Brief Introduction
My team and I use multiple techniques, including structural geology, geochronology and thermochronology, cosmogenic nuclides, landscape analyses and numerical modelling, to understand interactions among tectonics, climate and erosion and their consequences for landscapes and natural hazards, especially earthquakes. Aided by a growing list of collaborators based in the UK, China, Australia and US, I am currently working on: 
1) The development of new approaches for quantifying long-term strain distribution in deformation belts, 
2) The development of low-temperature thermochronological methods, 
3) The long- and short-term strain distribution in the seismically active eastern Tibetan Plateau,
4) Mesozoic and Cenozoic morpho-tectonic evolution of the East Asia (mainly focusing on the Tibetan Plateau and the northern margin of the South China Sea) and their climatic implications.
Several publications of our research have been featured by the cover page of the hosting issue and highlighted by Eos news as an "AGU Research Spotlight”.

Education Background
2020.8-2013.9, University of Melbourne, Australia, Doctor of Science, Tectonics and Thermochronology
2007.9-2010.7, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Master of Science, Tectonics and Geothermics
2003.9-2007.7, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Bachelor of Science, Geology

Career Experience
2016.12 till now, Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University
2013.10-2016.11, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, UK, Post-doc and Research Associate

Research 
(1) The development of new approaches for quantifying long-term strain distribution in deformation belts,
(2) The development of low-temperature thermochronological methods,
(3) Understanding the long- and short-term strain distribution in the seismically active eastern Tibetan Plateau.

Lectures
(1) Physical Geology
(2) Advanced Structural Geology and Tectonics
(3) Tectonic Geomorphology and Neotectonics

Projects
(1) 2022-2025, National Nature Science Foundation of China, The missing process and mechanism of the late Cenozoic Longmen Shan foreland basin
(2) 2022-2024, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), SML2021SP009
(3) 2018-2022, National Nature Science Foundation of China, Cenozoic segmentation of the Longmen Shan: Insights from 3D thermo-kinematic modelling
(4) 2017-2019, Overseas High-level Talent Introduction Program

Publications
（1）Tian, Y.*, Zhuang, G., Nie, J., Xu, Q., Xing, Y., Zuza, A., Saylor, J., Leary, R. and Rohrmann, A., 2022. Introduction to the special issue “Tibetan tectonics and its effect on the long-term evolution of climate, vegetation and environment”. Terra Nova, 00: 1-6.
（2）Zhang Guihong; Tian Yuntao*; Li Rui; Shen Xiaoming; Zhang Zengjie; Sun Xilin; Chen Dongxu; Progressive tectonic evolution from crustal shortening to mid-lower crustal expansion in the southeast Tibetan Plateau: A synthesis of structural and thermochronological insights, Earth-Science Reviews, 2022, 226, 103951.
（3）Sun Xilin; Tian Yuntao*; Kuiper K. F.; Li Chang’an; Zhang Zengjie; Wijbrans J. R.; No Yangtze River Prior to the Late Miocene: Evidence From Detrital Muscovite and K‐Feldspar 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology, Geophysical Research Letters, 2021, 48.
（4）Wang Hu; Li Kaijin; Tian Yuntao*; Zhang Guihong; Oligocene-Early Miocene exhumation and shortening along the Anninghe fault in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: insights from zircon and apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology, International Geology Review, 2022, 64, 390-404.
（5）Sun Xilin*; Kuiper K. F.*; Tian Yuntao*; Li Chang'an; Gemignani L.; Zhang Zengjie; Wijbrans J. R.; Impact of hydraulic sorting and weathering on mica provenance studies: An example from the Yangtze River, Chemical Geology, 2020, 532, 119359.
（6）Hu Di; Tian Yuntao*; Hu Jie; Rao Song; Wang Yibo; Zhang Chao; Hu Shengbiao; Thermal imprints of late Permian Emeishan basalt effusion: Evidence from zircon fission-track thermochronology, Lithos, 2020, 352-353, 105224.
（7）Shen Xiaoming; Tian Yuntao*; Zhang Guihong; Zhang Shimin; Carter Andrew; Kohn Barry; Vermeesch Pieter; Liu Rui; Li Wei; Late Miocene Hinterland Crustal Shortening in the Longmen Shan Thrust Belt, the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2019, 124, 11972-11991.
（8）Tian Yuntao*; Li Rui; Tang Yuan; Xu Xiao; Wang Yuejun; Zhang Peizhen; Thermochronological Constraints on the Late Cenozoic Morphotectonic Evolution of the Min Shan, the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Tectonics, 2018, 37, 1733-1749.
（9）Tian Yuntao*; Kohn Barry P.; Qiu Nansheng; Yuan Yusong; Hu Shengbiao; Gleadow Andrew J. W.; Zhang Peizhen; Eocene to Miocene Out-of-Sequence Deformation in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights From Shortening Structures in the Sichuan Basin, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2018, 123, 1840-1855.
（10）Tian Yuntao*; Vermeesch Pieter; Danišík Martin; Condon Daniel J.; Chen Wen; Kohn Barry; Schwanethal James; Rittner Martin; LGC-1: A zircon reference material for in-situ (U-Th)/He dating, Chemical Geology, 2017, 454, 80-92.
（11）Tian Yuntao*; Kohn Barry P.; Phillips David; Hu Shengbiao; Gleadow Andrew J. W.; Carter Andrew; Late Cretaceous–earliest Paleogene deformation in the Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt, eastern Tibetan Plateau margin: Pre-Cenozoic thickened crust?, Tectonics, 2016, 35, 2293-2312.
（12）Tian Yuntao*; Kohn Barry P.; Hu Shengbiao; Gleadow Andrew J. W.; Synchronous fluvial response to surface uplift in the eastern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for crustal dynamics, Geophysical Research Letters, 2015, 42, 29-35.
（13）Tian Yuntao*; Kohn Barry P.; Hu Shengbiao; Gleadow Andrew J. W.; Postorogenic rigid behavior of the eastern Songpan-Ganze terrane: Insights from low-temperature thermochronology and implications for intracontinental deformation in central Asia, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2014, 15, 453-474.
（14）Tian Yuntao*; Kohn Barry P.; Gleadow Andrew J. W.; Hu Shengbiao; A thermochronological perspective on the morphotectonic evolution of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2014b, 119, 676-698.
（15）Tian Yuntao*; Kohn Barry P.; Gleadow Andrew J. W.; Hu Shengbiao; Constructing the Longmen Shan eastern Tibetan Plateau margin: Insights from low-temperature thermochronology, Tectonics, 2013, 32, 576-592.
（16）Tian Yuntao*; Qiu Nansheng; Kohn Barry P.; Zhu Chuanqing; Hu Shengbiao; Gleadow Andrew J. W.; McInnes Brent I. A.; Detrital zircon (U–Th)/He thermochronometry of the Mesozoic Daba Shan Foreland Basin, central China: Evidence for timing of post-orogenic denudation, Tectonophysics, 2012, 570–571, 65-77.
（17）Tian Yuntao*; Kohn Barry P.; Zhu Chuanqing; Xu Ming; Hu Shengbiao; Gleadow Andrew J. W.; Post-orogenic evolution of the Mesozoic Micang Shan Foreland Basin system, central China, Basin Research, 2012, 24, 70-90.

Academic service
（1）《Journal of the Geological Society》Associate Editor
（2）《Terra Nova》Associate Editor