Fang Fang Kullander

Fang Fang Kullander, née Fang Fang, (14 November 1962 – 19 May 2010) was a Swedish-Chinese ichthyologist.

Fang Fang was born on the 14th November 1962 in Beijing, her parents were Fang Zongxian and Hang Mingxhien, both geologists. Fang Fang attended primary school in Beijing from 1969 but the family was forced to move to Sanmenxia in Henan and then to Fenghua in Zhejiang, her father's home town, during the Cultural Revolution when her parents' institute was compelled to move out of the capital. She excelled at languages and at writing, her talent for the latter emerging at middle school in Sanmexia.

Fang Fang entered the Zhanjiang Fisheries College in Guangdong in 1980 where she majored in the study of freshwater fish, graduating in 1984 with her Bachelor's thiesis being about the anatomy of the catfish Clarias lazera. This thesis was awarded the second prize of the Scientific and Technological Advancement by the Chinese Agriculture ministry in 1986. She studied for her postgraduate degree, a M.Sc. at the Department of Biology Hebei University and she obtained her M.Sc in 1987 her thesis was about the early development of the salmonid Brachymystax lenok. While at Hebei University she worked as a graduate assistant and associate lecturer.

After obtaining her M.Sc. Fang Fang worked at the Chinese Academy of Sciences as a research associate in the Division of Ichthyology in Beijing. While there she undertook extensive field work, studying fish in a number of Chinese rivers. She also assisted Professor Li Sizhong in conducting a review of the distribution of the important Chinese carp species. It was during her time at the Chinese Academy of Sciences that she first travelled to Sweden, working for three months from October 1992 as a visiting scientist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History under a scholarship supported by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Science. During this stay she mainly worked on the sorting and identification of the collection of freshwater fish from Sri Lanka, most of which actually came from the Museum of Zoology at Lund University.

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