Brief Introduction

Dr. Sun Xiaoming, born in 1963, is a professor of Economic Geology in School of Earth Science and Engieering and School of Marine Sciences in Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. He received his cooperative traning Ph.D degree of Economic Geology in Nanjing University and Melbone University in 1990. He is a judge of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), director of the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Resources and Coastal Engineering, a member of the National Marine Sciences Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education. He was a sectary in Chief of International Association of Genesis of Ore Deposit (IAGOD) (2012-2016) and now an executive member of IAGOD, fellow of Society of Economic Geologists (SEG), executive member of Society of Geological Application (SGA), executive member of an executive council of Chinese Society of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry and member of an executive council of Chinese Society of Oceanography, deputy director of Nanogeology Committee of Chinese Geological Society and an academic committee member of National Key Laboratory of Ore Genesis. He is an associate editor in chief of “Mineral Deposit”, editorial committee member of “Acta Geological Sinica”, “Geological Journal of China Universities”, “Rock and Mineral Analysis” etc., and guest-editor of Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (JAES). He conducted more than 30 research projects and published more then 200 papers in international authoritative academic journals. He awarded First Prize of Teaching Achievement Award in Guangdong Proince and First Prize of Awards of Science and Technology of Land and Resources in 2017, Second Prize of Natural Science Award of University in 2014, Pearl River Distinguished Professor of Guangdong Province in 2009, Outstanding Research Award of Youth Scientist in Guangdong Province in 1998, Silver Medal Award of Youth Geologist in China in 1995 and Outstanding Research Award of Youth Scientist in Jiangsu Province in 1992. He gave lectures of “Economic Geology” and “Marine Mineral Resources” to undergraduate students and “Isotipic Geochemistry” and “Advanced Economic Geology” to postdergraduate students. His research interests include: 1. Collisional orogeny and metallogenisis of Tibetan Plateau; 2. Submarine mineralization; 3. Nano-geochemistry and nanometer scale fluid-rock interaction; 4. Dating of hydrothermal ore deposits; 5. Fluid inclusion and noble gas isotopic indicators for ore-forming fluids. 

Education Background
1990.07: Got cooperative traning Ph.D degree of Economic Geology in Nanjing University and Melbone University
1989.07 -1990.06: Ph.D. student in Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Major in Economic Geology
1988.06-1989.05: Cooperative training Ph.D. student in Department of Geology, Melbourne University, Australia, Major in Economic Geology
1986.07- 1988.05: Ph.D. student in Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Major in Economic Geology
1983.09 – 1986.07: M.Sc student in Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Major in Economic Geology
1979 .09– 1983.07: B.Sc student in Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Major in Economic Geology

Career Experience

1997.09 till now: Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University
2000.07– 2000.10: Visiting professor in Department of Geology, New Mexico University, USA.
1998.03 – 1998.03: Visiting scientist in Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, New Mexico Tech., USA
1993.12-1997.08: Deputy professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University
1992.11 – 1993.11: Leture in Department of Earth Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University
1990.09 – 1992.10: Engineer and director of Economic Geology Section in E.China Nonferous Metal Exploration Co

Research 

1.    Collisional orogeny and metallogenisis of Tibetan Plateau 
2.    Submarine mineralization
3.    Nano-geochemistry and nanometer scale fluid-rock interaction 
4.    Dating of hydrothermal ore deposits
5.    Fluid inclusion and noble gas isotopic indicators for ore-forming fluids

Lectures
1)    Economic Geology (for undergraduate students)
2)    Marine Mineral Resources (for undergraduate students)
3)    Isotopic Geochemistry (for postgraduate students)
4)    Advanced Economic Geology (for postgraduate students)

Projects

1.    2018-2023: Key project of National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Metallogenic mechanism of collisional orogenic gold deposits in Tethyan Tectonic Domain
2.    2019-2022: Project of National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Guangdong Special Fund for Economic Development (Marine Economy): Nanomineralogy and geochemistry of authigenic minerals of hydrate-bearing sediments in the north South China Sea and their constraints on cold seep status
3.    2013-2018: Key project of National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Yunan Province: Gold mineralization during superimosed orogenic processes in Sanjiang Tethyan tectonic domain
4.    2012-2016: project of National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC)：Nanomineralogy and geochemistry of precious metals in hydrothermal fields of India Ocean Ridge (NSFC
5.    2006-2011: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities: Mineralogy and geochemistry of authigenic minerals from cold seeps in South China Sea
6.    2007-2011: Project of the 10th and 11th Five-Year Research and Development of International Seabed: Precious metal geochemistry in submarine hydrothermal sulfide
7.    2008-2012: Key project of National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and National 973 project): Cenozoic collisional orogeny-related orogenic gold deposits in Tibet Plateau. 
8.    2004-2007：Project from National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Nanometer scale fluid-rock interaction and gold mineralization in Ailaoshan gold belt, Yunnan Province
9.    2003-2006: Project from National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Nano-geochemistry of PGE, REE and Co in Co-riching ferromanganese crust from seamounts of west Pacific Ocean
10.    2003-2006: Project from National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Fluid geochemistry in Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling Project (CCSD).
11.    2003-2007: National 973 project: Collisional orogeny and metallogenisis of Tibetan Plateau 
12.    2000-2002: Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities: Geochemistry of ore-forming fluids in Fankou superlarge-scale Pb-Zn deposit, China.
