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Name   Qinghai Zhang Home Page     
Highest Education      Ph.D Office      Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Phone      010-84097079 Zip Code      100101
Fax      010-8409 7079 Email      zhang@itpcas.ac.cn

Education and Appointments：
Education
Ph.D. University of Bremen, Germany, 2013
M. S. China University of Petroleum, China, 2005
B. S. Northeast Petroleum University, China, 2002
Appointments
Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018-present
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, 2013-2017

Research Interest：
Research Interests: Larger foraminiferal biostratigraphy, basin evolution, paleoenvironment
Research Fields: Biostratigraphy, Paleoenvironment
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Honors：
2013, Excellent doctoral dissertation
Selected Publications：

Publications in the recent 5 years (2016-2020) (* corresponding author; # joint first authors; Including books and book chapters)

Part 1: 5 representative publications  

1. Zhang, Q.*, L. Ding, K. Kitajima, J. W. Valley, B. Zhang, X. Xu, H. Willems and A. Klügel (2020). "Constraining the magnitude of the carbon isotope excursion during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum using larger benthic foraminifera." Global and Planetary Change 184, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103049. 

2. Zhang, Q.*, H. Willems, L. Ding and X. Xu (2019a). "Response of larger benthic foraminifera to the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and the position of the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in the Tethyan shallow benthic zones: Evidence from south Tibet." GSA Bulletin 131(1-2): 84-98. 

3. Zhang, Q.* (2019b). "The Paleocene/Eocene boundary and the Tethyan shallow benthic zonation." Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 58(3): 372-387. (in Chinese with English abstract) 

4. Zhang, Q.*, I. Wendler, X. Xu, H. Willems and L. Ding (2017). "Structure and magnitude of the carbon isotope excursion during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum." Gondwana Research 46: 114-123. 

5. Kahsnitz, M. M. *, Q. Zhang and H. Willems (2016). "Stratigraphic distribution of the larger benthic foraminifera Lockhartia in south Tibet (China)." Journal of Foraminiferal Research 46(1): 34-47. 

Part 2: all other publications (exclude part 1) 

1. Xiong, Z., L. Ding*, R. A. Spicer, A. Farnsworth, X. Wang, P. J. Valdes, T. Su, Q. Zhang, L. Zhang, F. Cai, H. Wang, Z. Li, P. Song, X. Guo and Y. Yue (2020). "The early Eocene rise of the Gonjo Basin, SE Tibet: From low desert to high forest." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 543: 116312. 

2. Cai, F. *, L. Ding, Q. Zhang, D. A. Orme, H. Wei, J. Li, J. e. Zhang, T. Zaw and K. Sein (2020). "Initiation and evolution of forearc basins in the Central Myanmar Depression." GSA Bulletin 132: 1066-1082. 

Supported Projects：

1.Zhang, Q.*, L. Ding, K. Kitajima, J. W. Valley, B. Zhang, X. Xu, H. Willems and A. Klügel (2020). "Constraining the magnitude of the carbon isotope excursion during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum using larger benthic foraminifera." Global and Planetary Change 184: 103049.

2.Xiong, Z., L. Ding, R. A. Spicer, A. Farnsworth, X. Wang, P. J. Valdes, T. Su, Q. Zhang, L. Zhang, F. Cai, H. Wang, Z. Li, P. Song, X. Guo and Y. Yue (2020). "The early Eocene rise of the Gonjo Basin, SE Tibet: From low desert to high forest." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 543: 116312.

3.Cai, F., L. Ding, Q. Zhang, D. A. Orme, H. Wei, J. Li, J. e. Zhang, T. Zaw and K. Sein (2020). "Initiation and evolution of forearc basins in the Central Myanmar Depression." GSA Bulletin 132: 1066-1082.

4.Zhang, Q.*, H. Willems, L. Ding and X. Xu (2019). "Response of larger benthic foraminifera to the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and the position of the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in the Tethyan shallow benthic zones: Evidence from south Tibet." GSA Bulletin 131(1-2): 84-98.

5.Zhang, Q.* (2019). "The Paleocene/Eocene boundary and the Tethyan shallow benthic zonation." Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 58(3): 372-387.

6.Zhang, Q.*, I. Wendler, X. Xu, H. Willems and L. Ding (2017). "Structure and magnitude of the carbon isotope excursion during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum." Gondwana Research 46: 114-123.

7.Kahsnitz, M. M., Q. Zhang and H. Willems (2016). "Stratigraphic distribution of the larger benthic foraminifera Lockhartia in south Tibet (China)." Journal of Foraminiferal Research 46(1): 34-47.

8.Willems, H., I. Wendler and Q. Zhang (2015). Von der Schliessung des Tethys-Ozeans und der Entstehung des Himalaya. Expedition Erde. G. Wefer and F. Schmieder. Bremen: 51-57.

9.Zhang, Q.*, H. Willems and L. Ding (2013). "Evolution of the Paleocene-Early Eocene larger benthic foraminifera in the Tethyan Himalaya of Tibet, China." International Journal of Earth Sciences 102(5): 1427-1445.

10. Liebke, U., E. Appel, L. Ding and Q. Zhang (2013). "Age constraints on the India - Asia collision derived from secondary remanences of Tethyan Himalayan sediments from the Tingri area." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 62: 329-340.

11.Ding, L., D. Yang, F. Cai, A. Pullen, P. Kapp, G. Gehrels, L. Zhang, Q. Zhang, Q. Lai, Y. Yue and R. Shi (2013). "Provenance analysis of the Mesozoic Hoh-Xil-Songpan-Ganzi turbidites in northern Tibet: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean." Tectonics 32.

12.Zhang, Q.*, H. Willems, L. Ding, K.-U. Gr？fe and E. Appel (2012). "Initial India-Asia Continental Collision and Foreland Basin Evolution in the Tethyan Himalaya of Tibet: Evidence from Stratigraphy and Paleontology." The Journal of Geology 120(2): 175-189.

13.Crouzet, C., E. Appel, R. El Bay, L. Ding, I. Dunkl, C. Montomoli, R. Carosi, Q. Zhang and B. Wauschkuhn (2012). "Kinematics of the crust around the Ama Drime Massif (southern Tibet) - Constraints from paleomagnetic results." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 58(0): 119-131.

14.Zhang, Q., L. Ding*, F.-L. Cai, X.-X. Xu, L.-Y. Zhang, Q. Xu and H. Willems (2011). "Early Cretaceous Gangdese retroarc foreland basin evolution in the Selin Co basin, central Tibet: evidence from sedimentology and detrital zircon geochronology." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 353(1): 27-44.

15.Pullen, A., P. Kapp, G. E. Gehrels, L. Ding and Q. Zhang (2011). "Metamorphic rocks in central Tibet: Lateral variations and implications for crustal structure." Geological Society of America Bulletin 123(3-4): 585-600.