Professor Xu Yigang from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), as the organization announced its 2021 class of Fellows on September 28.

Recognized by the AGU fellowship for his breakthroughs in igneous petrology and geochemistry, Professor Xu has made remarkable and lasting contributions to mantle dynamics and magma genesis. His work has influenced a wide range of fields in geosciences, such as geology, geochemistry, petrology, tectonics, seismology, and mass extinction by global climate change.

Xu Yigang works in the field. [Image: XU Yigang]

Founded in 1919, AGU is one of the world’s most influential academic organizations in the Earth and space sciences, boasting more than 60,000 members from 148 countries and regions. Since 1962, the organization has chosen fewer than 0.1 percent of its members to become Fellows as a way to celebrate their outstanding achievements and contributions by pushing the frontiers of science forward. This year’s honors went to 59 individuals, two of whom work in institutions on the Chinese mainland.

Source: Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry,

Chinese Academy of Sciences