The Geochemistry of Volatile Elements C-N-S-H; Planetary Core-Mantle Segregation; Chalcophile Elements and Sulfides; Crust-Mantle Differentiation and Ore Deposits; Geofluids.

Skills: Cold-seal Rapid-quench Autoclaves; Rapid-quench TZM (titanium and zirconium reinforced molybdenum) Pressure Vessels; Piston Cylinder Apparatus; Multi-Anvil Apparatus; Diamond Anvil Cells (DAC); Laser Ablation-ICP-MS; Secondary-ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS-6f, SIMS-1280, and SIMS-1280HR); Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy; Mössbauer Spectroscopy; X-ray Diffraction; and Electron Microprobe. 

• Ph.D. (Experimental Geoscience), Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2013 (Magna cum laude). Advisor: Prof. Hans Keppler
• M.Sc. (Experimental Geoscience), Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2009 (gut;1.6). Advisor: Dr. Andreas Audetat, Dr. Catherine McCammon, Prof. Leonid Dubrovinsky 
• B. Sc. (Geology), Hefei University of Technology, China, 2006. Advisor: Prof. Chen Tianhu
• Visiting Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 2012. Advisor: Prof. Craig Manning

   

• 2013-2016: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. Advisor: Prof. Rajdeep Dasgupta.

• 2016-present: Staff Scientist, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Reviewer for these journals: Nature Geoscience, Geochemical Perspectives Letters, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, American Mineralogist, Chemical Geology, Ore Geology Reviews, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Lithos, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Earth-science Reviews, Geofluids, Elements, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, AGU books, PNAS, Geophysical Research Letter, National Science Foundation (USA), DFG (German Research Foundation). 

1.       Li, Y., Feng, L., Kiseeva, E.S., Gao, Z., Guo, H., Du, Z., Wang, F. and Shi, L. 2019. An essential role for sulfur in sulfide-silicate melt partitioning of gold and magmatic gold transport at subduction settings. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 528.

2.       Feng, L., Li, Y. 2019. Comparative partitioning of Re and Mo between sulfide phases and silicate melt and implications for the behavior of Re during magmatic processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 517. 14-25.

3.       Lin, Y., Hui, H., Li, Y., Xu, Y., van Westrenen, W. 2019. Evidence for extensive degassing in the early Moon from a lunar hygrometer based on plagioclase-melt partitioning of water. Geochemical Perspectives Letters. 10, 14-19.

4.       Eguchi, J., Li, Y., Manning, C.E. 2019. Experimental Determination of Calcite Solubility in H2O-KCl-NaCl-LiCl Solutions at 700 °C and 8 kbar. In: Manning, C.E., Lin, J.F., Mao, W.L., Eds, Carbon in Earth's Interior, Geophysical Monograph 249, American Geophysical Union, John Wiley and Sons, p. 245-257.

5.       Grewal, D.S., Dasgupta, R., Holmes, A.K., Costin, G., Li, Y. and Tsuno, K. 2019. The fate of nitrogen during core-mantle separation on Earth. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 251, 87-115.

6.     Li, Y. 2018. Temperature and pressure effects on the partitioning of V and Sc between clinopyroxene and silicate melt: Implications for mantle oxygen fugacity. American Mineralogist. 103, 819-823.

7.     Wang, Z., Becker, H., Liu, Y., Hoffmann, E., Chen, C., Zou, Z., and Li, Y.  2018. Constant Cu/Ag in upper mantle and oceanic crust: Implications for the role of cumulates during the formation of continental crust. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 493, 25-35.

8.     Mallik, A., Li, Y., Wiedenbeck, M. 2018. Nitrogen evolution within Earth’s atmosphere-mantle system assessed by recycling in subduction zones. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 482, 556-566.

9.       Liu, X., Matsukage, K., Li, Y., Takahashi, E., Suzuki, T., Nishihara, Y., Xiong. X. 2018. Aqueous fluid connectivity in subducting oceanic crust at the mantle transition zone conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015973.

10.      Li, Y., Dasgupta, R., Tsuno, K. 2017. Carbon contents in reduced basalts at graphite saturation: Implications for the degassing of Mars, Mercury, and the Moon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 122, doi:10.1002/2017JE005289.

11.   Liu, J., Li, Y., Zhou, Z., Ouyang, H. 2017. The Ordovician igneous rocks with high Sr/Y at the Tongshan porphyry Cu-Mo-Au deposit, satellite of the Duobaoshan Deposit, and their metallogenic role. Ore Geology Reviews. 86, 600-614.

12.   Li, Y. 2017. Immiscible C-H-O fluids formed at subduction zone conditions. Geochemical Perspectives Letters. 3, 12-21.

13.   Li, Y., Dasgupta, R., Tsuno, K., Monteleone, B., Shimizu, N.  2016. The carbon and sulfur budget of the silicate Earth explained by the accretion of differentiated planetary embryos. Nature Geoscience. 9, 781-785.

