| Name: Zhang, Youxue |
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| Title: James R. O'Neil Collegiate Professor of Geology | |
| Phone: 734-763-0947 | |
| Email: youxue(at)umich.edu | |
| Office: 3018 C.C. Little | |
| About | |
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Education B.S., Peking University, China, Geology, 1982 M.A., Columbia University, Geological Sciences, 1985 M. Phil., Columbia University, Geological Sciences, 1987 Ph. D., Columbia University, Geological Sciences, 1989
Professional Experiences Postdoctoral fellow, California Institute of Technology, 1988-1991 Assistant Professor, The University of Michigan, 1991-1997 Associate Professor, The University of Michigan, 1997-2004 Professor, The University of Michigan, 2004-present Jiangzuo Professor (Guest Professor), Peking University, 2005 Changjiang Jiangzuo Professor (Guest Professor), Peking University, 2006-2007
Academic Awards and Honors F.W. Clarke Medal by the Geochemical Society, 1993 Young Investigator, 1994-1999, US NSF Fellow, Geological Society of America, 2005 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), 2005 Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America, 2009
Service Awards Community Service Award by the Chinese Association of Greater Detroit, 2002 Outstanding Contribution Award by the Chinese Schools Association of the US, 2003 Service Award by the Association of University of Michigan Chinese Professors, 2004
Memberships American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (Fellow) American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geochemical Society Geological Society of America (GSA) (Fellow) Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) (Fellow)
Research Interests Gas-driven volcanic and lake eruptions, experimental and theoretical Kinetics and dynamics of geological processes: diffusion, reaction, geospeedometry Geochemical evolution of the mantle, crust, and atmosphere, degassing history Volatiles in melts, glasses, minerals, and the mantle, application of FTIR Experimental petrology, thermodynamics and phase equilibria Methane hydrate in marine environment Moon, meteorites and cosmochemistry Inclusions in minerals Age of the earth |
