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Biography

Wang Ying, female, Han nationality, is a native of Kangping, Liaoning Province. She was born in Huangchuan, Henan Province and graduated from Nanjing University in 1956. Wang obtained an assistant doctorate degree from the Geology and Geography Department from Peking University in 1961 and an honorary doctorate degree in environmental science from Waterloo University in Canada in 2001. She is an expert on coastal and off-shore geomorphology, as well as sedimentology.

Wang is recognized for her contributions in studying silt tidal beaches with areal features, drumlin shores, and river and sea systems. She summarized the deposit and ecological mode under tidal beach environments and analyzed the deposit environment of siltstone of Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras.

Her more recent research includes studying the interaction between the sea and continent with global variation. She has served as the head of the geology college at Nanjing University.

In 2001, Wang was elected as an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.