※ Structure of Earth’s crust and mantle;

※ Factory of the West Pacific subduction zone;

※ Seismicity and dynamics of Southeast Tibet;

※ Seismic tomography;

1992-1996:  B.Sc. Degree, Department of Physics, Southwest   Normal University, China

1998-2001:  M. Sc. Degree, Applied Geophysics, Chengdu University of Technology, China

2004-2007:  Ph. Degree, Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Japan

2013-preaent: Professor of Geophysics, Key Laboratory of Marginal Sea Geology, Chinese    Academy of Sciences, South  China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou 510301, China;

2008-2013: Professor of Geophysics, College of Geophysics, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China;

2008-2013: Senior Researcher, State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China;

2008-2010: Special Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan;

2006-2008: Associated Professor of Geophysics, College of Information and Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China;

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​​2015: Excellent Science and Technical Award of ZHAO Jiuzhang for Young Scientists

2013: Hundred Talent Project, Chinese Academic of Science

2012: Academic and Technique Leader of Sichuan Province

2012: Innovation Team Director of Ministry of natural Resources

2011: Technical Award ofScientific Knowledge of Youth Science for Tibet Research        

2010: Technical Award of LIU Guangding Scientific Knowledge of Youth Science

2010: Leader of Cultivating Program of excellent innovation team in University of Sichuan Province

2010: Technology Research and Development Programfor Distinguished Young Scientists in Sichuan  Province      

2009: New Century Excellent Talents in University  of China

2008: Fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan

2007: Scientific Research Foundation of the State Human Resource Ministry and the Education Ministry for Returned Chinese 

                  Scholars, China

2007:Physics of Earth and Plantenary InteriorsMost cited paper 2004-2007 Award

2007: Technical Award of FU Chengyi Scientific Knowledge of Youth Science

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Wang, Zhi, Jinrong Su, Cunxi Liu, Xuelin Cai, New insights into the generation of the 2013 Lushan Earthquake (Ms 7.0), China, Journal of Geophysical Researches, 120, doi:10.1002/2014JB011692, 2015.

Wang, Zhi^*, R.Q. Huang, S. P. Pei, Crustal deformation along the Longmen-Shan fault zone and its implications for seismogenesis, Tectonophysics, 610, 128-137, 2014.

Wang, Zhi^*, Joint inversion of P-wave velocity and Vp/Vs ratio and its application for imaging the deep structure in the Northeastern Japan, Applied Geophysics, 11(2), 119-127, 2014.

Cao, L., Z. Wang^*, S. Wu, X. Gao, A new model of slab tear of the subducting Philippine Sea Plate associated with Kyushu–Palau Ridge subduction, Tectonophysics, 612, 136-147, 2014.

Wang, Zhi^*, Wenli Huang, Dapeng Zhao, Shunping Pei, Mapping the Tohoku forearc: Implications for the mechanism of the 2011 East Japan earthquake (Mw 9.0), Tectonophysics, 524-525, 147-154, 2012.

Wang, Zhi^*, Xuben Wang, Runqiu Huang, Wenli Huang, Structrual heterogeneities in Southeast Tibet: Implications for regional flow in the lower crust and upper mantle, International Journal of Geophysics, doi:10.1155/2012/975497, 2012.

Wang, Zhi^*, Jian Wang, Zhiliang Chen, Yuping Liu, Runqiu Huang, Shunping Pei, Qingzhi Zhang, Wenqing Tang, Seismic imaging, crustal stress and GPS data analyses: Implications for the generation of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake (M7.9), China, Gondwana Research 19, 202-212, 2011.

Wang, Zhi^*, Runqiu Huang, Jian Wang, Shunping Pei, Wenli Huang, Regional flow in the lower crust and upper mantle under the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau, International Journal of Geoscience, 2, 631-639, 2011.

Wang, Zhi^*, Dapeng Zhao, Jian Wang, Deep structure and seismogenesis of the north-south seismic zone in southwest China, Journal of Geophysical Research 115, B12334, doi:10.1029/2010JB007797, 2010.

