Dr. Yuhan Li
Wissenschaftler, Topic 3
Forschungsbereich 4: Dynamik des Ozeanbodens
Forschungseinheit: Marine Geodynamik

Büro:
Phone: +49-431 600 2278
E-Mail: yuli(at)geomar.de
Anschrift:
GEOMAR | Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Wischhofstraße 1-3
24148 Kiel
Deutschland
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