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 Grants

• Jan 2026 – Dec 2029
  National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Program, Grant No. 42574106
  Multi-parameter Noise Adjoint Tomography for Probing the Crustal Magma System beneath the Tengchong Volcanic Area
  Principal Investigator

• Dec 2023 – Dec 2028
  National Key R&D Program of China, Project No. 2023YFF0803204
  Large-scale Deep Structure and Material Cycling in the Transition Zone from Normal to Oblique Subduction
  Co-Principal Investigator

• Nov 2023 – Oct 2026
  National Key R&D Program of China, Project No. 2023YFC3012002
  Seismogenic Background and Deep Deformation Characteristics of the Bayan Har Active Block
  Principal Investigator

• Feb 2023 – Feb 2026
  National Overseas High-Level Talents Program, Young Scientists Project
  Principal Investigator

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.