SCHOOL OF EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES, Peking University

Research Area

DATE：2018-05-23

Infomation
Name:	Nan Zhang
Title:	Associate Professor
Phone:	01062751150
Position:
Email:	nan_zhang@pku.edu.cn

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2005.12--2011.05	Ph.D.	University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
2003.08--2005.12	M.S.	University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2000.09--2003.08	M.S.	Peking University, Beijing, China
1996.09--2000.07	B.S.	Peking University, Beijing, China

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
2014.01--2015.08	Postdoctoral Investigator, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2011.06--2013.12	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University
2006.08--2011.05	Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
2003.09--2005.12	Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
no record

RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
Research Mentor 2012 - 2013 Tutoring graduate students on CitcomS Mentoring two geochemistry graduate students on lunar evolution modeling Brown University Guest teaching for Geodynamics 2010 University of Colorado Teaching Assistant for Petrology, Structural Geology, and Introduction to Geology 2003 - 2005 University of Toronto

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviewer for Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Precambrian Research, and International Journal of Geosciences External reviewer for the NASA ROSES13 Mars Fundamental Research Program Reviewer for European Research Council (Deep Time Project) Judge for the Outstanding Student Paper Awards, AGU Fall Metting 2011

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Reviewer for Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Precambrian Research, and International Journal of Geosciences
External reviewer for the NASA ROSES13 Mars Fundamental Research Program
Reviewer for European Research Council (Deep Time Project)
Judge for the Outstanding Student Paper Awards, AGU Fall Metting 2011

EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANT HISTORY
no record

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Nan Zhang, M. Behn, E.M., Parmentier and C. Kincaid (2014+), The Melt Segregation during Ascent of Buoyant Diapirs in Subduction Zone, in preparation of JGR-Solid Earth. Nan Zhang, Y. Liang, and E.M., Parmentier (2014+), The petrogenesis of lunar Mare basalts and evolution of Procellarum KREEP Terrane from melts after cumulate mantle overturn, in revision of PEPI. Nan Zhang (2014), Encyclopedia of Lunar Science: Internal structure/mantle motions of the moon, Editor B. Cudnik, Springer. Zhang, N., E. M. Parmentier, and Y. Liang (2013), Eﬀects of lunar cumulate mantle overturn and megaregolith on the expansion and contraction history of the Moon, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50988. (cited 5 times) Zhang, N., E. M. Parmentier, and Y. Liang (2013), A 3-D numerical study of the thermal evolution of the Moon after cumulate mantle overturn: The importance of rheology and core solidiﬁcation, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 118, 1789-1804, doi:10.1002/jgre.20121. (cited 8 times) Zhang, N., S. Zhong, and R.M., Flowers (2012), Predicting and testing continental vertical motion histories since the Paleozoic, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 317, 426-435. (cited 9 times) Flowers, R.M., A.K. Ault, S.A. Kelley, N. Zhang, and S. Zhong (2012), Epeirogeny or eustasy? Paleozoic- Mesozoic vertical motion of the North American continental interior from thermochronometry and implications for mantle dynamics, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 317, 436-445. (cited 8 times) Zhang N. and S. Zhong (2011), Heat Fluxes at the Earth’s Surface and Core-mantle Boundary since the Pangea Formation and Their Implications for the Geomagnetic Superchrons, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 306, 205-216. (cited 11 times) Zhang, N., S. Zhong, W. Leng, and Z.-X. Li (2010), A model for the evolution of the Earth’s mantle structure since the Early Paleozoic, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B06401, doi:10.1029/2009JB006896. (cited 46 times) Zhang, N., S. Zhong, and A. K. McNamara (2009), Supercontinent formation from stochastic collision and mantle convection models, Gondwana Reseach, 15, 267-275, doi:10.1002/esp.2036. (cited 31 times) Zhong S., N. Zhang, Z.X. Li, and J.H. Roberts (2007), Supercontinent cycles, true polar wander, and very long wave-length mantle convection, Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., 261, 551-564. (cited 111 times) Zhang, N., and R. N. Pysklywec (2006), Role of mantle ﬂow at the North Fiji Basin: Insights from anomalous topography, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q12002, doi:10.1029/2006GC001376. (cited 5 times)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Nan Zhang, M. Behn, E.M., Parmentier and C. Kincaid (2014+), The Melt Segregation during Ascent of Buoyant Diapirs in Subduction Zone, in preparation of JGR-Solid Earth.
Nan Zhang, Y. Liang, and E.M., Parmentier (2014+), The petrogenesis of lunar Mare basalts and evolution of Procellarum KREEP Terrane from melts after cumulate mantle overturn, in revision of PEPI.
Nan Zhang (2014), Encyclopedia of Lunar Science: Internal structure/mantle motions of the moon, Editor B. Cudnik, Springer.
Zhang, N., E. M. Parmentier, and Y. Liang (2013), Eﬀects of lunar cumulate mantle overturn and megaregolith on the expansion and contraction history of the Moon, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50988. (cited 5 times)
Zhang, N., E. M. Parmentier, and Y. Liang (2013), A 3-D numerical study of the thermal evolution of the Moon after cumulate mantle overturn: The importance of rheology and core solidiﬁcation, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 118, 1789-1804, doi:10.1002/jgre.20121. (cited 8 times)
Zhang, N., S. Zhong, and R.M., Flowers (2012), Predicting and testing continental vertical motion histories since the Paleozoic, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 317, 426-435. (cited 9 times)
Flowers, R.M., A.K. Ault, S.A. Kelley, N. Zhang, and S. Zhong (2012), Epeirogeny or eustasy? Paleozoic- Mesozoic vertical motion of the North American continental interior from thermochronometry and implications for mantle dynamics, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 317, 436-445. (cited 8 times)
Zhang N. and S. Zhong (2011), Heat Fluxes at the Earth’s Surface and Core-mantle Boundary since the Pangea Formation and Their Implications for the Geomagnetic Superchrons, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 306, 205-216. (cited 11 times)
Zhang, N., S. Zhong, W. Leng, and Z.-X. Li (2010), A model for the evolution of the Earth’s mantle structure since the Early Paleozoic, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B06401, doi:10.1029/2009JB006896. (cited 46 times)
Zhang, N., S. Zhong, and A. K. McNamara (2009), Supercontinent formation from stochastic collision and mantle convection models, Gondwana Reseach, 15, 267-275, doi:10.1002/esp.2036. (cited 31 times)
Zhong S., N. Zhang, Z.X. Li, and J.H. Roberts (2007), Supercontinent cycles, true polar wander, and very long wave-length mantle convection, Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., 261, 551-564. (cited 111 times)
Zhang, N., and R. N. Pysklywec (2006), Role of mantle ﬂow at the North Fiji Basin: Insights from anomalous topography, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q12002, doi:10.1029/2006GC001376. (cited 5 times)