Dr. XIE Jingchun

Dr. XIE Jingchun 謝景椿

Supervisor: Prof. ZHAN Yan

Room 325, Science Centre North Block
Dr. XIE Jingchun

Education

2023 Ph.D. Physics Joint educated by Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and ShanghaiTech University

Academic Employments

2025 - present Research Assistant, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2023 - 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2017 - 2023 Research Assistant, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Fields and Current Research Interests

  • Planetary science
  • Lithospheric deformation
  • Mantle dynamics of terrestrial planets

Representative Publications

XIE J-C, HUANG C-L. On the formation of thrust fault-related landforms on Mercury: The key parameters controlling the mechanical structure of the lithosphere. Icarus [J], 2023, 401: 115594.
XIE J-C, HUANG C-L, ZHANG M. On the formation of thrust fault-related landforms in Mercury’s Northern Smooth Plains: A new mechanical model of the lithosphere. Icarus [J], 2022, 388: 115197.

Honours and Awards

2017 - 2022 Graduate scholarship of ShanghaiTech University

Selected Recent Publications

  1. XIE J-C, HUANG C-L. On the formation of thrust fault-related landforms on Mercury: The key parameters controlling the mechanical structure of the lithosphere. Icarus [J], 2023, 401: 115594.
  2. XIE J-C, HUANG C-L, ZHANG M. On the formation of thrust fault-related landforms in Mercury’s Northern Smooth Plains: A new mechanical model of the lithosphere. Icarus [J], 2022, 388: 115197.
  3. XIE J-C, ZHANG M, HUANG C-L. Influence of Megaregolith on the thermal evolution of Mercury’s silicate shell. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics [J], 2022, 22: 035026.

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