• 2022.01-present: Special-Term Associate Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2019.05-2019.06: Visiting Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
• 2017.06-2022.01: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2014.09-2017.06: Ph.D. degree, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2011.09-2014.07: M.E. degree, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
• 2007.09-2011.07: B.S. degree, Chang'an University

1. Ophiolite and oceanic lithosphere
2. Mélange and Tethyan dynamics
3. Mantle geochemistry

1. 2020, Outstanding science & technology achievements of IGGCAS
2. 2016, Outstanding science & technology achievements of IGGCAS

1. Youth Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number: 41802062), 2019.01-2021.12, leader
2. Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution (grant number: 201707), 2018.01-2019.12, leader
3. The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program [grant number 2019QZKK0801], 2019.11-2022.10, participation

Selected Publication：

As first or corresponding author

1. Liu, T.*, Liu, C.Z.*, Chen, Y., Guo, S., Sein, K., Dong, X.T., 2022. Petrology and geochemistry of ultramafic rocks in the Mogok belt, Myanmar: Cumulates from high-pressure crystallization of hydrous arc melts. Geological Journal, 57, 886-905.
2. Liu, T.*, Wu, F.Y., Liu, C.Z., Zhu, D.C., Lin, Y.Z., 2021. Recycling of ancient sub-oceanic mantle in the Neo-Tethyan asthenosphere: Evidence from major and trace elements and Hf–Os isotopes of the Kop Mountain ophiolite, NE Turkey. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 311, 43–58.
3. Liu, T.*, Dick, H.J.B., Liu, C.Z., Wu, F.Y., Ji, W.B., Zhang, C., Zhang, W.Q., Zhang, Z.Y., Lin, Y.Z., Zhang, Z., 2021. Tectonic controls on block rotation and sheeted sill emplacement in the Xigaze ophiolite (Tibet): The construction mode of slow-spreading and ultraslow-spreading oceanic crusts. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2020GC009297.
4. Liu, T.*, Liu, C.Z.*, Wu, F.Y., Dick, H.J.B., Ji, W.B., Zhang, C., Zhang, W.Q., Zhang, Z.Y., Xu, Y., 2021. The Xigaze ophiolite: fossil ultraslow-spreading ocean lithosphere in the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of the Geological Society, 178, jgs2020-208.
5. Liu, T.*, Wu, F.Y., Liu, C.Z., Eyuboglu, Y., Zhu, D.C., Zhang, C., Ji, W.B., Xu, Y., Zhang, Z.Y., 2020. Testing oceanic crust–mantle decoupling by Sr–Nd–Hf–Os isotopes of Neo-Tethyan ophiolites. Lithos, 376–377, 105757.
6. Liu, T.*, Wu, F.Y., Liu, C.Z., Zhang, C., Ji, W.B., Xu, Y. 2019. Reconsideration of Neo-Tethys evolution constrained from the nature of the Dazhuqu ophiolitic mantle, southern Tibet. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174: 23.
7. Liu, T.*, Wu, F.Y., Liu, C.Z., Tribuzio, R., Ji, W.B., Zhang, C., Xu, Y., Zhang, W.Q. 2018. Variably evolved gabbroic intrusions within the Xigaze ophiolite (Tibet): new insights into the origin of ophiolite diversity. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 173: 91.
8. Liu, T.*, Wu, F.Y., Zhang, L.L., Zhai, Q.G., Liu, C.Z., Ji, W.B., Zhang, C., Xu, Y. 2016. Zircon U-Pb geochronological constraints on rapid exhumation of the mantle peridotite of the Xigaze ophiolite, southern Tibet. Chemical Geology, 443, 67–86.
9. Liu, T., Zhai, Q.G.*, Wang, J., Bao, P.S., Qiangba, Z.X., Tang, S.H., Tang, Y. 2016. Tectonic significance of the Dongqiao ophiolite in the north-central Tibetan plateau: Evidence from zircon dating, petrological, geochemical and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopic characterization. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 116, 139–154.
10. Liu, T., Zhai, Q.G.*, Wang, J., Su, L., Kang, Z., Suolang, C.L. 2013. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb age of high-grade metamorphic rocks from the Qiangtang Basin, northern Tibet, and its geological implications. Geological Bulletin of China, 32 (11), 1691–1703 (in Chinese with English abstract).

