工作经历：
2006年7月～2008年11月 助理研究员，古哺乳室，中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
2008年12月～2018年12月 副研究员，古哺乳室，中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
2019年1月～ 研究员，古哺乳室，中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
教育背景：
1996年9月～2000年6月——本科，兰州大学，生物学专业
2000年9月～2006年6月——硕、博研究生，中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所，古生物学与地层学
野外经历：
多次参与青藏高原及其周缘（如西藏札达和伦坡拉盆地、青海柴达木、昆仑山口和西宁盆地、新疆库木库里、索尔库里和准噶尔盆地、甘肃兰州、红崖子、塔奔布鲁克盆地、云南曲靖、师宗地区等）、中国北部地区（内蒙古中部地区、河北泥河湾盆地、山东山旺）以及一带一路地区（塔吉克盆地、巴基斯坦Siwalik化石带）的野外考察。
交流访问：
2006，美国洛杉矶自然历史博物馆、纽约自然历史博物馆。
2007，美国洛杉矶自然历史博物馆；美国丹佛自然科学博物馆。
2009，俄罗斯乌兰乌德，俄罗斯科学院西伯利亚分院地质研究所。
2012，美国洛杉矶自然历史博物馆。
2017，美国堪萨斯大学。
2018，塔吉克斯坦共和国科学院地质、地震工程与地震学研究所。
2018，巴基斯坦费萨拉巴德政府学院大学；科哈特科技大学。
2019，塔吉克斯坦共和国科学院地质、地震工程与地震学研究所。
1）2008.1-2010.12，中国国家自然科学基金青年项目：西藏札达盆地上新世哺乳动物演化与环境变迁（编号：40702004）。 22万，负责人。
2）2008.1-2010.12，美国国家地理Waitt基金：Reconnaissance for fossil vertebrates in the Zanda Basin, southwestern Tibetan Plateau（编号：W22-08）。1.5万美元，负责人。
3）2008.1-2009.12，现代古生物学和地层学国家重点实验室开放课题基金：内蒙古奥尔班上渐新-下中新统生物地层调查（编号：083106）。2.5万，负责人。
4）2009.1-2010.12，中国国家自然科学基金国际（地区）合作与交流项目NSFC-RFBR（中俄）：全球环境变化背景下的中国北方和贝加尔湖上新世鼠兔和鼠平类的演化、多样性和扩散事件（编号：40911120091）。9万，负责人。
5） 2012.10-2014.9，美国国家科学基金会国际合作项目：Collaborative Research: High-resolution, multi-proxy Miocene-Pleistocene climate and environmental record from the high-elevation Zhada basin, SW Tibetan Plateau（编号：EAR-1227212）。15万美元，Co-PI。
6）2015.1-2018.12，中国国家自然科学基金面上项目：甘肃党河南山地区新生代哺乳动物与青藏高原特有类群的起源和演化（编号：41472002）。95万，负责人。
7）2018.6-2023.5，中科院战略先导科技专项（B类）：新生代脊椎动物演化对青藏高原隆升的响应（编号：XDB26030304），300万，负责人。
专著：
邱铸鼎，李强. 2016. 内蒙古中部新近纪啮齿类动物. 北京：科学出版社，1-684
近期论文:
Yang Yanghesan, Li Qiang, ？ucja Fostowicz-Frelika, Ni Xijun. 2019. Last record of Trogontherium cuvieri (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the late Pleistocene of China. Quaternary International, 513: 30-36
Wu Xiujie, Pei Shuwen, Cai Yanjun, Tong Haowen, Li Qiang, Dong Zhe, Sheng Jinchao, Jin Zetian, Ma dongdong, Xing Song, Li Xiaoli, Cheng Xing, Cheng Hai, Ignacio de la Torre, R. Lawrence Edwards, Gong Xicheng, An Zhisheng, Erik Trinkaus, Liu Wu. 2019. Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation. PNAS, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1902396116
Li Qiang, Thomas A. Stidham, Ni Xijun, Li Lüzhou. 2018. Two new Pliocene hamsters (Cricetidae, Rodentia) from southwestern Tibet (China), and their implications for rodent dispersal ‘into Tibet’. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1403443. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1403443
Li Lüzhou, Li Qiang, Lu Xiaoyu, Ni Xijun. 2017. Morphology of an Early Oligocene beaver Propalaeocastor irtyshensis and the status of the genus Propalaeocastor. PeerJ, 5:e3311. Doi: 107717/peerj.3311
Wang Weitao, Zheng Wenjung, Zhang Peizhen, Li Qiang, Eric Kirby, Yuan Daoyang, Zheng Deweng, Liu Caicai, Wang Zhicai, Zhang Huiping, Pang Jianzhang. 2017. Expansion of the Tibetan Plateau during the Neogene. Nature Communications, 8:15887. Doi: 10.1038/ncomms15887
Xu Xiaofeng, Li Qiang, Flynn J. Lawrence. 2017. The beavers (Castoridae) of Yushe Basin. In: Flynn et Wu eds，Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals. Springer. 71-80
Li Qiang, Ni Xijun. 2016. An early Oligocene fossil demonstrates treeshrews are slowly evolving “living fossils”. Scientific Reports, 6:18627, doi: 10.1038/srep18627
Ni Xijun, Li Qiang, Li Lvzhou, Christopher K. Beard. 2016. Oligocene primates from China reveal divergence between African and Asian primate evolution. Science, 352(6286), 673-677, doi: 10.1126/science.aaf21
Ni Xijun, Li Qiang, Thomas A. Stidham, Li Lüzhou, Lu Xiaoyu, Meng Jin. 2016. A late Paleocene probable metatherian (?deltatheroidan) survivor of the Cretaceous mass extinction. Scientific Reports. 6:38547. DOI: 10.1038/srep38457
