Kai Wang

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Degree:Dr

Main Positions:Specially appointed Professor

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Employments

2023/2-present: Specially appointed Professor, University of Science and Technology of China

2021/10-2023/1: Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2020/02-2021/10: Postdoctoral Fellow, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

2018/12-2019/12: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada


Education

Ph.D., Geophysics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia                                               2015-2018

      Thesis: Adjoint Tomography of Surface Wave Observables from Ambient Seismic Noise

      Supervisor: Yingjie Yang

Postgraduate studies, Geophysics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China        2012-2014

B.S., Geology and Geophysics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China              2008-2012


Research interests

Adjoint tomography, Full waveform inversion, Ambient noise source analysis and surface wave tomography, Teleseismic body wave tomography, Joint inversion,  Dynamics and deformation of Earth’s lithosphere and mantle.


Scholarships & Awards

2015/04, iMQRES scholarship for international PhD candidate

2014/12, National Scholarship for Postgraduate student

2014/12, Outstanding student paper of 2016 CGU Annual Meeting

2014/06, Outstanding Postgraduate Student of school

2012/10, XUNAN Scholarship for new postgraduate student

2012/04, 1st prize of Postgraduate Students Admission Scholarship 

2009/12, LI DAFO Scholarship for excellent undergraduate student


Professional Services

2016-present: member of American Geophysical Union

2018-present: reviewer of Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Journal International, Seismological Research Letters.