Updates on my work-related activities
2024
December: Check out our session ("Low-probability high-impact eruptions") at IAVCEI2025! Abstract submission open till December 20, 2024.
November: I joined the Editorial Board of Volcanica as a Topical Editor.
July-August: published a first-author paper in CMP about global magmatic apatite volatile systematics: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-024-02147-8
June: gave a talk about analysis of apatite chemistry at the microanalysis forum at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou); had an amazing conference and good time!
May: honoured to give an invited talk at the 9th Young Scientist Forum of Earth Sciences in Xiamen.
March: Led the VRockLab group members to attend ACV field camp in Bali, Indonesia (first time for HKUers to participate) and (re)visited Batur and Agung volcanoes!
January: Start to be the PI of the electron microprobe (EPMA) laboratory at HKU (check out the "facilities" page for more info).
2023
October
Our new Zeiss microscope has been installed in our laboratory (see more from the "facilities" page).
September
Gave invited talks at the Hutton-X granite conference in Baveno, Italy (Sep 10-15), and the Geological Society of China Annual Meeting (中国地质学会2023学术年会) in Hainan, China (Sep 19-21).
July-August
The Goldschmidt and AOGS sessions we convened went super well. Thank you to all co-convenors and speakers!!
April
Gave a science talk at the Singapore International School (Hong Kong). Glad to find out that the local students know a lot about geohazards!
February
I'm convening two conference sessions this summer: AOGS SE08 and Goldschmidt 5e. Abstract submission deadlines are approaching!
January
We have a new paper published in CMP about magma volatile story of Erebus volcano, Antarctica and a generalised apatite-melt REE partitioning model: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-022-01985-8
2022
May
I will start a new position (tenure-track assistant professor & museum curator) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) from October 2022. Super excited!
March
I was invited to gave a Zoom talk (in Chinese) for Southwest University on the 17th and am happy to have had over 300 attendees at the talk!
February
I gave a Zoom talk at the Bochum diffusion seminar series - a great honour for me and it's good to hear new feedbacks! The talk is about applications of apatite diffusion chronometry to estimating magma ascent time-rates, and the link to the recorded talk can be found at "PRESENTATIONS" page.
January
I wrote a pop-science article (in Chinese) about the recent Tonga eruption. It's published on guokr.com（果壳网）and has received >200,000 readings. All my pop-science articles there have reached ~470,000 readings.
2021
September
I have joined Trinity Hall (Cambridge) as PDRA (October 2021 to October 2023).
April
I have started my postdoctoral research at University of Cambridge on mantle chemistry and temperature.
2020
October
The last chapter of my Ph.D. thesis about investigating the effusive-explosive transition at Merapi volcano using apatite is now published in Journal of petrology.
September
I will give an invited talk about two apatite-based online calculation tools (ApThermo and ApTimer) at AGU Fall meeting (virtual) in December.
August
Our experimental/modelling work of a new apatite diffusion chronometer is now published in EPSL.
July
I gave an invited talk at JpGU-AGU joint meeting (virtual) and tutored in Goldschmidt diffusion workshop (virtual).
2019
November
On the 8th, I defended my Ph.D.! The first chapter of my Ph.D. thesis on a new apatite-melt hygrometry based on thermodynamics and existing experimental data is published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.