Zaixing Jiang is a professor of Sedimentology and Petroleum Geology at College of Energy, China University of Geosciences at Beijing (CUGB). He is the chief scientist of the Hydrocarbon Reservoir Sedimentology Innovation Team affiliated to Ministry of Education, and member of the National Energy Policy Advisory Committee. He serves in the editorial boards of Acta Petrolei Sinica (Chinese and English editions), Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, Journal of Palaeogeography (Chinese and English editions), and Petroleum Exploration and Development (Chinese and English editions). He is a member of the Sedimentary Geology Branch in Geological Society of China and the International Association of Sedimentologists, and vice president of the Sedimentology and Paleogeography Branch in Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry. He was elected to talent projects of National Level Ten-thousand Academic Persons, Science and Technology Leaders of China National Petroleum Company, Beijing, China, and was rewarded specific allowance by the State Council.
Prof. Jiang raised some new theories in lacustrine sequence stratigraphy and is the founder of Windfield-Source-Basin system dynamics. These theories have successively guided hydrocarbon exploration in China and overseas. He won first and second classes of National Science and Technology Awards for once, respectively, as well as seven province/ministry-level awards. He has published more than 200 journal papers and 5 books, and obtained a dozen of patents and software copyrights.