Wissenschaftler, Topic 3
Forschungsbereich 4: Dynamik des Ozeanbodens
Forschungseinheit: Marine Geodynamik

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Struktur der Kruste und des oberen Mantels durch seismische Tomographie unter Verwendung von seismischer Refraktion und Weitwinkeldaten. Zu den Forschungsthemen gehören die ozeanische Krustenstruktur, die subduzierende Platte, das Arc-Backarc-System und der zerklüftete Kontinentalrand.

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

Seit 10/2022   Postdoc am GEOMAR Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel 

11/2021 – 05/2022  Forschungsassistenz am GEOMAR Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel 

07/2019 – 10/2021   Gastwissenschaftler am GEOMAR Helmholtz Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel 

09/2015 – 06/2022   PhD Kandidat am South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Doktorgrad erlangt: 06/2022 an der University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

09/2011 – 06/2015   Bachelor an der China University of Geosciences (Beijing)

Ausgewählte Publikationen mit Peer-Review

He, E., Qiu, X., Li, Y., Grevemeyer, I., Xu, M., Zhao, M., Wang, Y., & Chen, C. (2025). Strong Serpentinization and Hydration in the Subducting Plate of the Southern Mariana Trench: Insights from Vp/Vs Ratios. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(6), e2024GL113792.

Zhang, J., Li., C.-F., Wu, Z., Li, Y., Fang, Y., Dong, C., & Li, H. (2025). Asymmetric oceanic crustal accretion and mantle serpentinization in the southwestern propagator tip of the South China Sea basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 177(1), 107380.

Li, Y., Grevemeyer, I., Kodaira, S., & Fujie, G. (2023). Seismic Structure of the Izu Arc‐Backarc System. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(11): e2023JB027213.

He, E., Zhao, M., Huang, H., Li, Y., Tan, P., Qiu, X., Zhang, X., & Liu, K. (2023). Seismic structures of Zhenbei and Huangyan seamounts and their postspreading volcanic evolution. Tectonophysics, 869, 230102.

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.

Wissenschaftliche Ausfahrten und Expeditionen

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

05/2018 – 07/2018   NSFC Open Research Cruises of 2018, Südchinesisches Meer, R/V Shiyan 2

05/2017 – 06/2017   NSFC Open Research Cruises of 2017, Südchinesisches Meer, R/V Shiyan 2

01/2016   Geologische Feldarbeit an der Qiongnan Suturzone, Hainan Island

Auszeichnungen

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