Professor Rui-Wu Wang
Prof. School of Ecology and Environment
Associate Editor, Proceeding of the Royal Society B
Associate Editor, Scientific Reports
Academic Editor, PLOS ONE
email:wangrw@nwpu.edu.cn
Northwestern Polytechnical University, West Youyi Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi. 710072, China.
Editor experience
Professor Rui-Wu Wang is Associate Editor for Proceeding of the Royal Society B (2014-2018) and Academic Editor for Scientific Reports, PLOS one, Frontier in Ecology and Evolution (guest editor).
Employment & Education
Professor Rui-Wu Wang (2015-present) is Professor at the School of Ecology and Environment, Northwestern Polytechnical University; (2010 to 2015) Professor and Principal Investigator of Experimental and Theoretical Ecology, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; (2008-2010) Associate professor, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science; (2003-2008) Assistant Professor, State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution and Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science. In 1998–2003, Professor Rui-Wu Wang did Ph.D. and M.S. in Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in 1996-1997, Economics and English language training, Xi’an branch of Chinese Academy of Science. In 1994–1996, Professor Rui-Wu Wang was a bio-chemistry student, in Shanxi Education College.
Research interests:
Professor Rui-Wu Wang’s focus areas include ecosystem stability, mutualism, social biology, chaos theory and game theory. Professor Rui-Wu Wang’s research interests include (1) evolution and maintenance of cooperative systems, especially in insect-plant mutualisms; (2) mathematical and statistical modeling on theevolution of cooperation and species coexistence; (3) evolution of sociality of termite ; and (4) sex ratio evolution under the selective pressure of environment. Professor Rui-Wu Wang’s study system involves fig-fig wasps, sociality of termite and bacteria.
Professor Rui-Wu Wang was a reviewer for the following:
Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Oikos, Ecology and Evolution, Behavioral Ecology, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Bulletin of Entomological Research,Botanical Studies, PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports, Chinese Science Bulletin, Science China: Life Sciences, Biodiversity Science, Zoological Research (in Chinese).