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Name  
 Sun Weijia
Title  
   Professor (full)
Highest Education  
   Ph.D.
Subject Categories  
   Geophysics, Planetary interior physics, Planetary seismology
Phone  
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Zip Code  
   100029
Fax  
   86-10-62010846
Email  
   swj@mail.iggcas.ac.cn
Office  
   No.19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029

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Education
2008/03-2009/01, Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia, Visiting Student
2005/09-2010/07, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD
2001/09-2005/08, Chang’an University, BSc
Work experience
2020/12-present, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor (full)
2019/07-2019/09, The Australian National University, Visiting Scholar
2015/03-2016/03, The Australian National University, Visiting Scholar
2013/01-2020/12, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor
2010/05-2012/12, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Postdoctor
2008/03-2009/01, Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia, Visitor

Research Interests：

My research focuses on the development of innovative methods for processing and imaging planetary seismic data. By analyzing seismograms from Earth, the Moon, and Mars, I aim to elucidate the internal structure, physical properties, and evolutionary history of these celestial bodies.
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Featured：

3. Sun, Weijia, Tkalčić, H., 2022, Repetitive marsquakes in Martian upper mantle. Nature Communications, 13, 1695. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29329-x.

2. Sun, Weijia, Ao, S., Tang, Q., Malusà, M. G., Zhao, L., Xiao, W., 2022, Forced Cenozoic continental subduction of Tarim craton-like lithosphere below the Tianshan revealed by ambient noise tomography. Geology, 50 (12): 1393–1397.

1. Sun, Weijia, Kennett, B. L.N., Zhao, L., Fu, L.Y., 2019, Continental Lithospheric Layering Beneath Stable, Modified, and Destroyed Cratons from Seismic Daylight Imaging, In: Lithospheric Discontinuities. Huaiyu Yuan and Barbara Romanowicz (eds), AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, 239, 155-176. (Invited chapter)



First Author and Corresponding Author：

35. Sun, Weijia, Tkalčić, H., 2025. Constraints on the origin of the Martian dichotomy from Southern Highlands marsquakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(1), e2024GL110921.

34. Sun, Weijia, Tkalčić, H., Tang, Q., 2024, Single-Station Back-Azimuth Determination With the Receiver Function Rotation Technique Validated by the Locations of Earthquakes, Impacts, and Explosions, Seismological Research Letters, accepted.

33. Sun, Weijia, Wei, Y., 2023, China’s deep space exploration into Martian and lunar deep interior. Chinese Science Bulletin, 573-575.

32. Tang, Q., Sun, Weijia, Hu, J., Fu, L. Y., 2023. Seismological reference earth model in South China (SREM-SC): Upper mantle. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 1080298.

31. Hu, J., Sun, Weijia, Liu, C., Tang, Q., Fu, L. Y., 2023. Seismological reference earth model in South China (SREM-SC): Crust and uppermost mantle. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 1080307.

30. Tang, Q., Sun, Weijia, Yoshizawa, K., Fu, L.-Y., 2022. Anomalous radial anisotropy and its implications for upper mantle dynamics beneath South China from multimode surface wave tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.127, e2021JB023485.

29. Jiang, M., Sun, Weijia, Hu, J., Tang, Q., 2022. Lithospheric structures beneath the Tibetan Plateau from Sn propagation efficiency. Lithosphere. 222, 4073788, https://doi.org/10.2113/2022/4073788

28. Tang, Q., Sun, Weijia, Ao, S., Fu, L.Y., Xiao, W., 2022. Strong lateral heterogeneities of upper mantle shear-wave structures beneath Central and Eastern Tien Shan. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 111:2555-2569.

27. Talihaer Hapaer, Tang, Q., Sun, Weijia, Ao, S., Zhao, L., Hu, J., Jiang, M., Xiao, W., 2022. Uppermost mantle structure beneath the western and central Tien Shan from Pn traveltime tomography. International Journal of Earth Sciences. 111:2571-2584.

26. Sun, Weijia, Wang, Y. B., Wei, Y., Zhao, L., 2021, Martian seismology and review of Martian interior structure. Reviews of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, 52(4): 437-449.

25. Jiang, M., Sun, Weijia, Talihaer Hapaer, Wei, W., Li, Q., Fu, L.-Y., 2021, Progress of seismic full-waveform inversion and its applications in investigating the crust-mantle structure. Progress in Geophysics (in Chinese), 36(2): 464-480.

24. Sun, Weijia, Kennett, B.L.N., 2020, Common-reflection-point-based prestack depth migration for imaging lithosphere in Python: Application to the dense Warramunga array in northern Australia, Seismological Research Letters, 91, 2890-2899.

