About Xianhua Li’s work
Xianhua Li held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong from April to October 1998. At the time, Li was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Xianhua Li received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1983 and his PhD from the Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences/Federal Geological Survey in 1988. From 1988 to 2005, he worked at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1997, he was funded by the Outstanding Youth Fund; In 2007, he was elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA Fellow); in 2019, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Li's research interests include isotope chronology and geochemistry, igneous geochemistry, Precambrian geology, chemical geodynamics, and micro-in-situ isotope experiments. His research projects include: Transformative In-situ Analysis Techniques for Mineral Deposit Research, Study on the Genesis and Resource Potential of Major Rare Earth Deposits in China, Micro-area In-situ Clastic Monazite U-Th-Pb Age and Nd-O Isotope Restriction of Crustal Evolution in the Chinese Continental Massif, High-precision Isotope Chronology of Major Geological Events and Biological Evolution in the Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic Transition Period.