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Name   Qiang Xu Home Page     
Highest Education      Ph.D Office      Building 3, Courtyard 16, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
Phone      010-84097172 Zip Code      100101
Fax      Email      xuqiang@itpcas.ac.cn

Education and Appointments:
Education
Ph.D. Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2009
B. S. School of Geological Engineering and Geomatics, Chang’an University, 20044
Appointments
Associate Professor, CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013-present
Assistant Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2009-2013

Research Interest:
Research Interests: Receiver function analysis, Waveform modelling and inversion techniques, Imaging the lithospheric structure, Dynamic processes of Tibetan Plateau uplift.
Research Field: Earthquake Seismology
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Honors:
2020, Winners of 2020’s Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, As a  Major Contributor of Research Group of Continental Collision and Tibetan Plateau Uplift.
Selected Publications:

1. Xu, Q.*, Pei, S. P., Yuan, X. H., Zhao, J. M., Liu, H. B., Tu, H. W., Chen, S. Z., 2019. Seismic Evidence for Lateral Asthenospheric Flow Beneath the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau Derived From S Receiver Functions. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 20(2): 883-894. 

2. Xu, Q.*, Zhao, J. M., Yuan, X. H., Liu, H. B., Pei, S. P., 2017. Detailed Configuration of the Underthrusting Indian Lithosphere Beneath Western Tibet Revealed by Receiver Function Images. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 122(10): 8257-8269. 

3. Xu, Q.*, Zhao, J. M., Yuan, X. H., Liu, H. B., Pei, S. P., 2015. Mapping crustal structure beneath southern Tibet: Seismic evidence for continental crustal underthrusting. Gondwana Research, 27(4): 1487-1493. 

4. Xu, Q.*, Zhao, J. M., Pei, S. P., Liu, H. B., 2013a. Imaging lithospheric structure of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis: New insights from receiver function analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 118(5): 2323-2332. 

5. Xu, Q.*, Zhao, J. M., Pei, S. P., Liu, H. B., 2013b. Distinct lateral contrast of the crustal and upper mantle structure beneath northeast Tibetan plateau from receiver function analysis. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 217: 1-9. 

6. Xu, Q.*, Zhao, J. M., Pei, S. P. and Liu, H. B., 2011. The lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary revealed by S-receiver functions from the Hi-CLIMB experiment. Geophysical Journal International, 187(1): 414-420. 

7. Xu, Q.*, Zhao, J. M., Cui, Z. X., Pei, S. P., Liu, H. B., 2010. Moho offset beneath the central Bangong-Nujiang suture of Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin, 55(7): 607-613. 

8. Xu, Q.*, Zhao, J. M., Cui, Z. X., Liu, M. Q., 2009. Structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath the southeastern Tibetan Plateau by P and S receiver functions. Chinese Journal of Geophysics-Chinese Edition, 52(12): 3001-3008. 


Supported Projects:

 1.2021-2024 (Ongoing), “Study of the crust and upper mantle structure and the subduction pattern of the Indian lithosphere beneath Eastern Himalayan syntaxis using dense short-period seismographs”, grant no 42074113, NSFC General Program, PI.

2.2019-2022 (Ongoing), “The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research”, grant no 2019QZKK0701, National Science and Technology Major Project, Major Participant.

3.2015-2018, “Crustal velocity structure and anisotropy of northeastern Tibetan plateau based on receiver function waveform inversions”, grant no 41474066, NSFC General Program, PI.

4.2012-2014, “The crustal structure and radial anisotropy of Western Tibetan plateau”, grant no 41104055, NSFC Young Scientists Fund, PI.