一、个人简历

1987年生，西北大学教授，博士生导师，国家优秀青年科学基金获得者（42322208）。2010年毕业于南京大学地球科学系地质学专业，获理学学士学位；2010 -2016年南京大学构造地质学专业博士研究生，2016年6月获理学博士学位（舒良树教授指导）。2015年赴英国圣安德鲁斯大学联合培养（Peter Cawood 教授指导）。2016年获得香江学者计划资助，2017年1月-2019年1月在香港大学开展博士后研究工作（导师：赵国春教授）, 2019年1月-4月任香港大学研究助理。2019年4月至今，西北大学任教。2023入选中国地质学会数据驱动地学发展专业委员会学术委员。

主要从事大地构造与大陆动力学、超大陆、全球板块构造演化及其环境生命效应等方向的研究。先后主持国家优秀青年科学基金项目、自然科学基金面上项目、科技部重点研发青年科学家项目构造专题、陕西省高层次人才引进项目、陕西省特别支持重点项目等科研项目。发表第一或通讯作者论文31篇，其中包括Nature Communications、JGR Solid Earth、GCA、Earth-Science Reviews等国际地学权威SCI期刊论文26篇，H指数26，I指数43。另发表合作作者SCI论文40余篇。总引用3600余次，入选斯坦福大学-爱思维全球前2%顶尖科学家榜单(2023，2024，2025)。研究成果获教育部自然科学二等奖（排名第四）、香江学者奖、西北大学优秀科研奖、优秀教师奖，并入选2021年国家自然科学基金委年度报告亮点成果。

二、科研项目

1. 国家优秀青年科学基金项目：大地构造与构造地质；项目批准号：42322208；直接费用：200万；项目起止日期：2024.01-2026.12。

2. 国家自然科学基金面上项目：华南云开地体前泥盆纪重大构造-岩浆事件研究； 项目批准号：41972238； 直接费用：67万；项目起止日期：2020.01- 2023.12（已结题）。

3. 科技部重点研发项目（寒武纪大爆发前后大陆聚合阶段全球构造古地理、岩浆成分、风化通量与真极移定量化研究，2023YFF0803604）专题负责人，承担经费57万；项目起止日期：2023.12-2028.11。

4. 科技部重点研发项目青年科学家项目（新元古代-寒武纪之交构造-环境-生命重大转折事件及其耦合关系，2022YFF0802700）构造方向负责人，承担经费 80万；项目起止日期：2022.12-2027.11。

5. 陕西省高层次人才引进项目，资助额度 80万；项目起止日期：2020.06-2026.06。

6. 陕西省特别支持重点项目：冈瓦纳大陆聚合阶段地球多圈层协同演化机制研究，资助额度20万；项目起止日期：2023.01-2024.12。

三、科研奖励

2013年，教育部自然科学奖二等奖（排名第四）

2017年，香江学者奖

2023年，西北大学优秀科研奖、西北大学优秀教师奖

四、代表性论文

Yao, J.L. *, Cawood, P.A., Zhao, G.C. *, Han, Y.G., Xia, X.P., Liu, Q., Wang, P., 2021. Mariana type ophiolites constrain establishment of modern plate tectonic regime during Gondwana assembly. Nature Communications, 12, 4189.

Yang, H., Yao, J.L.*, Cawood, P.A., Zhao, G., Han, Y., Li, X.C., Liu, Q., Zhang, D., Wang, X.S., Guo, Y., 2025. Quantifying magma water contents: a new entrainment model for charnockite formation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130, e2024JB029753. DOI: 10.1029/2024JB029753.  

