Staff

Function and Responsibilities:

I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher.  In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Dirk Scherler and other colleagues at GFZ, I am working on the project "Tectonic responses to Quaternary glacier fluctuations in the Central Tian Shan", funded by the  Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Research Interests:

• Mountain-building from Tectonic to Earthquake scales:

Investigating the dynamic and kinematic mechanisms of mountain building in High Mountain Asia (HMA), including the Tian Shan, Pamir, and Hengduan Mountains in SE Tibet.

• Active deformation and Fluvial Geomorphology:

Slip rates and paleo-seismology of active faults (e.g., the Darvaz Fault in the Pamir); Tectonic Geomorphology of active Folding; River-fold interactions in the foreland basins; Surface responses to subaerial salt-related deformation

Career:

Since Mar 2026: Postdoctoral Researcher, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Germany

Jul 2024 – Dec 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, Earth Surface Dynamics Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Education:

• 2018-2024, Ph.D., Structural Geology, Zhejiang University, China (advisers: Xiaogan Cheng and Xuhua Shi)

Thesis topic: Multi-scale Tectonic and Fluvial Processes in the Kuqa Thrust Belt, South Tian Shan 

• 2022-2023, Visiting Ph.D. Student, CRPG, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, France (adviser: Julien Charreau)

• 2014-2018, Bachelor, Resource Prospecting Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China