SCHOOL OF EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES, Peking University

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DATE：2018-05-24

Infomation
Name:	Yong Zhang
Title:	研究员
Phone:	010-62768137
Position:	School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Email:	zhang-yong@pku.edu.cn

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1999.09--2003.07	B.S.	Department of Geophysics, Peking University, China
2003.09--2008.07	Ph.D.	Department of Geophysics, Peking University, China

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
2014.03--to now	Researcher in Peking University
2012.01--2014.02	Researcher (Post-doctor) in Geo-science Center in Germany (GFZ)
2009.07--2014.02	Associate professor– Institute of Geophysics, CEA
2008.07--2010.06	Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Institute of Geophysics, CEA

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2012 Excellent paper award of Li Shanbang for young scholars 2006 Excellent paper award in the first arms control seminar for young scholars in China

RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
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CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANT HISTORY
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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Zhang Y, Wang R, Walter T R, Feng W, Chen Y, Huang Q. (2017). Significant lateral dip changes may have limited the scale of the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL074095. Wang R, Heimann S, Zhang Y, Wang H, Dahm T. (2017). Complete synthetic seismograms based on a spherical self-gravitating Earth model with an atmosphere–ocean–mantle–core structure. Geophys. J. Int., 210: 1739-1764. Cesca S, Zhang Y, Mouslopoulou V, Wang R, Saul J, Savage M, Heimann S, Kufner S, Oncken O, Dahm T. (2017). Complex rupture process of the Mw7.8, 2016, Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand, and its aftershock sequence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 478: 110-120. Metzger S, Schurr B, Ratschbacher L, Sudhaus H, Kufner S, Schöne T, Zhang Y, Perry M, Bendick, R. (2017). The 2015 Mw7. 2 Sarez Strike‐Slip Earthquake in the Pamir Interior: Response to the Underthrusting of India's Western Promontory. Tectonics, 36(11): 2407-2421 郑绪君，张勇，汪荣江. (2017). 采用IDS方法反演强震数据确定2017年8月8日九寨沟地震的破裂过程. 地球物理学报，60(11): 4421-4430. Feng W, Tian Y, Zhang Y, Samsonov S, Almeida R, Liu P. (2017). A Slip Gap of the 2016 Mw 6.6 Muji, Xinjiang, China, Earthquake Inferred from Sentinel-1 TOPS Interferometry. Seismol. Res. Lett.,88(4),1054-1064. Kufner S K, Schurr B, Haberland C, Zhang Y, Saul J, Ischuk A, Oimahmadov I. (2017). Zooming into the Hindu Kush slab break-off: A rare glimpse on the terminal stage of subduction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 461: 127-140 Feng W, Samsonov S, Tian Y, Qiu Q, Li P, Zhang Y, Deng Z, Omari, K. (2017). Surface deformation associated with the 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel earthquake revealed by satellite-based geodetic observations and its implications for the seismic cycle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 460: 222-233. Doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.018. Yan R, Woith H, Wang R, Zhang Y. (2016). Earth's free oscillations excited by the 2011 Tohoku M-w 9.0 earthquake detected with a groundwater level array in mainland China. Geophys. J. Int., 206(3): 1457-1466, DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggw213. 屠泓为, 汪荣江, 刁法启, 张勇, 万永革, 金明培. (2016). 运用SDM方法研究2001年昆仑山口西Ms8.1地震破裂分布: GPS和InSAR联合反演的结果. 地球物理学报, 59(6):2103-2112, doi 10.6038/cjg20160616. Diao F, Wang R, Aochi H, Walter T, Zhang Y, Zheng Y, Xiong X. (2016). Rapid kinematic finite-fault inversion for an Mw 7+ scenario earthquake in the Marmara Sea: an uncertainty study. Geophys. J. Int., 204(2): 813-824, DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggv459. Motazedian D, Zhang Y, Ma S, Chen Y T. (2016). Further studies on the focal mechanism and source rupture process of the 2012 Haida Gwaii, Canada, Mw7.8 earthquake. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 53(2), 129-139, 10.1139/cjes-2015-0119. Tilmann F, Zhang Y, Moreno M, Saul J, Eckelmann F, Palo M, Deng Z, Babeyko A, Chen K, Baez J, Schurr B, Wang R, Dahm T. (2016). The 2015 Illapel earthquake, central Chile, a type case for characteristic earthquake? Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 574-583, doi: 10.1002/2015GL066963. Zhang Y, Wang R, Chen Y T. (2015). Stability of rapid finite-fault inversion for the 2014 Mw6.1 South Napa earthquake. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi: 10.1002/2015GL066244. Zhang Y, Wang R. 2015. Geodetic inversion for source mechanism variations with application to the 2008 Mw7.9 Wenchuan earthquake. Geophys. J. Int., 200(3): 1627-1635, DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu496. Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2015. Rupture process of the 2015 Nepal Mw7.9 earhquake: Fast inversion and preliminary joint inversion. Chinese J. Gepphys., 58(5): 1804-1811, doi: 10.6038/cjg20150530. Zhang Y, Chen Yun-Tai, Xu Li-Sheng et al. 2015. The 2014 MW6.1 Ludian, Yunnan, earthquake: A complex conjugated ruptured earthquake. Chinese J. Gepphys., 58(1): 153-162, doi: 10.6038/cjg20150113. Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T, Liu R F. 2014. Rupture process of the 3 August 2014 Ludian, Yunnan, Mw6.1(Ms6.5) earthquake. Chinese J. Gepphys., 57(9): 3052-3059, doi 10.6038/cjg20130930. Schurr B, Asch G, Hainzl S, Bedford J, Hoechner A, Palo M, Wang R, Moreno M, Bartsch M, Zhang Y, Oncken O, Tilmann F, Dahm T, Pia V, Barrientos S, Vilotte J. 2014. Gradual unlocking of plate boundary controlled initiation of the 2014 Iquique earthquake. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature13681. Zhang Y, Wang R, Zschau J, Chen Y, Parolai S, Dahm T. 2014. Automatic imaging of earthquake rupture processes by iterative deconvolution and stacking of high-rate GPS and strong-motion seismograms. J. Geophys. Res., 119: 5633-5650, doi: 10.1002/2013JB010469. Feng W, Li Z, Hoey T, Zhang Y, Wang R, Samsonov S, Li Y, Xu Z. 2014. Patterns and Mechanisms of Coseismic and Postseismic Slips of the 2011 Mw 7.1 Van (Turkey) Earthquake Revealed by Multi-platform Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry. Tectonophyscis, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.06.011. Zhang Y, Wang R, Chen Y, Xu L, Du F, Jin M, Tu H, Dalm T. 2014. Kinematic rupture model and hypocenter relocation of the 2013 Mw6.6 Lushan earthquake constrained by strong-motion and teleseismic data. Seismol. Res. Lett., 85(1): 15-22. Tu R, Wang R, Zhang Y, Walter T R. 2014. Application of a net-based baseline correction scheme to strong-motion records of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake. Geophys. J. Int., 197(3): 1808-1821. Zhang Y, Xu L, Chen Y, Wang R. 2014. Fast inversion for the rupture process of the 12 February 2014 Yutian Mw6. 9 earthquake: Discussion on the impacts of focal mechanisms on rupture process inversions. Acta Seismologica Sinica, 36(2): 159-164. Li X, Ge M, Zhang Y, Wang R, Guo B, Klotz J. Wichert J, Schuh H. 2013. High-rate coseismic displacements from tightly integrated processing of raw GPS and accelerometer data. Geophys. J. Int., 195(1):612-624, DOI:10.1093/gji/ggt249. Li X, Ge M, Zhang Y, Wang R, Xu P, Wichert J, Schuh H. 2013. New approach for earthquake/tsunami monitoring using dense GPS networks. Scientific Reports, 3, DOI: 10.1038/srep02682. Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2013. Rupture process of the Lushan 4.20 earthquake and preliminary analysis on the disaster-causing mechanism. Chinese J. Gepphys., 56(4):1408-1411, doi 10.6038/cjg20130435. Li X, Ge M, Zhang X, Zhang Y, Guo B, Wang R, Klotz J, Wicket J. 2013. Real-time high-rate co-seismic displacement from ambiguity-fixed precise point positioning: Application to earthquake early warning. Geophys. Res. Lett., 40: 1-6, doi:10.1002/GRL.50138. Zhang Y, Feng W P, Chen Y T, Xu L S, Li Z H, Forrest D. 2012. The 2009 L'Aquila MW 6.3 earthquake: a new technique to locate the hypocentre in the joint inversion of earthquake rupture process. Geophys. J. Int., 191:1417-1426, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05694.x. Zhang Y, Chen Y T, Xu L S. 2012. Fast and robust inversion of earthquake source rupture process and its application to earthquake emergency response. Earthquake Science, 25(2):121-128. Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2012. Rupture process of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake from the joint inversion of teleseismic and GPS data. Earthquake Science, 25(2):129-135. Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2010. Source process of the 2010 Yushu, Qinghai, earthquake. Science China: Earth Sciences, 53(9):1249-1251. Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2010. Fast inversion of rupture process of the 14 April 2010 Yushu, Qinghai earthquake. Earthquake Science, 23(3):201-204. Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2010. Rupture process of April 6 2009 L'Aquila Italy MW6.3earthquake: a comparison between apparent source time function method and direct wave inversion method. Chinese J. Gepphys., 53(6):1428-1439. Zhang Y, Feng W P, Xu L S, Zhou C H, Chen Y T. 2009. Spatio-temporal rupture process of the 2008 great Wenchuan earthquake. Science China: Earth Sciences, 52(2):145-154. Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T, Feng W P, Du H L. 2009. Source process of MS6.4 earthquake in Ning’er, Yunnan in 2007. Science China: Earth Sciences, 52(2):180-188. Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2009. Spatio-temporal variation of the source mechanism of the 2008 great Wenchuan earthquake. Chinese J. Gepphys., 52(2):379-389. Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2009. PLD method for apparent source time function (ASTF) retrieving and its application to the 2005 Kashmir MW7.6 earthquake. Chinese J. Gepphys., 52(3):672-680. Xu L S, Du H L, Zhang H X, Zhang Y, Li C L, Zhao H. 2008. Spatio-temporal characteristics of the energy radiation sources of the three earthquakes near Sumatra Island in September 2007. Chinese Science Bulletin, 53(15):2364-2370. Liu C, Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2008. A new technique for moment tensor inversion with applications to the 2008 Wenchuan MS8.0 earthquake sequence. Acta Seismologica Sinica, 21(4):333-343. Zhang Y, Chen Y T, Xu L S. 2007. Rupture process of the 2005 southern Asian (Pakistan) MW7.6 earthquake from long period waveform data. Advances in Geosciences, Volume 1: Solid Earth(SE), Editor-in-Chief: Wing-Huen Ip, Volume Editor-in-Chief: Yun-Tai Chen:13-21.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Zhang Y, Wang R, Walter T R, Feng W, Chen Y, Huang Q. (2017). Significant lateral dip changes may have limited the scale of the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL074095.

