Personal Website
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3092-8072
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Resume
Nov. 2022-present, Core Position of CAS Distinguished Research Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Sep. 2011-Dec. 2012, Post-doctoral, Tongji University.
Dec. 2010-present, Research Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Apr. 2005-Dec. 2010, Associate Research Professor, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Education
2011-2012 Visiting Scholar, School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University.
2004.3-2004.4 Visiting Scholar, Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI).
2002-2005 Ph. D. in Department of Organismal Biology, University of Salzburg, Austria. Thesis: Taxonomic Investigations of Soil Ciliates and Ecological Investigations of Ciliates from Marine Waters, Sediments and Salt Ponds. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrike-G. Berninger
1999-2002 PhD. in Department of Oceanography, Inha University, Inchon, Korea. Thesis: Ecology and Taxonomy of Ciliates in Tidal Flats and Salt Ponds around Gyeonggi Bay, Yellow Sea. Supervisor: Prof. Joong Ki Choi. obtained the second Ph. D degree in 2010 from Inha University, Korea. Received the second doctorate in 2010.
1990-1999 Ocean University of China. Thesis: Studies on Free-living Ciliated Protozoa in Marine Waters, with the Ecological Studies on Strombidium sulcatum. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yunfei Wu.
Professional Memberships
● Manager & Convenor, ISO/TC8/WG15 Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions and Carbon Neutrality (since 2023)
● Manager, ISO/TC8/SC25/WG4 Marine Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment (MEMA) (since 2026)
● Chair, Marine Ecosystem Restoration Committee, YES Initiative Yellow Sea Environmental Sustainability Initiative (YES) (since 2025)
● Committee Member, ISO/TC8/SC13 Marine Technology Branch of International Organization for Standardization (since 2017)
● Committee member, United Nations Consultative Committee on Marine Ecological Sustainable Development, China Association for Science and Technology
● Associate Editor, Journal of Sea Research (since 2021)
● Member, PICES (North Pacific Marine Science Organization) WG-OCN
● Associate Editor, Frontiers in Marine Science (Indian Ocean Bottom Biodiversity Special Issue) (since 2020)
● WoRMS Expert in Foraminifera species verification in Chinese waters
● Committee Member, Subcommittee on Marine Carbon Sink of National Technical Committee on Ocean Standardization (since 2025)
● Committee Member, National Standardization Administration (since 2019)
● Executive Director, Submarine Exploration and Development Branch of China Ocean Engineering Consulting Association (since 2019)
● Director, Benthic Animal Credit Committee of the Marine and Limnological Society (since 2016)
● Director, Micropaleontology Branch of the Chinese Zoological Society (since 2015)
● Director, Protozoan Branch of the Chinese Zoological Society (since 2012)
● Member, Chinese Zoological Terminology Approval Committee (since 2014)
● Editorial Board Member, Journal of Ocean University of China (Natural Science Edition) (since 2019)
● Member, Shandong Provincial Professional Standardization Technical Committee (since 2023)
Achievements
Prof. LEI Yanli is a marine biologist working on marine biodiversity and global change, environmental DNA (eDNA)-based marine ecosystem monitoring and assessment, marine carbon sinks, carbon neutrality, and international standardization. Her research focuses on the responses of marine calcareous organisms, including foraminifera and corals, to environmental change, as well as methods for marine biodiversity surveys, ecosystem assessment, carbon-sink evaluation, and the transformation of scientific results into international standards and carbon-rule governance.
She currently serves as Executive Associate Editor of the SCI-indexed journal Journal of Sea Research, Manager and Convenor of ISO/TC8/WG15 "Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions and Carbon Neutrality", and Convenor of ISO/TC8/SC25/WG4 "Marine Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment". She is also a member of a working group of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), Chair of the Marine Ecosystem Restoration Committee of the Yellow Sea Environmental Sustainability Initiative (YES), Director of the Shandong International Marine Standards Innovation Center, and Director of the Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions (ONCE) International Standards Research Center.
She has led or participated in more than 50 research and standardization projects supported by the International Organization for Standardization, the Standardization Administration of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. She led the development of ISO 23040:2021, China's first international standard for marine surveys, participated in ISO 22787:2023, and is promoting the development of international standards for ocean negative carbon emissions, carbon neutrality, and marine ecosystem monitoring and assessment.
She has published 105 research papers, including 62 SCI-indexed papers and more than 30 papers in JCR Q1 journals. She has authored one English monograph, edited six books, obtained three national invention patents, and led or contributed to three international standards, seven national standards, and one industry standard. Her achievements have been recognized as one of China's Top Ten Marine Science and Technology Advances and one of China's Top Ten Ocean and Limnology Science and Technology Advances, and have received several marine science and technology awards.
