In August 2019, Associate Research Professor LIU Yan was supported by the NSFC Fund for Excellent Young Scholars.

 Fig. 3.4 Associate Research Professor LIU Yan, supported by the  NSFC  Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2019

        Graduated with a Doctor’s Degree of Science from China University of Geosciences, Beijing in 2010, LIU Yan has been engaged in the research of the origin of carbonatite and its complex-type REE deposits since 2010 and has published 18 papers as the first author or corresponding author in Economic Geology, Mineralium Deposita, Lithos and Ore Geology Reviews, which elaborately described the formation of carbonatite and its complex-type REE deposits; and profoundly revealed that the formation of carbonatite and its complex-type REE deposits went through two large-scale supernormal concentration process.