Junmeng Zhao

Ph.D, Professor of Geophysics, Doctoral Supervisor.

Nationality: Chinese

Current Position

Professor, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS;

Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS);

Professor, Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, CAS;

Visiting professor of CIIT, Pakistan, Chengdu University of Technology, and Tibet University, China.

Work Address

Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. No. 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, P. R. China. Phone: +86-10-84097065; Fax: +86-10-84097079.

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Solid Geophysics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration (Beijing), 1995-1998. Subject: Geophysics; B.Sc. in Solid Geophysics, Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT) (Chengdu), 1978-1982; Subject: Geophysics.

Research Experience Since Completing Studies

1982–1994 Engineer; Engineer in Chief; associate Professor at Engineering Seismic Survey Research Institute of Liaoning Province, Shenyang, China.

1999-2003 Associate Professor, Professor, Deputy director of Geophysical Laboratory at Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing.

Since 2003 Professor of Hundred Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of China, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS.

Membership in Professional Associations

1.Beijing Geophysical Society, president of the council（2019-）;

2.Continental dynamics committee of the Chinese geophysical society, vice director（2018-）;

3.Continental crust and mantle research branch, Geological Society of China, vice director（2016-）;

4.China Tibetan Plateau research association, Deputy Secretary of CPC（Communist Party of China） (2016-)、member of a council (2003-);

5.Member of AGU (2000-), Member of EGU (2001-), Member of CGU (1982-);

6.《Earth Science and subsoil use》editorial board member（2020-）; 《Polar Science》 editorial board member（2016-）; 《Geoscience Frontiers》editorial board member（2011-）; 《Earth Science Frontiers》Assistant editor in chief（2016-）;《Earthquake Science》contributing editor: 2014; 《Earthquake Research》editorial board member（2003-）;《Northeast Seismic Research》editorial board member（1995-）.

Long-Term Research Activities Abroad

2010-2011: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). for half a year.

2014-2015: Antarctic Scientific Expedition. for half a year.

Contribution

1. By means of comprehensive geophysical exploration he has obtained detailed structure of the crust and upper mantle of the basin and range system in northwestern China, and developed a new intracontinental orogenic model of "Interlayer insertion and subduction", which reveals the conversion mechanism from ocean-continent subduction to continent-continent subduction, and the contact relationship and activity rules of the microcontinental block groups in northwestern China;

2. By means of natural seismic method he has determined the collision boundary between Indian continent and Eurasia continent under the plateau, and found a largest crush zone of the Earth inside the plateau, and revealed the dynamic significance of the crush zone to the tectonic evolution of the plateau;

3. By means of earth system science method he has revealed the coevolution law of the basin and range system and the Tibetan plateau in western China and established the coupling model “Deep geodynamic process controlling the topographic fluctuation and environmental change”

Professor Zhao published more than 210 papers in PNAS, Earth Science Review, EPSL, JGR and other geophysical journals (first author 91), and published 12 books (single author and first author 5) and 33 major research reports. His work has been cited widely. He was awarded the China Youth Science and Technology Award (2000), the Hundred Talent Program of the CAS (2003), and the Special Government Allowance of the State Council (2010).

Ten selected published articles

1. Zhao, J. M., Peizhen Zhang, Xiaohui Yuan, Weijun Gan, Tao Deng, Robert van der Hilst, Xiankang Zhang, Hongbing Liu, Xiaoping Yang, Qiang Xu, Heng Zhang, Gong Deng and Jiwen Teng, 2019. Clockwise rotation of the Tarim basin driven by the Indian plate impact, Earth sciences and subsoil use. 2019; 42(4):425–436. https://doi.org/10.21285/2686-9993-2019-42-4-425-436.

2. Zhao, J. M., X. H. Yuan, H. B. Liu, P. Kumar, S. P. Pei, R. Kind, Z. J. Zhang, J. W. Teng, L. Ding, X. Gao, Q. Xu, and W. Wang, The boundary between the Indian and Asian tectonic plates below Tibet, 2010. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), 107 (25) (2010), 11229-11233.

