Executive editor of geoscience for The Innovation(IF 32.1); 

Editors-in-Chief of The Innovation geoscience;

Associate Editor of Science Bulletin (IF 20.577);

Editorial board member of Quaternary Geochronology, Speleology, Journal of Earth Environment, Science China-Earth Sciences, Scientific Report, Geological Review, and Quaternary Sciences;

Member of the Earth System Panel of the European Research Council;

Member of the Geochemical Fellows Award Committee of the Geochemical Society and the European Association for Geochemistry;

Member of the ACS (American Chemistry Society) Earth & Space Chemistry Editor Search Committee;

Members of several panels of Chinese National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc.

      Prof. Hai Cheng has published more than 670 papers, citations >86000, h-index 118, including 30 in Science and Nature, and more than 70 in PNAS, Nature and Science Series Journals. More details see:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cv3SRfMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Sha, L.J.*, Dang, H.W*, Wang, Y., Wassenburg, J.A., Baker, J.L., Li, H.Y., Sinha, A., Ait Brahim, Y., Wu, N.P., Lu, Z.Y., Yang, C., Dong, X.Y., Lu, J.Y., Zhang, H.W., Mahata, S., Cai, Y.J., Jian, Z.M., Cheng, H.*, Triple oxygen isotope reveals insolation-forced tropical moisture cycles, Science Advances, 10(37) (2024), eadp7855;

Tian, Y., Fleitmann, D., Zhang, Q., Sha, L.J, Wassenburg, J.A., Axelsson, J., Zhang, H.W., Li, X.L., Hu, J., Li, H.Y., Zhao, L., Cai, Y.J., Ning, Y.F., Cheng, H.*, Holocene climate change in southern Oman deciphered by speleothem multi-proxy records and climate model simulations, Nature Communications, 14 (2023), 4718;

Cheng, H.*, Li, H.Y., Sha, L.J., Sinha, A., Shi, Z.G., Yin, Q.Z., Lu, Z.Y., Zhao, D.B., Cai, Y.J., Hu, Y.Y., Hao, Q.Z., Tian, J., Kathayat, G., Dong, X.Y., Zhao, J.Y., Zhang, H.W., Milankovitch theory and monsoon, The Innovation, 3(6)(2022), 100338;

Kathayat, G., Sinha, A., Breitenbach, M. F., Tan, L. C., Spötl, C., Li, H. Y., Dong, X. Y., Zhang, H.W., Ning, Y.F., Allan, R.J., Damodaran, V., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, Protracted Indian monsoon droughts of the past millennium and their societal impacts, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(39)(2022), e2207487119;

Dong, X.Y., Kathayat, G.*, Rasmussen, S.O., Svensson, A., Severinghaus, J.P., Li, H.Y., Sinha, A., Xu, Y., Zhang, H.W., Shi, Z.G., Cai, Y.J., Pérez-Mejías, C., Baker, J.L., Zhao, J.Y., Spotl, C., Columbu, A., Ning, Y.F., Stríkis, N.M., Chen, S.T., Wang, X.F., Gupta, A.K., Dutt, S., Zhang, F., Cruz, F.W., An, Z.S., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics during Heinrich Stadial 2, Nature Communications, 13(2022), 1-14;

Cheng, H.*, Zhang, H.W., Cai, Y.J.*, Shi, Z.G., Yi, L., Deng, C.L., Hao, Q.Z., Peng, Y.B., Sinha, A., Li, H.Y., Zhao, J.Y., Tian, Y., Baker, J., Perez-Mejias, C. Orbital-scale Asian summer monsoon variations: Paradox and exploration, Science China Earth Sciences, 64(2021), 529-544;

Cheng, H.*, Zhang, H.W., Spötl, C., Baker, J., Sinha, A., Li, H.Y., Bartolomé, M., Moreno, A., Kathayat, G., Zhao, J.Y., Dong, X.Y., Li, Y.W., Ning, Y.F., Jia, X., Zong, B.Y., Brahim, Y.A., Pérez-Mejías, C., Cai, Y.J., Novello, V.F., Cruz, F.W., Severinghaus, J.P., An, Z.S., Edwards, R.L., Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(2020), 23408-23417;

Sha, L.J., Mahata, S., Duan, P.Z., Luz, B., Zhang, P., Baker, J., Zong, B.Y., Ning, Y.F., Brahim, Y.A., Zhang, H.W., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, A novel application of triple oxygen isotope ratios of speleothems, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 270(2020), 360-378;