13.    2000-2005: National 973 project: Geochemistry of ore-forming fluid in shear zone-hosted gold deposit
14.    1999-2001: Project from National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Z-contrasting imaging and EELS studies on invisible gold in Carlin type gold deposit
15.    1997-2000: Project from National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Four dimensional trips of ore-forming fluid in Songxi Ag-Sb deposit, E. Guangdong, China
16.    1995-1998: Project from National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Metallogenic mechanism of Changkeng large-scale Au-Ag deposit, Guangdong, Province (Project from NSFC)
17.    1993-1996: Project from the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province: Distribution and occurrence of precious metals in Dabaoshan superlarge polymetallic deposit
18.    1992-1996: National 305 project: Gold and copper metallogenic regularities and selection of exploration targets in E. Xinjiang area, China 
19.    1988-1992: Project from Natural Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC): Comparative studies on Archaean greenstone belt and related gold mineralization in W. Australia and China
20.    1983-1986: Project from Geology and Resource Ministry of China: Nonferrous and precious metals metallogenic regularities in E. Qinlin area, China

Publications

1.    Jianlin Liao, Jieyun Chen, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhongwei Wu*, Yinan Deng, Xuefa Shi, Yanjingyu Wang, Yuxi Chen, Andrea Koschinsky. Quantifying the controlling mineral phases of rare-earth elements in deep-sea pelagic sediments. Chemical Geology, 2022，595: 120792
2.    Dengfeng Li*, Yu Fu, Pete Hollings, Roger H. Mitchell, Shannon Zurevinski, Sandra Kamo, Rongqing Zhang, Qiaofen Liu, Jianling Liao, Yongjiang Liang, Xiaoming Sun*.  PL57 garnet as a new natural reference material for in-situ U-Pb isotope analysis and its perspective for geological applications. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology，2022，177：19
3.    Tingting Chen, Harald Strauss, Yunxin Fang, Zhiyong Lin*, Xiaoming Sun*, Jiarui Liu, Yang Lu, Xin Yang, Haixin Lin, Zhongwei Wu, Xiao Lin. Sulfur and oxygen isotope records of sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane in diffusion-dominated marine sediments. Frontiers in Earth Science，2022，10: 862333
4.    Dongsheng Li, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhongwei Wu *, Song Shuai, Yu Fu, Dengfeng Li, Haoyang Zhou, Yang Lu. Emplacement ages of diamondiferous kimberlites in the Wafangdian District, Liaoning Province: New evidence from LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology of andradite garnet. Gondwana Research (in press)
5.    Hongjun Chen, Xiaoming Sun*, Dengfeng Li*, Rong Yin, Zida Tong, Zhongwei Wu, Yu Fu, Qiaofen Liu, Xian Chen, Jianzhou Yi, Xueguo Deng. In situ apatite U-Pb dating for the ophiolite-hosted Nianzha orogenic gold deposit, southern Tibet. Ore Geology Reviews，2022，144：104811 
6.    Yanan Huang*, Xiaoming Sun*, Wei Zhang, Zhi Xiao. Spatial distribution and migration of 239+240Pu in Chinese soils. Science of the Total Environment, 2022，153724 
7.    Xiaodong Jiang, Xiangyu Zhao, Xiang Zhao, Yu-Min Chou, Andrew Roberts, Jimin Yu, James Hein, Xiaoming Sun, Xuefa Shi, Heather Stoll, Wei Cao, and Qingsong Liu. Abyssal manganese nodule recording of global cooling and Tibetan Plateau uplift impacts on Asian aridification. JGR，2022，49(3)：e2021GL096624
8.    Yang Lu, Xin Yang, Zhiyong Lin, Xiaoming Sun*, Yang, Yiping, Jörn Peckmann*.  Reducing microenvironments promote incorporation of magnesium ions into authigenic carbonate forming at methane seeps: Constraints for dolomite formation. Sedimentology：2021，12919 
9.    Yu Fu*, Dengfeng Li, Qiaofen Liu, Saiyu Li, Xiaoming Sun*.  Geochemistry of multi-stage scheelite in the skarn: Constraints on ore-forming processes of the Machangqing Cu-Mo polymetallic deposit in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Ore Geology Reviews，2021，138：104370
10.    Wei Zhai, Siqi Zheng, Lingyu Zhang, Xiaoming Sun, Jinlong Liang, Feng Yang, Jun-wei Zhao, Hao-hao Guo, Song-yan Han, Yuan Zhang. In situ pyrite sulfur isotope and trace element analyses of the world-class Dachang gold dposit, northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: implications for metallogenesis. Ore Geology Reviews, 2021，138: 104347
11.    Xiaodong Jiang, Xiang Zhao, Xiangyu Zhao, Yu-Min Chou *, James R. Hein, Xiaoming Sun, Yi Zhong, Jiangbo Ren, Qingsong Liu*. Impacts of global cooling and Tibetan Plateau uplift on Asian aridification: Novel records from an abyssal manganese nodule. Earth and Planetary Science Letters，2022，565：116945
12.    Xian Chen, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhongwei Wu*, Jianlin Liao, Hongjun Chen. Formation of Fe-Mn coatings on foraminifera from the ultraslow-spreading southwest Indian Ridge: Implications for hydrothermal and diagenetic overprints in sediments.  Ore Geology Reviews，2022，138：104377
13.    Qiyuan Lu, Xiaoming Sun*, Dengfeng, Li, Yu Fu*, Feng Zhou, Yeheng Liang, Xiao Lin, Yanmei Lao. Fluid inclusion microthermometry and C-H-O-He-Ar isotopes of the Zartorosht gold deposit, SE Iran: Implications for ore-fluid nature and metallogenesis. Ore Geology Reviews, 2021,140: 104600. 
