李为亚，荷兰莱顿大学博士，入选2020年度“博士后国际交流计划引进项目”，曾获“中国科学技术大学优秀毕业生”及“安徽省普通高等学校品学兼优毕业生”等荣誉称号。其博士研究将实验考古、高倍法微痕分析以及残留物分析结合起来，对淮河上游地区早期农业社会的石器进行分析，揭示了该地区新石器时代：（1）石器功能与类型之间的关系；（2）食物加工方式；（3）水稻和其他谷物淀粉粒在加工过程中的损伤和保存机制；（4）不同遗址之间的饮食文化差异。这些研究成果对探讨 “古代器物制作技术”、“早期农业社会对水稻的利用状况”以及“中国新石器时代饮食文化”等研究提供了新的线索。博士期间研究成果以第一兼通讯作者发表论文4篇，所属期刊包括《Archaeometry》、《Quaternary International》、《Lithic Technology》等均被SCI，SSCI或A&HCI收录。

2017年至今，其受邀在5次国际学术会议中作了特邀报告，包括：（1）2019年在哥本哈根大学举办的会议：“石器及饮食文化”；（2）2019年美国考古学大会东亚考古分会；（3）2018年法国尼斯举办的会议：“微痕和残留物分析研究”；（4）2017年德国美因茨举办的会议： “关于石器原材料、制作、功能及交换” ；（5） 2020 年欧洲考古学大会。此外，其受邀以“石器研究专家”身份参与2019年美国加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）在非洲埃塞俄比亚的考古发掘项目；担任JAS-reports等国际考古期刊评审；近年来还受邀参加了国内多所大学组织的青年学者论坛。

· 2020.11-2022.10: Postdoc researcher, Archaeological Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

· 2019.04-2020.10: Guest researcher, Archaeological Science, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

· 2019.11-2020.04: Postdoc researcher, Archaeological Science, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

· 2015.11-2020.08: Ph.D: Archaeological Science, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

· 2012.09-2015.06: Master of Science: Archaeological Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

· 2008.09-2012.06: Bachelor of Science: Applied Chemistry, Suzhou University, Suzhou, China.

· 2020: International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program (Talent-Introduction Program)

· 2019: Leiden University Fund (LUF) conference participation grant

· 2015-2019: China Scholarship Council (CSC)-Leiden University joint scholarship

· 2015: Outstanding Graduate student in Anhui Province, China

· 2015: Outstanding Graduate student at the University of Science and Technology of China

· 2014: Guanghua Scholarship at the University of Science and Technology of China

· 2012-2015: Full scholarship for a research master at the University of Science and Technology of China

· 2020: Teaching assistant for the bachelor course: Material Culture 1, Leiden University

· 2017 & 2019: Co-supervision of three Masters students’ internships in Archaeology, Leiden University

· 2019: Teaching assistant for the Master course: Seminar Material Culture Studies: Crafts and Society, Leiden University

· 2019-2020: Co-supervision of a Master student’s thesis at Leiden University   

· 2020: Participation in the excavation at the Neolithic site of Guanghua, Hubei, China

· 2019: Participation in Community Archaeology in Ethiopia, a project led by Prof. Willeke Wendrich from the Institute of Archaeology at UCLA

· 2017: Participation in the Reconstruction of a Medieval house in Vlaardingen, Netherlands

· 2013: Participation in the excavation at the Neolithic site of Jiahu, Henan, China

· 2016-2018: Member of the project entitled “Changes in methods of plant use in the light of technological transformations in Lower Silesia between 6th and 3rd/2nd millennia BC”, supported by National Science Centre, Poland.

· 2015-2018: Member of the project entitled “Plant exploitation and human adaption to the environment during the early to middle Holocene in the upper and middle catchment of the Huai River, China”, supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41472148).

· 2015-2018: Member of the project entitled “The emergence, development, and regional differences of mixed farming of rice and millet in the upper and middle the Huai River Valley, China”, supported by Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 15YJA780003).

· 2012-2015: Member of the project entitled “The origin and spread of mixed farming of rice and millet in the Huanghuai region of China”, supported by Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA05130503).

· 2013-2015: Principal Investigator of the project entitled “The starch grain analysis of modern Oryza and its application in archaeology”, supported by Youth Innovation Fund of University of Science and Technology of China.

· 2020: Annual meeting of European Accounting Association (EAA), session 364 entitled Integrated methodologies for the study of lifeways, dietary and occupational environments in prehistoric and historical periods, virtual meeting, Oral presentation entitled “Foodways of the earliest farmers in the Central Plain of China”.

· 2019: The 3rd Meeting of the Association for Ground Stone Tools Research: Ground Stone Tools and Past Foodways, Copenhagen, Denmark. Oral presentation entitled “New interpretation regarding the scarcity of starch grains from rice on grinding tools”.

