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Name  
 WANG Yibo
Title  
   Special-term Associate Professor
Highest Education  
   Ph.D.
Subject Categories  
   Geothermics; Structural Geology
Phone  
   -
Zip Code  
   100029
Fax  
   86-10-62010846
Email  
   ybwang@mail.iggcas.ac.cn
Office  
   No.19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China

Education and Appointments：
  • From 12/2024: Associate Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • 10/2020-12/2024: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • 09/2023-12/2023: Visiting Scholar, Nanjing University, China
  • 02/2022-02/2023: Visiting Scholar, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam-GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany
  • 09/2015-10/2020: Ph.D., Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Advisor: Prof. Shengbiao Hu, Prof. Jiyang Wang
  • 09/2011-06/2015: M.E., Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, China

Research Interests：
  1. Distribution and causes of heat flow
  2. Geothermal resource target area selection and numerical evaluation
  3. Thermal structure and thermal evolution of the lithosphere
  4. Tectono-thermal mechanism
Public Services：

Honors：
  1. 2025 Edward A. Flinn-Pembroke J. Hart Award (https://ilp.nju.edu.cn/AwardsandHonours/list.htm)
  2. 2024 Outstanding Youth Report and Outstanding Topical Secretary of the 2nd China Geothermal Frontier Forum
  3. International Heat Flow Commission Membership (2023-2027)
  4. Young Editorial Board Member of “Site Investigation Science and Technology”Journal (CN：13-1100/TF)
  5. 2023 International Heat Flow Scholarship (No. 0059520288)
  6. “Merit Students”, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019
  7. “Outstanding Communist Party Member”, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2017

Supported Projects：
  1. Quantitative study on the abnormal heat flow and heat source mechanism of the west branch of the Yishu Fault Zone, National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 42302341), Host, 2024-2025
  2. Subproject "Distribution characteristics of heat flow in East China" of Project "Formation mechanism, distribution characteristics and resource evaluation of deep high temperature geothermal resources in East China" (National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2021YFA0716003-1)), Host, 2020-2025.
  3. Study on the potential and genesis of geothermal resources in the middle section of the Tancheng-Lujiang Fault Zone, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution (No. SKL-K202304), Host, 2023-2025.
  4. Thermal-rheological structure of the lithosphere in the northern South China Sea and its indicative significance, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution (No. SKL-K202104), Host, 2021-2023.
  5. Prospect evaluation of hot dry rock development and utilization in the North Jiangsu Basin (No. BE2022859), Co-PI, 2022-2023.