3. Zhao, J. M., Shuze Chen, Heng Zhang, Hongbing Liu, Xuezhong Shao, Xinfa Chen, Jie Xu, Zongjin Ma, 2019.  Lithospheric structure beneath the eastern Junggar Basin (NW China), inferred from velocity, gravity and geomagnetism. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 177 (2019) 295–306.

4. Zhao, J. M., W. D. Mooney, X. K. Zhang, Z. C. Li, Z. J. Jin, and N. Okaya, Crustal structure across the Altyn Tagh Range at the northern margin of the Tibetan plateau and tectonic implications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 241 (3-4) (2006), 804-814.

5. Zhao, J. M., D. P. Zhao, H. Zhang, H. B. Liu, Y. Huang, H. G. Cheng, and W. Wang,2014. P-wave tomography and dynamics of the crust and upper mantle beneath western Tibet, Gondwana Research, 25 (4) (2014a), 1690-1699.

6. Zhao, J. M., Shah Syed Tallataf Hussain, Heng Zhang, Xiankang Zhang, Changli Yao, Yishi Li Hongbing Liu, Qiang Xu, Gong Deng, Zhaoguo Hu, Zahid Imran Bhatti, 2018. Density and magnetic intensity of the crust and uppermost mantle across the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 265 (2018), 15-22.

7. Zhao, J. M., D. Murodov, Y. Huang, Y. S. Sun, S. P. Pei, H. B. Liu, H. Zhang, Y. Y. Fu, W. Wang, H. G. Cheng, and W. Tang, Upper mantle deformation beneath central-southern Tibet revealed by shear wave splitting measurements, Tectonophysics, 627 (2014b), 135-140.  

8. Zhao, J. M., Z. J. Jin, W. D. Mooney, N. Okaya, S. X. Wang, X. Gao, L. J. Tang, S. P. Pei, H. B. Liu, and Q. Xu, Crustal structure of the central Qaidam basin imaged by seismic wide-angle reflection/refraction profiling, Tectonophysics, 584 (2013b), 174-190.  

9. Zhao, J. M., Honggang Cheng, Shunping Pei, Hongbing Liu, Jianshi Zhang, Baofeng Liu, Deep structure at northern margin of Tarim Basin. Chinese Science Bulletin, 53 (10) (2008), 1544-1554.

10. Zhao, J. M., G. D. Liu, Z. X. Lu, X. K. Zhang, and G. Z. Zhao, 2003. Lithospheric structure and dynamic processes of the Tianshan orogenic belt and the Junggar basin, Tectonophysics, 376 (3-4) (2003), 199-239.

Five selected published books

1. Zhao, J. M.《Geodynamic conditions on the northern margin of the Tibetan plateau》, science press, 2012. Beijing, China. (in Chinese with English abstract).

2. Zhao, J. M., X. Liu, and Q.C. Wang《A GEOSCIENCE TRANSECT FROM FUYUN TO KORLA, XINJIANG, CHINA》(including a map of GGT), Science Press, 2010a, Beijing, China. (in Chinese and English).

3. Zhao, J. M., Z. J. Jin, and X. Liu《A GEOSCIENCE TRANSECT FROM BAICHENG, XINJIANG TO

DA QAIDAM, QINGHAI, CHINA》(including a map of GGT), Science Press, 2010b, Beijing, China (in Chinese and English).

4. Zhao, J. M., X.F. Chen, and X. Liu《A GEOSCIENCE TANSECT FROM EMIN TO HAMI, XINJIANG, CHINA》(including a map of GGT), Science Press, 2010c, Beijing, China. (in Chinese and English).

5. Zhao, J. M.《Lithospheric structure and dynamics of the Tianshan orogenic belt》，Seismological Press, 2005, Beijing (in Chinese with English Abstract).