Education and career

Since 10/2022   Postdoc at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

11/2021 – 05/2022   Research assistant at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

07/2019 – 10/2021   Visiting scientist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

09/2015 – 06/2022   PhD student at South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Doctoral degree in 06/2022 at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

09/2011 – 06/2015   Bachelor’s degree at China University of Geosciences (Beijing)

Publications

Li, Y., Grevemeyer, I., Huang, H., Qiu, X., & Murray-Bergquist, L. (2022). Crustal compositional variations from continental to oceanic domain: A Vp/Vs Ratio study across the Zhongsha Block, South China Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(5): e2021JB023470.

Li, Y., Grevemeyer, I., Huang, H., Qiu, X., & Xu, Z. (2021). Seismic constraint from Vp/Vs ratios on the structure and composition across the continent-ocean transition zone, South China Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(16): e2021GL094656.

Li, Y., Huang, H., Grevemeyer, I., Qiu, X., Zhang, H., & Wang, Q. (2021). Crustal structure beneath the Zhongsha Block and the adjacent abyssal basins, South China Sea: New insights into rifting and initiation of seafloor spreading. Gondwana Research, 99: 53-76.

Huang, H., Klingelhoefer, F., Qiu, X., Li, Y., & Wang, P. (2021). Seismic imaging of an intracrustal deformation in the northwestern margin of the South China Sea: The role of a ductile layer in the crust. Tectonics, 40: e2020TC006260.

Zhou, Y., Liu, H., Liu, Q., Yan, Y., Li, Y., Yao, Y., Li, Y., Liu, W., & Zhu, R. (2021). Early Cretaceous compressive structures in the Nansha block (Dangerous Grounds): Implications for the late Mesozoic tectonic regime on the southern margin of the South China Sea. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 222: 104963.

Li, Y., Huang, H., He, E., Cao, L., Qiu, X., Guo, X., & Liu, H. (2020). Tectonic framework of miniature continental block–narrow oceanic basin revealed by the southern typical profile in the China seas–Western Pacific Ocean [in Chinese with English abstract]. Chinese Journal of Geophysics-Chinese Edition, 63(5): 1938-1958.

Li, Y., Huang, H., Qiu, X., Du, F., Long, G., Zhang, H., Chen, H., & Wang, Q. (2020). Wide-angle and multi-channel seismic surveys in Zhongsha waters [in Chinese with English abstract]. Chinese Journal of Geophysics-Chinese Edition, 63(4): 1523-1537.

Huang, H., Xiong, H., Qiu, X., & Li, Y. (2020). Crustal structure and magmatic evolution in the Pearl River Delta of the Cathaysia Block: New constraints from receiver function modeling. Tectonophysics, 778(5): 228365.

Li, Y., Zhu, R., Liu, H., Qiu, X., & Huang, H. (2019). The Cenozoic activities of Yangjiang-Yitongdong Fault: insights from analysis of the tectonic characteristics and evolution processes in western Zhujiang (Pearl) River Mouth Basin. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 38(9): 87-101.

Research cruises and fieldwork

01/2021 – 02/2021   TRANSFORMERS (M170), North Atlantic, R/V Meteor

05/2018 – 07/2018   NSFC Open Research Cruises of 2018, South China Sea, R/V Shiyan 2

05/2017 – 06/2017   NSFC Open Research Cruises of 2017, South China Sea, R/V Shiyan 2

01/2016   Geological fieldwork of the Qiongnan Suture Zone, Hainan Island

Awards

07/2022   President’s Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

07/2022   Outstanding Graduates Award: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

12/2021   National Merit Scholarship: Ministry of Education of China

12/2021   Publication Most Frequently Cited Award in 2021: Chinese Society of Oceanography (Award for the article published in Acta Oceanologica Sinica Issue 9 in 2019)

12/2018   Outstanding Student Paper Award: Chinese Geophysical Society (Awarded from 2018 Annual Meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union (CGU))

12/2012   National Encouragement Scholarship: Ministry of Education of China