14.    Ye Wan, I-Ming Chou*, Xiaolin Wang*, Xiaoming Sun. Explorations on footprints of salt-rich fluid and salt-depleted fluid immiscibility in hydrothermal systems: Insights from divergent partitioning of sulfate and perchlorate in the ZnSO4–Zn(ClO4)2–H2O system. Chemical Geology，2021, 584：120520
15.    Tianjian Yang, Xiaoming Sun*, Guiyong Shi and Ying Liu. LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating of Cenozoic rutile inclusions in the Yuanjiang marble-hosted ruby deposit, Ailao Shan Complex, Southwest China. Minerals，2021, 11: 433 
16.    Tingting Chen, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhiyong Lin*, Yang Lu, Yunxin Fang, Yang Xiao, Haixin Lin, Youfeng Ning, Harald Strauss. Deciphering the geochemical link between seep carbonates and enclosed pyrite: A case study from the northern South China Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2021, 128: 105020
17.    Zhiyong Lin*, Xiaoming Sun*, Harald Strauss, Michael E. Böttcherf, Yang Lu, Jinqiang Liang, Jie Li, Sümeyya Eroglu, Jörn Peckmann. Molybdenum isotope composition of seep carbonates – Constraints on sediment biogeochemistry in seepage environments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021, 307: 56-71
18.    Zhiyong Lin*, Xiaoming Sun*, Andrew P. Roberts, Harald Strauss, Yang Lu, Xin Yang, Junli Gong, Guanhua Li, Benjamin Brunner, Jörn Peckmann. A novel authigenic magnetite source for sedimentary magnetizations. Geology，2021, 49：360-365 
19.    Qiaofen Liu, Xiaoming Sun*, Dengfeng Li, Yu Fu*, Tianjian Yang. Geochronology and fluid evolution of the Machangqing Cu-Mo polymetallic deposit, western Yunnan, SW China. Ore Geology Reviews，2020, 127：103828
20.    Xin Yang, Xiaoming Sun*, Dengfeng Li, Zhiyong Lin, Yang Lu, Yukang Liang, Yihao Zhang. Elemental and isotopic response of different carbon components to anaerobic oxidation of methane: A case study of marine sediments in the Shenhu region, northern South China Sea. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2021, 206: 104577
21.    Xian Chen, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhongwei Wu*, Yan Wang, Xiao Lin, Hongjun Chen. Mineralogy and geochemistry of deep-sea sediments from the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge: Implications for hydrothermal input and igneous host rock. Minerals, 2021, 11: 138
22.    Haijing Jiao, Chihua Wu*, Juan Pedro Rodríguez-López, Xiaoming Sun, Haisheng Yi. Late Cretaceous plateau deserts in the South China Block,and its Quaternary analogues; sedimentology, dunes reconstruction and wind-water interactions. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020, 120: 104504
23.    Yue Hu, Xiaoming Sun*, Hai Cheng, Hong Yan*, Evidence of intense climate variation and reduced ENSO activity from δ18O of Tridacna 3700 years ago. Climate of the Past，2020, 16：597-610
24.    X.D. Jiang，X. Zhao，Y.M. Chou，Q.S. Liu, A.P. Roberts, J.B. Ren，X.M. Sun, J.H. Li，X. Tang，X.Y. Zhao, C.C. Wang. Characterization and quantification of magnetofossils within abyssal manganese nodules from the Western Pacific Ocean and implications for nodule formation. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020, 21, e2019GC008811
25.    Xiao-Dong Jiang, Xiao-Ming Sun*, Yu-Min Chou, James R. Hein, Gao-Wen He, Yu Fu, Deng-feng Li*, Jian-Lin Liao, Jiang-Bo Ren. Geochemistry and origins of carbonate fluorapatite in seamount Fe-Mn crusts from the Pacific Ocean. Marine Geology, 2020, 423: 106135
26.    Rong Yin*, Xiao-Long Huang, Yi-Gang Xu, Ru-Cheng Wang, He Wang, Chao Yuan, Qiang Ma, Xiao-Ming Sun, Lin-Li Chen, Mineralogical constraints on the magmatic–hydrothermal evolution of rare-elements deposits in the Bailongshan granitic pegmatites, Xinjiang, NW China. Lithos, 2020, 352-353: 105208. 
27.    Dengfeng Li, Pete Hollings*, Huayong Chen, Xiaoming Sun, Chuyan Tan, Shannon Zurevinski. Zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf systematics of the major terranes of the Western Superior Craton, Canada: Mantle-crust interaction and mechanism(s) of craton formation. Gondwana Research，2019, 78: 261-277
28.    Dengfeng Li, Yu Fu, Qiaofen Liu, John R. Reinfelder, Pete Hollings, Xiaoming Sun⁎, Chuyan Tan, Yanhui Dong⁎, Weilin Ma. High-resolution LA-ICP-MS mapping of deep-sea polymetallic micronodules and its implications on element mobility. Gondwana Research, 2020, 81: 461-474
29.    Dengfeng Li *, Yu Fu, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhengquan Wei. Critical metal enrichment mechanism of deep-sea hydrogenetic nodules: Insights from mineralogy and element mobility. Ore Geology Reviews, 2020, 118: 103371
30.    Dengfeng Li, Huayong Chen*, Xiaoming Sun, Yu Fu, Qiaofen Liu, Xiaoping Xia, Qing Yang. Coupled trace element and SIMS sulfur isotope geochemistry of sedimentary pyrite: Implications on pyrite growth of Caixiashan Pb–Zn deposit. Geoscience Frontiers, 2019, 10, 2177-2188
31.    Ming Su, Chihua Wu*, Hui Chen, Dengfeng Li, Tao Jiang, Xinong Xie, Haijing Jiao, Zhenfeng Wang, Xiaoming Sun*.  Late Miocene provenance evolution at the head of Central Canyon in the Qiongdongnan Basin, northern South China Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology，2019, 110：787-796.
