Research Interests:
•    Field and laboratory study of granites, pegmatites
•    Granites, pegmatites und magmatic-hydrothermal processes
•    The role of magmas, magmatic to hydrothermal transition process in ore formation
The formation of Li, Be, and Ta mineralization involves a sequence of processes of (i) source enrichment, (ii) source accumulation, and (iii) metal mobilization from the source. Thus, my future interests are composed of these processes and how they control the distribution of mineralization in belts, magmatic processes, and interaction with the wall rocks at emplacement level controls size, grade, shape, and kind (vein, greisen, skarn) of mineralization. 

Education Background
Jul. 2017 (Post-PHD)
Supervisor: Prof. Ming-Guo Zhai, Jun Gao, and Xing-Wang Xu
Thesis: Detailed research probe into the magmatic-hydrothermal transition in deposits
Sep. 2012–Jun. 2017 (Master and PHD)
PhD of Science 
Supervisor: Prof. Jun Gao and Xing-Wang Xu Major: Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic geology Thesis: Tectonic evolution and multiple prolonged mineralization of the Kalaxiangar porphyry copper deposit belt, Eastern Junggar. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS), Beijing, China 
Sep. 2008–Jun. 2012
Bachelor of Engineering 
Major: Resources Exploration Engineering 
Thesis: Characteristics of trace elements in coal mines of the Western Guizhou province. China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT)

Career Experience
2020.09 till now, Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University

Lectures
(1) Mineralogy, Petrology, and Economic geology; Ore microscopy
(2) Marine Geology
(3) Earth System Science

Projects
(1) National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number 41802093)
(2) China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018M630201)
(3) Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Sun Yat-sen University (2021qntd23)
(4) 2018 Sino–German (CSC–DAAD) Postdoc Scholarship Program

