Research fields
Stable isotope biogeochemistry, Global change, Chemostratigraphy
Education
2009.09-2012.06 Ph.D. in Geobiology, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2006.09-2009.06 M.S. in Palaeontology & Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Employment
2020.04-present Associate Professor, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China.
2015.01-2020.04 Associate Research Fellow, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China.
2012.06-2014.12 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China.
2018.07-2018.08 Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
2016.08-2017.01 Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
2014.09-2015.02 Visiting Scholar, Department of Geology, University of Maryland
2013.01-2013.05 Visiting Scholar, Department of Geology, University of Maryland
Major publications
Li,M.,Grasby, SE., Wang, S.-J., Zhang,X., Wasylenki, LE.,Xu,Y., Sun,M., Beauchamp,B.,Hu, D., Shen, Y. *,.2021.Nickel
isotopes link Siberian Traps aerosol particles to the end-Permian mass extinction.Nature Commurications 12,2024.
Zhang,G.*, Zhang,X.*, Li, D., Jiang,H, Xu, Y.,Li,M., Shen,Y.,2021.Evidence for the expansion of anoxia during the Smithiat
from a quantitative interpretation of paired C-isotopes. Global and Plametary Chamge 103551.
Hu, D.*,Zhang,X.*,Li, M., Xu, Y., Shen,Y., 2021.Carbon isotope(63Ceans) stratigraphy of the Lower -Upper Ordovician of th.
Yangtze Platform, South China: Implications for global correlation and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event(GOBE)Global and Planetary Change 203,103546.
Gao, Y.*, Zhang,X., F ang, C.,He, X, Fang,Z, Zhang,X.*,2021.Reconstruction of the Ediacaran sulfur cycle an d oceanic redox
evolution in shallow-water regions of the Yangtze platform, South China Precambrian Research353,106004.
Zhang, G., Zhang,X, Shen,Y.*,2021.Quantitative constraints on carbon cycling and temporal changes in episodic euxinia during
the end-Permian mass extinction in South China. Chemical Geology 562,120036.
Hu, D., Li,M., Zhang,X., Turchyn, A. V.,Gong,Y., Shen, Y.*,2020.Large mass -independent sulphur isotope anomalies link
stratospheric volcanism to the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Nature Communications 11,2297.
Zhang,X. *, Zhou,X., Hu, D.,2020.High-resolution paired carbon isotopic records from the Meishucun section in South China:
lmplications for carbon cycling and environmental changes during the Ediacaran -Cambrian transition. Precambrian Research337,105561.
Li,D., Zhang,X.*,Hu, D., Li, D., Zhang,G., Zhang,X., Ling,H-F., Xu, Y., Shen, Y.,2020.Multiple S -isotopic constraints on
paleo-redox and sulfate concentrations across the Ediacaran -Cambrian transition in South China.Precambrian Research 349105500.
Gao,Y.,Zhang,X.*, Xu, Y.,Fang, C., Gong,Y ., Shen,Y.,2020.High primary productivity during the Edacaran Period revealed by
the covariation of paired C-isotopic records from South China.Precambrian Research349,105411.
Li,D.*,Zhang,X. *,Zhang,X., Zhu,H,Peng,S, Sun,L., Shen,Y., 2020.A paired carbonate -organic 613C approach to
understanding the Cambrian Drumian carbon isotope excursion (DICE).Precambrian Research349,105503.
Chen,K., Hu, D., Zhang,X. Zhut,H., Sun, L. Li, M., Shen, Y.*,2020.Minor 4*S anomalies coincide with biotic turnover events
during the Great Ordovician BiodiversificationEvent(GOBE) in South China.Global and Planetary Chamge 184,103069.Zhang,X.*, Gao, Y.,Chen,X., Hu, D., Li,M., Wang,C., Shen, Y.,2019. Nitrogen isotopic composition of sediments from the
eastern Tethys during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,515,123-133.
Liu,X., Zhan,T*, Zhou,X., Wu,H., Li,Q.,Zhao, C. Qiao, Y., Jiang,S.,Tu, L.,Ma, Y., Zhang,J., Jiang, X., Lou,B.,Zhang,X.*.
Zhou,X.*,2019. Late onset of the Holocene rainfall maximum in northeastern China inferred from a pollen record from thesediments of Tianchi Crater Lake.Quaternary Research 92,133-145.