23. Sun, Weijia, Zhao, L., Yuan, H., Fu, L.‐Y., 2020, Sharpness of the midlithospheric discontinuities and craton evolution in North China, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2019JB018594.

22. Sun, Weijia, Zhao, L., Malusà, M.G., Guillot, S., Fu, L.-Y., 2019. 3-D Pn tomography reveals continental subduction at the boundaries of the Adriatic microplate in the absence of a precursor oceanic slab, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 510, 131-141.

21. Sun, Weijia, Zhao L., Wei, Y., L-Y Fu, 2019, Detection of seismic events on Mars: a lunar perspective, Earth and Planetary Physics, 3(4): 290-297.

20. Sun, Weijia, L.-Y. Fu, W. Wei, Q. Tang, 2019, A new seismic daylight imaging method for determining the structure of lithospheric discontinuity, Science China Earth Sciences, 62(2), 473-488.

19. Sun, Weijia, L.-Y. Fu, E. Saygin, L. Zhao, 2018, Insights into layering in the cratonic lithosphere beneath Western Australia, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, 1405-1418.

18. Sun, Weijia, L.-Y. Fu, Wei Wei, Y Lin, Qingya Tang, 2018. The crust-mantle transition structures beneath eastern China, Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 61, 845-855.

17. Sun, Weijia, B. L. N. Kennett, 2017, Mid-lithosphere discontinuities beneath the western and central North China Craton, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 1302-1310.

16. Sun,Weijia,B. L. N. Kennett, 2016, Uppermost mantle P wavespeed structure beneath eastern China and its surroundings, Tectonophysics, 683, 12-26.

15. Sun,Weijia, B. L. N. Kennett, 2016, Uppermost mantle structure beneath eastern China and its surroundings from Pn and Sn tomography, Geophysical Research Letters, 43(7), 3143-3149.

14. Sun,Weijia, B. L. N. Kennett, 2016, Receiver structure from teleseisms: Autocorrelation and cross correlation, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 6234-6242.

13. Sun,Weijia,B. L. N. Kennett, 2016, Uppermost mantle structure of the Australian continent from Pn traveltime tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research: solid earth, 121(3), 2004-2019.

12. Sun, Weijia, Binzhong Zhou, Li-Yun Fu, 2015, A staggered-grid convolutional differentiator for elastic wave modeling, Journal of Computational Physics, 301, 59-76.

11. Sun, Weijia, Li-Yun Fu, B. L. N. Kennett, 2014, Comparison of crustal and upper mantle heterogeneity in different time periods: Indonesian subduction zone to northern Australia: Earthquake Science, 27(1): 47-55.

10. Sun, Weijia, Li-Yun Fu, 2013, Two effective approaches to reduce data storage in reverse time migration: Computers & Geosciences,56, 69-75.

9. Sun, Weijia, Fu, L.-Y., Guan, X.-Z., Wei, W., 2013. A study on anisotropy of shale using seismic forward modeling in shale gas exploration, Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 56, 961-970.

8. Sun, Weijia, Li-Yun Fu, 2012, Compensation for transmission losses based on one-way propagators in the mixed domain: Geophysics, 77(3), S65-S72.

7. Sun, Weijia, Li-Yun Fu, Binzhong Zhou, 2012, Common-angle image gathers for shot-profile migration: an efficient and stable strategy: Exploration Geophysics, 43, 1-7.

6. Sun, Weijia, Fu L.-Y., Hu, S.Z., Cui, Y.F., 2011, 3D Fourier transform wave-equation-based seismic illumination analysis with phase coding, Progress in Geophysics (in Chinese), 26(4), 1249-1257.

5. Sun, Weijia, Binzhong Zhou, Peter Hatherly, Li-Yun Fu, 2010, Seismic wave propagation through surface basalts – implications for coal seismic surveys: Exploration Geophysics, 41, 1-8.

4. Sun, Weijia, Binzhong Zhou, Li-Yun Fu, 2010, Dip angle-compensated one-way wave equation migration: Exploration Geophysics, 41, 137-145.

3. Sun, Weijia, Fu, L.Y., Yao, Z.X., 2009, One-Way Propagators Coupled with Reflection/Transmission Coefficients for Seismogram Synthesis in Complex Media, Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 52, 1044-1052.

2. Sun, Weijia, Li-Yun Fu, Ru-Shan Wu, 2008, 2.5D SH wave propagation in heterogeneous crustal waveguides using the phase screen method: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 98(5), 2391–2401.

1. Sun, Weijia, Fu L-Y, Wan X-J, 2007, Phase encoding-based seismic illumination analysis, Oil Geophysical Prospecting, 42(5), 539-543.
 
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