My research focuses on Southeast Asian tectonics and I lead the LA‑ICP‑MS and Fission‑Track Laboratories.

• Physical variations of magma emplacement and their tectonic implications (tectonics), including magma ascent, migration, accumulation and emplacement, as well as the formation and construction of plutons/plutonic belts.
• Magma provenance, crustal growth and orogenic processes (geochemistry). Constrains the evolutionary history of continental crust growth via studies on magma genesis and source evolution.
• Cross‑sphere geodynamic processes of magmatism and their paleoenvironmental impacts. Combines shallow‑deep magmatic coupling analysis with machine‑learning approaches to investigate habitability effects triggered by deep‑time magmatic activities.

• National Young Talent Program
• Hou Defeng Young Scientist Award in Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry
• Committee Member of the Tectonics and Geodynamics Commission, Geological Society of China

• Associate Editor for Tectonics (2020‑2027)
• Associate Editor for GSA Bulletin (2020‑2028)
• Editorial Board Member of Geology (2023‑2025)
• Editorial Board Member of Communications Earth & Environment (2026-2030)

• Li, S.*, Xiao, W., Quek, L.X., Chew, D. and Setiawan, I., 2026. The role of equatorial juvenile arcs in the Middle Triassic seawater 87Sr/86Sr decline during the Pangean “quiet” period. Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G54913.1.
• Qiu, Z.-Y. and Li, S.*, 2026. Source-Inherited Redox Constraints on Triassic Granitoid Diversity and Implications for Li Enrichment in the NE Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Petrology. egag041, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egag041.
• Quek, L.X., Li, S.*, Ghani, A.A., Roselee, M.H., Lai, Y.-M., Amran, M.A., Amir Hassan, M.H., Ng, T.F., Guo, D.H., Talib, N.K., Ali, A.N. and Lokman, M.F., 2026. Partitioned Pathways, Unified Sibumasu Depocenter: Gondwanan Tectono-Climatic Rerouting From West Malaya's Detrital Record. Tectonics, 45(5): e2025TC009062.
• Guo, D., Quek, L.*, Li, S.*, Setiawan, I. and Lai, Y.-M., 2025. Two contrasting thermal evolution processes of Cretaceous granitic magma in Central Java, Indonesia, and implications for the Neo-Tethys Ocean. GSA Bulletin, 137(11-12): 5311–5328.
• Guo, D., Li, S.*, Permana, H., Lai, Y.-M., Setiawan, I., 2023. Petrogenesis of two Cretaceous granitoid episodes in the Luk Ulo region, Central Java, Indonesia, and its implication for the tectonic evolution of the easternmost Neo-Tethys. GSA Bulletin 136, 1846-1862.
• Wu, D., Li, S.*, Dias, A.N.C., Chew, D.*, 2023. Coupling Between Exhumation and Subduction: A Case Study From the Southern Great Xing'an Range, NE Asia. Geophysical Research Letters 50, e2023GL105321.
• Quek, L.X., Li, S.*, Morley, C.K., Ghani, A.A., Zhu, J., Roselee, M.H., Murthadha, S., Rahmat, R., Lai, Y.-M., Lintjewas, L., 2023. Southwest Borneo, an autochthonous Pangea-Eurasia assembly proxy: Insights from detrital zircon record. Geology 51, 785-790.
• Li, S., Miller, C.F., Tao, W., Xiao, W., Chew, D., 2022. Role of sediment in generating contemporaneous, diverse “type” granitoid magmas. Geology 50, 427-431.
• Zhu, J.*, Li, S.*, Murtadha, S., 2022. Oldest Basement (ca. 462 Ma) in Indonesian Borneo and its Implication for Early Paleozoic Tectonic Evolution of SE Asia. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 96, 2093-2104.
• Wu, D., Li, S.*, Chew, D., Liu, T., Guo, D., 2021. Permian-Triassic magmatic evolution of granitoids from the southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Implications for accretion leading to collision. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences 64, 788-806.
• Li, S., Chung, S.-L., Lai, Y.-M., Ghani, A.A., Lee, H.-Y., Murtadha, S., 2020. Mesozoic juvenile crustal formation in the easternmost Tethys: Zircon Hf isotopic evidence from Sumatran granitoids, Indonesia. Geology 48, 1002-1005.
• Li, S., Chung, S.-L., Hou, Z., Chew, D., Wang, T., Wang, B., Wang, Y., 2019. Early Mesozoic Magmatism Within the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for the Paleo-Tethyan Tectonic Evolution and Continental Amalgamation. Tectonics 38, 3505-3543.
• Li, S., Chung, S.-L., Wang, T., Wilde, A.S., Chu, M.-F., Pang, C.-J., Guo, Q.-Q., 2018. Water-fluxed crustal melting and petrogenesis of large-scale Early Cretaceous intracontinental granitoids in the southern Great Xing’an Range, North China. GSA Bulletin 130, 580-597.
• Li, S., Chung, S.-L., Wilde, S.A., Jahn, B.-M., Xiao, W.-J., Wang, T., Guo, Q.-Q., 2017. Early-Middle Triassic high Sr/Y granitoids in the southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Implications for ocean closure in accretionary orogens. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 122, 2291-2309.
• Li, S., Chung, S.-L., Wang, T., Wilde, S.A., Chu, M.-F., Guo, Q.-Q., 2017. Tectonic significance and geodynamic processes of large-scale Early Cretaceous granitoid magmatic events in the southern Great Xing'an Range, North China. Tectonics 36, 615-633.
• Li, S., Chung, S.-L., Wilde, S.A., Wang, T., Xiao, W.-J., Guo, Q.-Q., 2016. Linking magmatism with collision in an accretionary orogen. Scientific Reports 6, 25751.
• Li, S., Wilde, S.A., Wang, T., Xiao, W.J., Guo, Q.Q., 2016. Latest Early Permian granitic magmatism in southern Inner Mongolia, China: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the southeastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Gondwana Research 29, 168-180.
• Li, S., Wilde, S.A., He, Z., Jiang, X., Liu, R., Zhao, L., 2014. Triassic sedimentation and postaccretionary crustal evolution along the Solonker suture zone in Inner Mongolia, China. Tectonics 33, 960-981.
• Li, S., Wang, T., Wilde, S.A., Tong, Y., 2013. Evolution, source and tectonic significance of Early Mesozoic granitoid magmatism in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (central segment). Earth-Science Reviews 126, 206-234.
• Li, S., Wilde, S.A., Wang, T., 2013. Early Permian post-collisional high-K granitoids from Liuyuan area in southern Beishan orogen, NW China: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications. Lithos 179, 99-119.
• Li, S., Wilde, S.A., Wang, T., Guo, Q.Q., 2013. Incremental growth and origin of the Cretaceous Renjiayingzi pluton, southern Inner Mongolia, China: Evidence from structure, geochemistry and geochronology. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 75, 226-242.
• Li, S., Wang, T., Wilde, S.A., Tong, Y., Hong, D.W., Guo, Q.Q., 2012. Geochronology, petrogenesis and tectonic implications of Triassic granitoids from Beishan, NW China. Lithos 134–135, 123-145.

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Global tectonics (Master's and Doctoral Programs)