The list of the 19th China Young Women Scientists Award and the 8th Future Women Scientists Program has been recently announced. Dr. Ding Wenna of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) is one of the 10 women scientists supported by the 8th Future Women Scientists Program. 

Ding Wenna is currently a postdoc in XTBG, with Prof. Xing Yaowu as her co-adviser. Her research mainly focuses on evolutionary ecology and large-scale biogeography, utilizing interdisciplinary methods such as molecular systematics, biogeography, macroecology, and paleobotany to understand the diversity of plants in geological periods and hotspot areas of biodiversity in mountainous regions. Her ongoing research is concerning the origin and evolutionary history of alpine plant diversity in the northern temperate zone. 

Ding Wenna has ever published her research results in journals Science, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Geology, and Nature Ecology & Evolution. Her doctoral thesis was recognized as an excellent doctoral thesis by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021.  

The Future Women Scientists Program was established by the China Association for Science and Technology in 2015. It is an extension of the "World's Most Promising Female Scientist Award" set up by UNESCO in China. The program is dedicated to discovering and nurturing female scientists in their doctoral or post-doctoral research stages, who are engaged in basic science or life science research and possess strong research capabilities and development potential. 

 Ding Wenna