14.   Li, Y. Marty, B., Shcheka, S., Zimmermann, L., Keppler, H. 2016. Nitrogen isotope fractionation during terrestrial core-mantle separation. Geochemical Perspectives Letters. 2, 138-147.

15.   Li, Y., Huang, R., Wiedenbeck, M., Keppler, H. 2015. Nitrogen distribution between magmatic melt and aqueous fluids. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 411, 218-228.

16.   Liu X., Xiong, X., Audetat, A., Li, Y. 2015. Partitioning of Cu between mafic minerals, Fe-Ti oxides and intermediate to felsic melts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 151, 86-102.

17.   Li, Y., Dasgupta, R., Tsuno, K. 2015. The effects of sulfur, silicon, water, and oxygen fugacity on carbon solubility and partitioning in Fe-rich alloy and silicate melt systems at 3 GPa and 1600 °C- Implications for core-mantle differentiation and degassing of magma oceans and reduced planetary mantles. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 415, 54-66.

18.   Li, Y., Audetat, A. 2015. Effects of temperature, silicate melt composition, and oxygen fugacity on the partitioning of V, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Mo, Ag, Sn, Sb, W, Au, Pb, and Bi between sulfide phases and silicate melt. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 162，25-45.

19.   Liu, J., Wu, G., Qiu, H., Li, Y. 2014. ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating, fluid inclusions and S-Pb isotope systematics of the Shabaosi gold deposit, Heilongjiang Province, China: A case study of orogenic gold deposits and related tectonic setting. Geological Journal. DOI: 10.1002/gj.2577.

20.   Li, Y., and Keppler, H. 2014. Nitrogen speciation in mantle and crustal fluids. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 129, 13-32.

21.   Liu, X., Xiong, X., Audetat, A., Li, Y., Song, M., Li, L., Sun, W., Ding, X. 2014. Partitioning of copper between olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, spinel, garnet and silicate melts at upper mantle conditions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 125, 1-22.

22.   Li, Y. 2014. Chalcophile element partitioning between sulfide phases and hydrous mantle melt: Applications to mantle melting and the formation of ore deposits. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 94, 77-93.

23.   Li, Y. 2014. Comparative geochemistry of rhenium in oxidized arc magmas and MORB and rhenium partitioning during magmatic differentiation. Chemical Geology. 386, 101-114.

24.   Li, Y., Wiedenbeck, M., Shcheka, S., Keppler, H. 2013. Nitrogen solubility in upper mantle minerals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 377-378, 311-323.

25.   Gou, H., Steinle-Neumann, G., Bykova, E., Nakajima, Y., Miyajima, N., Li, Y., Ovsyannikov, S., Dubrovinsky, L., and Dubrovinskaia, N. 2013. Stability of MnB₂ with AlB₂-type structure revealed by first-principles calculations and experiments. Applied Physics Letters. 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4792273.

26.   Li, Y., Audétat, A. 2013. Gold solubility and partitioning between sulfide liquid, monosulfide solid solution, and hydrous mantle melts: Implications for the formation of Au-rich magmas and crust-mantle differentiation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 118, 247-262.

27.   Liu, J., Wu, G., Li, Y., Zhu, M., Zhong, W. 2012. Re-Os sulfide (chalcopyrite, pyrite and molybdenite) systematics and fluid inclusion study of the Duobaoshan porphyry Cu (Mo) deposit, Heilongjiang Province, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 49(0), 300-312.

28.   Li, Y., Audétat, A. 2012. Partitioning of V, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Mo, Ag, Sn, Sb, W, Au, Pb, and Bi between sulfide phases and hydrous basanite melt at upper mantle conditions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 355-356, 327-340.

29.   Xiong, X., Liu, X., Zhu, Z., Li, Y., Xiao, W., Song, M., Zhang, S., Wu, J. 2011. Adakitic rocks and destruction of North China Craton: evidence from experimental petrology and geochemistry. Science China: Earth Sciences. 54, 858–870.

30.   Xiong, X., Keppler, H., Audétat, A., Ni, H., Sun, W., Li, Y. 2011. Partitioning of Nb and Ta between rutile and felsic melt and the fractionation of Nb/Ta during partial melting of hydrous metabasalt. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 75, 1673-1692.

31.   Li, Y., Audétat, A. 2009. A method to synthesize large fluid inclusions in quartz at controlled times and under unfavorable growth conditions. American Mineralogist. 94, 367-371.

32.   Xiong, X., Keppler, H., Audétat, A., Gudfinnsson, G., Sun, W., Song, M., Xiao, W., Li, Y. 2009. Experimental constraints on rutile saturation during partial melting of metabasalt at the amphibolite to eclogite transition, with applications to TTG genesis. American Mineralogist. 59, 1175-1186. 

33.   Li, Y., Audétat, A., Lerchbaumer, L., Xiong, X.L. 2009. Rapid Na, Cu exchange between synthetic fluid inclusions and external aqueous solutions: Evidence from LA-ICP-MS analysis. Geofluids. 9, 321-329.