Faculty
Jiashun Hu received his bachelor’s degree from Peking University in 2013 and his Ph.D degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018. He was a postdoc in the Seismological Laboratory at California Institute of Technology from 2018 to 2020. Upon finishing his postdoc research, he joined SUSTech in 2020. As a first author or corresponding author, Jiashun has published multiple papers on academic journals such as Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, and so on. His research interests cover a wide range of topics, including the driving mechanisms of plate motion, orogenic process at subduction zones, the evolution of cratons, and the distribution of earthquakes and volcanisms. For most of his research, he uses supercomputers and large-scale computing to simulate complex dynamics of the solid Earth with constraints from geophysical and geological observations.
Educational background
2018-2020 Ph.D, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2013-2018 Bachelor, Peking University
Work Experience
2022- Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology
2020-2022 Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology
2018-2020 Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology
Honors & Awards
2019 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self Finance Students Abroad
2018 R. James Kirkpatrick Award for Outstanding Graduate Research, UIUC
Peer-reviewed publications：
Hu, J., Gurnis, M., Rudi, J., Stadler, G. & Muller D. (2022). Dynamics of the abrupt change in Pacific Plate motion around 50 Ma, Nature Geoscience, 15(74-78).
Hu, J., Liu, L., & Gurnis, M. (2021). Southward expanding plate coupling due to climate-tectonic interaction as a cause of Andean growth, Nature Communications, 12(7271).
Peng, D., Liu, L., Hu, J., Li, S., & Liu, Y. (2021). Formation of East Asian Stagnant Slabs Due To a Pressure‐Driven Cenozoic Mantle Wind Following Mesozoic Subduction. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(18), e2021GL094638.
Hu, J., & Gurnis, M. (2020). Subduction Duration and Slab Dip. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(4), e2019GC008862.
Rajaonarison, T. A., Stamps, D. S., Fishwick, S., Brune, S., Glerum, A., & Hu, J. (2020). Numerical Modeling of Mantle Flow Beneath Madagascar to Constrain Upper Mantle Rheology Beneath Continental Regions. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, 125(2).
Hu, J., Liu, L. & Zhou, Q. (2018). Reproducing Past Subduction Using High-resolution Global Convection Models. Earth and Planetary Physics, 2(3), 189-207.
Hu, J., & Liu, L., Faccenda M., Zhou Q., Fischer K. M., Marshak S., Lundstrom C. (2018). Western Gondwana craton modification by plume-lithosphere interaction. Nature Geoscience, 11(3), 203.
Zhou, Q., Hu, J., Liu, L., Chaparro, T., Stegman, D. R., & Faccenda, M. (2018). Western US seismic anisotropy revealing complex mantle dynamics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 500, 156-167.
Zhou, Q., Liu, L., & Hu, J. (2018). Formation of the Yellowstone Volcanic Province due to Intruding Hot Oceanic Asthenosphere. Nature Geoscience, Nature Geoscience, 11(1), 70.
Hu, J., Faccenda, M., & Liu, L. (2017). Subduction-controlled mantle flow and seismic anisotropy in South America. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 470, 13-24.
Hu, J., & Liu, L. (2016). Abnormal seismological and magmatic processes controlled by the tearing South American flat slabs. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 40-51.
Hu, J., Liu, L., Hermosillo, A., & Zhou, Q. (2016). Simulation of late Cenozoic South American flat-slab subduction using geodynamic models with data assimilation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 438, 1-13.