Wang, Zhi^*, Interplate coupling and seismotectonics under the fore-arc regions of Japan, Earthquake Science, 23, 555-565, 2010.

Wang, Zhi^*, Xuben Wang, Structural heterogeneities in the Southeast Tibetan Plateau: Implications for the 2008 M7.9 Wenchuan earthquake generation, Near-Surface Geophysics and Geohazards, 53-57, 2010.

Wang, Zhi^*, Yoshio Fukao, Shunping Pei, Structural control of rupturing of the Mw7.9 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, China, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 279, 131-138, 2009.

Wang, Zhi^*, Dapeng Zhao, Runqiu Huang, Xiangrong Tang, O.P. Mishra, Structural Heterogeneity in Northeast Japan and its implications for the Genesis of the 2004 and 2007 Niigata Earthquakes, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 99 (6), 3355-3373, 2009.

Wang, Zhi^*, Yoshio Fukao, Dapeng Zhao, Shuichi Kodaira, O.P. Mishra, Akira Yamada, Structural heterogeneities in the crust and upper mantle beneath Taiwan, Tectonophysics 476, 460-477, 2009.

Runqiu Huang, Wang, Zhi*, Shunping Pei, Yunsheng Wang, Crustal ductile flow and its contribution to tectonic stress in Southwest China, Tectonophysics 473, 476-489, 2009.

Dapeng Zhao, Wang, Zhi, N. Umino, and A. Hasegawa, Mapping the mantle wedge and interplate thrust zone of the northeast Japan arc, Tectonophysics 467, 89-106, 2009.

Wang, Zhi^*, Yoshio Fukao, Shuichi Kodaira, Runqiu Huang, Role of fluids in the initiation of the 2008 Iwate earthquake (M7.2) in northeast Japan, Geophysical Research Letters 35, L24303, doi:10.1029/2008GL035869, 2008.

Wang, Zhi^*, Runqiu Huang, Xuben Wang, Zhenhua He, Structural heterogeneities and dynamics under the Western Pacific subduction zones, Sichuan Science and Technology Publishing House, pp1-224, 2008.

Wang, Zhi^*, Runqiu Huang, Jinli Huang, Zhenhua He, P-wave velocity and gradient images beneath the Okinawa Trough, Tectonophysics 455, 1-13, 2008.

Dapeng Zhao, Wang, Zhi, N. Umino and A. Hasegawa, Tomographic imaging outside a seismic network: Application to the northeast Japan arc, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 97, 1121-1132, 2007.

Wang, Zhi^*, Dapeng Zhao, Jian Wang, Honn Kao, Tomographic evidence for the Eurasian lithosphere subducting beneath south Taiwan, Geophysical Research Letters 33, L18306, doi:10.1029/2006GL 027166, 2006.

Wang, Zhi^*, Dapeng Zhao, O. P. Mishra, Akira Yamada, Structural heterogeneity and its implications for the low frequency tremors in Southwest Japan, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 251, 66-78, 2006.

Wang, Zhi^*, Dapeng Zhao, Suboceanic earthquake location and seismic structure in the Kanto district, central Japan, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 241, 789-803, 2006.

Wang, Zhi^*, Dapeng Zhao, Seismic images of the source area of the 2004 Mid-Niigata prefecture earthquake in Northeast Japan. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 244, 16-31, 2006.

Wang, Zhi^*, Dapeng Zhao, Vp and Vs tomography of Kyushu, Japan: New insight into arc magmatism and forearc seismotectonics, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 157, 269-285, 2006.

Wang, Zhi^*, Dapeng Zhao, Seismic evidence for the influence of fluids on the 2005 west off Fukuoka prefecture earthquake in southwest Japan, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 155, 313-324, 2006.

Wang, Zhi^*, Dapeng Zhao, Seismic imaging of the entire arc of Tohoku and Hokkaido in Japan by using P-wave, S-wave and sP depth-phase data, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 152, 144-162, 2005.

Wang, Zhi^*, Dapeng Zhao, Akira Yamada, Seismic tomography of the entire Tohoku arc region: From the forearc to the back arc, Earth Monthly 52 (2005), 16-22.