Zhi Wei


Postdoctoral Fellow
Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University

142 Mills Road
Acton ACT
2601 Australia
+61 2 6125 1520 (tel)
+61 2 6257 2737 (fax)
Zhi.Wei@anu.edu.au (e-mail)
Room #236, Building J2

Education

PhD in Seismology, 2013 - 2018
Thesis topic: Sn-wave velocity structure of the uppermost mantle and crustal Lg-wave attenuation beneath Australian continent
INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES,CHINA

B.Sc. in Geophysics, 2013
SCHOOL OF RESOURCES AND GEOSCIENCES, CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY,CHINA

Publications

Wei, Z., and Zhao, L. (2022). P-wave Velocity Structure of the Lower Crust and Uppermost Mantle Beneath the Sichuan-Yunnan (China) Region. Seismological Research Letters, 93(4),2161-2175 doi:10.1785/0220210357.
Wei, Z., and Zhao, L. (2019). Lg-Q model and its implication on high-frequency ground motion for earthquakes in the Sichuan and Yunnan region. Earth and Planetary Physics, 3(6),526-536, doi:10.26464/epp2019054.
Wei, Z., Zhao, L. F., Xie, X. B., Hao, J. L., and Yao, Z. X., (2018). Seismic characteristics of the 15 February 2013 bolide explosion in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Earth and Planetary Physics, 2(5), 420-429, doi:10.26464/epp2018039.
Wei, Z., Kennett, B. L. N., and Sun, W. J., (2018). Sn-wave velocity structure of the uppermost mantle beneath the Australian continent. Geophysical Journal International, 213(3), 2071-2084, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggy109..
Wei, Z., Kennett, B. L. N., and Zhao, L. F., (2017).Lg-wave attenuation in the Australian crust. Tectonophysics, 717(3), 413-424, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.08.022..
Kennett, B. L. N., and Wei, Z., (2017).High-frequency ground motion from Australian earthquakes. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 64(6), 769-777, doi:10.1080/08120099.2017.1364294.

Conference abstracts

Wei, Z., Zhao, L., and Zheng, K. Y.,(2022). Adjoint Tomography of the YUnnan (China) Crust. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2022 Fall Meeting, Chicago, USA.
Wei, Z., Zhao, L., and Zhang, X. B., (2020). P-wave velocity structure of the lower crust and the uppermost mantle beneath the Sichuan and Yunnan region, San Francisco, USA.
Wei, Z., Zhao, L., and Kennett, K. N. B., (2019).The 3-D S-wave attenuation structure of the uppermost mantle beneath the Australian continent, Annual Meeting of the Chinese Geoscience Union, Beijing, China.
Wei, Z., and Zhao, L., (2018). The high-frequency ground motion induced by earthquakes in Sichuan-Yunnan region, Annual Meeting of the Chinese Geoscience Union, Beijing, China.
Wei, Z., and Zhao, L. F., (2016). The Lg-wave atenuation structure of the Austrlian continent, Annual Meeting of the Chinese Geoscience Union, Beijing, China.
Wei, Z., and Zhao, L. F., (2014). The seismic characteristics of the 15 February 2013 Chelyabinsk bolid explosion in Russian, Annual Meeting of the Chinese Geoscience Union, Beijing, China.

Professional activities and awards

Reviewer for Frontiers in Earth Science and Earthquake Science
2018 Outstanding Graduate Student of University of Chinese Academy of Sceicnes
2017 Excellent Student of University of Chinese Academy of Sceicnes
2016 Scholarship of China Scholarship Council
2015 Excellent Student of University of Chinese Academy of Sceicnes
2010-2012 Excellent Student of China University of Mining and Technology

Research interests

Observational seismology
Full waveform inversion; seismic attenuation structure tomography;seismic velocity structure tomography

Technical skills

Computer Languages: Fortran, Matlab, Python, Bash scripting
Tools: GMT, SAC, ObsPy, MS Office
Operating systems: Mac OS X, Linux, Windows

Other skills and interests

Languages: Mandarin Chinese (native), English (fluent)
Hobbies: Reading

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