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Name  
LIU Xiaoning
Title  
  Special-term Associate Professor
Highest Education  
  Ph.D.
Subject Categories  
  Geochemistry
Phone  
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Zip Code  
  100029
Fax  
  86-10-62010846
Email  
  liuxn@mail.iggcas.ac.cn
Office  
  No.19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China

Education and Appointments:
  • Jan/2026-present, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor
  • Aug/2024-Dec/2025, Max Planck Institute for Solar system research, Postdoc fellowship
  • Sep/2021-July/2024, University of Bristol, Senior Research Associate
  • Sep/2017-Sep/2021, University of Bristol, Ph.D. in Geology, with Prof. Tim Elliott
  • Sep/2013-June/2027, China University of Geoscience (Wuhan), Bachelor in Geology.

Research Interests:
  1. Stable isotopes in exploring the mantle composition and evolution.
  2. Stable isotopes in studying Earth and terrestrial planetary formation and evolution history.
Public Services:

Honors:

Supported Projects:
  1. European Research Council (ERC), Horizon 2020, 885531, Evolution of the Non-Uniformitarian Earth, 2021-01-present, 3.5 million Euro, (https://doi.org/10.3030/885531) (https://sites.google.com/view/nonune/home)

Publications:
  1. Liu X.-N.*, Klaver M., Hin R.C., Coath C.D., Bizimis M., Ionov D. and Elliott T. (2025) Si isotope composition of Earth’s mantle and oceanic basalts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 404, 223-233.
  2. Liu X.-N.*, Hin R., Coath C.D., Elliott T. (2024) Mg and Fe isotope compositions of Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts modified by Mg-Fe inter-diffusion during melt transport. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 642, 118868.
  3. Liu X.-N.*, Klaver M., Hin R.C., Coath C.D., Ng H.C. and Elliott T. (2024) High-precision, mass dependent Si isotope measurements via the critical mixture double-spiking technique. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 39, 2799-2808.
  4. Klaver, M., Klemme, S., Liu, X.-N., Hin, R.C., Coath, C.D., Anand, M., Lissenberg, C.J., Berndt, J. and Elliott, T. (2024) Titanium-rich basaltic melts on the Moon modulated by reactive flow processes. Nature Geoscience 17, 118-123
  5. Liu X.-N.*, Hin R., Coath C.D., Bizimis M., Li S., Ionov D.A., Takazawa E., Brooker R., Elliott T. (2023) The magnesium isotopic composition of the mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 358, 12-26.
  6. Liu X.-N.*, Hin R., Coath C.D., Soest, M., Melekhova E., Elliott T. (2022) Equilibrium olivine-melt Mg isotopic fractionation explains high δ26Mg in arc lavas. Geochemical perspective letters. 22, 42-47.1.1
 
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