Keyan Fang is a Professor at Fujian Normal University. He received a BS and a PhD from Lanzhou University in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2011 to 2013, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. In 2017, he won the second prize of the Gansu Provincial Natural Science Award. His research interests include tree rings, climate change and forest fire prevention.