Brief Introduction

Dr. Fang received his bachelor’s degree in applied geophysics from Jilin University in 2012. He earned his Ph.D. degree in geophysics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2017. He then joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a postdoctoral researcher. In Jan. 2021, he joined the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Sun Yet-sen university as an Associate Professor. Dr. Fang’s main research interests include seismic imaging of Earth’s interior and earthquake source characterization. He has published about 20 papers in international journals, such as GRL, JGR, GJI, SRL, etc with more than 1600 citations according to Google Scholar. He is on the Editor Board of “Earthquake Science” journal and has been a reviewer for many Earth Science journals.

Education Background

2012.9-2017.6, University of Science and Technology of China, Ph.D., Geophysics

2008.9-2012.6, Jilin University, BA, Applied Geophysics

Career Experience

2021.2 till now, Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University

2018.1-2021.1, Postdoc research scholar, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2015.10-2016.9, Visiting student, Department of Earth Science, ETH-Zurich

Research

(1) Regional tectonic evolution and earthquake hazard mitigation based on seismic tomography at small and regional scales；

(2) Mantle dynamics based on global seismic tomography models;

(3) Seismic array methods.

Check http://home.ustc.edu.cn/~fanghj/publications.html for more details.

Lectures

（1）Advanced Seismology (Graduate)

（2）Complex Analysis, Data Structure (Undergraduate)

Projects

2025-2028, National Nature Science Foundation of China: Seismic Dense Array Imaging and Its applications on fault zones (42104046)；

2022-2024, National Nature Science Foundation of China: Seismic Surface Wave Tomography based on Poisson Voronoi cells (42104046)

Publications

（1）Fang, H., Van Der Hilst, R. D., Maarten, V., Kothari, K., Gupta, S., & Dokmanić, I. (2020). Parsimonious seismic tomography with Poisson Voronoi projections: methodology and validation. Seismological Research Letters, 91(1), 343-355.

（2）Fang, H., & van der Hilst, R. D. ( 2019). Earthquake depth phase extraction with P wave autocorrelation provides insight into mechanisms of intermediate-depth earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 46. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085062

（3）Fang, H., Yao, H., Zhang, H., Huang, Y. C., & van der Hilst, R. D. (2015). Direct inversion of surface wave dispersion for three-dimensional shallow crustal structure based on ray tracing: methodology and application. Geophysical Journal International, 201(3), 1251-1263.

Academic service

(1) Editor Board “Earthquake Science”

(2) Reviewer for Science Advances, GRL，JGR-Solid Earth, Geophysics, SRL, GJI, Tectonophysics, PEPI, and others