Lin Chen
Professor of geophysics
State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution
chenlin@mail.iggcas.ac.cn
Education:
1. 2007-2009, Ph.D in Geophysics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2. 2004-2007, MSc. in Geophysics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
3. 2000-2004, B.Eng in Applied Geophysics, Jianghan Petroleum University
Employment:
1. 2021.12-present, Professor of geophysics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2. 2014.5-2021.12, Associate professor of geophysics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
3. 2009.7-2014.5, Postdoctoral fellow in geodynamics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Visiting Experience:
1. 2019.8-2020.2, Visiting scholar, University of California, Los Angeles, US.
2. 2018.7-2018.10, Visiting scholar, Monash University, Australia.
3. 2017.5-2017.6, Visiting scholar, University of Padova, Italy.
4. 2016.4-2016.6, Visiting scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US.
5. 2013.5-2014.4, Academic guest, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, ETH-Zurich.
6. 2010.9-2011.2, Visiting scholar, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, ETH-Zurich.

1. National Key Research and Development Project (Grant No. 2022YFF0800801), 2022-2027.
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41974110), 2020-2023.
3. National Key Research and Development Project (Grant No. 2016YF0600406), 2016-2021.
4. Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB18000000), 2016-2021
5. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41474084), 2015-2018
6. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2013-2014 
7. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41004039), 2011-2013

1.   Shun Yang, Xiaofeng Liang, Mingming Jiang, Lin Chen, Yumei He, Chit Thet Mon, Guangbing Hou, Myo Thant, Kyaing Sein, Bo Wan, 2022. Slab remnants beneath the Myanmar terrane evidencing double subduction of the Neo-Tethyan Ocean. Science Advances, 8, eabo1027.

2.   Shuang Bian, Junfeng Gong, Andrew V. Zuza, Rong Yang, Lin Chen, Jianqing Ji, Xiangjiang Yu, Yihong Tian, Zhiquan Yu, Xiaogan Cheng, Xiubin Lin, Hanlin Chen, 2022. Along-strike variation in the initiation timing of the north-trending rifts in southern Tibet as revealed from the Yadong-Gulu rift. Tectonics, 41, e2021TC007091.

3.   Letian Ma, Lin Chen, Zihua Cheng, Taras Gerya, Jiabiao Li, 2022. Bathymetric highs control the along-strike variations of the Manila trench: 2D numerical modeling. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10:943147. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.943147.

4.   Pengpeng Zhang, Lin Chen*, Wenjiao Xiao*, Jien Zhang, 2022. Topographic response of hinterland basins in Tibet to the India-Asia convergence: 3D thermo-mechanical modeling. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10:845126. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.845126.

5.   Jiaxuan Tang, Lin Chen*, Lijun Liu, Zhiyong Yan, Wei Lin, Qingren Meng, 2022. The role of pre-existing weaknesses in intraplate metamorphic core complex formation during slab retreat: 2-D thermomechanical modelling. Geophysical Journal International, 231, 1688-1704.

6.   Zhiyong Yan, Lin Chen*, Andrew V. Zuza, Jiaxuan Tang, Bo Wan, Qingren Meng, 2022. The fate of oceanic plateaus: subduction versus accretion. Geophysical Journal International, 231, 1349-1362.

7.   Lin Chen， 2021. The role of lower crustal rheology in lithospheric delamination during orogeny. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9:755519, doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.755519.

8.   Zhiyong Yan, Lin Chen*, Xiong Xiong, Bo Wan, Houze Xu， 2021. Oceanic plateau and subduction zone jump: two-dimensional thermo-mechanical modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB021855.

9.   Renxian Xie, Lin Chen*, Xiong Xiong, Kai Wang, Zhiyong Yan， 2021. The role of pre-existing crustal weaknesses in the uplift of the eastern Tibetan Plateau: 2D thermo-mechanical modeling. Tectonics, 40, e2020TC006444.

10. Xi Xu, Andrew V. Zuza, Lin Chen, Weilin Zhu, An Yin, Xiaowei Fu, Shunli Gao, Xuhui Xu, Xingtao Kuang, Fengqi Zhang, Lei Wu, Xiubin Lin, Hanlin Chen， Shufeng Yang, 2021. Late Cretaceous to Early Cenozoic extension in the Lower Yangtze region (East China) driven by Izanagi-Pacific plate subduction. Earth-Science Review, 221, 103790.

11. Kai Wang, Lin Chen*, Xiong Xiong, Zhiyong Yan, Renxian Xie, 2020. The role of lithospheric heterogeneities in continental rifting: Implications for rift diversity in the North China Craton. Journal of Geodynamics, 139, 101765.

12. Shuang Bian, Junfeng Gong, Andrew Zuza, Rong Yang, Yuntao Tian, Jianqing Ji, HanLin Chen, Qinqin Xu, Lin Chen, Xiubin Lin, Xiaogan Cheng, Jiyao Tu, Xiangjiang Yu, 2020. Late Pliocene onset of the Cona rift, eastern Himalaya, confirms eastward propagation of extension in Himalaya-Tibetan orogen. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 116383.

13. Shuang Bian, Junfeng Gong*, Lin Chen*, Andrew Zuza, Hanlin Chen, Xiubin Lin, Xiaogan Cheng, Rong Yang, 2020. Diachronous uplift in intra-continental orogeny: 2D thermo-mechanical modeling of the India-Asia collision. Tectonophysics, 775, 228310.

14. Jiaxuan Tang, Lin Chen*, Qingren Meng, Guoli Wu, 2020. The effects of the thermal state of overriding continental plate on subduction dynamics: Two-dimensional thermal-mechanical modeling. Science China Earth Sciences, 63: 1519–1539.

