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Name   Zhenyu Li Home Page     
Highest Education      Office      Building 3, No. 16, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Phone      Zip Code      100101
Fax      010-84097067 Email      lizy@itpcas.ac.cn

Education and Appointments:
Education 
Ph.D. in Solid Geophysics, Institute of Geology & Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2010
B.S. in Applied Geophysics, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China, 2003
Appointments 
2019/01-Present, Associate Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
2016/03-2017/02, Visiting Scientist, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
2013/06-2018/12, Assistant Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
2010/07-2013/05, Postdoctoral Researcher, Key Laboratory of Continental Collision and Plateau Uplift, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China

Research Interest:

Research Interests:

Paleomagnetism, tectonics, paleogeographic reconstructions of Tibetan terranes/blocks as well as kinematic evolution and drift history of the Lhasa, Qiangtang terranes of Tibet during Late Paleozoic-Mesozoic time within the Eastern Tethys Realm. 
Restoration of vertical-axis rotations surrounding the eastern and western Himalayan syntaxes and crustal shortening occurred on the Asian side since onset of India-Asia collision through Cenozoic time.
Research Fields: Paleomagnetism and Geochronology, tectonics of Tibetan Plateau.
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Honors:
 
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. Li, Z.-Y., Ding, L.*, Than, Z., Wang, H.-Q., Cai, F.-L., Yao, W., Xiong, Z.-Y., Kyaing, S., Yue, Y.-H., 2020. Kinematic evolution of the West Burma Block during and after India-Asia Collision revealed by Paleomagnetism. J. Geodyn. 134, 101690, doi: 10.1016/j.gog.2019.101690.
2. Li, Z.-Y.*, Ding, L., Song, P.-P., Fu, J.-J., and Yue, Y.-H., 2017. Paleomagnetic constraints on the paleolatitude of the Lhasa Block during the Early Cretaceous: Implications for the onset of India-Asia collision and latitudinal shortening estimates across Tibet and stable Asia. Gondwana Res. 41, 352-372. 
3. Ding, L., Li, Z.-Y., Song, P.-P., 2017. Core Fragments of Tibetan Plateau from Gondwanaland United in northern hemisphere. Bull. Chinese Acad. Sci. 32 (9), 945-950, doi:10.16418/j.issn.1000-3045.2017.09.003 (in Chinese with English Abstract).
4. Li, Z.-Y., Ding, L.*, Lippert, P.C., Song, P.-P., Yue, Y.-H., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2016. Paleomagnetic constraints on the Mesozoic drift of the Lhasa Terrane (Tibet) from Gondwana to Eurasia. Geology 44(9), 727-730
5. Li, Z.-Y.*, Ding, L., Lippert, P.C., and Wei, H.-H., 2013. Paleomagnetic constraints on the Cenozoic kinematic evolution of the Pamir Plateau from the West Kunlun Shan Foreland. Tectonophysics 603, 257-271. 
Part 2: all other publications (exclude part 1)
1. Chen, Y.-F., Ding, L., Li, Z.-Y., Laskowski, A.K., Li, J.-X., Baral, U., Qasim, M., Yue, Y.-H., 2020. Provenance analysis of Cretaceous peripheral foreland basin in central Tibet: Implications to precise timing on the initial Lhasa-Qiangtang collision. Tectonophysics 775, 228311, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2019.228311.
2. Song, P.-P., Ding, L., Lippert, P.C., Li, Z.-Y., Zhang, L.-Y., & Xie, J., 2020. Paleomagnetism of Middle Triassic Lavas from Northern Qiangtang (Tibet): Constraints on the Closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 125, e2019JB017804, doi:10.1029/2019JB017804. 
3. Xiong, Z.-Y., Ding, L., Spicer, R.A., Farnsworth, A., Wang, X., Valdes, P.J., Su, T., Zhang, Q.-H., Zhang, L.-Y., Cai, F.-L., Wang, H.-Q., Li, Z.-Y., Song, P.-P., Guo, X.-D., Yue, Y.-H., 2020. The Early Eocene Rise of the Gonjo Baisn, SE Tibet: From Low Desert to High Forest. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 543, 116312, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116312. 
