Yongsong Huang is a Chinese-American organic geochemist, biogeochemist and astrobiologist, and is a professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University.
[1] He researches the development of lipid biomarkers and their isotopic ratios as quantitative proxies for paleoclimate and paleoenviromental studies and subsequent application of these proxies to study mechanisms controlling climate change and environmental response to climate change at a variety of time scales.
in geochemistry from University of Science and Technology of China in 1984,[2] then received a M.S.
[2] He periodically worked as a guest investigator with Timothy Eglinton at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution during his postdoc.
[2] In 2000, Huang joined the faculty of Brown University, where he was awarded tenure in 2012.