Wang R, Heimann S, Zhang Y, Wang H, Dahm T. (2017). Complete synthetic seismograms based on a spherical self-gravitating Earth model with an atmosphere–ocean–mantle–core structure. Geophys. J. Int., 210: 1739-1764.

Cesca S, Zhang Y, Mouslopoulou V, Wang R, Saul J, Savage M, Heimann S, Kufner S, Oncken O, Dahm T. (2017). Complex rupture process of the Mw7.8, 2016, Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand, and its aftershock sequence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 478: 110-120.

Metzger S, Schurr B, Ratschbacher L, Sudhaus H, Kufner S, Schöne T, Zhang Y, Perry M, Bendick, R. (2017). The 2015 Mw7. 2 Sarez Strike‐Slip Earthquake in the Pamir Interior: Response to the Underthrusting of India's Western Promontory. Tectonics, 36(11): 2407-2421

郑绪君，张勇，汪荣江. (2017). 采用IDS方法反演强震数据确定2017年8月8日九寨沟地震的破裂过程. 地球物理学报，60(11): 4421-4430.

Feng W, Tian Y, Zhang Y, Samsonov S, Almeida R, Liu P. (2017). A Slip Gap of the 2016 Mw 6.6 Muji, Xinjiang, China, Earthquake Inferred from Sentinel-1 TOPS Interferometry. Seismol. Res. Lett.,88(4),1054-1064.

