Professor Dapeng Zhao

Professor

• Research Center for Prediction of Earthquakes & Volcanic Eruptions
  Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
• E-mail: zhao(at)aob.gp.tohoku.ac.jp

Education

• 1980.9-1984.7 Department of Geological Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China; obtained Bachelor degree in July 1984
• 1984.11-1985.9 Department of Japanese, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Dalian, China
• 1986.4-1988.3 Master student, Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; obtained Master degree in March 1988
• 1988.4-1991.3 Ph.D. student, Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; obtained Ph.D. degree in March 1991.

Publication Record

• Publication List (PDF file)
• Highly cited papers (PDF file)

Prizes and Awards

• World ranking of seismologists (top-10)
• Most-Cited PEPI Articles

Professional Experience

• 1991.4 -1992.5 Post-doctoral Fellow, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
• 1992.5 -1995.4 Texaco Research Fellow, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
• 1995.5 -1997.8 Senior Research Scientist, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
• 1997.9 -1998.1 Research Faculty, Department of Earth Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• 1998.2 -2001.3 Associate Professor, Department of Earth Science, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
• 2001.4 -2002.12 Associate Professor, Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
• 2003.1 -2007.3 Professor, Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
• 2007.4 -now Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
• 2012.4 -now Professor(Concurrently), International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Professional Activities

• 2000.4- Central Committee Member, Seismological Society of Japan
• 2000.4 Guest Editor, Tectonophysics (Elsevier) special issue Seismic structure and stress regime of subduction zones, Volume 319, Pages 223-366 (2000)
• 2000.4-2001.3 Guest Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
• 2005.4-2006.3 Guest Professor, Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior,
  Okayama University
• 2003.4- Editorial Board Member, Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Academy of Science)
• 2010.10- Editorial Board Member, Geoscience Frontiers (Elsevier)
• 2010.10- Editor, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (Elsevier)
• 2006.9- Associate Editor, Polar Sciences (Elsevier)
• 2005.7- Honorary Professor, Institute of Geology & Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science
• 2006.10- Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Geological Science

Research Interests

• Earthquake seismology
• Seismic tomography
• Earth structure and dynamics
• Deep structure and origin of volcanoes
• Physics of earthquakes; Structure and dynamics of subduction zones
• Hotspots and mantle plumes.

Honors and Awards

• 1983.10 Outstanding Student Award, Peking University, China.
• 1986-1991 Monbusho Scholarship, Ministry of Education and Science, Japan.
• 1992.5 Texaco Research Award, California Institute of Technology, USA.
  

Professional Societies

• Seismological Society of Japan;
• Seismological Society of America;
• American Geophysical Union;
• Geological Society of Japan;
• Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences.
• Volcanological Society of Japan