July 2025. I am now an Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports and BMC Ecology and Evolution (formerly know as BMC Evolutionary Biology). Very excited about this new role!

Both journals aim to excellence in research

Joining the Editorial Board

May 2025. Very pleased to receive the "Outstanding Research Award: Early-career researcher" in STEM. My work on integrating species extinction into biogeography helped me to win this award

University of Aberdeen's principal

Award winner

July 2024. Yixi secured funding to travel to Aberdeen for a whole year to work on time-stratified models of diversification to be applied to alpine plant evolution.

Seal watching with Yixi, Tinu and Max

Yixi Wang arrives

November 2023. Jan Smycka from Charles University spends few weeks in Aberdeen working on diversification models that include exceptionally complete fossil record

Hiking at Cairngorms with Jan and Theo

Jan Smycka vists