About Lifei Zhang’s work
Based at Peking University, Lifei Zhang held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong from February to August 1995.
Biography
Zhang Lifei received his Ph.D. from the Department of Geology of Peking University in 1990 and stayed on as a lecturer. From 1998-2001 he served as the Deputy Dean of the Department of Geology, Peking University, and currently served as the Dean of the School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University. Zhang is mainly engaged in petrological research related to the formation and evolution of orogenic belts, and his research direction is metamorphic geology. A series of ultra-high-pressure metamorphic minerals and characteristic structures have been found in the hematic metamorphic rocks of the West Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, which proposes that the West Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang are a type of ultra-high-pressure metamorphic rocks caused by oceanic crust subduction. This is the area where the subduction of oceanic crust rocks undergoes ultra-high pressure metamorphism, besides the Dabie-Sulu and Chai northern margin-Altyn ultra-high pressure belts in China, and it is further determined that the ultra-high pressure metamorphic belt in the West Tianshan Mountains is the area with the lowest metamorphic geothermal gradient. Zhang is a candidate for the Academicians of the Department of Geosciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2023.