New Editor-in-Chief Professor Degan SHU

Professor Shu received his undergraduate training in Paleontology at Peking （Beijing） University in 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 Professor of Geology at Northwest University, Xi＇an since 1992.