Dr. Hai Nian, born in 1962, is a male scientist. He holds multiple significant positions, including being a senior scientist at Yazhou Bay National Laboratory, a professor at the College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, a distinguished Professor at the College of Agriculture, Jilin Agricultural University and a counselor for the Guangdong Municipal Government.
In terms of education and career, he obtained his doctorate from Northeast Agricultural University in December 1994, then completed post-doctoral work at South China Agricultural University in December 1996. He worked as an associate professor at South China Agricultural University from 1997 to 2001 and has been a professor since 2001. Since December 2024, he has been a senior scientist at Yazhou Bay National Laboratory. He was also a visiting scholar at the Research Institute of Bioresources, Okayama University, Japan from October 1999 to October 2000. Moreover, He was a scientist of China Agricultural Research System (CASR) From 2007-2023.
His research mainly focuses on crop genetics and breeding, especially on the improvement of soybeans to tropical and subtropical regions. He has led over 80 provincial - level and above research projects, commercially released 40 new soybean varieties including 3 cultivars in Africa. He has published more than 60 papers in influential journals such as Molecular Plant, New Phytologist, and Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Among them, he successfully cloned the J gene that controls the long juvenile trait, and this research achievement was selected as one of the "Major Advances in Agricultural Sciences in China in 2017". He has trained more than 150 doctoral and master's students. His achievements have been widely recognized, winning awards such as the first - class award of Guangdong Science and Technology Progress in 2023 and 2013, as well as the 13th Guangdong Ding Ying Science and Technology Award in 2016.
