1. Digital seismogram analysis, earthquake location, receiver function, shear wave splitting and seismic body wave travel-time tomography based on finite frequency theory
2. Earth interior structure detection by seismic method and related geodynamic process research
3. Rheological structure of continental lithosphere related with intermediate depth earthquakes
4. Rifting process induced by continental-continental collision

09/2002-01/2009 Ph.D., Geophysics, School of Earth and Space Science, Peking University, P. R. China
09/2007-09/2008 Visiting student, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, USA
09/1998-07/2002 B.S., Applied Geophysics, Department of Geophysics, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), P. R. China

   

2/2012-noew Associate Professor, Geophysics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science
10/2009-2/2012 Post-doctoral Scholar, Geophysics, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri – Columbia, USA

   

2013 

1. Liang, X., E. Sandvol, S. Kay, B. Heit, X. Yuan, P. Mulcahy, C. Chen, L. Brown, D. Comte, P. Alvarado, Delamination of southern Puna lithosphere revealed by body wave attenuation tomography, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., in reversion, 2013
2. Nunn, C., S. W. Roecker, K. F. Priestley, X. Liang, Joint inversion of surface waves and teleseismic body waves across the Tibetan collision zone: the fate of subducted Indian lithosphere, submitted to Geophys. J. Int., 2013.
3. Chen, L.*, T. V. Gerya, Z. Zhang, A. Aitken, Z. Li, X. Liang，Formation mechanism of steep convergent continental margins: Insights from numerical modeling, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi: 10.1029/2013GL055693, 2013.
4. Lü, Y*, Z. Zhang, S. Pei, E. Sandvol, T. Xu, X. Liang, 2.5-Dimensional Tomography of Uppermost Mantle beneath Sichuan–Yunnan and Surrounding Regions, Tectonophysics, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2013.03.008, 2013.【PDF】

2012 

1. Liang, X., E. Sandvol, Y.J. Chen, T. Hearn, J. Ni , S. Klemperer, Y. Shen and F. Tilmann, A complex Tibetan upper mantle: A fragmented Indian slab and no south-verging subduction of Eurasian lithosphere, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., in revision, 2012.【PDF】
2. Yue, H., Y.J. Chen, E. Sandvol, J. Ni, T. Hearn, S. Zhou, Z. Ge, Y. Feng, Y. Wang, Y. Tang, X. Liang, M. Jiang, S. Wei, G. Jin, H. Wang, W. Fan and Z. Liu, Lithosphere and upper mantle structure of the northeastern Tibetan plateau, J. Geophys. Res., in reversion, 2012.【PDF】

2011 

1. Jiang, M.M., S. Zhou, E. Sandvol, X. Chen, X. Liang, Y.J. Chen and W. Fan, 3-D lithospheric structure beneath southern Tibet from Rayleigh-wave tomography with a 2-D seismic array, Geophys. J. Int., 185, 593-608, 2011 【PDF】
2. Liang, X., Y. Shen, Y.J. Chen, Y. Ren, Crustal and mantle velocity models of southern Tibet from finite frequency tomography, J. Geophy. Res., 116, B02408, doi:10.1029/2009JB007159, 2011.【PDF】

2004-2009 

1. Liang, X., S. Zhou, Y.J. Chen, G. Jin, L. Xiao, P. Liu, Y. Fu, Y. Tang, X. Lou, J. Ning, Local earthquake distribution in southern Tibet and its tectonic implication, J. Geophy. Res., 113, B12409, doi:10.1029/2007JB005101, 2008. 【PDF】
2. Fu, Y.Y., Y. J. Chen, A. Li, S. Zhou, X. Liang, G. Ye, G. Jin, M. Jiang, and J. Ning , Indian mantle corner flow at southern Tibet revealed by shear wave splitting measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L02308, doi:10.1029/2007GL031753, 2008. 【PDF】