Kufner S K, Schurr B, Haberland C, Zhang Y, Saul J, Ischuk A, Oimahmadov I. (2017). Zooming into the Hindu Kush slab break-off: A rare glimpse on the terminal stage of subduction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 461: 127-140

Feng W, Samsonov S, Tian Y, Qiu Q, Li P, Zhang Y, Deng Z, Omari, K. (2017). Surface deformation associated with the 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel earthquake revealed by satellite-based geodetic observations and its implications for the seismic cycle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 460: 222-233. Doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.018.

Yan R, Woith H, Wang R, Zhang Y. (2016). Earth's free oscillations excited by the 2011 Tohoku M-w 9.0 earthquake detected with a groundwater level array in mainland China. Geophys. J. Int., 206(3): 1457-1466, DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggw213.

屠泓为, 汪荣江, 刁法启, 张勇, 万永革, 金明培. (2016). 运用SDM方法研究2001年昆仑山口西Ms8.1地震破裂分布: GPS和InSAR联合反演的结果. 地球物理学报, 59(6):2103-2112, doi 10.6038/cjg20160616.

Diao F, Wang R, Aochi H, Walter T, Zhang Y, Zheng Y, Xiong X. (2016). Rapid kinematic finite-fault inversion for an Mw 7+ scenario earthquake in the Marmara Sea: an uncertainty study. Geophys. J. Int., 204(2): 813-824, DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggv459.

Motazedian D, Zhang Y, Ma S, Chen Y T. (2016). Further studies on the focal mechanism and source rupture process of the 2012 Haida Gwaii, Canada, Mw7.8 earthquake. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 53(2), 129-139, 10.1139/cjes-2015-0119.

Tilmann F, Zhang Y, Moreno M, Saul J, Eckelmann F, Palo M, Deng Z, Babeyko A, Chen K, Baez J, Schurr B, Wang R, Dahm T. (2016). The 2015 Illapel earthquake, central Chile, a type case for characteristic earthquake? Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 574-583, doi: 10.1002/2015GL066963.

Zhang Y, Wang R, Chen Y T. (2015). Stability of rapid finite-fault inversion for the 2014 Mw6.1 South Napa earthquake. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi: 10.1002/2015GL066244.

Zhang Y, Wang R. 2015. Geodetic inversion for source mechanism variations with application to the 2008 Mw7.9 Wenchuan earthquake. Geophys. J. Int., 200(3): 1627-1635, DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu496.

Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2015. Rupture process of the 2015 Nepal Mw7.9 earhquake: Fast inversion and preliminary joint inversion. Chinese J. Gepphys., 58(5): 1804-1811, doi: 10.6038/cjg20150530.

Zhang Y, Chen Yun-Tai, Xu Li-Sheng et al. 2015. The 2014 MW6.1 Ludian, Yunnan, earthquake: A complex conjugated ruptured earthquake. Chinese J. Gepphys., 58(1): 153-162, doi: 10.6038/cjg20150113.

Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T, Liu R F. 2014. Rupture process of the 3 August 2014 Ludian, Yunnan, Mw6.1(Ms6.5) earthquake. Chinese J. Gepphys., 57(9): 3052-3059, doi 10.6038/cjg20130930.

Schurr B, Asch G, Hainzl S, Bedford J, Hoechner A, Palo M, Wang R, Moreno M, Bartsch M, Zhang Y, Oncken O, Tilmann F, Dahm T, Pia V, Barrientos S, Vilotte J. 2014. Gradual unlocking of plate boundary controlled initiation of the 2014 Iquique earthquake. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature13681.

Zhang Y, Wang R, Zschau J, Chen Y, Parolai S, Dahm T. 2014. Automatic imaging of earthquake rupture processes by iterative deconvolution and stacking of high-rate GPS and strong-motion seismograms. J. Geophys. Res., 119: 5633-5650, doi: 10.1002/2013JB010469.

Feng W, Li Z, Hoey T, Zhang Y, Wang R, Samsonov S, Li Y, Xu Z. 2014. Patterns and Mechanisms of Coseismic and Postseismic Slips of the 2011 Mw 7.1 Van (Turkey) Earthquake Revealed by Multi-platform Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry. Tectonophyscis, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.06.011.

Zhang Y, Wang R, Chen Y, Xu L, Du F, Jin M, Tu H, Dalm T. 2014. Kinematic rupture model and hypocenter relocation of the 2013 Mw6.6 Lushan earthquake constrained by strong-motion and teleseismic data. Seismol. Res. Lett., 85(1): 15-22.

