Fu Qiaomei

Fu Qiaomei is a prominent Chinese paleogeneticist and professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is renowned for her groundbreaking research in ancient human genomics, particularly in the context of understanding the genetic diversity and origins of populations in East Asia. In her recent study published in Science, she led a team that sequenced prehistoric genomes from Yunnan, revealing previously unobserved Asian ancestry linked to Tibetan and Austroasiatic speakers. This work has significant implications for the study of human prehistory and the genetic relationships among ancient populations in China.