Research Interests
● Marine biodiversity and global change
● Environmental DNA (eDNA) and marine ecosystem monitoring and assessment
● Environmental adaptation of foraminifera, corals, and other marine calcareous organisms
● Marine carbon sinks, ocean negative carbon emissions, and carbon neutrality
● International standards and international carbon-rule governance
● Marine environmental impact assessment and ecosystem risk assessment
Honors and Awards
● Top 10 Marine Science and Technology Advances in China in 2021 by the China Society of Oceanography and Limnology
● Top 10 Marine Science and Technology Advances in China in 2021 by the China Ocean Society
● First Prize, 2021 Marine Science and Technology Award
● Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2021 Major Achievement Award
● Shandong Province 2021 High Level Standardization Award
● 2022 Qingdao Standardization Subsidy Award
● 2018 Qingdao Standardization Subsidy Award
● International Awards of Paul Broennimann Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland (2014-)
● 2013 Qingdao Standardization Subsidy Award
● Second Prize, Marine Science and Technology Awards of State Oceanic Administration (2012)
Selected Publications
International Standard:
● ISO 23040:2021 Marine environment impact assessment (MEIA) — Specification for marine sediments in seabed areas — Survey of interstitial biota. ISO copyright office, Geneva, Switzerland, 1-102pp. ICS 07.080; 13.020.99; 47.020.99. (The first Author)
● ISO 22787:2023 Marine technology — Marine environment impact assessment (MEIA) — Technical specification for marine biotic survey in the international seabed area — General principles and definitions. ISO copyright office, Geneva, Switzerland, 1-22pp. ICS 13.020.30. (The participation Author)
● ISO/NP 25283-1 Ships and marine technology — Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions and Carbon Neutrality (ONCE-CN) Part 1: General guidelines and requirements, ISO copyright office, Geneva, Switzerland (Co-first author)
National Standard:
● GB/T 34656—2017. Specification for marine sediment interstitial biota survey. National Standard of the People's Republic of China. Standard Press of China Beijing, 2017. 106 pp. (The first Author)
● National Standard of the People’s Republic of China Specifications for marine sediment interstitial biota survey GB/T 34656—2017. Standard Press of China, Beijing, 2021. 153 pp. (The first Author)
● GB/T 42629.3—2023. International Code of Conduct for the Investigation of Submarine Areas and High Seas Environment Part 3: Marine Life Survey. (The participation Author)
● GB/T 45031—2024. Technical guidelines for monitoring and effectiveness evaluation of seagrass bed ecological restoration, Standard Press of China, Beijing, 2024. 13 pp. (Cooperation, 27/37)
● 20242536-T-418. Specifications for oceanographic survey- Part 6: Marine biological survey. (Project approved) (Cooperation, 23/28)
● 20251770-T-418. Marine Biological Resource Exploitation and Protection —— Biobanking of Marine Microorganism Resources. (Project approved) (Cooperation, 4/8)
Industry Standard:
HY/T140-2011. Specifications for the Survey of Marine Microbenthos. Marine Professional Standard of the People's Republic of China. China Standard Press, Beijing, 2011. 30pp. (Authors: Yanli Lei and Kuidong Xu)
Monographs:
Yanli Lei and Tiegang Li, 2016. Atlas of Benthic Foraminifera from China Seas The Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. Springer-Verlag GmbH, Germany and Science Press, Beijing, 399 pp.
Research Papers:
1. Tianzhen Wu, Alan Ningyuan Xu, Yanli Lei, Haijun Song, 2024. Ancient Hybridisation Fuelled Diversification in Acropora Corals. Molecular Ecology, 0: e17615. JCR: Q1 (SCI), Chinese Academy of Sciences: TOP Q1
2. Yan Feng, Haijun Song, Hanchen Song, Yuyang Wu, Xing Li, Li Tian, Shuaishuai Dong, Yanli Lei, Matthew E. Clapham. 2024. High extinction risk in large foraminifera during past and future mass extinctions. Science Advances, 10(32): 1-8. JCR: Q1 (SCI), Chinese Academy of Sciences: TOP Q1
3. Shuaishuai Dong, Yanli Lei, Tiegang Li, Yifei Cao, Kuidong Xu, Biocalcification crisis in the continental shelf under ocean acidification, Geoscience Frontiers, 2023, 14(2023): 101622. JCR: Q1 (SCI), Chinese Academy of Sciences: TOP Q1
4. Zaibao Yang, Yanli Lei, Yair Rosenthal, Tiegang Li, Zhimin Jian, Late Pleistocene climate induced changes in paleo-vegetation in Borneo: Possible implications to human divergence, Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021, 267(2021): 107109. JCR: Q1 (SCI), Chinese Academy of Sciences: TOP Q1
5. Yanli Lei, Chengchun Li, Tiegang Li, Zhimin Jian, The effect of temperature and food concentration on ingestion rates of Quinqueloculina seminula on the diatom Nitzschia closterium, Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 2019, 49(1): 3-10. JCR: Q2 (SCI)
6. Yanli Lei, Tiegang Li, Zhimin Jian, Rajiv Nigam, Taxonomy and Distribution of Benthic Foraminifera in intertidal zone of the Yellow Sea, PR China: Correlations with Sediment Temperature and Salinity, Marine Micropaleontology, 2017, 133: 1-20. JCR: Q1 (SCI)
7. Yanli Lei, Tiegang Li, Rajiv Nigam, Maria Holzmann, Man Lyu, Environmental significance of morphological variations in the foraminifer Ammonia aomoriensis (Asano, 1951) and its molecular identification: A study from the Yellow Sea and East China Sea, PR China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2017, 483: 49-57. JCR: Q1 (SCI), Chinese Academy of Sciences: Q1
8. Yan Li Lei, Tie Gang Li, Hongsheng Bi, Wen Lin Cui, Wen Peng Song, Ji Ye Li, Cheng Chun Li, Responses of benthic foraminifera to the 2011 oil spill in the Bohai Sea, PR China, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2015, 96: 245-260. JCR: Q1 (SCI)
9. Yan-Li Lei, Karen Stumm, Stephen A. Wickham, Ulrike-G. Berninger, Distributions and Biomass of Benthic Ciliates, Foraminifera and Amoeboid Protists in Marine, Brackish and Freshwater Sediments, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 2014, 61: 493-508. JCR: Q2 (SCI)
10. Yanli Lei, Karen Stumm, Nils Volkenborn, Stephen A. Wickham, Ulrike-G. Berninger, 2010. Impact of Arenicola marina (Polychaeta) on the microbial assemblages and meiobenthos in a marine intertidal flat. Marine Biology, 157(6): 1271-1282. JCR: Q1 (SCI)