Publications
(1). Tao Hong, Zhai, M. G., Xu, X. W.*, Li, H., Wu, C., Ma, Y. C., ... & Wang, C. (2021). Tourmaline and quartz in the igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Tashisayi granitic batholith, Altyn Tagh, northwestern China: Geochemical variability constraints on metallogenesis. Lithos, 106358.
(2). Tao Hong, Dolejš, D., Zhai, M. G.*, Oscar, L., Xu, X. W.*, Gao, J., ... & Wang, Y. J. (2021). Multiple tectonic-magmatic Mo-enrichment events in Yuleken porphyry Cu-Mo deposit, NW China and its’ implications for the formation of giant porphyry Mo deposit. Ore Geology Reviews, 104401.
(3). Tao Hong, Hollings, P., Zhai, M. G., Wang, Y. X., Xu, X. W., Gao, J., & Wang, Y. J. (2021). Superimposed mineralization in the deformed Yulekenhalasu porphyry Cu-Mo deposit (Northwest China): Rb-Sr geochronology, S isotope, and trace element analysis of chalcopyrite. Ore Geology Reviews, 104226.
(4). Tao Hong, P. Hollings, Gao, J., Xing-Wang Xu*, Q. Wu, C. Wu, Q. Mao, (2020). Mineralization and petrogenesis of the Qiongheba porphyry copper deposit in Mengxi district, East Junggar, China. Ore Geology Reviews, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103848
(5). Tao Hong, Gao J., Xu X.W., et al., (2020). Late Palaeozoic magmatism in the eastern Tseel Terrane of SW Mongolia evidenced by chronological and geochemical data. Geological Journal.1–33. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4026.
(6). Tao Hong, Xing-Wang Xu*, Jun Gao et al., (2018). Element migration of pyrites during ductile deformation of the Yuleken porphyry copper deposit (NW-China). Ore geology reviews, 100, 205-219.
(7). Tao Hong, Xing-Wang Xu*, Jun Gao et al., (2018). Ore-forming adakitic porphyry produced by fractional crystallization of oxidized basaltic magmas in subcrustal chamber (Jiamate, East Junggar, NW China). Lithos, 296, 96-112.
(8). Tao Hong, Xing-Wang Xu, Jun You, et al., (2018). Cu and Mo re-enrichment during ductile deformation: A case study of the Yuleken porphyry Cu deposit, Eastern Junggar, NW China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 165, 285-304.
(9). Tao Hong, Klemd, R., Gao, J.*, Xiang, P., et al., (2017). The tectonic evolution of the Irtysh tectonic belt: New zircon U-Pb ages of arc-related and collisional granitoids in the Kalaxiangar tectonic belt, NW China. Lithos, 272, 46-68.
(10). Tao Hong, Xiang, P, You, J, Xu, X.W*., et al., (2015). Texture and formation age of the eastern Irtysh collision belt. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 571-593 (in Chinese with English abstract).
(11). Tao Hong, You, J., Wu, C., Xu, X.W*. (2015). Archean-Paleoproterozoic zircons from a granite porphyry in the Taohua area, Western Yunnan and their constrain on the basement of western margin of Yangtze plate. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 2583-2596 (in Chinese with English abstract).
(12). Ke, Q., Tao Hong*, Xu, X. W., Li, H., Tong, X. X., Dong, L. H., ... & Li, Y. H. (2021). Crustal thickening of the western Tibetan Plateau during the Early Cretaceous: Evidence from adakitic granodiorites, leucogranites, and monzogranites in the Songxi area, western Qiangtang Terrane. Lithos, 390, 106117.
(13). Niu, L., Hong, T., Xu, X., Wang, X., & Ma, Y. (2021). Geochronology and trace elements of zircon in the southern Chinese Altay: implications for tectonic setting. Geological Journal (5).
(14). Wu, C., Tao Hong*, Xu, X. W., Wang, C. X., & Dong, L. H. (2021). A-type granites induced by a breaking-off and delamination of the subducted Junggar oceanic plate, west Junggar, CAOB. China Geology, 10.31035/cg2021033.
(15). Niu L., Tao Hong*, Xu X. W., et al., (2020). A revised stratigraphic and tectonic framework for the Ashele volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit in the southern Chinese Altay: evidence from stratigraphic relationships and zircon geochronology. Ore Geology Reviews, 103814.
(16). Zhang, G. L., Tao Hong*, Xu, X. W., Wu, C., Li, H., & Chen, Y. W. (2020). Tectonic-magmatic framework identified by remote sensing analyses and geochronology in West Junggar, Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Geological Journal.DOI: 10.1002/gj. 4028.
(17). Wu C., Tao Hong*, Xu X. W., et al. (2019). Constraints on the formation of the Baogutu reduced porphyry copper deposit (West Junggar, NW China): Assessing the role of mafic magmas in mineralization. Lithos, 336, 112-124.
(18). Wu C., Tao Hong*, Xu X. W., et al., (2019). Constraints on the nature of the basement of the Junggar terrane indicated by the Laba Ordovician continental arc. International Geology Review, 1-24.
(19). Tan, Z.*, Agard, P., Gao, J.*, Tao Hong, Wan, B. (2020). Concordant pulse in Mn, Y, and HREEs concentrations during UHP eclogitic garnet growth: Transient rock dynamics along a cold subduction plate interface. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 530, 115908.
(20). Zhou, T.*, Philippe, A.*, Patrick, M., Jun, G., Timm, J., Léa, B., Jiang, T., Wang, X.S., Tao Hong, Wan, B., and Benoît, C. (2019). Architecture and PT-deformation-time evolution of the Chinese SW-Tianshan HP/UHP complex: Implications for subduction dynamics. Earth-Science Reviews, 102894.
(21). Wu, C., Tao Hong, Xu, X.W.*, et al. (2018). Tectonic evolution of the Paleozoic Barluk continental arc, West Junggar, NW China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 160, 48-66.
(22). Li, H., Xu, X.W.*, Borg, G., Gilg, H.A., Dong, L.H., Fan, T.B., Zhou, G., Liu, R.L., Tao Hong, Wu, C., Ke, Q., Wu, C., Zhang, G.L., Li, H. (2019). Geology and Geochemistry of the giant Huoshaoyun zinc-lead deposit, Karakorum Range, northwestern Tibet. Ore geology reviews, 106, 251-272.
(23). Xu, X.W.*, Hao Li, Stephen G. Peters, Kezhang Qin, Qian mao, Qi Wu, Tao Hong, et al., (2017). Cu-rich porphyry magmas produced by fractional crystallization of oxidized fertile basaltic magmas (Sangnan, East Junggar, P. R. China). Ore geology reviews, 91, 296-315.