• 2023/12-present, Associate Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2019/01-2023/12, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2013/09-2019/01, PhD in Geophysics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2009/09-2013/06, BS in Geophysics, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)

1. Seismic Data Analysis and Imaging
2. Crust-Mantle Structure, Properties, and Deformation

19.   Wang, X., Chen, L., Wang, X., 2023. Renewed epicentral distribution of low frequency marsquakes by varying-parameter polarization analysis of InSight data. Geophysical Research Letter, 50(16), e2023GL103896.   

18.   Wang X., Chen L., Wang X., Gao Y.F., 2023. P-wave particle motions in anisotropic and dipping structures: theoretical simulation and practical application. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 66(12): 4900-4915.

17.   Feng, M., Chen, L., Wei, S., Wang, X., Wang, X., Wu, Z., 2023. A new method to estimate slab dip direction using receiver functions and its application in revealing slab geometry and plate boundary diffusion beneath Sumatra. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(4), e2022JB024598.

16.   Wang, X., Chen, L., Talebian, M., Ai, Y., Jiang, M., Yao, H., He, Y., Ghods, A., Sobouti, F., Wan, B., Chu, Y., Hou, G., Chen, Q.-F., Chung, S.-L., Xiao, W., Wu, F.-Y., Zhu, R., 2022. Shallow crustal response to Arabia-Eurasia convergence in northwestern Iran: constraints from multifrequency P-wave receiver functions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(9), e2022JB024515.

15.   Gao, Y., Chen, L., Talebian, M., Wu, Z., Wang, X., Lan, H., Ai, Y., Jiang, M., Hou, G., Khatib, M.M., Xiao, W.-J., Zhu, R., 2022. Nature and structural heterogeneities of the lithosphere control the continental deformation in the northeastern and eastern Iranian plateau as revealed by shear-wave splitting observations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 578, 117284.

14.   Tang, C., Chen, L., Wang, X., 2022. Shear-wave velocity structures of the shallow crust beneath the Ordos and Sichuan Basins from multi-frequency direct P-wave amplitudes in receiver functions. Science China Earth Sciences, 65(5), 810-823.

13.   Gong, C., Chen, L., Xiao, Z., Wang, X., 2022. Deep learning for quality control of receiver functions. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10:921830.

12.   Lan, H., Chen, L., Chevrot, S., Talebian, M., Wang, X., Gao, Y., Zhang, J., Wu, Z., Shokati, M., Jiang, M., Ai, Y., Hou, G., Mao, M., Pham, T.-S., Xiao, W., Zhu, R., 2022. Structure of the Jaz Murian forearc basin, southeast Iran, revealed by autocorrelation and polarization analysis of teleseismic P and S waves. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(4), e2021JB023456.

11.   Chen, L., Wang, X., Wang, X., Wei, Z.G., Zhang, J.Y., 2022. Advances and perspectives for receiver function imaging of the Earth’s internal discontinuities and velocity structures. Reviews of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, 53(0): 1-22 (in Chinese).

10.   Wang, X., Chen, L., Yao, H., 2021. A new body-wave amplitude ratio-based method for imaging shallow crustal structure and its application in the Sichuan Basin, southwestern China. Geophysical Research Letter, 48(18), e2021GL095186.

9.     Wu, Z., Chen, L., Talebian, M., Wang, X., Jiang, M., Ai, Y., Lan, H., Gao, Y., Khatib, M.M., Hou, G., Chung, S.-L., Liang, X., Zhao, L., Naimi-Ghassabian, N., Xiao, W., Zhu, R., 2021. Lateral structural variation of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system in the northeastern to eastern Iranian plateau and its tectonic implications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(1), e2020JB020256.

8.     Feng M.Y., Chen L., Wang X., Wei S.J., Wang X., 2021. Crustal structure and its tectonic implications in Sundaland and adjacent areas: Constraints from tele-seismic receiver functions. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 64(12): 4364-4377.

7.     Chen, L., Wang, X., Liang, X., Wan, B., Liu, L., 2020. Subduction tectonics vs. Plume tectonics—Discussion on driving forces for plate motion. Science China Earth Sciences, 63(3), 315-328.

6.     Wang, X., Chen, L., Ling, Y., Gao, Y., Zhang, J., Yao, H., 2019. A new method to constrain shallow crustal S-wave velocities based on direct P-wave amplitudes in receiver functions and its application in northeastern Tibet, Science China Earth Sciences, 62(11), 1819-1831.

5.     Gao, Y., Chen, L., Wang, X., Ai, Y., 2019. Complex Lithospheric Deformation in Eastern and Northeastern Tibet from Shear-wave Splitting Observations and its Geodynamic Implications, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(10), 10,331-10,346.

4.     Zhang, J., Chen, L., Wang, X., 2019. Crustal structure study based on principal component analysis of receiver functions, Science China Earth Sciences, 62(7), 1110-1124.

3.     Wang, X., Chen, L., Ai, Y.S., Xu, T., Jiang, M.M., Ling, Y., Gao, Y.F., 2018. Crustal structure and deformation beneath eastern and northeastern Tibet revealed by P-wave receiver functions, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 497, 69-79.

2.     Wei X.Z., Jiang M.M, Chen L., Wang X., 2018. New VDSS method based on dense linear array and its applications. Progress in Geophysics (in Chinese), 33(3): 986-992.

1.     Ling, Y., Chen, L., Wei, Z.G., Jiang, M.M., Wang, X., 2017. Crustal S-velocity structure and radial anisotropy beneath the southern part of central and western North China Craton and the adjacent Qilian Orogenic Belt from ambient noise tomography, Science China Earth Science, 60(10), 1752-1768.