1、 Personal profile

Born in 1987, Professor of Northwest University, Huining, Gansu Province. In 2010, he graduated from the Department of Geosciences of Nanjing University with a Bachelor of Science degree; 2010

-In 2016, he was a Ph.D. student in structural geology of Nanjing University, and received a Ph.D. degree in Science in June 2016 (under the guidance of Professor Shu Liangshu and Professor Zhao Guochun). In 2015, he went to the University of St Andrews to study (Peter

Professor Cawood). In 2016, he was supported by the Xiangjiang scholars program. From January 2017 to January 2019, he carried out postdoctoral research in Hong Kong University (co Tutor: Professor Zhao Guochun). Since April 2019, Northwestern University has taught.

2、 Scientific research

1. Academic papers

Yao, J. L., Shu, L. S., Cawood, P. A., Zhao, G.C., 2019. The

Jiangnan Belt in South China: a ~970-820 Ma Rodinia margin accretionary orogen. Earth Science Reviews, in press.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Cawood, P.A., Zhao, G.C., 2019.

Differentiating continental and oceanic arc systems and retro-arc basins in the

Neoproterozoic Jiangnan belt, South China. Geological

Magazine, in press.

Shu, L.S., Wang, J.Q., Yao, J.L.,

2019. Tectonic evolution of the eastern Jiangnan region, South China: New

findings and implications on the assembly of the Rodinia supercontinent.

Precambrian Research, 322, 42–65

Cawood, P.A., Zhao, G.C., Yao, J.L.,

Wang, W., Xu, Y.J., Wang, Y.J., 2018. Reconstructing South China in Phanerozoic

and Precambrian supercontinents. Earth-Science

Reviews, 186, 173-194.

Yao, J. L., Shu, L. S., Cawood, P. A., Li, J. Y., 2017.

Constraining timing and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic metamorphic event

in the Cathaysia Block, South China. Precambrian

Research, 293, 1–12.

Yao, J.L, Cawood, P.A., Shu, L.S., Li, J.Y., 2016a. An Early

Neoproterozoic Accretionary Prism Ophiolitic Mélange from the Western Jiangnan

Orogenic Belt, South China. The Journal

of Geology, 124 (5), 587-601.

Yao, J. L., Shu, L. S., Cawood, P. A., Li, J. Y., 2016b.

Delineating and characterizing the boundary of the Cathaysia block and the

Jiangnan orogenic belt in South China. Precambrian

Research, 275, 265–277.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., Li, J. Y., 2015. Neoproterozoic

arc-related andesite and orogeny-related unconformity in the eastern Jiangnan

orogenic belt: constraints on the assembly of the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks

in South China. Precambrian Research,

262, 84–100.

Yan, C.L, Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., Yao,

J.L., Li, J.Y., Li, C., 2015. The Precambrian tectonic evolution of the

western Jiangnan Orogen and western Cathaysia Block: Evidence from detrital

zircon age spectra and geochemistry of clastic rocks. Precambrian Research, 268, 33-60.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., Li, J.Y., 2013.

Geochronology and Hf isotope of detrital zircons from Precambrian sequences in

the eastern Jiangnan Orogen: Constraining the assembly of Yangtze and Cathaysia

Blocks in South China. Journal of Asian

Earth Science, 74, 225–243.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., 2014b. Neoproterozoic

arc-trench system and breakup of the South China Craton: constraints from

N-MORB type and arc-related mafic rocks, and anorogenic granite in the Jiangnan

orogenic belt. Precambrian Research 247, 187–207.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., Xu, Z.Q., 2014c.

Palaeozoic metamorphism of the Neoproterozoic basement in NE Cathaysia: zircon

U–Pb ages, Hf isotope and whole-rock geochemistry from the Chencai Group. Journal of the Geological Society, London 171, 281–297.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., Zhao, G.C., 2014a.

Neoproterozoic arc-related mafic-ultramafic rocks and syn-collision granite

from the western segment of the Jiangnan Orogen, South China: constraints on

the Neoproterozoic assembly of the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks. Precambrian Research, 243, 39-62.

Yao, J., Shu, L., Santosh, M., Li, J., 2012. Precambrian

crustal evolution of the South China Block and its relation to supercontinent

history: constraints from U–Pb ages, Lu–Hf isotopes and REE geochemistry of

zircons from sandstones and granodiorite. Precambrian

Research, 208, 19-48.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., 2011. Detrital zircon

U–Pb geochronology, Hf-isotopes and geochemistry — new clues for the

Precambrian crustal evolution of Cathaysia Block, South China. Gondwana Research, 20, 553–567.

2. Scientific research projects

3. Academic monograph

4. Academic conferences and exchanges

Fourth and fifth conveners of the first and second South China Symposium on structural geology and geodynamics, March 2018 and March 2019

5. Scientific Research Award

In 2013, the second prize of Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education (ranking fourth)

2017 Xiangjiang Scholar Award