C., & Huang, D., 2020. First Mesozoic procercopids in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea). Geological Magazine 157(3), 506–512.

16. Tihelka, E., Huang, D., Cai, C., 2020. First false darkling beetle from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Melandryidae). Alcheringa, 44 (1), 169–175.

17. Liu, Y., Tihelka, E., Yamamoto, S., Yin, Z., Huang, D., Tian, L., Cai, C., 2020. The first fossil record of the rove beetle subfamily Protopselaphinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 110, 104416.

18. Su, Y., Cai, C., Huang, D., 2020. Two new species of the bristle millipede genus Pauropsxenus (Diplopoda, Polyxenidae) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 111, 104427.

19. Tihelka, E., Huang, D., Cai, C., 2020. A new genus and species of Micromalthidae from Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Archostemata). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 111 (1), 39–46.

20. Fu, Y., Cai, C., Huang, D., 2020. A new palaeontinid (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadomorpha) from the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northeastern China and its biogeographic significance. Journal of Paleontology, 94 (3), 513–520.

21. Liao, H.Y., Cai, C.Y., Shen, Y.B., Sun, X.Y., Huang, D.Y., 2020. An Early Cretaceous branchiopod community in northeastern China: discovery of daphniid (Cladocera: Anmopoda) ephippia in the early assemblage of the Jehol Biota. Cretaceous Research, 113, 104491.

22. Tihelka, E., Engel, M. S., Huang, D., Cai, C., 2020. Mimicry in Cretaceous bugs. iScience, 23 (7), 101280.

23. Tihelka, E., Huang, D., Cai, C., 2020. Pleuroceratos jiewenae sp. nov.: A new Cretaceous phloeostichid beetle (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Phloeostichidae). Palaeoentomology, 3 (3), 248–259.

24. Cai, C., Tihelka, E., Pan, Y., Yin, Z., Jiang, R., Xia, F., Huang, D., 2020. Structural colours in diverse Mesozoic insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1930), 20200301.

25. Tihelka, E., Smith, A. D., Huang, D., Cai, C., 2020. First member of the New World genus Diceroderes from early Miocene Mexican amber (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tenebrioninae: Toxicini). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 104, 102828.

26. Tihelka, E., Cheng, G. M., Huang, D., Perrichot, V., Cai, C., 2020. First thaneroclerid beetle from Cretaceous Charentese amber (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Thanerocleridae). Palaeoentomology, 3 (4), 390–398.

27. Li, Y., Tihelka, E., Liu, Z., Huang, D., Cai, C., 2020. Muonabuntor gen. nov., a new genus of false click beetles from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Eucnemidae). Palaeoentomology, 3 (4), 399–406.