32.    Jianlin Liao, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhongwei Wu*, Rina Sa, Yao Guan, Yang Lu, Dengfeng Li, Ying Liu, Yuguan Pan. Fe-Mn (oxyhydr)oxides as an indicator of REY enrichment in the deep-sea sediments from the central North Pacific. Ore Geology Reviews，2019, 112: 103044
33.    Yao Guan, Yingzhi Ren, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhenglian Xiao, Zhongwei Wu，Jianlin Liao, Zhengxing Guo，Yan Wang, Yi Huang. Fine scale study of major and trace elements in the Fe-Mn nodules from the South China Sea and their metallogenic constraints. Marine Geology，2019, 416： 105978 
34.    Seungyeol Lee, Huifang Xu*，Wenqian Xu and Xiaoming Sun. The structure and crystal chemistry of vernadite in ferromanganese crusts. Acta Crystallographica. Section B: Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials. 2019, B75: 1-8
35.    Qiaofen Liu, Xiaoming Sun*, Dengfeng Li*, Yu Fu, Wei Zhai, Huixiao Wei, Moxiang Han, Jianzhou Yi, Xiangguo Zhang. Mineralogy, geochronology and fluid evolution of the Guqiong Ag–Au polymetallic deposit in Southern Tibet. Ore Geology Reviews, 2019, 111: 102950 
36.    Yi Huang, Zhongwei Wu, Xiaoming Sun*, Yan Wang, Guiyong Shi, Wei Zhai, Yao Guan. He-Ar isotopes and trace gas compositions of fluid inclusions in massive sulphides from the Yushui copper-polymetallic ore deposit, South China: Metallogenic implications. Minerals, 2019, 9(258): 1-25 
37.    Wu Chihua*, Xia Guoqing*, Michael Wagreich, Juan Pedro Rodríguez-López, Sun Xiaoming, Liu Chenglin, Yi Haisheng. Early Miocene expansion of C4 vegetation on the northern Tibetan Plateau, Global and Planetary Change, 2019, 177: 173-185
38.    Tianjian Yang, Xiaoming Sun*, Guiyong Shi, Haoyang Zhou, Dongsheng Li, Constraints on the left lateral shearing and crustal melting of the Ailaoshan Massif, Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2019, 177:186-197
39.    Tianjian Yang, Xiaoming Sun*, Guiyong Shi, Yang Lu, and Yu Fu. The genetic linkage between the Yuanjiang marble-hosted ruby deposit and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone (Southwest China). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2019, 177: 38-47 
40.    Dengfeng Li*, Chuyan Tan, Fengyu Miao, Qiaofen Liu, Yu Zhang, Xiaoming Sun*. Initiation of Zn-Pb mineralization in the Pingbao Pb-Zn skarn district, South China: Constraints from U-Pb dating of grossular-rich garnet. Ore Geology Reviews, 2019, 107: 587-599
41.    Yingzhi Ren, Xiaoming Sun*, Yao Guan*, Zhenglian Xiao, Ying Liu, Jianlin Liao and Zhengxing Guo. Distribution of Rare Earth Elements plus Yttrium among major mineral phases of marine Fe-Mn crusts from the South China Sea and Western Pacific Ocean: A comparative study. Minerals, 2019，9(8):1-19 
42.    Haoyang Zhou, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhongwei Wu, Timing of skarn gold deposition in the giant Beiya polymetallic gold deposit, southwest China: Constraints from in situ monazite SIMS U-Th-Pb geochronology. Ore Geology Reviews, 2019, 106: 226-237
43.    Feng Dong, Luo Min, Sun Xiaoming, Wang Jiasheng. South China Sea Seeps. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2018, 168: 1-2  
44.    Feng Yang, Wei Zhai*, Xiaoming Sun, Reiner Klmed, Yanyan Sun, Yunshan Wu, Renmin Hua and Siqi Zheng. Fluid inclusions and stable isotopic characteristics of the Yaoling Tungsten Deposit in South China: Metallogenetic constraints. Resource Geology, 2019, 69(1): 107-122.
45.    Yan Wang, Zhongwei Wu, Xiaoming Sun*, Xiguang Deng, Yao Guan, Li Xu, Yi Huang, Kaijun Cao. He-Ar-S isotopic compositions of polymetallic sulphides from hydrothermal vent fields along the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge and their geological implications. Minerals, 2018, 8：512
46.    Jianlin Liao, Xiaoming Sun*, Dengfeng Li, Rina Sa, Yang Lu, Li Xu, Yuguan Pan. New insights into nanostructure and geochemistry of bioapatite in deep sea REE-rich sediments: LA-ICP-MS, TEM, and Z-contrast imaging studies. Chemical Geology, 2019,512: 58-68
47.    Chihua Wu, Juan Pedro Rodríguez-López, Chenglin Liu, Xiaoming Sun, Jiuyi Wang, Guoqing Xia, Michael Wagreich. Late Cretaceous climbing erg systems in the western Xinjiang Basin: Palaeoatmosphere dynamics and East Asia margin tectonic forcing on desert expansion and preservation. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2018, 93: 539-552
48.    Zhiyong Lin, Xiaoming Sun*, Harald Strauss*, Yang Lu, Michael E. Böttcher, Barbara M.A. Teichert, Junli Gong, Li Xu, Hongfeng Lu, Jörn Peckmann. Multiple sulfur isotopic evidence for the origin of elemental sulfur in an iron-dominated gas hydrate-bearing sedimentary environment. Marine Geology, 2018, 403: 271–284
49.    Yao Guan, Yingzhi Ren, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhenglian Xiao and Zhengxing Guo. He and Ar isotopes in the polymetallic Fe–Mn crusts and nodules from the South China Sea: Constraint on their genetic sources and origins. Minerals, 2018, 8: 471 
50.    Yu Fu, Xiaoming Sun*, Dengfeng Li, Hai Lin, Chunkit Lai. LA-ICP-MS U-Th-Pb dating and trace element geochemistry of allanite: Implications on the different skarn metallogenesis between the giant Beiya Au and Machangqing Cu-Mo-(Au) deposits in Yunnan, SW China. Minerals, 2017，7：251
51.    Dengfeng Li*, Yu Fu, Xiaoming Sun*.  Onset and duration of Zn-Pb mineralization in the Talate skarn Pb-Zn (-Fe) deposit, NW China, constrained by chronometers of spessartine U-Pb dating. Gondwana Research, 2018，63: 117–128
52.    Haoyang Zhou, Xiaoming Sun*, Tianjian Yang, Yingzhi Ren, Kunjie Zhu, Haijun Yu, Chun-Kit Lai. Mineralogy of Bi-sulfosalts and tellurides from the Yaoan gold deposit, southwest China and its metallogenic implications. Ore Geology Reviews, 2018, 98: 126-140
