Yaoling Niu
Professor
Durham University
UK
Biography
Yaoling Niu obtained his BS from Lanzhou University (1982, China), MS from University of Alabama (1988, USA) and PhD from University of Hawaii (1992, USA). He was Lecture/Senior Lecture at the University of Queensland (1993-2001; Australia), a NERC Seanior Research Fellow at Cardiff University (2001-2003; UK), am Associate Propfessor at the University of Houston (2002-2004, USA). Since 2004, he has been Professor of Earth Sciences at Durham University (UK). Since 2003, he has also been Guest professor at several Chinese institutions, including the Institute of Oceanology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Qingdao). He uses petrology and geochemistry of igneous and metamorphic rocks from seafloor and on land as tools to study global tectonics and mantle dynamics. He has published over 170 peer-rerviewed publications with > 7500 citations and H-index of 51.
Research Interest
His research interest includes Igneous, metamorphic, and ore-forming processes; igneous phase equilibria; major element, trace element and isotope geochemistry; quantitative petrology and geochemistry of mantle and mantle-derived rocks; mantle melting dynamics and ocean crust formation; crust-mantle recycling; structure, composition and origin of lithospheric mantle (continental and oceanic); processes associated with mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones; seamount genesis; intra-plate volcanisms; and ophiolites. Petrology and geochemistry of ultra-high pressure metamorphic rocks in zones of continental collision and oceanic lithosphere subduction. Initiation of subduction zones and global tectonics. Magmatism associated with continental collision and continental crust growth.