Li, H.Y., Sinha, A.*, André, A.A., Spötl, C., Vonhof, H.B., Meunier, A., Kathayat, G., Duan, P.Z., Voarintsoa, N.R.G., Ning, Y.F., Biswas, J., Hu, P., Li, X.L., Sha, L.J., Zhao, J.Y., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H.*, A multimillennial climatic context for the megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar and Mascarene Islands, Science Advances, 6(2020), eabb2459;

Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L.*, Southon, J., Matsumoto, K., Feinberg, J.M., Sinha, A., Zhou, W.J., Li, H.Y., Li, X.L., Xu, Y., Chen, S.T., Tan, M., Wang, Q., Wang, Y.J., Ning, Y.F., Atmospheric ¹⁴C/¹²C changes during the last glacial period from Hulu Cave, Science, 362(6420)(2018), 1293-1297;

Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L.*, Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Yi, L., Chen, S.T., Kelly, M., Kathayat, G., Wang, X.F., Li, X.L., Kong, X.G., Wang, Y.J., Ning, Y.F., Zhang, H.W., The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations, Nature, 534(7609)(2016), 640-646;

Cheng, H.*, Spötl, C., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Sinha, A., Wassenburg, J.A., Jochum, K.P., Scholz, D., Li, X.L., Yi, L., Peng, Y.B., Lv, Y.B., Zhang, P.Z., Votintseva, A., Loginov, V., Ning, Y.F., Kathayat, G., Edwards, R.L., Climate variations of Central Asia on orbital to millennial timescales, Scientific Reports, 6(2016), 36975;

Kathayat, G., Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Zhang, H.W., Li, X.L., Yi, L., Ning, Y.F., Cai, Y.J., LuiLui, W.G., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales, Scientific Reports, 6(2016), 24374;

Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Verheyden, S., Nader, F.H., Li, X.L., Zhang, P.Z., Yin, J.J., Yi, L., Peng, Y.B., Rao, Z.G., Ning, Y.F., Edwards, R.L., The climate variability in northern Levant over the past 20,000 years, Geophysical Research Letters, 42(20)(2015), 8641-8650;

Sinha, A.*, Kathayat, G., Cheng, H., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Berkelhammer, M., Mudelsee, M., Biswas, J., Edwards, R.L., Trends and Oscillations and Anomalies in the Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall over the Last Two Millennia, Nature Communications, 6(2015), 6309;

Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., Shen, C.C., Polyak, V.J., Asmerom, Y., Woodhead, J., Hellstrom, J., Wang, Y.J., Kong, X.G., Spötl, C., Wang, X.F., Improvements in ²³⁰Th dating, ²³⁰Th and ²³⁴U half-life values, and U-Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 371-372(2013), 82-91;

Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Cruz, F.W., Wang, X., Edwards, R.L., d’Horta, F.M., Ribas, C.C., Vuille, M., Stott, L.D., Auler, A.S., Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity, Nature Communications, 4(2013), 1411;

Cheng, H.*, Zhang, P.Z., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Cai, Y.J., Zhang, D.Z., Sang, W.C., Tan, M., An, Z.S., The climate cyclicity in semiarid-arid central Asia over the past 500,000 years, Geophysical Research Letters, 39(2012), L01705；

Cheng, H.*, Sinha, A., Wang, X.F., Cruz, F.W., Edwards, R.L., The Global Paleomonsoon as seen through speleothem records from Asia and the Americas, Climate Dynamics, 39(2012), 1045-1062；

Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L.*, Broecker, W.S., Denton, G.H., Kong, X.G., Wang, Y.J., Zhang, R., Wang, X.F., Ice Age Terminations, Science, 326(248)(2009), 248-252;

Cheng, H.*, Fleitmann, D. *, Edwards, R.L., Wang, X.F., Cruz, F.W., Auler, A.S., Mangini, A., Wang, Y.J., Kong, X.G., Burns, S.J., Matter, A., Timing and structure of the 8.2 kyr B.P. event inferred from d¹⁸O records of stalagmites from China, Oman and Brazil, Geology, 37(11)(2009), 1007-1010;

Wang, Y.J.*, Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L.*, Kong, X.G., Shao, X.H., Wu, J.Y., Jiang, X.Y., Wang, X.F., An, Z.S., Millennial- and orbital- scale changes in the East Asian Monsoon over the past 224,000 years, Nature, 451(2008), 1090-1093;