53.    Yu Fu, Xiaoming Sun*, Dengfeng Li, Hai Lin. U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of U-rich garnet from the giant Beiya gold-polymetallic deposit in SW China: Constraints on skarn mineralization process. Minerals, 2018, 8(4)：128 
54.    Dengfeng Li, Huayong Chen*, Pete Hollings, Li Zhang, Xiaoming Sun, Wanjiang Lu, Chengming Wang and Jing Fang. Isotopic footprints of the giant Precambrian Caixiashan Zn-Pb mineralization system. Precambrian Geology, 2018, 305: 79-90
55.    Zhiyong Lin, Xiaoming Sun*, Yang Lu, Harald Strauss, Li Xu, Hongfeng Lu, Jörn Peckmann. Iron isotope constraints on diagenetic iron cycling in the Taixinan seepage area, South China Sea. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2018，168: 112-124
56.    Yao Guan, Xiaoming Sun*, Yingzhi Ren, Xiaodong Jiang. Mineralogy, geochemistry and genesis of the polymetallic crusts and nodules from the South China Sea. Ore Geology Reviews, 2017, 89: 206–227
57.    Yang Lu, Xiaoming Sun*, Huifang Xu*, Hiromi Konishi, Zhiyong Lin, Li Xu, Tingting Chen, Xinrong Hao, Hongfeng Lu, Jörn Peckmann. Formation of dolomite catalyzed by sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane: Mineralogical and geochemical evidence from the northern South China Sea. American Mineralogist, 2018, 103 (5): 720-734
58.    Yu Fu, Xiaoming Sun*, Pete Hollings, Dengfeng Li, Haoyang Zhou, Tianjian Yang. Geochronology and trace element geochemistry of titanite in the Machangqing Cu-Mo polymetallic deposit, Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2018, 158: 398-414
59.    Xiaoming Sun*, Hai Lin, Yu Fu*, Dengfeng Li, Pete Hollings, Tianjian Yang. Trace elements geochemistry in magnetite from the giant Beiya gold-polymetallic deposit in Yunnan Province, Southwest China and its implications on ore forming process. Ore Geology Reviews, 2017, 91: 477-490
60.    Rina Sa, Xiaoming Sun*, Gaowen He, Li Xu, Qingqing Pan, Jianlin Liao, Kechao Zhu, Xiguang Deng. Enrichment of rare earth elements in siliceous sediments under slow deposition: a case study of the central North Pacific. Ore Geology Reviews，2018, 94: 12-23
61.    Haoyang Zhou, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhongwei Wu, Jianlin Liao, Yu Fu, Dengfeng Li, Pete Hollings, Hai Lin and Zhiyong Lin. Hematite U-Pb geochronometer: insights from monazite and hematite integrated chronology of the Yaoan gold deposit, southwest China. Economic Geology, 2017, 112(8): 2023–2039
62.    Dengfeng Li, Yu Fu*, Xiaoming Sun*, Jianling Liao, Ying Liu, Yingzhi Ren, Xiaodong Jiang, Yao Guan. LA-ICP-MS trace element mapping: Element mobility of hydrothermal magnetite from the giant Beiya Fe-Au skarn deposit, SW China. Ore Geology Reviews, 2017, 92: 463-474.
63.    Jiang Xiaodong, Sun Xiaoming* and Guan Yao. Biogenic mineralization in the ferromanganese nodules and crusts from the South China Sea. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2019, 171:46-59
64.    Dengfeng Li, Huayong Chen*, Pete Hollings, Li Zhang, Xiaoming Sun, Yi Zheng, Xiaoping Xia, Bing Xiao, Chengming Wang, Jing Fang. Trace element geochemistry of magnetite: Implications for ore genesis of the Talate skarn Pb-Zn (-Fe) deposit, Altay, NW China. Ore Geology Reviews，2018, 100：471-482
65.    Zhiyong Lin, Xiaoming Sun*, Jörn Peckmann, Yang Lu, Harald Strauss, Li Xu, Hongfeng Lu, Barbara M.A. Teichert. In situ sulfur isotope analysis by SIMS of authigenic pyrite from methane-bearing sediments. Jove Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2017, 126: e55970. 
66.    Zhongwei Wu, Xiaoming Sun*, Huifang Xu*, Hiromi Konishi, Yan Wang, Yang Lu, Haoyang Zhou and Kaijun Cao. Microstructural characterization and in-situ sulfur isotopic analysis of silver-bearing sphalerite from the Edmond hydrothermal field, Central Indian Ridge. Ore Geology Reviews, 2018, 92: 318-347
67.    Zhiyong Lin, Xiaoming Sun*, Yang Lu, Harald Strauss, Li Xu*, Junli Gong, Barbara M.A. Teichert, Rongfei Lu, Hongfeng Lu, Weidong Sun, Jörn Peckmann. The enrichment of heavy iron isotopes in authigenic pyrite as a possible indicator of sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane: Insights from the South China Sea. Chemical Geology, 2017, 449: 15–29
68.    Yang Lu, Yufei Liu, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhiyong Lin, Li Xu, Hongfeng Lu, Xinrong Hao, Jörn Peckmann, Intensity of methane seepage reflected by relative enrichment of heavy magnesium isotopes in authigenic carbonates: A case study from the South China Sea. Deep Sea Research I, 2017, 129: 10-21. 
69.    Zhiyong Lin, Xiaoming Sun*, Harald Strauss*, Yang Lu, Junli Gong, Li Xu, Hongfeng Lu, Barbara M.A. Teichert, Jörn Peckmann. Multiple sulfur isotope constraints on sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane: Evidence from authigenic pyrite in seepage areas of the South China Sea. Geochimica et Cosmoch imica Acta, 2017, 211:153-173
70.    Yu Fu, Xiaoming Sun*, Haoyang Zhou, Hai Lin, Liyi Jiang, Tianjian Yang. In-situ LA-ICP-MS trace elements analysis of scheelite from the giant Beiya gold–polymetallic deposit in Yunnan Province, Southwest China and its metallogenic implications. Ore Geology Reviews, 2017, 80: 828-837
71.    Junli Gong, Xiaoming Sun*, Li Xu, Hongfeng Lu. Contribution of thermogenic fluids to formation of biogenic gas hydrate: evidences from geochemical and microbial characters of the gas hydrate-containing cores from the Taixinan Basin, South China Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2017, 80: 432-449 
72.    Gong Junli, Sun Xiaoming*, Lin Zhiyong, Lu Hongfeng, Lu Yongjun. Geochemical and microbial characters of sediment from the gas hydrate area in the Taixinan basin, South China Sea. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2017, 36(9): 52–64. 
