Prof. Zhongping Lai
Head of Luminescence Dating Laboratory & Quaternary Geology Group,Institute of Marine Sciences,
Shantou University
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Biography: Prof. Zhongping Lai is currently a professor in Shantou University, and the head of luminescence dating laboratory and Quaternary geology & marine geology group. He obtained his PhD in 2005 from Oxford University as a Clarendon Scholar. He was then awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and spent nearly two years in Marburg and Bayreuth Universities in Germany. He came back to China in late 2007 in Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007-2014), in China University of Geosciences (2014-2018), and in Shantou University since 2018. He has published more than 170 papers in international SCI journals, such as Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, Catena, Quaternary Science Reviews, Geomorphology, Quaternary Geochronology, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Pollution, Frontiers in Marine Science. In ResearchGate, he has an h-index of 46 and a citation of >6200.
He is currently the Editor of “Catena” and and a member of editorial boards of “Geochronometria”. He has also served as associate editors for both "Quaternary Research (2010-2017)" and "Aeolian Research (2010-2017)", and as reviewers for British NERC, Switzerland NSF, and Norway NSF. He was selected in both lists, established by Stanford University, of the “World's Top 2% Scientists 2021: Career-long impact”, and of the “World's Top 2% Scientists: Single year impact” for both 2020 and 2021.
His main research interests include: (1) Quaternary geology, marine geology and geochronology; (2) Coupling of Sea level, delta, fluvial system and land surface processes; (3) Mechanism of arsenic pollution in underground water associated with global climate change and sedimentology; (4) Luminescence dating in both application and technique development.