·   2019.09-2023.06: Tongji University, Marine Science, Ph.D.

·   2016.08-2019.06: China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Geology, Master.

·   2012.09-2016.07: Jilin University, Resource Exploration Engineering, Bachelor.

·   2024.02-Present: Tongji University, Postdoctoral

Research Interests

·   Source to sink transport process of terrigenous materials in the southern South China Sea.

·   Paleo-environmental evolution in the Sunda Shelf and carbon cycle.

Publications

·   Hongchao Zhao; Zhifei Liu; Yulong Zhao; Jiawang Wu; Christophe Colin ; Lunar nodal tidal cycle influences on the input of coarse sediments during the last glaciation in the deep South China Sea, Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023, 310: 108114     

·   Hongchao Zhao; Zhifei Liu; Yulong Zhao ; Sea level and East Asian monsoon influenced chemical weathering records in the southern South China Sea over the past 21ka, Global and Planetary Change, 2024, 232: 104324

·   2022.08: Outstanding Student Poster in the 21st International Sedimentological Congress

·   2019.06: Outstanding graduates in Beijing

·   2018.11: National Scholarship