73.    Jiang Xiaodong, Sun Xiaoming*, Guan Yao, Gong Junli and Lu Yang. Biomineralization in ferromanganese crusts from the Western Pacific Ocean. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2017, 136: 58–67
74.    Guan Yao, Sun Xiaoming*, Jiang Xiaodong, Sa Rina, Huang Yi, Liu Yating. The effect at the Fe–Mn minerals and seawater interface and enrichment mechanism of the ore–forming elements of polymetallic crusts and nodules from the South China Sea. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2017, 36(6): 34-46
75.    Guan Yao, Sun Xiaoming *, Shi Guiyong, Jiang Xiaodong, Lu Hongfeng. Rare earth elements (REE) composition and constraints on the genesis of the polymetallic crusts and nodules in the South China Sea. Acta Geologica Sinica, 2017, 91(5): 1751-1766
76.    Xiaoming Sun*, Huixiao Wei, Wei Zhai*, Guiyong Shi, Yeheng Liang, Ruwei Mo, Moxiang Han, Jianzhou Yi, Xiangguo Zhang. Fluid inclusion geochemistry and Ar-Ar geochronology of the Cenozoic Bangbu orogenic gold deposit, Southern Tibet, China. Ore Geology Reviews, 2016, 74: 196-210 
77.    Yu Fu, Xiaoming Sun*, Haoyang Zhou, Hai Lin, Tianjian Yang. In-situ LA-ICP-MS U-Pb geochronology and trace elements analysis of polygenetic titanite from the giant Beiya gold–polymetallic deposit in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Ore Geology Reviews, 2016, 77: 43-56
78.    Haoyang Zhou, Xiaoming Sun*, Nigel J Cook, Hai Lin, Yu Fu, Richen Zhong* and Joel Brugger. Nano- to micron-scale particulate gold hosted by magnetite: a product of gold scavenging by bismuth melts. Economic Geology, 2017, 112(4): 993–1010
79.    Zhiyong Lin, Xiaoming Sun*, Jörn Peckmann, Yang Lu, Harald Strauss, Haoyang Zhou, Li Xu, Junli Gong, Hongfeng Lu, Barbara M.A. Teichert. How sulfate driven anaerobic oxidation of methane affects the sulfur isotopic composition of pyrite in sediment: A SIMS study from the South China Sea. Chemical Geology, 2016, 440: 26-41 
80.    Zhiyong Lin, Xiaoming Sun*, Yang Lu, Li Xu*, Junli Gong, Hongfeng Lu, Barbara Teichert, Jörn Peckmann. Stable isotope patterns of coexisting pyrite and gypsum indicating variable methane flow at a seep site of the Shenhu area, South China Sea. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2016, 123: 213-223 
81.    Zhongwei Wu, Xiaoming Sun*, Huifang Xu*, Hiromi Konishi,Yan Wang, Chi Wang, Yingzhi Dai, Xiguang Deng, and Miao Yu. Occurrences and distribution of “Invisible” precious metals in sulfide deposits from the Edmond Hydrothermal Field, Central Indian Ridge. Ore Geology Reviews, 2016, 79: 105-132
82.    Haoyang Zhou, Xiaoming Sun*, Yu Fu, Hai Lin and Liyi Jiang. Mineralogy and mineral chemistry of Bi-minerals and constraints on ore genesis of the Beiya giant porphyry-skarn gold deposit, southwest China. Ore Geology Reviews, 2016, 79: 408–424
83.    Junyi Huang, Jun Xu, Zhen Xia, Liqiang Liu, Yinbo Zhang, Jing Li, Guangdong Lan, Yuekun Qi, Masashi Kamong, Xiaoming Sun*, Yan Li*. Identification of influential parameters through sensitivity analysis of the Tough+Hydrate model using LH-OAT sampling. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2015, 65 :141-156
84.    Yi Huang, Xiaoming Sun*, Guiyong Shi*, Rina Sa, Yao Guan, Xiaodong Jiang, Honghua Que. Re-Os dating of sulphides from the Yushui Cu-polymetallic deposit in eastern Guangdong Province, South China. Ore Geology Reviews, 2015, 70: 281–289
85.    Yang Lu, Xiaoming Sun*, Zhiyong Lin, Li Xu*, Junli Gong，Hongfeng Lu. Cold seep status archived in authigenic carbonates: Mineralogical and isotopic evidence from northern South China Sea. Deep Sea Research II, 2015, 122: 95-105.
86.    Yu Fu, Xiaoming Sun*, Hai Lin, Haoyang Zhou, Xin Li, Xianqing Ouyang, Liyi Jiang, Guiyong Shi, Yeheng Liang. Geochronology of the giant Beiya gold–polymetallic deposit in Yunnan Province, Southwest China and its relationship with the petrogenesis of alkaline porphyry. Ore Geology Reviews, 2015, 71：138-149
87.    Mei Zhang, Hiromi Konishi, Huifang Xu, Xiaoming Sun, Hongfeng Lu, Daidai Wu, Nengyou Wu, Morphology and formation mechanism of pyrite induced by the anaerobic oxidation of methane from the continental slope of the NE South China Sea. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2014, 92: 293–301
88.    Xi-An Yang, Jia-Jun Liu, Long-Bo Yang, Si-Yu Han, Xiao-Ming Sun, Huan Wang. Fluid inclusion and isotope geochemistry of the Yangla copper deposit, Yunnan, China. Mineralogy and Petrology, 2014, 108: 303-315
89.    Wei Zhai*, Xiaoming Sun*, Jianzhou Yi, Xiangguo Zhang, Ruwei Mo, Feng Zhou, Huixiao Wei, Ji Duo, Qinggao Zeng. Geology, Geochemistry, and Genesis of Orogenic Gold-Antimony Mineralization in the Himalayan Orogen, South Tibet, China. Ore Geology Reviews, 2014, 58(1): 68-90
90.    Sun X M, Xu L, Sun W D, Zhai W, Liang Y H, Tang Q, Liang J L, Zhang Z M, Shen K, Wang F Y, Ling M X and Zartman R E. Channelized fluids in subducted continental crust: constraints from δD-δ18O isotopic compositions of fluid inclusions in CCSD quartz veins. International Geology Review，2011, 53（13）：1443-1463
91.    Xu Li, Sun Xiaoming*, Zhai Wei, Liang Jinlong, Liang Yeheng, Shen Kun, Zhang Zeming, Tang Qian. Fluid inclusions in quartz veins from HP-UHP metamorphic rocks, Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling (CCSD) Project. International Geology Review, 2006, 48(7): 639~649
92.    Sun Xiaoming, Wang Shengwei, Sun Weidong, Shi Guiyong, Xiong Dexin, Qu Wenjun and Du Andao, PGE geochemistry and Re-Os dating of massive sulfide ores from Baimazhai Cu-Ni deposit, Yunnan Province, China. Lithos, 2008, 105(1/2): 12-24.