Cooperation papers

1. Liu, C.Z., Wu, F.Y., Liu, T., Zhang, C., Zhang, W.Q., Zhang, Z.Y., Zhang, Z., Wei, W., Lin, Y.Z., 2022. An origin of ultraslow spreading ridges for the Yarlung-Tsangpo ophiolites. Fundamental Research, 2, 74-83.
2. Zhang, W.Q., Liu, C.Z., Liu, T., Zhang, C., Zhang, Z.Y., 2021. Subduction initiation triggered by accretion of a Jurassic oceanic plateau along the Bangong–Nujiang Suture in central Tibet. Terra Nova, 33, 150-158.
3. Antonicelli, M., Tribuzio, R., Liu, T., Wu, F.Y., 2020. Contaminating melt flow in magmatic peridotites from the lower continental crust (Rocca d’Argimonia sequence, Ivrea–Verbano Zone). European Journal of Mineralogy, 32, 587–612.
4. Zhang, C., Liu, C.Z., Ji, W.B., Liu, T., Wu, F.Y., 2020. Heterogeneous sub-ridge mantle of the Neo-Tethys: Constraints from Re-Os isotope and HSE compositions of the Xigaze ophiolites. Lithos, 378–379, 105819.
5. Yang, J.F., Lu, G., Liu, T., Li, Y., Wang, K., Wang, X.X., Sun, B.L., Faccenda, M., Zhao, L. 2020. Amagmatic subduction produced by mantle serpentinization and oceanic crust delamination. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL086257.
6. Zhang, C., Liu, C.Z., Liu, T., Wu, F.Y. 2020. Evolution of mantle peridotites from the Luobusa ophiolite in the Tibetan Plateau: Sr-Nd-Hf-Os isotope constraints. Lithos, 362–363, 105477.
7. Ji, W.Q., Wu, F.Y., Liu, X.C., Liu, Z.C., Zhang, C., Liu, T., Wang, J.G., Paterson, S.R. 2020. Pervasive Miocene melting of thickened crust from the Lhasa terrane to Himalaya, southern Tibet and its constraint on generation of Himalayan leucogranite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 278, 137-156.
8. Zhang, C., Liu, C.Z., Xu, Y., Ji, W.B., Wang, J.M., Wu, F.Y., Liu, T., Zhang, Z.Y., Zhang, W.Q. 2019. Subduction re-initiation at dying ridge of Neo-Tethys: Insights from mafic and metamafic rocks in Lhaze ophiolitic mélange, Yarlung-Tsangbo Suture Zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 523, 115707.
9. Wu, F.Y., Wang, J.G., Liu, C.Z., Liu, T., Zhang, C., Ji, W.Q. 2019. Intra-oceanic arc: Its formation and evolution. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 35 (01), 1–15 (in Chinese with English abstract).
10. Zhang, C., Liu, C.Z., Wu, F.Y., Ji, W.B., Liu, T., Xu, Y. 2017. Ultra-refractory mantle domains in the Luqu ophiolite (Tibet): Petrology and tectonic setting. Lithos, 286–287, 252–263.
11. Zhai, Q.G., Jahn, B.M., Li, X.H., Zhang, R.Y., Li, Q.L., Yang, Y.N., Wang, J., Liu, T., Hu, P.Y., Tang, S.H. 2017. Zircon U–Pb dating of eclogite from the Qiangtang terrane, north central Tibet: a case of metamorphic zircon with magmatic geochemical features. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 106, 1239-1255.
12. Tang, Y., Zhai, Q.G., Liu, T., Wang, J., Hu, P.Y., Qiangba, Z.X., Suolang, C.L. 2015. LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating, geochemical features and geological significance of the Daru Co granite porphyry in Baingoin County, Tibet. Geological Bulletin of China, 34 (10), 1802–1811 (in Chinese with English abstract).