Zhang, P.Z., Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., Chen, F.H., Wang, Y.J., Yang, X.L., Liu, J., Tan, M., Wang, X.F., Liu, J.H., An, C.L., Dai, Z.B., Zhou, J., Zhang, D.Z., Jia, J.H., Jin, L.Y., Johnson, K.R., A test of climate, sun, and culture relationships from a 1810-year Chinese Cave record, Science, 322(5903)(2008), 940-942;

Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., Wang, Y.J., Kong, X.G., Ming, Y.F., Kelly, M.J., Wang, X.F., Gallup, C. D., Liu, W.G., A penultimate glacial monsoon record from Hulu Cave and two-phase glacial terminations, Geology, 34(3)(2006), 217-220;

Wang, Y.J., Cheng, H.*, Edwards, R.L., He, Y.Q., Kong, X.G., An, Z.S., Wu, J.Y., Kelly, M.J., Dykosk, C.A., Li, X.D., The Holocene Asian monsoon: links to solar changes and North Atlantic climate, Science, 308(5723)(2005), 854-857;

1996 Spring AGU Meeting; 1997 Fall AGU Meeting; 2000, 2002 and 2009 Institute of Karst Geology; 2003 University of Paris;  2004 and 2006, Lanzhou University; 2004 Nanjing University; 2005 Taiwan National University; 2005  Institute of Geology;  2005 University of Southern California; Taiwan; 2005  Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; 2005 Southern China Normal University; 2005 and 2009 Institute of Geochemistry, Guangzhou; 2006; IQUA Congress; 2006 Goldschmidt Conference;  2007 Institute of Speleology and Karstology, Simferopol, Ukraine; 2007 EGU Meeting, Vienna; 2007 9th International Conference on Paleoceanography;  2008 University of Bern; 2008 EGU Meeting, Vienna; 2008 European Science Foundation; 2009 L'Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventives, France;  2009 U-series and sea-level workshop, WHOI;  2009 University of Sau Poulo. 2010 AGU Taipei Meeting, Taiwan. 2010 AGU Brazil Meeting, Iguassu, Brazil; 2010 Shanghai Global Monsoon Meeting; 2010 Oregon Syntrace Synthesis Workshop; 2011 Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 2011 Global climate change workshop, Chinese NSF; 2011 INQUA (Geochronology session); 2012 Modes of Variability in the Climate System: Past-Present-Future, Obergurgl, Austria (PAGES). AOGS-AGU (WPGM), Singapore, 2012. Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Deutsches GFZ, Germany, 2012. Symposium on the interplaying between high and low latitude climate systems, Fuzhou, China, 2012. International Symposium on Climate Change- Past, Present and Future, Trends, Variations and Impacts, Agadir, Morocco, 2012. Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and Eastern Asia Climate: Clues to Understanding the Hydrological Cycle, Workshop, Xian, China 2012; 2013. 02 Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India; 2013. 04, International Symposium on Karst Water under Global Change Pressure, Guilin, China,  2013.08, Conference on Isotopes of Carbon, Water, and Geotracers in Paleoclimate Research, Bern, Switzerland; 2013.11, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; 2013.11, Geography Department, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany；2014.10, Comer Abrupt Climate Change Meeting, Wisconsin, US; 2015.10, Comer Climate Conference, Wisconsin, US; 2016 Goldschmidt Conference, Japan; 2016.8, 35th International Geological Congress, Capetown, South Africa; 2016.7, 4th Conference on Earth System Science, Shanghai, China; 2016.12, AGU Fall Meeting, US (two); 2017.5, IntCal Working Group Meeting, Belfast, UK; 2017.06, SISAL Workshop, Duplin, Ireland; 2017.09, IODP-PAGES Workshop on Global Monsoon in Long-term Records, Shanghai, China; 2019.11, University of Science and Technology of China, He Fei, China; 2019 AGU Fall Meeting, US (two). Workshop of Abrupt Climate and Ecosystem Transitions in Paleoclimate, 2020.10, Copenhagen. 2021.11, 2020 Northeast Asian Symposium Program, online; 2022.05, PAGES 6th OSM, Agadir. 2022.05, EGU2022, Vienna. 2022.06, Sustainability Researh+Innovation Conference, online. 2023.05, Caribbean – Mesoamerican Climate Science Workshop, Puerto Rico. 2023.07, The XXI INQUA Congress, Rome. 2023.12, AGU23 Meeting, San Francisco, 2024.10, ERC Synergy project, Ravenna and many others.

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