93.    Xiaoming Sun, Qian Tang, Weidong Sun, Li Xu, Wei Zhai, Jinlong Liang, Yeheng Liang and Kun Shen. Monazite, iron oxide and barite exsolutions in apatite in CCSD drillhole eclogites and their geological implications. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2007, 71(11): 2896~2905. 
94.    Shi Guiyong, Sun Xiaoming*, Pan Weijian, Hu Beiming, Qu Wenjun, Du Andao and Li Chao. Re-Os dating of auriferous pyrite from the Zhenyuan super-large gold deposit in Ailaoshan gold belt, Yunnan Province, Southwestern China. Chinese Science Bulletin. 2012, 57(35): 4578-4586
95.    Zhai Wei, Sun Xiaoming, Wu Yunshan, Sun Hongying, Hua Renmin & Ye Xianren. He-Ar isotope g eochemistry of the Yaoling-Meiziwo tungsten deposit, North Guangdong Province: Constraints on Yanshanian crust-mantle interaction and metallogenesis in SE China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2012, 57(10): 1150-1159
96.    Zhang M, Sun XM*, HF Xu, et al., Discovery of nanosized graphite in authigenic tube pyrites from the offshore areas of Southwest Taiwan, South China Sea, and its indicating significance to gas hydrate. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2011, 56(19): 2037-2043
97.    Wei Zhai, Xiaoming Sun*, Weidong Sun, Liwei Su, Xiaoping He, Youliang Wu. Geology, geochemistry, and genesis of Axi: a Paleozoic low-sulfidation type epithermal gold deposit in Xinjiang, China. Ore Geology Reviews, 2009, 36（4）：265–281
98.    Sun X M, Zhang Y, Xiong D X, Sun W D, Shi G Y, W Zhai, S W Wang. Crust and mantle contributions to gold-forming process at the Daping deposit, Ailaoshan gold belt, Yunnan, China. Ore Geology Reviews, 2009, 36（1-3）: 235-249
99.    Sun Xiaoming, Chen Wen, Wang Min, Xue Ting, Sun Kai, Chen Binghui, Dating of sediment-hosted disseminated gold deposit by use of 40Ar/39Ar laser probe: a case study of Changkeng large scale gold deposit, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2003, 48(17): 1887~1891
100.    Sun XM., Norman DI., Sun K., et al., N2-Ar-He Systematics and Source of ore-forming fluids in Changkeng Au-Ag deposits, Central Guangdong, China, Science in China( Series D), 1999，42(5): 474-481
101.    Wang Min, Sun Xiaoming*, Ma Mingyang. Rare earth elements (REE) compositions and genesis of Xinhua large-scale phosphorites deposit in Western Guizhou, China. Journal of Rare Earths, 2005, 23(3): 323~330
102.    Sun X M. Theoretical prediction of Gibbs free energies of formation for crystalline phases of α-MOOH and α-M2O3 based on a linear free energy relationship. Acta Geologica Sinica，2011, 85（3）：656-660
103.    Liang J L, Ding Xin, Sun X M, Z.M. Zhang, H. Zhang, W.D. Sun*. Nb/Ta fractionation observed in eclogites from the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling Project. Chemical Geology, 2009, 268 (1-2): 27-40
104.    Sun Xiaoming, Xiong Dexing, Zhai Wei, Shi Guiyong, 2009. Cenozoic Daping gold deposit, Yunnan, China: fluid inclusion and nobel gas classification. Smart Science for Exploration and Mining, Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial SGA Meeting.  Ed. P. J. Williams，Springer, Session B1: 375-377 
105.    Ding X., Lundstrom C., Huang F., Li J., Zhang Z. M., Sun X. M., Liang J. L.,Sun W. D. Nature and experimental constraints on formation of the continental crust based on niobium-tantalum fractionation. International Geology Review, 2009. 51(6): 473 -501 
106.    Sun X M, Xue T, He G W, et al., Nobel gas isotopic compositions of ferromanganese crusts from seamounts in W. Pacific Ocean and its genetic significances. Acta Geologica Sinica, 2007, 81(1): 90-98
107.    He Gaowen，Liang Donghong, Song Chengbin, Sun Xiaoming, Wu Shugen, Zhou Jianping and Zhang Xuehua, An effective method to determine the  distribution boundary of Cobalt-rich Fe-Mn crusts on a Guyot: Synchronous application of subbottom profiling and deep-sea video recording. Journal of China University of Geosciences, 2005, 16(2): 178-182. 
108.    Wang M, Sun X M, Ma M Y, Genesis of PGE-polymetallic deposits in Lower Cambrian Black rock series, Southern China: Evidence from fluid inclusion and inert gas isotopic studies. Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge, Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial SGA Meeting.  Ed. Mao JW, Bierlein F P., Springer, 2005, 1: 191-194.
109.    Sun Xiaoming, Xu Li, Xue Ting, Chen Binghui, Sun Kai N2-Ar-He tracing systematics of ore-forming Fluid: A case study on Songxi large-scale Ag(Sb) deposit, Eastern Guangdong Province, China. Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge, Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial SGA Meeting.  Ed. Mao JW, Bierlein F P., Springer, 2005, 1: 183-186. 
