YAO Huajian 姚華建

• 2004/09－2009/05，Massachusetts Institute of Technology，PhD in geophysics
• 2001/09－2004/06，University of Science and Technology of China，M.S. in geophysics
• 1996/09－2001/06，University of Science and Technology of China，B.S. in geophysics

• 2023/12－present, Adjunct Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2019/09－present, Associate Director (executive), Mengcheng National Geophysical Observatory, Ministry of Science and Technology of China
• 2019/07－present, Associate Dean, Graduate School, USTC & Director of USTC Diploma Office
• 2014/09－2019/06, Associate Dean, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
• 2012/07－present, Professor, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
• 2010/08－2012/07, Green Scholar (postdoc), IGPP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
• 2009/06－2010/07, Postdoc research associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Surface wave tomography for lithospheric structure, anisotropy, and deformation
• Seismic interferometry and ambient noise tomography
• Earthquake seismology, source rupture imaging, finite fault inversion
• Multi-scale Community Velocity Model for Southwest China and Tanlu fault zone
• Seismicity, tectonics, and evolution of the Tibetan Plateau
• Joint inversion of multi-seismological or geophysical data: methodology & applications

• Seismological Society of China, Vice President (2020- )
• IUGG/IASPEI China Committee, Vice President (2020- )
• Editor of Geophysical Journal International (GJI) (2018- )
• Deputy Editor-in-chief of Earth and Planetary Physics (2023- )
• Editorial board member: Science China Earth Science (2014- )
• Member of Science and Technology Committee, China Earthquake Administration (2017-)

• Associate editor of Earthquake Science (EQS) (2020-2022)
• Electronic Seismologist Column Editor, SRL (2017-2018)
• Associate editor, Seismological Research Letter (SRL) (2014-2016)
• Guest editor: Frontiers of Earth Science (2022-2023)
• Guest editor: Review of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (2022)
• Guest editor: SRL “Lushan Earthquake” special issue (2013)

• Scientific Writing & Expression (2021-, undergraduate course)
• Science & Society (2019-, undergraduate course)
• Field Course of Introduction to Earth Sciences (2016-, undergraduate course)
• Interdisciplinary Research Practice (2017-, undergraduate course)
• Geophysical Inversion (2013-, graduate course)

• Advancing Forum in Geosciences (2012-2015, graduate course)
• Frontiers in Geophysics (2013, 2014, graduate course)

1. Liu Y, Yu Z, Zhang Z, Yao H*, Wang W*, Zhang H, Fang H, Fang L. 2023. The high-resolution community velocity model V2.0 of southwest China, constructed by joint body and surface wave tomography of data recorded at temporary dense arrays. Science China Earth Sciences, 66(10): 2368 – 2385 ，https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-022-1161-7
2. Luo, S., Yao, H.*, Wen, J., Yang, H., Tian, B., & Yan, M. (2023). Apparent low-velocity belt in the shallow Anninghe fault zone in SW China and its implications for seismotectonics and earthquake hazard assessment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB025681. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025681
3. Song Luo*, Huajian Yao*, Zhiqi Zhang, Bem Terhemba Shadrach, 2022. High-resolution crustal and upper mantle shear-wave velocity structure beneath the central-southern Tanlu fault: Implications for its initiation and evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 595, 117763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117763
4. Terhemba Shadrach Bem, Chuanming Liu, Huajian Yao*, Song Luo, Yuan Yang, Bin Liu. 2022. Azimuthally Anisotropic structure in the Crust and Uppermost Mantle in Central East China and its Significance to Regional Deformation around the Tan-Lu Fault Zone. J. Geophys. Res. - Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023532. https:// doi.org/10.1029/2021JB023532
5. Feng J.*, Yao H.*, Chen L., Wang W., 2022. Massive lithospheric delamination in southeastern Tibet facilitating continental extrusion. National Science Review, 9: nwab174, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab174
6. Zhiqi Zhang#, Huajian Yao*, Weitao Wang, Chuangming Liu, 2022. 3-D crustal azimuthal anisotropy reveals multi-stage deformation processes of the Sichuan Basin and its adjacent area, SW China. J. Geophys. Res. - Solid Earth, 127(1), e2021JB023289, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB023289
7. Liu W.#, Yao H.*, Wei S., 2021. Frequency-dependent rupture characteristics of the 30 October 2016 Mw 6.5 Norcia, Italy earthquake inferred from joint multi-scale slip inversion, J. Geophys. Res. - Solid Earth，126, e2020JB020706. https://doi. org/10.1029/2020JB020706
8. Feng J. *, Yao H.*, Wang Y., Poli P., Mao Z., 2021. Segregated oceanic crust trapped at the bottom mantle transition zone revealed from ambient noise interferometry, Nature Communications, 12:2531，https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22853-2
9. Yang X.#, Yao H.*, Huang B.-S. 2021. Crustal footprint of mantle upwelling and plate amalgamation revealed by ambient noise tomography in northern Vietnam and northern South China Sea, J. Geophys. Res. - Solid Earth, 126: e2020JB020593，https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020593
10. Huang S.#, Yao H.*, Lu Z, Tian X., Zheng Y., Wang R., Luo S., Feng J., 2020. High-resolution 3-D shear-wave velocity model of the Tibetan Plateau: implications for crustal deformation and porphyry Cu deposit formation, J. Geophys. Res., 125(7), e2019JB019215, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB019215