Wang Xiaoming, Li Qiang, Gary T. Takeuchi. 2016. Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov. (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, doi: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1169190
Lu Xiaoyu, Ni Xijun, Li Lüzhou, Li Qiang. 2016. Two new mylagaulid rodents from the early Miocene of China. PLoS ONE, 11(8): e0159445. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159445
Li Lüzhou, Ni Xijun, Lu Xiaoyu, Li Qiang. 2016. First record of Cricetops rodent in the Oligocene of southwestern China. Historical Biology. Doi: 10.1080/08912963.2016.1196686
Zhijie J. Tseng, Wang Xiaoming, Li Qiang, Xie Guangpu. 2016. Pliocene bone-cracking Hyaeninae (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Zanda Basin, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Historical Biology, 28(1-2): 68-76
Deng Tao, Wang Hongjiang, Wang Xiaoming, Li Qiang, Zhijie J. Tseng. 2016. The Late Miocene Hipparion (Equidae, Perissodactyla) fossils from Baogeda Ula, Inner Mongolia, China. Historical Biology, 28(1-2): 52-67
Xiaoming Wang, Yang Wang, Qiang Li, Z. Jack Tseng, Gary T. Takeuchi, Tao Deng, Guangpu Xie, Mee-mann Chang, NingWang. 2015. Cenozoic vertebrate evolution and paleoenvironment in Tibetan Plateau: Progress and prospects. Gondwana Research, 27: 1335-1354
Deng Tao, Wang Xiaoming, Wang Shiqi, Li Qiang, Hou Sukuan. 2015. Evolution of the Chinese Neogene mammalian faunas and its relationship to uplift of the Tibetan Plateau. Advances in Earth Science, 30(4): 407-415
Thomas A. Stidham, Xiaoming Wang, Qiang Li, Xijun Ni. 2015. A shelduck coracoid (Aves: Anseriformes: Tadorna) from the arid early Pleistocene of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Palaeontologia Electronica. 18.2.24A: 1-10
Li Qiang, Xie Guanpu, Gary T. Takeuchi, Deng Tao, Zhijie J. Tseng, Grohe C., Wang Xiaoming. 2014. Vertebrate fossils on the roof of the world: Biostratigraphy and geochronology of high-elevation Kunlun Pass Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau, and basin history as related to the Kunlun strike-slip fault. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 411:46-55
Li Qiang, 2015. Brachyscirtetes tomidai, a new Late Miocene dipodid (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Siziwang Qi, central Nei Mongol, China. Historical Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2014.996218.
Li Qiang, Wang Xiaoming. 2015. Discovery of Neogene beavers (Castoridae, Mammalia) in central Qaidam Basin, and their paleoenvironmental significance. Quaternary Sciences, 35（3）：584-595
Li Qiang, Wang Xiaoming. 2015. Into Tibet: an early Pliocene dispersal of fossil zokor (Rodentia: Spalacidae) from Mongolian Plateau to the hinterland of Tibetan Plateau. PLoS ONE, 10(12): e0144993. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144993
Li Qiang, Wang Xiaoming. 2014. Qaidamomys fortelii, a new Late Miocene murid from Qaidam Basin, north Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, China. Ann. Zool. Fennici. 51:17-26
Wang Xiaoming, Zhijie J. Tseng, Li Qiang, Gary T. Takeuchi, Xie Guanpu. 2014. From ‘thrid pole’ to north pole: a Himalayan origin for the arctic fox. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 281:20140893
Wang Xiaoming, Li Qiang, Xie Guanpu. 2014. Earliest record of Sinicuon in Zanda Basin, southern Tibet and implications for hypercarnivores in cold environments. Quaternary International. 355: 3-10
Li Qiang, Wang Xiaoming, Xie Guanpu, Yin An. 2013. Oligocene-Miocene Mammalian Fossils from Hongyazi Basin and Its Bearing on Tectonics of Danghe Nanshan in Northern Tibetan Plateau. PLOS ONE, 8(12): e82816. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082816
