Yingjie Yang's CV

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Macquarie University

Sydney, NSW, Australia      

Email:    yingjie.yang@mq.edu.au

Homepage: www.yingjieyang.com         Phone:   +61 (0)2 9850 8414                     

Google scholar: scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=J-gPVWYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

RES_ID:  http://www.researcherid.com/rid/L-4951-2015

Education

Ph.D. Geophysics, Brown University                                                  2005

B.S. Geophysics, University of Science and Technology of China         2000

Employment

2015-present   Associate Professor, Macquarie University 

2014-2015      Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University 

2010-2013      Lecturer, Macquarie University. 

2008-2010      Senior Research Associate, University of Colorado at Boulder. 

2005-2008      Research Associate, University of Colorado at Boulder. 

2000-2005      Research Assistant, Brown University

Research interests: 

Dynamics and deformation of Earth’s lithosphere and mantle, Ambient noise surface wave tomography, Teleseismic surface wave tomography, Numerical modeling of surface wave propagation in 3-D heterogeneous medium.

Honors & Awards

2015 The Anton Hales Medal from Australian Academy of Science

2013 Australian Research Council, Future Fellowship

2016        Chutian Guest Chair Professor, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

2016         Earth and Planetary Science Letter, Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing                 

2014 Outstanding Reviewer for Geophysical Journal of International

2010 Outstanding Reviewer for Geophysical Journal of International

2000 Award of Excellent Bachelor Thesis, USTC 

2000 Graduate with Honor of USTC (B.S.), USTC

Current Graduate Students/Researchers

Farshad Salajegheh  PhD student, associate supervisor         2014-present

Anqi Zhang   PhD student, associate supervisor        2018-present

Kai Wang   Postdoc   2019-present

Former Graduate students/Researchers

Guoliang Li                 PhD student (now postdoc at  University of Southern California)          2016-2020

Shucheng Wu            PhD student (now postdoc at Nanyang Technological University)         2016-2019

Kai Wang                   PhD student (now postdoc at Nanyang Technological University)        2015-2018

Chengxin Jiang          PhD student (now research fellow at Australian National university)     2012-2016

Mehdi Tork Qashqai   PhD student (now researcher at CSIRO)                                               2012-2017

Jun Xie                  PhD student (now Associate research professor at Institute of Geodesy of Geophysics, CAS)   2013-2016

Zhen Guo                   Postdoc (now Assistant Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology)         2013-2016

Awarded research grants (CI: Chief Investigator; PI: Primary Investigator)

• Australian Research Council DP190102940 (2019-2021, leading CI: Y Yang; CI J.C. Afonso, awarded: AUD$370,000) Unveiling the fine structure of the Australian continent using ocean waves.

• Australian Research Council ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems. 2011-2018, AUD$12,400,000; One of the 15 CI.

• Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2014-2018, Leading CI. Y Yang, awarded: AUD$733,323) How the Earth moves: Developing a novel seismological approach to map the small-scale dynamics of the upper mantle

•  Australian Research Council DP120102372 (2012-2014, leading CI: J.C. Afonso, CI Y Yang and N. Rawlinson, awarded: AUD$285,000), What lies beneath: Unveiling the fine-scale 3D compositional and thermal structure of the subcontinental lithosphere and upper mantle

•  Australian Research Council DP120103673 (2012-2014, Leading CI: N Rawlinson; CI Y Yang; awarded: AUD$420,000) Down under Down Under: Using multi-scale seismic tomography to image beneath Australia's Great Artesian Basin.

• Macquarie university infrastructure fund (2015; AUD$100,000, one of ten CI) Cluster Computing for Large-Scale Geophysical Simulations: Towards an Integrated Multidisciplinary Framework

•  Macquarie university infrastructure fund (2013; AUD$100,000; one of six CI; Cluster computing for 21st-century Geophysical simulations).

•  Macquarie New Staff fund (2011-2012, AUD$20,000; Leading CI) Understanding the growth of the Tibetan Plateau: Unveiling the fine-scale 3D structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath the Tibetan Plateau

• USA NSF-EAR- 0944022 (2020-2012, USD$284,088, PI: Mike Ritzwoller; Co-PI: Yingjie Yang) Crustal and Uppermost Mantle Anisotropy beneath Tibet: New Constraints on Deformation Processes.  

• USA NSF-EAR-0711526 (2007-2010, USD$276,554, PI: Mike Ritzwoller, Co-PI: Yingjie Yang) Ambient Noise and Teleseismic Tomography to infer the Physical State and Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle in the Western United States

Professional Service

• 2015-present, Associate editor for the journal of “Exploration Geophysics”.

• 2017-present, Member of editorial board of Journal “Earth and Planetary Physics”.

• 2015-present, Macquarie University’s representative for IRIS.

• 2009-2010, Member of IRIS Transportable Array Working Group

• 2003-present, Peer reviewer for journals of Science Advances, GRL, EPSL, GJI, G-cube, BSSA, PEPI, Tectonophysics, Lithos, PAGS, Earthquake Science and for proposals of China NSF, USA NSF, Australian Research Council and European Resuscitation Council