Tu R, Wang R, Zhang Y, Walter T R. 2014. Application of a net-based baseline correction scheme to strong-motion records of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake. Geophys. J. Int., 197(3): 1808-1821.

Zhang Y, Xu L, Chen Y, Wang R. 2014. Fast inversion for the rupture process of the 12 February 2014 Yutian Mw6. 9 earthquake: Discussion on the impacts of focal mechanisms on rupture process inversions. Acta Seismologica Sinica, 36(2): 159-164.

Li X, Ge M, Zhang Y, Wang R, Guo B, Klotz J. Wichert J, Schuh H. 2013. High-rate coseismic displacements from tightly integrated processing of raw GPS and accelerometer data. Geophys. J. Int., 195(1):612-624, DOI:10.1093/gji/ggt249.

Li X, Ge M, Zhang Y, Wang R, Xu P, Wichert J, Schuh H. 2013. New approach for earthquake/tsunami monitoring using dense GPS networks. Scientific Reports, 3, DOI: 10.1038/srep02682.

Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2013. Rupture process of the Lushan 4.20 earthquake and preliminary analysis on the disaster-causing mechanism. Chinese J. Gepphys., 56(4):1408-1411, doi 10.6038/cjg20130435.

Li X, Ge M, Zhang X, Zhang Y, Guo B, Wang R, Klotz J, Wicket J. 2013. Real-time high-rate co-seismic displacement from ambiguity-fixed precise point positioning: Application to earthquake early warning. Geophys. Res. Lett., 40: 1-6, doi:10.1002/GRL.50138.

Zhang Y, Feng W P, Chen Y T, Xu L S, Li Z H, Forrest D. 2012. The 2009 L'Aquila MW 6.3 earthquake: a new technique to locate the hypocentre in the joint inversion of earthquake rupture process. Geophys. J. Int., 191:1417-1426, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05694.x.

Zhang Y, Chen Y T, Xu L S. 2012. Fast and robust inversion of earthquake source rupture process and its application to earthquake emergency response. Earthquake Science, 25(2):121-128.

Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2012. Rupture process of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake from the joint inversion of teleseismic and GPS data. Earthquake Science, 25(2):129-135.

Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2010. Source process of the 2010 Yushu, Qinghai, earthquake. Science China: Earth Sciences, 53(9):1249-1251.

Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2010. Fast inversion of rupture process of the 14 April 2010 Yushu, Qinghai earthquake. Earthquake Science, 23(3):201-204.

Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2010. Rupture process of April 6 2009 L'Aquila Italy MW6.3earthquake: a comparison between apparent source time function method and direct wave inversion method. Chinese J. Gepphys., 53(6):1428-1439.

Zhang Y, Feng W P, Xu L S, Zhou C H, Chen Y T. 2009. Spatio-temporal rupture process of the 2008 great Wenchuan earthquake. Science China: Earth Sciences, 52(2):145-154.

Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T, Feng W P, Du H L. 2009. Source process of MS6.4 earthquake in Ning’er, Yunnan in 2007. Science China: Earth Sciences, 52(2):180-188.

Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2009. Spatio-temporal variation of the source mechanism of the 2008 great Wenchuan earthquake. Chinese J. Gepphys., 52(2):379-389.

Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2009. PLD method for apparent source time function (ASTF) retrieving and its application to the 2005 Kashmir MW7.6 earthquake. Chinese J. Gepphys., 52(3):672-680.

Xu L S, Du H L, Zhang H X, Zhang Y, Li C L, Zhao H. 2008. Spatio-temporal characteristics of the energy radiation sources of the three earthquakes near Sumatra Island in September 2007. Chinese Science Bulletin, 53(15):2364-2370.

Liu C, Zhang Y, Xu L S, Chen Y T. 2008. A new technique for moment tensor inversion with applications to the 2008 Wenchuan MS8.0 earthquake sequence. Acta Seismologica Sinica, 21(4):333-343.

Zhang Y, Chen Y T, Xu L S. 2007. Rupture process of the 2005 southern Asian (Pakistan) MW7.6 earthquake from long period waveform data. Advances in Geosciences, Volume 1: Solid Earth(SE), Editor-in-Chief: Wing-Huen Ip, Volume Editor-in-Chief: Yun-Tai Chen:13-21.