Precambrian geology
igneous petrology
geochronology
mafic dyke swarms
volcanic associations
large igneous provinces
paleocontinental reconstruction
North China craton

PhD of petrology and Precambrian geology (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
BS of structure geology (Peking University)

Professor of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (since 2015)

Research Professor of Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences (since 2012)

Director of China-South America Joint Research Center, iGGCAS (since 2020)

Director of TIMS lab, iGGCAS (since 2022)

Leader of Precambrian Geology Group, iGGCAS (since 2022)

China-South America Joint Research Center (CSAJC-IGGCAS)

Aim：Focus on the Precambrian tectonics and its surface effects based on the complementary Precambrian Geology in China and America (Brazil, Uruguay, etc.) to understand better the evolution of early Earth and the forming of its habitability and to enhance exchange and cooperation between the two sides.

Director：Peng Peng Prof/Dr

Co-director: Wilson Teixeira Prof/Dr, Farid Chemale Junior Prof/Dr

Recent Plans:

1) CAS-PIFI Young Leader School for Edging Research on Formation and Sustainability of Habitable Earth (Tentative date: Dec 14-26 2026).

This PIFI-funded initiative aims to foster scientific and technological collaboration in Earth sciences between China and South America. It seeks to cultivate talents in the study of Earth’s habitability evolution and sustainable development, provide research support for deep Earth and deep space exploration, and advance the goal of building a world-class international research center. The program will sponsor 20–30 early-career scholars, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students in Earth sciences, primarily from South America, to attend the summer school in China. Activities will include academic exchanges, technical training, frontier research workshops, and field excursions.

2) Ongoing scientific research cooperation​ between China and South American partners (e.g., Brazil, Uruguay) in areas such as Precambrian geology, metallogenic systems, and early Earth environments, with a focus on understanding early Earth evolution, planetary habitability, and long-term sustainability.

3) 2026 Annual Meeting of CASJC.​ The event will be hosted in South America this year and will include an academic symposium in Brazil, along with joint field work on Precambrian geology in the region.

TIMS lab - IGGCAS

The lab dedicates to develop and apply ID-TIMS technology to support researches of Earth and Planetary sciences with focuses in the fields of the early Earth, formation and evolution of continental crust and mineralization, crust-mantle interaction, changes of Earth’s environment, and comparative planetary geology.

Precambrian Geology Group (PGG-IGGCAS)

The group dedicates to the field of the evolving Earth focusing on the early plate tectonics and their responses to the Earth’s multiple spheres, the formation and evolution of continental crust, the changing of Earth’s environments, and the supercontinent cycles.

Director of Institutional Center for Shared Technologies and Facilities, iGGCAS (2017-2022)

Director of Rock-Mineral Preparation and Analyses Lab, iGGCAS (2009-2017)

Visiting Scientist to Geological Survey of Canada (2009)

Visiting Professor to University of Western Australia (2013-2014)

Supercontinent and Global Evolution

Evolution of early Earth

Evolving Continentals

Petrology

Field geology

Modern analytical geochemistry

Availability of postdocs and collaborators:

Full-funded postdocs are still available during 2026-2030. Collaborators to work in the TIMS lab are also welcome. Precambrian geodynamists, geodynamic modelists, sedimentologists, or geochemists are most suitable.

Graduate candidates:

Seeking one MS student and one PhD student each year, major in Precambrian geology and petrology. Foreign students are welcome.  

Postdoctors:

Srinjoy Datta(达思礼) Dr.

Postdoctor, from Jan 2026

Graduate from Banaras Hindu University

Tenure: 2026.1-2027.12

Research fields: Geodynamics (genesis and emplacement mechanism of giant mafic dyke swarms)

Current project: Geodynamics through Great Oxidation Event (GOE)

e-mail: srinjoydatta08@gmail.com  

LI Run(李润) Dr.

