Collegium Helveticum
YH

Yongsong Huang
Senior Fellow 2021–2022

Discipline
Chemistry
Fellowship duration
September 01, 2021–November 30, 2021
Academic or artistic job title
Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science
Home institution

Brown University, US

Links
Institutional website
Associated with

Yongsong is Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science at Brown University. His research focuses on the development and application of lipid biomarkers as proxies for studying past climate change. One ongoing project uses arctic Alaskan lakes as paleoclimate, paleoecological, and permafrost dynamic archives. As a senior fellow at the Collegium, he organized an interdisciplinary workshop on aspects of chemistry, biology, ecology, phycology, and genomics related to long-chain alkenones.