15. Zhiyong Yan, Lin Chen*, Xiong Xiong, Kai Wang, Renxian Xie, Hou Tze Hsu, 2020. Observations and modeling of flat subduction and its geological effects. Science China Earth Sciences, 63: 1069–1091.

16. Lin Chen, Lijun Liu, Fabio Capitanio, Taras Gerya, Yang Li, 2020. The role of pre-existing weak zones in the formation of the Himalaya and Tibetan plateau: 3-D thermomechanical modelling. Geophysical Journal International, 221, 1971-1983.

17. Danhong Liu, Lin Chen*, 2019. Edge-driven convection and thinning of craton lithosphere: Two-dimensional thermal-mechanical modeling. Science China Earth Sciences, 62, 2106-2120.

18. Lin Chen, Manuele Faccenda, 2019. Subduction-induced upwelling of a hydrous transition zone: Implications for the Cenozoic magmatism in northeast China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 11489-11504.

19. Lin Chen, Xiaodong Song, Taras V. Gerya, Tao Xu, Yun Chen, 2019. Crustal melting beneath orogenic plateaus: Insights from 3-D thermo-mechanical modeling. Tectonophysics, 761, 1-15.

20. Lin Chen, Fabio A. Capitanio, Lijun Liu, Taras V. Gerya, 2017. Crustal rheology controls on the Tibetan plateau formation during India-Asia convergence. Nature Communications, 8, 15992, doi:10.1038/ncomms15992. 

21. Fredrik Berntsson, Chen Lin, Tao Xu, Dennis Wokiyi, 2017. An efficient regularization method for a large scale ill-posed geothermal problem. Computers & Geosciences, 105, 1-9.

22. Lin Chen, Jiwei Hu, Dinghui Yang, Haibin Song, Zhenhua Wang, 2017. Kinematic models for the opening of the South China Sea: An upwelling divergent flow origin. Journal of Geodynamics, 107, 20-33.

23. Lin Chen, Taras V. Gerya, 2016. The role of lateral lithospheric strength heterogeneities in orogenic plateau growth: Insights from 3-D thermo-mechanical modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 121, 3118-3138.

24. Erchie Wang, Peter J. J. Kamp, Gangqing Xu, Kip V. Hodges, Kai Meng, Lin Chen, Gang Wang, Hui Luo, 2015. Flexural bending of southern Tibet in a retro foreland setting. Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/srep12076.

25. Chen Y, Xu YG, Xu T, Si SK, Liang XF, Tian XB, Deng YF, Chen L, Wang P, Xu YH, Lan HQ, Xiao FH, Li W, Zhang X, Yuan XH, Badal J, Teng JW, 2015. Magmatic underplating and crustal growth in the Emeishan Large Igneous Province, SW China, revealed by a passive seismic experiment. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 432:103-114. 

26. Xiaoyin Tang, Lin Chen, Shengbiao Hu, Shuchun Yang, Gongcheng Zhang, Huailei Shen, Song Rao, Weiwei Li, 2014. Tectono-thermal evolution of the Reed Bank Basin, Southern South China Sea. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 96, 344-352.

27. Lin Chen, Fredrik Berntsson, Zhongjie Zhang, Peng Wang, Jing Wu, Tao Xu, 2014. Seismically constrained thermo-rheological structure of the eastern Tibetan margin: Implication for lithospheric delamination. Tectonophysics, 627, 122-134.

28. Lin Chen, 2014. Stretching factor estimation for the long-duration and multi-stage continental extensional tectonics: Application to the Baiyun Sag in the northern margin of the South China Sea. Tectonophysics, 2014, 611, 167-180.

29. Lin Chen, Zhongjie Zhang, Haibin Song, 2013. Weak depth and along-strike variations in stretching from multi-episodic finite stretching model: evidences for the uniform pure-shear extension in the opening of the South China Sea. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 78, 358-370.

30. Lin Chen, Taras Gerya, Zhongjie Zhang, Guizhi Zhu, Thibault Duretz, Wolfgang R. Jacoby, 2013. Numerical modeling of eastern Tibetan-type margin: Influences of surface processes, lithospheric structure and crustal rheology. Gondwana Research, 24, 1091-1107.

31. Lin Chen, Taras Gerya, Zhong-Jie Zhang, Alan Aitken, Zhong-Hai Li, Xiao-Feng, Liang, 2013. Formation mechanism of steep convergent intracontinental margins: Insights from numerical modeling. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 2000-2005.

32. Lin Chen, Zhongjie Zhang, Haibin Song, Fei Li, Dieter Franke, 2013. Numerical modeling of extensional sedimentary basin formation with MATLAB: Application to the northern margin of the South China Sea. Computers & Geosciences, 51,153-165.

33. Zhongjie Zhang, Yangfan Deng, Lin Chen, Jing Wu, Jiwen Teng, Giuliano Panza. Seismic structure and rheology of the crust under mainland China. Gondwana Research, 2013, 23, 1455-1483.

34. Zhong-Jie Zhang, Yang-Hua Wang, Yang-Fan Deng, Lin Chen, Jing Wu, J., Teng, J.W., Fan, W.M., Panza, G, 2013. Geophysical constraints on Mesozoic disruption of North China Craton by underplating-triggered lower-crust flow of the Archean lithosphere. Terra Nova, 25, 245-251.

Haibin Song, Lin Chen, Jiong Zhang, Chongzhi Dong, Changyu Zhao, 2010. A MATLAB program for 1D strain rate inversion. Computers & Geosciences, 36, 16-23.