· 2019: The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), in the session “Archaeology in East Asia”, Albuquerque, USA. Oral presentation entitled “Life history of Neolithic grinding-stones: a case study at the site of Tanghu in Central China”.

· 2018: International conference on “Beyond use-wear traces: about tools and people”, Nice, France, Oral presentation entitled “Cereal processing technique inferred from use-wear analysis at the Neolithic site of Jiahu, Central China”.

· 2017: International conference on quarrying, production, function, and exchange of ground stone artefacts, Mainz, Germany. Poster contribution entitled “Functional study of grinding tools: Use-wear traces on experimental tools and the artefacts from the site of Jiahu, China”.

· 2019: An international conference on Alcohol, rituals and spiritual world in ancient China and beyond: An interdisciplinary perspective, Stanford University, USA.

· 2017:  The 10th Experimental Archaeology Conference, Leiden, Netherlands.

· 2016: The 10th International Meeting on Phytolith Research, Aix en Provence, France.

· Society for American Archaeology

· European Association of Archaeologists

· The Association of Archaeological Wear and Residue Analysts

· Experimental archaeology (EXARC)

· International Phytolith Society

· Association for Ground Stone Tools Research

· Leiden Botany Club

· Li, W. Tsoraki, C., Yang, Y., Xin, Y., and van Gijn, A., 2020. Plant foods and different uses of grinding tools at the Neolithic site of Tanghu in Central China. Lithic technology, published online. (indexed in SSCI and A&HCI)

· Li, W., Pagán‐Jiménez, J.R., Tsoraki, C., Yao, L. and Van Gijn, A., 2020. Influence of grinding on the preservation of starch grains from rice. Archaeometry, 62(1), pp.157-171. (indexed in SCI and A&HCI)

· Li, W., Tsoraki, C., Lan, W., Yang, Y., Zhang, J. and van Gijn, A., 2019. Cereal processing technique inferred from use-wear analysis at the Neolithic site of Jiahu, Central China. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 23, pp.939-945. (indexed in A&HCI, ESCI)

· Li, W., Tsoraki, C., Lan, W., Yang, Y., Zhang, J. and van Gijn, A., 2019. New insights into the grinding tools used by the earliest farmers in the central plain of China. Quaternary International, 529, pp.10-17. (indexed in SCI)

· Kufel-Diakowska, B., Miazga, B., Łucejko, J., Ribechini, E. and Li, W., 2019. Sickles of the Funnel Beaker culture in the light of use-wear and residue analysis. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 71, pp.219-242.

· Luo, W., Yang, Y., Fang, F., Li, W., Hu, F., Zhang, J., Chen, D. and Yu, L., 2017. Chronology of ancient Dongxiang wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.), and the morphologies of grains, double-peaked phytoliths, and starch, in the middle Yangtze river region, China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 244, pp.140-147.

· Yang, Y., Cheng, Z., Li, W., Yao, L., Li, Z., Luo, W., Yuan, Z., Zhang, J. and Zhang, J., 2016. The emergence, development and regional differences of mixed farming of rice and millet in the upper and middle Huai River Valley, China. Science China Earth Sciences, 59(9), pp.1779-1790.

· Yang, Y., Li, W., Yao, L., Cheng, Z., Luo, W., Zhang, J., Lin, L., Gan, H. and Yan, L., 2016. Plant food sources and stone tools’ function at the site of Shunshanji based on starch grain analysis. Science China Earth Sciences, 59(8), pp.1574-1582.

· Yao, L., Yang, Y., Zhang, J., Li, W., Cao, S., and Luo, W., 2015, Residue analysis on animal teeth from the site of Laosicheng in Hunan Province, China, Agricultural Archaeology (in Chinese) (06). pp. 1-7.

· Yang, Y., Li, W., Yao, L., Cheng, Z., Zhang, J., and Xin, Y., 2015, Plant resources utilization at the Tanghu site during the Peiligang Culture period based on starch grain analysis, Quaternary sciences (in Chinese), 35(1), pp. 229–39.

· Dong, Z., Zhang, J., Yang, Y., Yao, L., and Li, W., 2014, Starch grain analysis reveals the utilization of plant food resources at Shishanzi site, Suixi country, Anhui Province, Quaternary sciences (in Chinese), 34(1), pp. 114–25.

· Zhang, J., Li, W., Yin, C., Cheng, Z., Yang, Y., Zhao, M., Lin, L., Gan, H., and Yan, L., 2014, Plant resources utilization at Shunshanji site in Jiangsu Province, based on archaeobotanical evidence, Oriental Archaeology (in Chinese), 11(00), pp. 366-372.

· Academic Writing

· Presenting Skills

· Computer Software skills (Photoshop and Microsoft Office)

· Knowledge of Plant Families of the Tropics (with a Certificate)

· Chinese (Native)

· English (Professional working proficiency)

· Dutch (1A)

· Spanish and Japanese (Elementary proficiency)