Feng Zhaodong, researcher, doctoral supervisor. He graduated from Lanzhou University with a bachelor’s degree in 1978 and a master’s degree in 1982. In addition, he received another Master’s degree from the University of Washington in 1987. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1991 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University from 1992 to 1994. Professor Feng has taught at the University of Utah, Montclair University, Baylor University, Lanzhou University and Xinjiang University. He has been a professor at Henan University since May 2017. In 2000, Professor Feng was appointed as a distinguished Professor of “Chang Jiang Scholars Program” of the Ministry of Education and a recipient of the National Foundation of China for Outstanding Youth in 2000. Professor Feng successfully organized and established the West of Lanzhou University Environment Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education in 2002, before he set up an innovation team in Xinjiang University funded by the Innovation Team Development Plan of the Ministry of Education, entitled “Research on the Response of Ecological and Hydrological Systems in Arid Regions of Xinjiang to Climate and Environmental Change and Social Adaptation Mechanism” in 2011. Professor Feng's research mainly involves late quaternary climate change and environmental evolution in the arid regions of Central Asia, and has been supported by key projects of the National Foundation of China for three times.

In recent years, he began to pay attention to the environmental changes and cultural succession in the Central Plains. He has published 96 SCI papers, 21 EI papers, 105 other papers, 4 books in Chinese, 9 issues of English (SCI) magazines as chief editor and guest editor and has gave 65 presentations at international conferences (including 20 invited papers).