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Sheng Wang


Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University
Jaeger Building 2
Room #237
Mills Road Acton
Canberra, ACT 2601
Australia
+61 (0) 4950-6308 (tel)
e-mail: sheng.wang@anu.edu.au

Education:

 PhD in Seismology, 2018-2022
Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University

Master Degree in Solid Geophysics, 2013-2016
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

BSc in Geophysics, 2009-2013
School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University

Academic honours/achievements:

Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA), AGU, 2022
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior (SEDI) Graduate Research Award , AGU, 2022
Camp for Applied Geophysics Excellence (CAGE), ASEG, 2022
IUGG-SEDI Travel Grant, 2022
Extraordinary Potential Prize, Chinese government award for outstanding students abroad 2021
IBM Parallel Computing Contest (1st prize), 2016
Graduate Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2013-2016
Undergraduate Scholarship, Wuhan University, 2010, 2012
WHU-SGG Programming Contest (1st prize), 2012

Publications:

 - Wang, S., Tkalčić, H. (2022). Scanning for Planetary Cores with Single-Receiver Inter-Source Correlations. Nature Astronomy, (6): 1272-1279.

   This paper won Outstanding Student Presentation Award during AGU Annual Meeting.

- Wang, S., Tkalčić, H. (2021). Shear-wave anisotropy in the Earth's inner core. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(19): e2021GL094784.

   This paper has been featured as AGU Editor’s Highlight.

- Tkalčić, H., Wang, S., Phạm, T-S., (2021). Shear properties of the Earth’s inner core, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, (50): 153-181.
- Wang, S., Tkalčić, H. (2020a). “Seismic event coda-correlation’s formation: Implications for global seismology”. Geophysical Journal International, 222(2), 1283–1294.
- Wang, S., Tkalčić, H. (2020a). Seismic event coda-correlation: Toward global coda-correlation tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(4): e2019JB018848.

   This paper has been featured as AGU Editor’s Highlight.

- Tkalčić, H., Phạm, T-S., Wang, S., (2020). The Earth's coda correlation wavefield: Rise of the new paradigm and recent advances. Earth-Science Reviews, (208): 103285.
- Wang S., Li Z. (2018) S-wave attenuation of the shallow sediments in the North China basin based on borehole seismograms of local earthquakes. Geophysical Journal International, 214(2): 1391–1400.
- Xu Y., Li X., Wang S. (2018). Seismic structure beneath the Tengchong volcanic area (southwest China) from receiver function analysis. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 357: 339-348.
- Wang S., Xu Y., Meng X. (2017). Tomographic images of crustal structure beneath the Bohai Strait and surrounding areas, eastern China. Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 60(1): 112-122.
- Xu Y., Wang S., Meng X. (2016). Tomographic evidence of the Tan-Lu fault zone in the Bohai Sea of eastern China. Chinese Sciences Bulletin, 61(8): 891-900.

Research interests:

 Planetary Seismology
Interiors of Mars and The Moon
Coda wave cross-/auto- correlation
Ocean Bottom Seismometers
Inversion and Imaging Methods
Deep-Earth Interior

Links:

 Git-Hub
Blog

Other skills and interests:

 Programming; Parallel Computing

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