2015-2021 PhD in Solid Earth Geophysics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Supervisor: Chunyan Qu
2018-2019 Joint training at University of California, Berkeley, Supervisor: Professor Roland Burgmann
2011-2015 Bachelor in Geomatics Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China)
2023-Present Nanjing University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Full-time Research, Contact Professors: Qin Wang and Huihui Weng
2021-2023 Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Postdoctoral Researcher, Supervisor: Xinjian Shan
Top Downloaded Article at JGR: Solid Earth (2022)
Outstanding Young Scientific Achievement Award, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration (2022)
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Geophysical Society (2022)
National Scholarship, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration (2021)
First Class Academic Scholarship, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration (2 times)
Outstanding Student Paper Award at the Chinese Geosciences Union Annual Meeting (2017, 2020)
Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, Chinese Society of Surveying and Mapping (2019, ranked 10/10)
Outstanding Graduate, China University of Petroleum (East China) (2015)
National Scholarship, China University of Petroleum (East China) (2014)
National Inspirational Scholarship, China University of Petroleum (East China) (2013)
Second Prize in the Shandong Regional National College Student Mathematics Modeling Contest (2013)
National Inspirational Scholarship, China University of Petroleum (East China) (2012)
Research
Natural seismic cycle deformation Active tectonic deformation Fault multi-scale deformation and mechanisms Lithospheric rheology Fault interseismic locking coupling InSAR wide-area deformation data processing
An Updated Fault Coupling Model Along Major Block‐Bounding Faults on the Eastern and Northeastern Tibetan Plateau From a Stress‐Constrained Inversion of GPS and InSAR Data, Zhao, D., Qu, C., Shan, X., Gong, W., Weng, H., Chen, H., & Wu, D., 2024
Large-Scale Crustal Deformation, Slip-Rate Variation, and Strain Distribution Along the Kunlun Fault (Tibet) From Sentinel-1 InSAR Observations (2015-2020), Zhao, D., Qu, C., Bürgmann, R., Gong, W., Shan, X., Qiao, X., et al., 2022
Characterizing Deep, Shallow, and Surface Fault Zone Deformation of the 2021 Mw 7.4 Maduo, China, Earthquake, Zhao, D., Qu, C., Bürgmann, R., & Shan, X., 2024
Transient fault creep on the Xidatan (Tibet) fault driven by viscoelastic relaxation following the 2001 Kokoxili earthquake, Zhao, D., Qu, C., Shan, X., Bürgmann, R., Chen, H., Materna, K., 2023
Post-seismic deformation of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake reveals a misaligned rheological boundary in the lower crust along the eastern Tibetan Plateau margin, Zhao, D., Qu, C., Bürgmann, R., Shan, X., Chen, H., Wu, D., & Gong, W., 2023
Relaxation of Tibetan lower crust and afterslip driven by the 2001 Mw7. 8 Kokoxili, China, earthquake constrained by a decade of geodetic measurements, Zhao, D., Qu, C., Bürgmann, R., Gong, W., & Shan, X., 2021
Tectonic and Geometric Control on Fault Kinematics of the 2021 Mw7. 3 Maduo (China) Earthquake Inferred From Interseismic, Coseismic, and Postseismic InSAR Observations, Zhao, D., Qu, C., Chen, H., Shan, X., Song, X., & Gong, W., 2021
Multifault complex rupture and afterslip associated with the 2018 Mw 6.4 Hualien earthquake in northeastern Taiwan, Zhao, D., Qu, C., Shan, X., Bürgmann, R., Gong, W., Tung, H., et al., 2021
New insights into the 2010 Yushu Mw6. 9 mainshock and Mw5. 8 aftershock, China, from InSAR observations and inversion, Zhao, D., Qu, C., Shan, X., Gong, W., Zhang, G., & Song, X., 2019
InSAR and GPS derived coseismic deformation and fault model of the 2017 Ms7.0 Jiuzhaigou earthquake in the Northeast Bayanhar block, Zhao, D.Z., Qu, C.Y., Shan, X.J., Gong, W.Y., Zhang, Y.F., Zhang, G.H., 2018
Broadscale postseismic deformation and lower crustal relaxation in the central Bayankala Block (central Tibetan Plateau) observed using InSAR data, Zhao, D.Z., Qu, C.Y., Shan, X.J., Zuo, R.H., Liu, Y.H., Gong, W.Y., Zhang, G.H., 2018
Spatiotemporal evolution of postseismic deformation following the 2001 Mw7. 8 Kokoxili, China, earthquake from 7 years of InSAR observations, Zhao, D., Qu, C., Shan, X., Bürgmann, R., Gong, W., & Zhang, G., 2018
Coseismic Slip Model of the 2022 Mw 6.7 Luding (Tibet) Earthquake: Pre‐and Post‐Earthquake Interactions With Surrounding Major Faults, Li, Y., Zhao, D., Shan, X., Gao, Z., Huang, X., & Gong, W., 2022
Fault geometry and low frictional control of the near-field postseismic deformation of the 2021 Mw 7.3 Maduo earthquake, Zhao, L., Xu, W., Xie, L., Zhao, D., Zhu, Z., Wu, P., & Guo, H., 2023
InSAR Observations Reveal Variations in Shallow Creep on the Kangding Segment of the Xianshuihe Fault, Huang, X., Li, Y., Shan, X., Zhao, D., Gao, Z., Gong, W., & Qu, C., 2023
InSAR-derived present-day crustal movement of Daliangshan on the southeastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, Gong, W., Song, X., Zhang, Y., Hua, J., Sun, H., Zhao, D., Zhu, C., & Shan, X., 2023
3-D coseismic displacement mapping of the 2015 Mw7. 8 Gorkha earthquake using multi-viewed InSAR, Chen, H., Qu, C., Zhao,
