PI

Xiaodong Ma  马晓冬

Professor, School of Earth and Space Sciences

University of Science and Technology of China

Email: maxiaodong@ustc.edu.cn

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Postdocs

Hamza Skikra

2026 - Present

Shuai Wang  王帅

2026 - Present

PhD Students

Guangyu Wang  王光宇

2023 - Present

Ahmed Ismail

2023 - Present

Haonan Wang  王浩男

2024 - Present

Zhaoxuan Guan  关兆萱

2025 - Present

Changliang Wu  吴长亮

2026 - Present

Guanlan Xu  徐观澜

2026 - Present

Fan Bu  卜凡

2026 - Present

Master's Students

Sijie Xiong  熊思捷

2023 - 2026

Shuibin Jiang  蒋水斌

2023 - 2026

Shahid Balti

2023 - Present

Muyang Li  李沐阳

2024 - Present

Kejian Zhao  赵可鉴

2024 - Present

Jingyi Huang  黄敬懿

2025 - Present

Zirui Deng  邓子睿

2025 - Present

Jinchuan Liu  刘锦川

2025 - Present

Jinlin Yang  杨谨临

2026 - Present

Qinjin Fu  付勤谨

2026 - Present

Jinbo Song  宋金博

2026 - Present

Yu Peng  彭宇

2026 - Present

Shouyu Duan  段守宇

2026 - Present

Undergraduates

Ziming Zheng  郑梓铭

Zhenhao Zhang  张振豪

Xinhan He  何欣翰

Jiawei Feng  冯嘉为

Alumni

• Xiaokun Xie  谢肖坤

  Southeast University PhD student, visiting ETH (awarded China Scholarship Council (CSC) Grant) (2022-2024).

  Now post-Doc at Nanjing University of Science and Technology.

• Shimeng Hu  胡诗梦

  CUPB PhD student, visiting ETH (awarded CSC Grant) (2022-2024).

  Now PhD candidate at China University of Petroleum, Beijing.

• Wentao Xu  许文涛

  Nanjing University PhD student, visiting ETH (awarded CSC Grant) (2021-2022).

  Now associate professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology

• Jin Huang  黄进

  Tsinghua University PhD student, visiting ETH Zürich (awarded CSC Grant) (2021-2022).

  Now post-Doc at Tsinghua University.

• Deborah Stadler

  ETH Zürich, MSc (Engineering Geology) (awarded SASEG Student Grant) (2021-2022).

  Now Project Engineer (Tunnelling) at AFRY Switzerland.

• Gaosheng Wang  王高升

  CUPB PhD student, visiting ETH (awarded CSC Grant) (2021-2022).

  Now Associate Professor at China University of Petroleum, Beijing.

• Jinqiu Chong  种金秋

  ETH Zürich, MSc (IDEA League Applied Geophysics) (2020-2021).

  Now PhD student at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

• Vasiliki Rousopoulou

  ETH Zürich, MSc (IDEA League) thesis (2019-2020).

  Now Geoscientist at Dr. von Moos AG, Switzerland.

• Rutger van Limborgh

  ETH Zürich, MSc (IDEA League) (awarded SASEG Student Grant) thesis (2019-2020).

  Now Associate, Sector Coverage (Metals, Mining & Fertilizers APAC) at ING Singapore.

• Man Zhang  张曼

  Tsinghua University PhD student, visiting ETH (awarded CSC Grant) (2019-2020).

  Now at the Department of Transportation, Shandong Province.

• Shihuai Zhang  张诗淮

  Post-Doc at ETH Zürich (2019-2022) and research associate at USTC (2023-2024).

  Now Research Scientist at USTC.

• Kai Bröker

  MSc student (IDEA League) (awarded IDEA League Research Grant) thesis (2018-2019) and PhD student at ETH Zürich (2019-2023).

  Now post-Doc at University of Neuchâtel, CH.

• Zhiqiang Li  李志强

  Shandong University PhD candidate, visiting ETH (awarded CSC Grant) (2018-2019).

  Now associate professor at Shandong University.

• David Jordan

  ETH Zürich, MSc (Engineering Geology) (w/ Prof. Simon Löw) thesis (2018-2019).

  Now Geologist at SBB, Swiss Federal Railways (Infrastructure and Geotechnics).

• Maria Cardenas Rivera

  ETH Zürich, MSc (IDEA League) (2017-2018).

  Now geoscientist at CGG.

Visitors

• Pinzhen Gong  龚品祯

  High school student at SMIC Private School Shanghai, visiting USTC as summer research intern (2025).

• Yige Zhang  张亦歌

  MSc student (Geophysics) at ETH Zürich (2021-2024), visiting USTC (2023).

  Now research assistant at KAUST.

• Tong Wu  吴同

  Southeast University undergraduate, visiting USTC for senior thesis (2023).

  Now PhD student at Stanford University, previously MSc student at UC Berkeley.