Research Area

1. Neotectonics and landform evolution in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau;

2. Long term evolution of large river;

3. Landform evolution in the northern South China Sea;

4. Exploration and application of OSL dating and Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide dating.

Education

2012.9-2017.6：School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Ph.D

2008.9-2012.6：Department of Geosciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Bachelor

Career

2023.07-present: School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Associate Professor

2021.07-2023.07: School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Researcher Fellow.

2017.10-2021.06: School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Post-Doctoral Researcher.

Projects

1. National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Spatial-temporal configuration of the red-clay-capping fluvial terrace of the Sanmen Gorge and its implication to the origin and evolution of the Yellow River, 2023-2026, PI；
2. National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Mechanism research of the paleolake regression in the Yuncheng Basins since the late Mid-Pleistocene, 2019-2021, PI；
3. Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation: Tectonic response time of fluvial knickpoint in the Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, 2023-2025, PI

Publications

1. Liang H., Zhang K., Fu J., Wang W., Zhang P., Grapes R., Ma Z., Zhang Y., Li Z.G, Yan Y., Hui G., Sun C., Xu B., Li Z.Y, Zheng W., Tian Q., 2023. Stepwise northward compression in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights from the chronology of the Baima Basin, Global and Planetary Change, 220: 104015.
2. Liang H., Zhang K., Li Z., Chen Z., Hui G., Huang P., Tian Q., Tang Y., Chen C., Zhang Y., He X., Yan Y., Dai X., Li Z., Wang W., Zhang P., 2023 Temporally various coastal uplift rates north of the Littoral Fault Zone since late Quaternary, northern South China Sea: insight from the wave-cut platform and cosmogenic exposure dating, Frontiers in Earth Science.
3. Liang H., Zhang K., Li Z.Y, Fu J., Yu Z., Xiong J., Li X., Ma Z., Huang P., Li Z.G, Zhang Y., Hui G., Tian Q., Wang W., Zhang P., 2022. How headward erosion breaches upstream paleolakes: Insights from dated longitudinal fluvial terrace correlations within the Sanmen Gorge, Yellow River, GSA Bulletin.
4. Liang H., Zhang K., Fu J., Wang W., Zhang P., Ma Z., 2021. Sedimentary basin evolution and its implications for outward expansion of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights from the Tongxin Basin, China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 575:110460.
5. Liang H., Zhang K., Fu J., Chen J., Li S., Chen L., 2015. Bedrock river incision response to basin connection along the Jinshan Gorge, Yellow River, North China, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 114: 203-211.
6. Li Z.Y, Zhang K., Liang H., Chen Z., Ma Z., Xiong J., Huang P., 2021. Large river chronology along the Jinshaan Gorge on the Yellow River and its implications for initialization, Geomorphology, 33(2): 195-207.
7. Li Z.Y, Zhang K., Liang H., Chen Z., Li X., Khan W., Yu Z., Chen Z., Huang P., 2020. Initial incision of the Jinshan Gorge of the Yellow River, China, constrained by terrestrial in situ cosmogenic nuclides chronology, Quaternary International, 550: 111-119.