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.