Brief Introduction
Zhigang Li is an associate professor at the Sun Yat-sen University. He received his Ph.D. in structural geology from Nanjing University in 2014. His current research projects are focused on: 1) Geophysical exploration of active faults in the northern South China Sea, and 2) Late Cenozoic structural deformation and evolution around the Tibetan Plateau. I have obtained abundant innovative results that were published in 21 first-author (and/or corresponding author) papers in high-impact international journals, including JGR: Solid Earth, EPSL, and Tectonics. Some of the research results as the main contents have been granted the second prize of natural science award in Ministry of Education in 2019.

Education Background & Career Experience
2020.2-Present School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Associate professor
2017.8-2017.8 Nanyang Technological University, Senior Visitor
2016.11-2020.1 School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Research Fellow
2015.12-2016.01 Nanyang Technological University, Senior Visitor
2015.11-2015.11 California Institute of Technology, Senior Visitor
2014/09-2016/10 Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Post-Doctoral
2011/09-2014/09 School of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, PhD

Research 
(1) Geophysical exploration of active faults and seismic hazards in the northern South China Sea
(2) Late Cenozoic structural deformation and evolution around the Tibetan Plateau

Lectures
(1) Structural Geology
(2) Marine Geological Hazards

Projects
(1) 2022-2025 (PI), National Nature Science Foundation of China: Controls of curved faults on fold and geomorphic deformations in the Turpan fold belt in the eastern Tian Shan
(2) 2020-2022 (PI), Guangdong Provincial Laboratory of Southern Ocean Science and Engineering (Zhuhai): Comprehensive geological and geophysical research in the coast of the Pearl River Mouth
(3) 2018-2021 (PI), National Nature Science Foundation of China: Quantifying and 3D numerical modeling of curved thrust fault-propagation folding in the Longmen Shan piedmont
(4) 2016-2017 (PI), National Nature Science Foundation of China: Quantifying late Cenozoic crustal shortening in the southern Longmen Shan

Publications (Selected First and Corresponding Author*)
(1) Chuang Sun, Zhigang Li*, Andrew Zuza, et al., 2022. Controls of mantle subduction on crustal-level architecture of intraplate orogens, insights from sandbox modeling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 584.
(2) Liguo Li, Zhigang Li*, Chuang Sun, et al., 2022. Three-dimensional fault model and activity in the Arc-shaped Tectonic Belt in the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Frontiers of Earth Science.
(3) Chuang Sun, Zhigang Li*, Shiming Wu, et al., 2021. Strurtural significance of the mid-level decollement within the western Sichuan fold and thrust belt (WSFTB), insights from sandbox modeling. Frontiers of Earth Science.
(4) Xue Yang, Chuanyong Wu, Zhigang Li*, Weitao Wang, Gan Chen, Lei Duan, 2021. Late Quaternary kinematics and deformation rate of the Huoyanshan structure derived from deformed river terraces in the south piedmont of the Eastern Chinese Tian Shan. Frontiers of Earth Science.
(5) Zhigang Li, Wei Chen, Dong Jia, Chuang Sun, Wenjun Zheng, Peizhen Zhang, Weitao Wang, Tao Li, Jianguo Xiong, 2020. The effects of fault geometry and kinematic parameters on 3D fold morphology: insights from 3D geometric models and comparison with the Dushanzi anticline, China. Tectonics, 39.
(6) Zhigang Li, Tao Li, Rafael Almeida, Peizhen Zhang, Wenjun Zheng, Chuang Sun, Dong Jia, Zhuxin Chen, Weitao Wang, 2019a. Lateral fault growth in the Kashi Anticline (Chinese Tian Shan): Insights from seismic interpretation, shortening distribution, and trishear methods. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124.
(7) Zhigang Li, Peizhen Zhang, Dong Jia, Wenjun Zheng, Chuang Sun, Yiquan Li, Rafael Almeida, Wei Chen, Tao Li, 2019b. 3D geometric modeling for the Yanjinggou anticline in the Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt, China: Oblique thrusting kinematic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 179, 99-111.
(8) Zhigang Li, Wenjun Zheng, Peizhen Zhang, Rafael Almeida, Dong Jia, Chuang Sun, Weitao Wang, Tao Li, 2019c. Evidence for three Cenozoic phases of upper crustal shortening of the Xiongpo structure in the Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt, China: Implications for the eastward growth of the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 179, 138-148.
(9) Chuang Sun, Zhigang Li*, Wenjun Zheng, Dong Jia, Dongli Zhang, Xiaogen Fan, Peizhen Zhang, 2019. 3D geometry of range front blind ramp and its effects on structural segmentation of the southern Longmen Shan front, eastern Tibet. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 181, 103911.
(10) Litian Hu, Peizhen Zhang, Tianyao Hao, Yuntao Tian, Dongli Zhang, Zhigang Li*,, 2019. Analysis of topography, heat flow against crustal age in the Subbasin, South China Sea. International Geology Review. 
(11) Zhigang Li, Peizhen Zhang, Wenjun Zheng, Dong Jia, Judith Hubbard, Rafael Almeida, Chuang Sun, Xuhua Shi, Tao Li, 2018. Oblique thrusting and strain partitioning in the Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt, Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, 4431-4453.
(12) Zhigang Li, Jing Liu-Zeng, Rafael Almeida, Judith Hubbard, Chuang Sun, Guixi Yi, 2017. Re-evaluating seismic hazard along the southern Longmen Shan, China: Insights from the 1970 Dayi and 2013 Lushan earthquakes. Tectonophysics, 717, 519-530.
(13) Zhigang Li, Jing Liu-Zeng, Dong Jia, Chuang Sun, Wei Wang, Zhaode Yuan, Baojin Liu, 2016. Quaternary activity of the range front thrust system in the Longmen Shan piedmont, Chin, revealed by seismic imaging and growth strata. Tectonics, 35, 2807-2827.
(14) Zhigang Li, Dong Jia, Chen Wei, et al., 2014. Late Cenozoic east-west crustal shortening in southern Longmen Shan range front, eastern Tibet: Implications for regional stress field changes. Tectonophysics, 623, 169-186.
(15) Zhigang Li, Dong Jia, Wei Chen, 2013. Structural geometry and deformation mechanism of the Longquan anticline in the Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt, eastern Tibet. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 64, 223-234.
(16) Zhigang Li, Dong Jia, Wei Chen, et al., 2013. Structural deformation and evolution of right-lateral strike-slip tectonics of the Liaohe western depression during the early Cenozoic. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 77, 1-11.

Awards
(1) 2019.12, Second prize of natural science award in Ministry of Education
(2) 2013.12, National scholarship in Ministry of Education

Academic service
(1) The judges of the international academic journals (Tectonics, Tectonophysics, J. Geol Soc. London., Int. Geol. Rev, J. Asian Earth Sci)
(2) 《Frontiers of Earth Science》Guest Editor & Review Editor
(3) Evaluations of the National Natural Science Foundation of China