4. Song, P.-P., Ding, L., Li, Z.-Y., Lippert, P.C., Yue, Y.-H., 2017. An early bird from Gondwana: Paleomagnetism of Lower Permian lavas from northern Qiangtang (Tibet) and the geography of the Paleo-Tethys. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 475, 119-133. 
5. Song, P.-P., Ding, L., Li, Z.-Y., Lippert, P.C., Yue, Y.-H., 2015. Late Triassic paleolatitude of the Qiangtang block: Implications for the closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 424, 69-83.
6. Li, Z.-Y., Lippert, P.C., Ding, L., Song, P.-P., Yue, Y.-H., & van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2016. Paleomagnetic constraints on the Mesozoic drift of the Lhasa terrane (Tibet) from Gondwana to Eurasia. Abstract to the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 18, 2016-7012. 
7. Wei, H.-H., Meng, Q.-R., Ding, L., and Li, Z.-Y., 2013, Tertiary evolution of the western Tarim basin, Northwest China: a tectono-sedimentary response to northward indentation of the Pamir salient. Tectonics, 32: 558–575. 
8. Li, Z.-Y., Huang, B.-C., and Zhang, C.-X. 2010. Characteristic of Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) and its tectonic significance in typical Cretaceous section from Xixia Basin, central China. Acta Petrologica Sinica 26 (11), 3418-3430 (in Chinese with English Abstract). 
9. Li, Z.-Y., Huang, B.-C., Fang, X.-S., Zhang, C.-X. 2010. Magnetostratigraphic study and its geological significance of the dinosaur egg-bearing section in Xixia Basin, central China. Chinese J. Geophys. 53 (4), 874-887 (in Chinese with English Abstract), doi:10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2010.04.012. 
10. Chen, J.-S., Sun, L.-S., Li, Z.-Y., Huang, B.-C., 2008. A preliminary paleomagnetic study and its geological significance on the Paleogene Linzizong Group volcanics in Linzhou Basin, Lhasa terrane. Abstract to the Annual Meeting of Geophysical Society of China (in Chinese). 
11. Li, Z.-Y., Huang, B.-C., Fang, X.-S., 2007. Study on magnetic properties of Cretaceous dinosaur egg-bearing section in the Xixia Basin, Henan Province. Abstract to the Annual Meeting of Geophysical Society of China (in Chinese).
12. Fang, X.-S., Li, P.-X., Zhang, Z.-J., Zhang, X.-Q., Lin, Y.-L., Guo, S.-B., Cheng, Y.-M., Li, Z.-Y., Zhang, X.-J., Cheng, Z.-W., 2009. Cretaceous strata in Nanxiong Basin of Guangdong and the evolution from the Dinosaur egg to the bird egg. Acta Geoscientica Sinica 30 (2), 167-186 (in Chinese with English Abstract). 
13. Huang, B.-C., Piper, J.D.A., Zhang, C.-X., Li, Z.-Y., & Zhu, R.-X., 2007. Paleomganetism of Cretaceous Rocks in the Jiaodong Peninsula, eastern China: Insight into block rotations and neotectonic deformation in eastern Asia. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 112, B03106, doi: 10.1029/2006JB004462. 
14. Zhang, C.-X., Huang, B.-C., Li, Z.-Y., & Liu, H., 2007. Magnetic properties of high-road-side pine tree leaves in Beijing and their environmental significance. Chinese Sci. Bull. 51 (24), 3041-3052. 
15. Zhang, C.-X., Huang, B.-C., Luo, R.-S., Zhang, S.-M., Li, Z.-Y., 2007. Magnetic properties of tree ring samples close to a smelting factory and their environmental significance. Quaternary Sciences 27 (6), 1092-1104 (in Chinese with English Abstract). 

Supported Projects:
1. 国家自然科学基金青年基金项目“帕米尔西构造结新生代运动学的古地磁学约束”,批准号:41102125,执行期:2012.1-2014.12,经费25万元;
2. 国家自然科学基金面上项目“对青藏高原拉萨及羌塘地块三叠纪古纬度的定量约束”,批准号:41472185,执行期:2015.1-2018.12,经费92万元;
3. 国家自然科学基金面上项目“拉萨地块何时到达现今纬度的古地磁学约束”,批准号:41972241,执行期:2020.1-2023.12,经费67万元;
4. 荷兰皇家科学院中-荷合作研究项目“Paleolatitudes and Kinematic Reconstructions of the Tibetan Blocks (Qiangtang, Lhasa, and Tethys-Himalaya blocks) within the Eastern Tethys Realm since Late Paleozoic  to Present-day”,批准号:530-6CDP16,执行期:2017.1-2018.12,经费€37,000 (37k euros).