Postdoctor, from Dec 2025

Granduated from IGGCAS

Tenure: 2025.12-

Research fields: Sedimentology (oxidation of paleo-ocean in Precambrian)

Current project: Proterozoic oceanic oxidation events

e-mail: lirun@mail.iggcas.ac.cn

LIU Xu(刘旭) Dr.

Postdoctor, from July 2025

Granduated from IGGCAS

Tenure: 2025.7-

Research fields: Igneous petrology and geochemistry

Current project: Alkaline rocks and mineral potential in Precambrian

e-mail: liuxu@mail.iggcas.ac.cn

LIU Jiahui (刘嘉惠) Dr.

Postdoctor, from August, 2022

Graduated from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Tenure: 2022.8-

Research fields: metamorphic geology and Precambrian geology

Current project: Bigdata to metamorphic geology

e-mail: liujiahui16@mails.ucas.ac.cn

WANG Chong (王冲) Dr.

Postdoctor, from July, 2019

Graduated from IGGCAS (June, 2019)

Tenure: 2019.9-2022.1

Research fields: Precambrian Geology and Paleomagnetism

Current project: Early plate tectonics and supercontinent reconstruction

e-mail: wangchong@mail.iggcas.ac.cn

ZHANG Jing (张京)  Dr.

Postdoctor, from August, 2016

Graduated from Durham University (June, 2016)

Tenure: 2016.8-2018.8

Research fields: volcanology, mineralogy and geochemistry

Current project:Crystal chemostratigraphy and insights into open-system magmatic processes

e-mail: jing.zhang@mail.iggcas.ac.cn

Former graduate students:

LI Run (李润)

PhD candidate since July 2022

Research fields: carbon cycle in the Ediacaran ocean

PdD thesis: Stratigraphy and oceanic oxygenation event of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China

Defense date: 12 Nov 2025

e-mail: lirun@mail.iggcas.ac.cn

XU Bisheng (徐毕升)

Master student from July 2022

Research fields: Igneous petrology (genesis of the Rhyacian magmatism)

Master thesis: Discrimination of Plume Component: A Case Study of the 2115 Ma Haicheng Igneous Province in North China

Defense date: 21 May 2025

e-mail: xubisheng22@mails.ucas.ac.cn

Qin Zhaoyuan (秦照原)

Master student from July 2017

PhD from July 2019

Research fields: Micro-textures and in-situ compositions of igneous rocks and their differentiation processes

PhD thesis: Discovery of coexisting micro- to mesoscale immiscible textures and their implication for magma segregation

Defense date: 21 May 2025

e-mail: qinzhaoyuan17@mails.ucas.ac.cn

LIU Xu (刘旭)

PhD student from July 2019

Research fields: petrogenesis and environmental effects of syenite

PhD thesis: Petrogenesis of the circum-cratonic Triassic alkaline rock belt of North China Craton and cratonic-scale lithospheric mantle heterogeneity

Defense date: 21 May 2025

e-mail: liuxu@mail.iggcas.ac.cn

KANG Jianli (康健丽)

PhD candidate from Sept 2020

Research fields: early plate tectonics from interior to surface expression

PhD thesis: Petrogenesis of multistages of Paleoproterozoic magmatism inYunzhong Mts in North China craton: Implications for transition of tectonics

Defense date: 20 May 2024

e-mail: kangjianliww@126.com

LI Yun (李云)

Master degree (July 2011 to June 2014)

Research fields: Mafic dyke swarms and associations: ages, geometry, petrogenesis and paleogeographic reconstruction

Thesis: Geological comparison of 1800-1600 Ma mafic dyke swarms in the North China Craton: a study based on Luxi region

Defence date: 30 May, 2014

e-mail: liyun110cug@sina.com

WANG Xinping (王欣平) 

PhD (July 2012 to July 2017)

Research fields: Early Precambrian magmatism and Earth tectonics

Thesis: Research on the genesis and tectonic environment of the 2.1-1.9 Ga igneous events in Liaodong area, North China