110.    Xue Ting, Sun Xiaoming, He Gaowen, Wang Shengwei, Lu Hongfeng, Zhang Mei, Geochemistry of PGE and Au in ferromanganese crusts from seamounts in the west Pacific Ocean. Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge, Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial SGA Meeting.  Ed. Mao JW, Bierlein F P., Springer, 2005, 1: 207-210. 
111.    Wang M, Sun X M*, Ma M Y, Geochemistry of ore-forming fluids and its significances for metallogenesis of PGE-polymetallic deposits in Lower Cambrian black rock series, Southern China. Chinese Journal of Geochemistry, 2005, 24(4): 297~305
112.    Sun Xiaoming, Wang Min, Xue Ting, Ma Mingyang, Li Yinhe, He-Ar Isotopic Systematics of Fluid Inclusions in Pyrites from PGE-polymetallic Deposits in Lower Cambrian Black Rock Series, Southern China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 2004, 78(2): 471~475.
113.    Sun Xiaoming, David I. Norman, Sun Kai, Wang Min, Chen Binghui, Chen Jingde, Yu Shoujun, Light Hydrocarbons in Fluid Inclusions and Its Constraints on Ore Genesis: A Case Study on Songxi Ag(Sb) Deposit, Eastern Guangdong, China, Acta Geologica Sinica, 2003,77(2): 227-236.
114.    Sun XM, Norman DI., SUN Kai., et al., Organic gases in fluid inclusions of ore minerals and their constraints on ore genesis: a case study on Changkeng Au-Ag deposit, Guangdong, China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 2003,77(1): 86~94. 
115.    Murao s., Sera K., Futatsugawa S., Chen B., Sun X., Trace element concentration of leaf and ash from a waste pond at Fankou mine, China. International Journal of PIXE, 2002,12(1/2): 53-60.
116.    Sun XM., Norman DI., Sun K., Light hydrocarbons in ore-forming fluids and its constraints on ore genesis: a case study on Changkeng large-scale Au-Ag deposit, Central Guangdong, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 1999，44(S2): 58-61
117.    Sun XM., Ren QJ., Yang RY., Liu XS, Theoretical modelling of water-rock δD-δ18 O isotopic exchange system and Source of ore-forming fluid: a case study on Jinduicheng superlarge-scale molybdenum deposit, central China. Chinese J. Geochemistry, 1998, 17(2): 284-290
118.    Sun XM., Xu KQ., Ren QJ, Keays RR., Structural geochemistry and gold mineralization in ductile-brittle shear zone: a case study on the Jiapigou gold mine, China. Progress in Geology of China (1993-1996): a paper collection to the 30 IGC. ed., by Geological Society of China. Geological Publishing House. 1996: 416-421.
119.    Sun XM., Xu KQ., Ren QJ, Keays RR., Bimodal grey gneisses from Jiapigou gold mine in China and their REE geochemistry and genesis. Contributions to Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, Petroleum Industry Press. 1996: 121-131.
120.    Sun XM., Xu KQ., Ren QJ, Keays. RR Water-rock interaction and chemical component variations during ductile deformation of NW-striking shear zone in Jiapigou gold belt, China，Chinese J. Geochemistry, 1996, 15(4): 331-343.
121.    Sun XM., Chen JD., Chen BH., A newly-discovered sediment-hosted superlarge-scale Au-Ag deposit in China, IAGOD NEWS LETTER, 1997, 1, 56-4
122.    Sun XM., Xu KQ., Ren QJ., Keays RR., Confirmation of the Jiapigou Archaean high grade metamorphic terrain and its geological significance. Chinese Science Bulletin, 1992, 37(10): 847-850
123.    Sun XM., Xu KQ., Ren QJ., Keays RR., Discovery of two different types of gold deposits in the Jiapigou golg mine, Jilin province, and its universality in N. China platform. Chinese Science Bulletin, 1992, 37(20): 1721-1724
124.    Sun XM., Xu KQ., Ren QJ, Keays RR, Gold mineralization in Archaean high grade metamorphic terrains of N. China platform，J. of Nanjing University (Natural Sciences Edition), 1993, 29(1): 104-114.
125.    Sun XM., Xu KQ., Ren QJ, Keays RR, Mineralogical, petrochemical characteristics and genesis of Laonoiugou gneiss in Jiapigou gold mine, Jilin Province    1992, C. J.  Geochemistry, 1992, 11(3): 224-236.

Awards

1.    2017.09: First Prize of Teaching Achievement Award in Guangdong Proince
2.    2017.08: First Prize of Awards of Science and Technology of Land and Resources: Composite orogeny and Mineralization in Sanjiang Tethyan metallogenic domain
3.    2014.04: Second Prize of Natural Science Award of University: Petrogenesis, mineralization and chronology in plate subduction and exhumation progress
4.    2009.05: Pearl River Distinguished Professor of Guangdong Province 
5.    1998.10: Outstanding Research Award of Youth Scientist in Guangdong Province
6.    1995.04: Silver Medal Award of Youth Geologist in China
7.    1992.01: Outstanding Research Award of Youth Scientist in Jiangsu Province

Academic service
1.    Member of the National Marine Sciences Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education 
2.    Sectary in Chief of International Association of Genesis of Ore Deposit (IAGOD) (2012-2016) and now an Executive member of IAGOD
3.    Fellow of Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) 
4.    Executive member of Society of Geological Application (SGA)
5.    Executive member of an executive council of Chinese Society of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry
6.    Member of an executive council of Chinese Society of Oceanography
7.    Associate editor in chief of “Mineral Deposit”, Editorial Committee Member of “Acta Geological Sinica”, “Geological Journal of China Universities”, “Rock and Mineral Analysis” etc., and guest-editor of Asian Journal of Earth Sciences
8.    Academic Committee Member of National Key Laboratory of Ore Genesis
9.    Deputy director of Nanogeology Committee of C