Shu Degan
Professional：Professor
Department：Paleontology Teaching and Research Office
Honour：Experts enjoying special government allowances,National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Tutor,Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Professor Shu received his undergraduate training in Paleontology at Peking (Beijing) University 1964-1969, obtaining his Master's degree at Northwest University (Xi’an) and Ph.D.in China University of Geosciences (Beijing). He was Visiting Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA in 1988, Humboldt Research Fellow at University of Bonn in 1988-1989, at University of Wuerzburg, Germany in 1994-1995, and Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University, UK in 1998. He has been a Professor of Geology at Northwest University, Xi'an since December, 1989, and in 1992 he became a PhD supervisor. His research focuses mainly on the evolution of early deuterostomes. He discovered the “First Fish” Order Myllokunmingiida, in life history, and erected the extinct Phylum Vetulicolia, first proposing the concept of the hypothesis “Cambrian Explosion as a unique three-episode event to create the First Tree of Animals” in 2008. As a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and recipient of the National First Grade Award of Natural Sciences, he has authored a dozen publications in Nature and Science.
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