Prof. ZHAN Yan 詹彦

• Ph.D. Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020
• M.S. Structural Geology, Peking University, 2015
• B.S. Geochemistry, Peking University, 2012

• 2022 – present: Assistant Professor, Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2020 – 2022: Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science
• 2018 – 2020: NASA Graduate Student Fellow, Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 2016 – 2018: Research Assistant, Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Lithospheric Deformation
• Volcano Geophysics
• Dynamics of Magma
• Numerical Modeling of Crustal Processes
• Data Assimilation in Geoscience

• 2020: Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Carnegie Institution for Science
• 2019: R. James Kirkpatrick Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Geology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois
• 2018: NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF)
• 2016: US Student NASA Funding for Goldschmidt 2016
• 2015: Geology Department Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Illinois
• 2015: Outstanding Master of Peking University
• 2014: PetroChina Scholarship
• 2012: Outstanding Bachelor of Peking University
• 2012: Outstanding Bachelor of Beijing

• EESC2010/ESSC2010 - Solid Earth Dynamics
• ESSC3100 - Structural Geology
• ESSC4510 - Statistical Data Analysis
• ESSC4602 - Geodynamics

• EASC5510 - Statistical Data Analysis
• EASC5602 - Geodynamics

• American Geophysical Union
• International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior

• Frontiers in Earth Science: Tracing Magmatic System Evolution with Geochemical, Geophysical, and Numerical Modeling Perspectives

1. Zhan, Y., Le Mével, H., Roman, D., Girona, T., & Gregg, P.M. (2022) Modeling deformation, seismicity, and thermal anomalies driven by degassing during the 2005-2006 pre-eruptive unrest of Augustine Volcano, Alaska. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 585(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117524
2. Zhan, Y., Roman, D. C., Le Mével, H., & Power, J. A. (2022). Earthquakes Indicated Stress Field Change During the 2006 Unrest of Augustine Volcano, Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL097958
3. Gregg, P.M., Zhan, Y., Amelung, F., Geist, D., Mothes, P., Koric, S., Yunjun, Z. (2022). Forecasting the June 26, 2018 Eruption of Sierra Negra Volcano, Galápagos – Ecuador. Science Advance, 22(8). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm4261
4. Zhan, Y., Gregg, P. M., Lu, Z. (2021) Modeling magma system evolution during 2006‐2007 volcanic unrest of Atka volcanic center, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 126, e2020JB020158.
5. Zhan Y., Gregg, P. M., Le Mével, H., Miller, C. A. and Cardona C. (2019) Integrating Reservoir Dynamics, Crustal Stress, and Geophysical Observations of the Laguna del Maule Magmatic System by FEM Models and Data Assimilation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 124, 13547–13562.
6. Zhan, Y. and Gregg, P. M. (2019) How Accurately Can We Model Magma Reservoir Failure with Uncertainties in Host Rock Rheology? Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 124, 8030–8042.
7. Zhan, Y. and Gregg, P. M. (2017) Data assimilation strategies for volcano geodesy. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 344, 13–25.
8. Zhan, Y., Hou, G., Kusky, T. and Gregg, P. M. (2016) Stress development in heterogenetic lithosphere: Insights into earthquake processes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Tectonophysics 671, 56–62.