Biography
- Ph.D., Geology, 2015, University of Maryland
Paleoclimate / Stable Isotope Laboratory, Department of Geology, College Park, USA
- M.S., Geology, 2011, Peking University
Department of Geology, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China
- B.S., Geology, 2008, Southwest Petroleum University
School of Geosciences and Technology, Chengdu, China
- 2022-present, Mississippi State University
Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Starkville, USA
- 2020-2022, Université Paris Cité & University of Toronto
Postdoctoral Researcher, Geomicrobiology Group, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Paris, France; Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- 2018-2020, Free University of Brussels (VUB)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Analytical, Environmental & Geo-Chemistry Group, Brussels, Belgium; ET-HOME (Evolution and Tracers of the Habitability of Mars and Earth) Astrobiology Research Consortium, Belgium
- 2015-2018, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Postdoctoral Researcher, Wisconsin Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (WiscSIMS) Laboratory, Department of Geoscience, Madison, USA; NASA Astrobiology Institute / Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Consortium
- 2022, Excellent Reviewer Award, issued by Science Bulletin (Elsevier) Editorial Office
- 2019, Visiting Fellowship / Awardee of open research grant, issued by State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, relinquished due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- 2018, Awardee of early-career travel grant, issued by NASA Astrobiology Institute
- 2015, Green Fellowship in Global Climate Change, issued by University of Maryland, College Park
- 2015, Best Talk Award of Graduate Talk Day, issued by Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park
- 2015, Recipient of the MSA Grant for Student Research in Mineralogy and Petrology, issued by Mineralogical Society of America (MSA)
- 2014, Recipient of seven research grants for graduate student, issued by Sigma Xi, Society of Economic Geologists (SEG), International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS), American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Geological Society of America (GSA), Explorers Club, Explorers Club Washington Group (ECWG)
- 2014, Best Talk Award, issued by the Sino-UK Coevolution of Life & Planet summer school, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2014, Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, issued by College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park
- 2013, Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, issued by University of Maryland, College Park
- Geological Society of America
- International Association of Sedimentologists
- Society of Sedimentary Geology
- Geochemical Society
- Geological Society of London (Fellow since 2018)
- sedimentology
- stratigraphy
- paleoceanography
- biogeochemistry
- geobiology
- Earth evolution
Dr. Huan Cui is an Assistant Professor of Geobiology and Biogeochemistry in the Department of Geosciences at Mississippi State University. He conducts multidisciplinary research that integrates sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochemistry, and paleontology to investigate global and planetary changes in deep time.
