Professional Career
 

1999 - 2000	Assistant Research Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, P.R. China
since 2001	Assistant Professor, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, P.R. China

Research Interests
 

Late Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic Floras: Systematics, Palaeobiology, Functional Morphology, Ecology, Cuticular Analysis Late Palaeozoic floras of China

Selected publications

• Shen Guanglong, Wu Xiuyuan, Wang Jun & Liu Huaqing (1995): Age and character of the Yu’erhong flora from Yumen, Gansu. Acta Geologica Sinica 69, 88-96 (in Chinese with English abstract).
• Wang Jun, Liu Huaqing, Shen Guanglong & Zhang Hong (1998): Notes on the island distribution pattern of the Permian Cathaysian flora in China - An example of the application of the equilibrium theory of island biogeography in palaeobiogeography. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 142, 23-31.
• Wang Jun (2000): Discovery of a petrified noeggerathialean strobilus: Discinites sinensis sp. nov. from the Permian of Shizuishan, Ningxia, China. Chinese Science Bulletin 45, 560-566.
• Wang Jun & Shan Guanglong (2000): A new species of Discinites (Noeggerathiales) from the Upper Permian of Weibei Coal field, North China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 110, 175-190.
• Liu Lunjun & Wang Jun (2000): The Sixth Conference of International Organization of Palaeobotany (IOPC-VI), Qinhuangdao, China, July 31-August 3, 2000. Episodes 23, 270-272.
• Wang Jun, H. W. Pfefferkorn, Sun Bainian & Liu Lujun (2003): Discovery of organic connection of Chiropteris Kurr and Nystroemia Halle from Early Permian of western Henan, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 48(20): 2248-2252.
• Wang Jun, Guangfu Zhang, Bek, J. & Pfefferkorn, H.W. (2004): A new morphological type of operculate microspore, Discinispora gen. nov., from the Permian petrified Noeggerathialean strobilus Discinites sinensis Wang. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 128: 229-245.
• Wang Jun, Pfefferkorn, H.W., Zhuo Feng & Guanglong Shen (2004): A new species of Discinites (Noeggerathiales) associated with a new species of Yuania from the Lower Permian of Inner Mongolia, China. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 165 (6): 1107-1119.
• Wang Jun & Wu Xiuyuan (2004): Discovery of Cathaysiodendron Li from the Early Carboniferous of Jingyuan Gansu, western China. Progress in Natural Sciences. 14(10): 903-906.
• Wang Jun (2005): Exceptionally well-preserved sporangia of the Permian petrified Noeggerathialean strobilus Discinites sinensis Wang. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 166 (1): 135-144.
• Wang Jun (2006): Tingia unita sp. nov. (Noeggerathiales) with strobilus from the Lower Permian of Wuda, Inner Mongolia, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 51(21), 2624-2633.
• Pfefferkorn, H.W. & Wang Jun (2007): Early Permian coal-forming floras from the Wuda District (Nei Mongol, western China). International Journal of Coal Geology, 69(1-2): 90-102.
• DiMichele, W.A., Chaney, D.S., Looy, C.V., Lucas, S.G., Nelson, J.W., Quick, K., Quick, M. & Wang Jun (in press): Persistent conifer and peltasperm dominated tropical lowland environments of Early Permian age, New Mexico. Palaios.
• Shu Yang, Jun Wang, H. W. Pfefferkorn, H.W. (in press): Marattia aganzhenensis sp. nov. from the Lower Jurassic Daxigou Formation of Lanzhou, Gansu, China. International Journal of Plant Sciences.
• Jun Wang, Bek, J. & Pfefferkorn, H.W. (submitted): Paratingia wudensis sp. nov. and Xingxuestachya hephaistii gen. et sp. nov. from a new noeggerathialean plant, Early Permian, Wuda Coal Basin, Inner Mongolia, China. American Journal of Botany.