Areas of Focus
- Early Earth continental origin and tectonic evolution
- Precambrian supercontinent cycles
- Orogenic belt tectonic evolution
Work Experience
- 2023 - Present: Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
- 2018 - 2023: Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
- June 2017: Visiting Scholar, Swedish Museum of Natural History
- 2016 - 2018: Research Assistant, Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University, Australia
- 2015 - 2017: Assistant Research Fellow, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2012 - 2015 PhD in Structural Geology, Curtin University, Australia (Joint training) Supervisor: Professor Simon Wilde
- 2011 - 2014 PhD in Structural Geology, Nanjing University, Supervisor: Professor Wenbin Zhu
- 2008 - 2011 Master's in Structural Geology, Nanjing University, Supervisor: Professor Qinglong Zhang
- 2004 - 2008 Bachelor's in Geology, Nanjing University
- Recipient of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Young Scientists Fund (2019)
Publications
- Earth’s early continental crust formed from wet and oxidizing arc magmas, Ge, R.*, Wilde, S.A., Zhu, W., Wang, X., 2023
- Late Paleoproterozoic ultrahigh-temperature mafic granulite from the eastern Alxa Block, North China Craton, Wang, Y., Ge, R.*, Si, Y., 2023
- Garnet growth and diffusion zoning during the late Paleoproterozoic metamorphism, North Altyn area, SE Tarim Craton, NW China: Implications for a long-lived hot orogen, Wu, H., Zhu, W.*, Ge, R.*, 2023
- Formation and evolution of Archean continental crust: A thermodynamic – geochemical perspective of granitoids from the Tarim Craton, NW China, Ge, R.*, Wilde, S. A., Zhu, W., Zhou, T., Si, Y., 2022
- Early Earth zircons formed in residual granitic melts produced by tonalite differentiation: COMMENT, Ge, R.*, 2022
- Decoupling of metamorphic zircon U-Pb ages and P-T paths in the Dunhuang metamorphic complex, northwestern China, Si, Y., Ge, R.*, Zhou, T., Wang, Y., 2022
- Evidence for carbonatite derived from the earth's crust: The late Paleoproterozoic carbonate-rich magmatic rocks in the southeast Tarim Craton, northwest China, Wu, H., Zhu, W.*, Ge, R.*, 2021
- Is there a Grenvillian orogen in the southwestern Tarim Craton?, Zhou, T., Ge, R.F.*, Zhu, W.B., Wu, H.L, 2021
- Generation of Eoarchean continental crust from altered mafic rocks derived from a chondritic mantle: The ∼3.72 Ga Aktash gneisses, Tarim Craton (NW China), Ge, R.F.*, Wilde, S. A., Kemp, A. I. S., Jeon, H., Martin, L. A. J., Zhu, W.B., Wu, H.L., 2020
- Mechanisms and consequences of intra-crystalline enrichment of ancient radiogenic Pb in detrital Hadean zircons from the Jack Hills, Western Australia, Ge, R.F.*, Wilde, S. A., Nemchin, A. A., Whitehouse, M. J., Bellucci, J. J., Erickson, T. M., 2019
- Late Paleoproterozoic granulite-facies metamorphism in the North Altyn Tagh area, southeastern Tarim craton: Pressure-temperature paths, zircon U-Pb ages, and tectonic implications, Wu, H.L., Zhu, W.B.*, Ge, R.F.*, 2019
- Remnants of Eoarchean continental crust derived from a subducted proto-arc, Ge, R.F*., W.B. Zhu*, S.A. Wilde, and H.L. Wu, 2018
- A 4463 Ma apparent zircon age from the Jack Hills (Western Australia) resulting from ancient Pb mobilization, Ge, R.F.*, Wilde, S. A., Nemchin, A. A., Whitehouse, M. J., Bellucci, J. J., Erickson, T. M., Frew, A., Thern, E.R., 2018
- Mid‐Neoproterozoic (ca. 830–800 Ma) metamorphic P‐T paths link Tarim to the circum‐Rodinia subduction–accretion system, Ge, R. F.,Zhu W B*, Wilde S A,He J W, Cui X., 2016
- Synchronous crustal growth and reworking recorded in late Paleoproterozoic granitoids in the northern Tarim craton: In situ zircon U-Pb-Hf-O isotopic and geochemical constraints and tectonic implications, Ge, R. F.,Zhu W B*, Wilde S A, Wu H L, He J W, Zheng B H., 2015
Awards
- 2019: Second Prize in the 2nd National College Young Teachers Geological Course Teaching Competition
- 2016: Jiangsu Province Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
- 2016: Nanjing University Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
- 2014: Li Siguang Outstanding Doctoral Student Award