Defence date: 27 May, 2017, Beijing

e-mail: wangxinping8@gmail.com   

YANG Shuyan (杨书艳)

Master degree (July 2014 to July 2017)

Research fields: Mafic dyke swarms and associations: ages, geometry, petrogenesis and paleogeographic reconstruction (Genetic relationship of volcanics and feeder dykes) Thesis: Genetic relationship between 1780 Ma Taihang dykes and Xiong’er volcanic province in the Lvliang area，North China

Defence date: 27 May, 2017, Beijing

e-mail: yangshuyan14@mails.ucas.ac.cn 

WANG Chong (王冲)

Master degree (July 2013 to June 2016)

Research fields: Mafic dyke swarms and associations: ages, geometry, petrogenesis and paleogeographic reconstruction

Master Thesis: Tectonic Environments of Yan-Liao Rift During Earth's Middle Age (1.7~0.75 Ga): Evidence from Mafic Dyke Swarms in Jidong

Defense date: 20 May, 2016

PhD candidate (July 2016 to June 2019)

PhD thesis: Paleogeographic reconstruction of the North China Craton in the supercontinent Nuna/Columbia: paleomagnetic and geological constraints

Defense date: 2 June, 2019e-mail: wangchongrongr@163.com

SUN Fengbo (孙风波)

PhD student, from July 2016

Research fields: Mafic dyke swarms and associations: ages, geometry, petrogenesis and paleogeographic reconstruction (sedimentology)

PhD thesis: Sedimentary evolution of the Neoproterozoic Xuhuai Basin and its implication on the paleo-tectonic framework of the southeastern North China Craton

Defense date: 5 Dec, 2019

e-mail: sunfengbonnn@126.com 

SU Xiangdong (苏向东)

Master student, from July 2015, PhD candidate from July 2017, graduate at May 27, 2020 

Research fields: Mafic dyke swarms and associations: ages, geometry, petrogenesis and paleogeographic reconstruction (petrogensis of high-Ti-Fe-P rocks)

PhD thesis: Petrogenesis of the 945-900 Ma Xuhuai high-Fe-Ti mafic sills: Implications for the rifting along the SE margin of the North China Craton

Defense date: 27 May, 2020

e-mail: xiangdongsu@163.com

ZHANG Zhiyue (张志越)

Master student, from July 2016; PhD candidate from July 2018; graduate at May 25, 2021

Research fields: Mafic dyke swarms and associations: ages, geometry, petrogenesis and paleogeographic reconstruction (environment analysis)

PhD thesis: Neoproterozoic chemostratigraphy of the Dalian Basin, North China: Implications for early palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic change

Defense date: 25 2021 May

e-mail: zhangzhiyue16@mails.ucas.ac.cn 

ZHOU Xiaotong (周小童)

PhD student, from July 2016; graduate at May 25, 2021

PhD thesis: Tracing Open System Magmatic Processes: An Example from Mt. Lamington Volcano

Defense date: 25 May, 2021

Research fields: volcanology, mineralogy and geochemistry

e-mail: 641720030@qq.com

Current graduate students:

DING Xin (丁欣)

PhD student from July 2025

Research fields: Precambrian magmatism-metamorphism and critical minerals

e-mail: dingxin@mail.iggcas.ac.cn

XU Bisheng (徐毕升)

Master student from July 2025

Research fields: Paleoproterozoic magmatism and carbon cycle

e-mail: xubisheng22@mails.ucas.ac.cn

LI Binghe (李冰荷)

PhD candidate since July 2022

Research fields: Igneous petrology and geochemistry (secular evolution of giant mafic dyke swarms)

e-mail: libinghe22@mails.ucas.ac.cn

DAI Ke (戴克)

PhD student, from July 2021

Research fields: Precambrian paleoenvironment

e-mail: daike21@mails.ucas.ac.cn

LIU Yushu(刘玉书)

Phd student, from July 2023

Research fields: paleogeographic reconstruction of supercontinents

E-mail: liuyushu23@mails.ucas.ac.cn