沈冰，1979年出生，北京大学地球与空间科学学院研究员、副院长，史前生命与环境研究所研究员，主要研究地球生物学、早期生命演化及沉积地球化学。1997年至2001年在北京大学获学士学位，2007年于美国弗吉尼亚理工大学获博士学位。2008年至2010年在美国莱斯大学从事博士后研究，2010年加入BP石油公司（休斯顿）任研究人员，2011年返回北京大学任助理教授。2021年入选第一届月球样品专家委员会成员，2022年任北京大学地球与空间科学学院副院长，2025年荣获“科学探索奖”。

1997.09--2001.07 学士 北京大学地球与空间科学学院

2004.02--2007.12 博士 美国佛吉尼亚理工大学地球科学系

2008.02--2010.12 美国莱斯大学地球科学系博士后

2010.01--2011.08 BP石油公司（休斯顿）研究人员

2021年4月，任第一届月球样品专家委员会成员。

*通讯作者

21. Huang, K.-J., Teng, F.-Z., Shen, B., Xiao, S., Lang, X., Ma, H.-R., Fu, Y., Peng, Y., 2016. Episode of intense chemical weathering during the termination of the 635 Ma Marinoan glaciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1607712113,

20. Li, F.-B., Teng, F.-Z., Chen, J.-T., Huang, K.-J., Wang, S.-J., Lang, X.-G., Ma, H.-R., Peng, Y.-B., *Shen, B., 2016. Constraining ribbon rock dolomitization by Mg isotopes: Implications for the ‘dolomite problem’. Chemical Geology, 445: 208-220.

19. Qiao, W., Lang, X., Peng, Y., Jiang, K., Chen, W., Huang, K., *Shen, B., 2016. Sulfur and oxygen isotopes of sulfate extracted from Early Cambrian phosphorite nodules: Implications for marine redox evolution in the Yangtze Platform. Journal of Earth Science, 27(2): 170-179.

18. Lang, X., *Shen, B., Peng, Y., Huang, K., Lv, J., Ma, H., 2016. Ocean oxidation during the deposition of basal Ediacaran Doushantuo cap carbonates in the Yangtze Platform, South China. Precambrian Research, 281: 253-268.

17. Peng, Y., Peng, Y., Lang, X., Ma, H., Huang, K., Li, F., *Shen, B., 2016. Marine Carbon-Sulfur Biogeochemical Cycles during the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion (SPICE) in the Jiangnan Basin, South China. Journal of Earth Science, 27(2): 242-254.

16. Shen, B., Dong, L., Xiao, S., Lang, X., Huang, K., Peng, Y., Zhou, C., Ke, S., Liu, P., 2016. Molar tooth carbonates and benthic methane fluxes in Proterozoic oceans. Nature Communications, 6: doi: 10.1038/ncomms10317.

15. Peng, Y., *Shen, B., Lang, X.-G., Huang, K.-j., Chen, J.-T., Yan, Z., Tang, W.-b., Ke, S., Ma, H.-R., Li, F.-B., 2016. Constraining dolomitization by Mg isotopes: A case study from partially dolomitized limestones of the middle Cambrian Xuzhuang Formation, North China. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems: DOI: 10.1002/2015gc006057.

14. Huang, K.-J., *Shen, B., Lang, X.-G., Tang, W.-B., Peng, Y., Ke, S., Kaufman, A.J., Ma, H.-R., Li, F.-B., 2015. Magnesium isotopic compositions of the Mesoproterozoic dolostones: Implications for Mg isotopic systematics of marine carbonate. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 164, 333-351.

13. Dong, L., *Shen, B., Lee, C.-T.A., Shu, X.-j., Peng, Y., Sun, Y., Tang, Z., Rong, H., Lang, X., Ma, H., Yang, F., Guo, W., 2015. Germanium/silicon of the Ediacaran-Cambrian Laobao cherts: Implications for the bedded chert formation and paleoenvironment interpretations. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005595.

12. Xiao, S., Shen, B., Tang, Q., Kaufman, A.J., Yuan, X., Li, J., Qian, M., 2014. Biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic constraints on the age of early Neoproterozoic carbonate successions in North China. Precambrian Research 246, 208-225.

11. Shen, B., Wimpenny, J., Lee, C.-T.A., Tollstrup, D., Yin, Q.-Z., 2013. Magnesium isotope systematics of endoskarns: Implications for wallrock reaction in magma chambers. Chemical Geology, 356: 209-214.

10. Lee, C.-T. A., Shen, B., Slotnick, B., Liao, K., Yokoyama, Y., Lenardic, A., Dasgupta, R., Jellinek, M., Lackey, J. S., Tice, M., Schneider, T., Dickens, G., 2013. Continent-island arc fluctuations, growth of crustal carbonates and long-term climate change, Geosphere，DOI: 10.1130/ges00822.1

9. Shen, B., Xiao, S., Bao, H., Kaufman, A. J., Yuan, X. and Zhou C., 2011. Carbon and sulfur isotope evidence for a strong depth gradient and oceanic oxidation after the Ediacaran Hankalchough glaciation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75: 1357-1373..

8. Shen, B., Lee, C-T., Xiao, S. 2011. Germanium/silica ratios in diagenetic chert nodules from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China. Chemical Geology, 280: 223-235.

7. Shen, B., Xiao, S., Zhou, C. and Kaufman, A. J., 2010. Carbon and sulfur isotope chemostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Quanji Group of the Chaidam Basin, NW China: basin stratification in the aftermath of an Ediacaran glaciation postdating the Shuram event?. Precambrian Research. 177: 241-252.

6. Shen, B., Jacobsen, B., Lee, C-T., Yin, Q., and Morton, D., 2009. The Mg isotopic systematics of granitoids in continental arcs and implications for the role of chemical weathering in crust formation. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United State of America. 106: 20652-20657.

5. Shen, B., Xiao, S., Zhou, C. and Yuan, X., 2009, Yangtzifrondes zhangi, new genus and species, a frondose fossil from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in South China. Journal of Paleontology. 83: 575-587.

4. Shen, B., Dong, L., Xiao, S. and Kowalewski, M., 2008. The Avalon explosion: Expansion and saturation of Ediacara morphospace. Science. 319: 81-84.

3. Shen, B., Xiao, S., Bao, H., Kaufman, A. J. and Zhou, C., 2008. Stratification and mixing of the post-glacial Neoproterozoic ocean: Evidence from carbon and sulfur isotopes in a cap dolostone from northwest China. Earth and Planetary Science Letter. 265: 209-228.

2. Shen, B., Xiao, S., Dong, L., Zhou, C. and Liu, J., 2007. Problematic macrofossils from Ediacaran successions in the North China and Chaidam blocks: implications for their evolutionary root and biostratigraphic significance. Journal of Paleontology, 81: 1406-1421.

1. Xiao, S., Shen, B., Zhou, C., Xie, G. and Yuan, X., 2005. A uniquely preserved Ediacaran fossil with direct evidence for a quilted bodyplan. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United State of America, 102: 10227-10232.

2025年8月25日，荣获2025年“科学探索奖”。