Publications：

 (Total 35 SCI papers, only First/Corresponding Author’s listed below)：
14. Wang, Y., Chen, C., Zhong, Z., Wang, Y., Hu, S., Pang, Z., 2025. Reassessment of heat flow in West–Central China: Implications for the extent of the high heat flow region. Gondwana Research 144: 64-76.
13. Wang, Y., Wang, Y.*, Jiang, G., Hu, J., Hu, S., 2025. High-Quality Heat Flow Determination from Coastal Areas of Fujian Province, China. Energies 18, 1735.
12. Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Zhong, Z., Chen, C., Guo, L., Zhang, H., He, L., Hu, S., 2025. Heat flow, lithospheric thermal structure, and its tectonic implication of the Southern North China Basin, East-central China. Geothermics 130, 103336.
11. Wu, J., Wang, Y.*, He, L., Wang, Z., Hu, J., Wang, Y., Hu, S., 2025. Thermo-rheological structure of the southern section of the Tan-Lu Fault Zone and surrounding areas: Tectonic and geodynamic implications. Lithosphere 2024 (Special 15), lithosphere_2024_133.
10. Wang, Y., Liu, S., Chen, C., Jiang, G., Wu, J., Guo, L., Wang, Y., Zhang, H., Wang, Z., Jiang, X.,Zhu, C., Zuo, Y., Hu, J., Zhang, C.,He, L., Hu, S., Pang, Z., Wang, J., 2024. Compilation of terrestrial heat flow data in continental China (5th edition). Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 67(11), 4233-4265.
9. Wu, J., Wang, Y.*, He, L., Wang, L., Guan, J., Chen, J., Wang, Z., Wang, Y., Hu, S., 2024. Differences and Causal Mechanisms in the Lithospheric Thermal Structures in the Cratons in East China: Implications for Their Geothermal Resource Potential. Energies 17, 1752.
8. Wang, Y., Furlong, K., Fuchs, S., He, L., Hu, S., 2023. Terrestrial heat flow variation with depth caused by anomalously high radiogenic heat production. Geophys. Res. Lett. 50, e2022GL102312.
7. Wang, Y., Wang, L., Bai, Y., Wang, Z., Hu, J., Hu, D., Wang, Y., Hu, S., 2021. Assessment of Geothermal Resources in the North Jiangsu Basin, East China, Using Monte Carlo Simulation. Energies 14, 259.
6. Wang, Y., Bai, Y., Wang, L., Guan, J., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Hu, J., Hu, S., 2021. Exploration process and genesis mechanism of deep geothermal resources in the North Jiangsu Basin, East China: from nothing to something. Front. Earth Sci., 1242.
5. Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Shi, L., Rong, Y., Hu, J., Jiang, G., Wang, Y., Hu, S., 2021. Anisotropic Differences in the Thermal Conductivity of Rocks: A Summary from Core Measurement Data in East China. Minerals 11, 1135.
4. Wang, Y., Wang, L., Hu, D., Guan, J., Bai, Y., Wang, Z., Jiang, G., Hu, J., Tang, B., Zhu, C., 2020. The present-day geothermal regime of the North Jiangsu Basin, East China. Geothermics 88, 101829.
3. Wang, Y., Hu, S., Wang, Z., Jiang, G., Hu, D., Zhang, K., Gao, P., Hu, J., Zhang, T., 2019. Heat flow, heat production, thermal structure and its tectonic implication of the southern Tan-Lu Fault Zone, East–Central China. Geothermics 82, 254-266.
2. Wang, Y., Hu, S., Nie, D., Zhang, K., Jiang, G., Wang, Z., Is the Tan-Lu Fault a thermal anomaly: Constrains from heat flow of the southern Tan-Lu Fault Zone, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2019, 62(8): 3078-3094.
1. Wang, Y., Hu, S., Wang, Z., Jiang, G., Hu, D., Zhang, K., Gao, P., Hu, J., Zhang, T., 2019. Data of temperature, thermal conductivity, heat production and heat flow of the southern Tan-Lu Fault Zone, East–Central China. Data Brief 26, 104459.

Invited Talks

1.     08/12/2024, Workshop on Flow Fitting in Interdisciplinary Applications, Shanghai, China, Terrestrial Heat Flow Database of China and Potential Applications of Machine Learning in Geothermics.

2.     21/10/2024, 2024 Annual Joint Academic Conference on Earth Sciences in China, Xiamen, China, Compilation of heat flow data and new progress of heat flow research in China.

3.     13/10/2024, 2nd China Forum on Geothermal Frontiers, Beijing, China, Heat flow, thermal structure and its tectonic indication in the middle-south section of the Tan-Lu Fault Zone.

4.     17/10/2023, World Geothermal Congress 2023, Beijing, China, Characteristics and genesis mechanism of deep geothermal resources in East China: take the North Jiangsu Basin as an example.

5.     17/07/2023, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Berlin, Germany, Heat flow, thermal structure and its tectonic implication of the south-central Tan-Lu Fault Zone (TLFZ), East China.

6.     10/06/2023, 6th Youth Geological Congress in China, Wuhan, China, Identification and genesis analysis of geothermal resource dominant zones in sedimentary basins: a case study of the North Jiangsu Basin.

7.     20/06/2022, 7th International Meeting on Heat Flow and the Thermal Structure of the Lithosphere (Cermak Conference), Potsdam, Germany, New advances in heat flow measurement in China.

8.     03/12/2021, Geological Survey of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China, Three-dimensional crustal thermal structure of hot dry rock target areas in the North Jiangsu Basin.

9.     11/06/2020, Academic Forum of Geothermal Professional Committee of China Energy Research Society, Ji'nan, China, Characteristics of the present-day geothermal field and its causal mechanism in the North Jiangsu Basin.

10.   22/11/2020, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Sinoprobe Center—China Deep Exploration Center, Beijing, China, Thermal structure study in the Lower Yangtze Craton.
 
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