My work was concerned specifically with atmospheric particulates when I sought to understand the origins and relative significance of the anthropogenic pollutants responsible for degrading health and environmental quality in urban areas. More recently I have expanded my research focus to the study of magnetostratigraphy specifically in young foreland basin successions produced by ongoing uplift of the Tianshan range in western China.

2007.09–2011.01 Ph.D in Solid Earth Physics from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

2004.09–2007.06 M.S. in Solid Earth Physics from Institute of Geophysics & Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan.

2000.09–2004.06 B.S. in Physics from Institute of Mathematics & Physics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan.

   

2004–2007 Graduate Student Research: Institute of Geophysics & Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan.

2007–2011 Doctoral Research: Paleomagnetism and Geochronology Laboratory, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

2011–2012 Postdoctoral Research: Paleomagnetism and Geochronology Laboratory, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

2012–2013 Assistant Research Fellow: Xinjiang Research Center for Mineral Resources, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi.

2013–Today Associate Research Fellow: Xinjiang Research Center for Mineral Resources, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi.

2016.03–2017.03 Visiting Scholar: Geomagnetism Laboratory, Oliver Lodge Laboratories, University of Liverpool, Liverpool.

2017.12.04-2017.12.15 Ivar Giæver Visiting Fellowship Program: Earth Laboratory, the Center for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway.

   

1.     Qiao Q. Q., Huang B.C., Andrew J. Biggin, John D.A. Piper, 2017. Late Cenozoic evolution in the Pamir-Tian Shan convergence: New chronological constraints from the magnetostratigraphic record of the southwestern Tianshan foreland basin (Ulugqat area). Tectonophysics, 717, 51-64.

2.     Qiao Q. Q., Huang B.C., John D.A. Piper, Andrew J. Biggin, Zhang C.X., 2017. The characteristics of environmental particulate matter in the urban area of Beijing, China, during the 2008 Olympic Games. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 8, 141-148.

3.     Qiao Q.Q., Huang B.C., John D.A. Piper, Deng T., Liu C.Y., 2016. Neogene magnetostratigraphy and rock magnetic study of the Kashi Depression, NW China: Implications to neotectonics in the SW Tianshan Mountains. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, 1280-1296.

4.     Qiao Q.Q., Huang B.C., John D.A. Piper, 2016. Comment on “Cenozoic tectonic deformation and uplift of the South Tian Shan: Implications from magnetostratigraphy and balanced cross-section restoration of the Kuqa depression” by Tao Zhang, Xiaoming Fang, Chunhui Song, Erwin Appel, and Yadong Wang [Tectonophysics, 2014, doi:10.1016/j.tecto. 2014.04.044],Tectonophysics, 690, 362-366.

5.     Qiao Q.Q., Huang B.C., Tang X.D., Cheng W.W., 2015. Rock magnetic study of the Cenozoic Dashankou section, the Kashi depression, NW China. Chinese Journal of Geology, 50, 1235-1243 (in Chinese with English abstract).

6.     Qiao Q.Q., Huang B.C., Zhang C.X., 2014. Magnetic properties and pollution sources in dustfall and topsoil of North China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 59, 1748-1760 (in Chinese with English abstract).

7.     Qiao Q.Q., Huang B.C., Zhang C.X., John D. A. Piper, Pan Y.P., Sun Y., 2013. Assessment of heavy metal contamination of dustfall in northern China from integrated chemical and magnetic investigation. Atmospheric Environment, 74, 182-193.

8.     Qiao Q.Q., Zhang C.X., Huang B.C., John D. A. Piper, 2011. Evaluating the environmental quality impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games: magnetic monitoring of street dust in Beijing Olympic Park. Geophysical Journal of International, 187, 1222-1236.

9.     Qiao Q.Q., Zhang C.X., Li J., Li H., Huang B.C., 2011. Magnetic properties and indicator of concentration of pollution of atmospheric dust in Chaoyang, Beijing. Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 54(1), 151-162 (in Chinese with English abstract).

10. Tang Z.H., Yang S.L., Qiao Q.Q., Yin F., Huang B.C., Ding Z.L., 2016. A high-resolution geochemical record from the Kuche Depression: Constraints on early Miocene uplift of South Tian Shan. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 446, 1-10.

11. Zhang C.X., Qiao Q.Q., Appel E., Huang B.C., 2012. Discriminating sources of anthropogenic heavy metals in urban street dusts using magnetic and chemical methods. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 119-120, 60-75.

12. Zhang C.X., Qiao Q.Q., John D. A. Piper, Huang B.C., 2011. Assessment of heavy metal pollution from a Fe-smelting plant in urban river sediments using environmental magnetic and geochemical methods. Environmental Pollution, 159, 3057-3070.

13. Zhang C.X., Appel E., Qiao Q.Q., 2013. Heavy metal pollution in farmland irrigated with river water near a steel plant-magnetic and geochemical signature. Geophysical Journal of International, 192(3), 963-974.

14. Huang B.C., John D. A. Piper, Qiao Q.Q., Wang H.L., Zhang C.X., 2010. Magnetostratigraphic and rock magnetic study of the Neogene upper Yaha section, Kuche Depression (Tarim Basin): Implications to formation of the Xiyu conglomerate formation, NW China. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, doi: 10.1029/2008JB006175, 2010.

My broad research interest is in the application of rock and mineral magnetic techniques and microscopic investigations into the formation, transportation and post-depositional alterations of magnetic minerals under the influences of environmental and tectonic processes.