Wang, X.S., Yao, J.L.*, Zhao, G.C.*, Cawood, P.A., Sun, M., Cai, K.D., Xia, X.P., Li, P.F., Liu, X.J., Li, M., Zhang, Y.Y., Wang, K., Tang, S.X., 2025. Deep carbon recycling via the Tianshan basalt province and its contribution to Cenozoic elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2025.11.028

Chen, L., Yao, J.L.*, Zhao, G., Han, Y., Liu, Q., Zhang, D., Wang, X.D., Zhao, X., 2026. Delineating convergent continental margin basin systems in the North Altyn belt: Implications for diachronous closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean. Global and Planetary Change  261, 105402

Yao, J.L.*, Cawood, P.A., Zhao, G.C., Shu, LS., Han, Y.G.,  Liu, Q., Zhang, D.H., Xia, X.P, Yang, H., Jian, D.C., Zhao, X.J., 2025. Reconstructing the Yunkai terrane (west Cathaysia): Evidence for hot, thin end Mesoproterozoic to early Tonian orogens at the edge of India-Antarctic-Australia. GSA Bulletin 137 (11-12), 5028–5046. 

姚金龙*, 崔鹏远, 韩以贵, 张东海, 刘潜, 赵国春, 2025. 从冈瓦纳聚合阶段早期生命辐射的构造环境因子到地球系统科学. 西北大学学报（自然科学版）, 55(3): 475-488.

Yang, H., Yao, J.L.*, Zhao, G., Shu, L.S., Cui, P.Y., 2025. The early Paleozoic intracontinental orogeny in South China: A far-field  response to the closure of the Proto-Tethys Ocean in the Indochina Block. GSA Bulletin 137 (5-6), 2682–2702.

Yang, H., Yao, J.L.*, Zhao, G.C., Han, Y.G. *, Zhang, Q., 2025. Permo-Triassic lithospheric reactivation in South China triggered by subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Plate: Constraints from the hornblende gabbro in the Yunkai massif. Lithos 518-519: 108337.

Zhao, X., Yao, J.L.*, Zhao, G., Han, Y., Liu, Q., Zhang, D., & Chen, L. (2025). ∼ 790 Ma OIB type mafic dykes in the North Altyn block, southeastern Tarim: Insights into the reconstruction and geodynamics of Rodinia breakup. Precambrian Research 430, 107930.

Zhang, Q., Yao, J.L.*,  Zhao, G.C.,  Han, Y.G., Yang, H., Han, W., Zhang, Y.X., 2025. The operation of plate tectonics in the Earth’s middle age: constraints from ~1.4 Ga calc-alkaline arc magmatism in the southern CAOB. Lithos 514–515, 108170.

Cui, P.Y.,  Yao, J.L.*,  Zhao, G.C.,  Han, Y.G., Liu, Q., Zhang, D.H., Yang, H., 2025. Prolonged Super-orogens during Gondwana assembly contributed to the formation of a habitable Earth: insights from big data.  China geology 8, 1-13.

Li, W., Yao, J.L.*, Zhao, G., Han, Y., Liu, Q., Zhang, D., 2025. Reconstructing Tarim within Rodinia: constraints from early Tonian accretionary and collisional records in the Altyn belt. Precambrian Research 416, 107605.

Liu, J., Han, Y. *, Yao, J.L *, Zhao, G., Liu, Q., Zhou, H., Jing, J., Lu, L., Shao, D, 2024. Detrital zircon UPb-Hf isotopes of late Meso-Neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks in the South Altyn Tagh: Implications for tectonic affinity of microcontinents in NW China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 275, 106298.

Yao, J.L. *, Shu, L.S., Zhao, G.C., Han, Y.G., Liu, Q., 2021. Ca. 835-823 Ma doming extensional tectonics in the west Jiangnan accretionary orogenic belt, South China: implication for a slab roll-back event. Journal of Geodynamics, 101879.

Shu, L. S. *, Yao, J.L. *, Wang, B., Faure, M., Charvet, J., Chen, Y., 2021. Neoproterozoic plate tectonic process and Phanerozoic geodynamic evolution of the South China Block. Earth-Science Reviews 216, 103596.

姚金龙*，赵国春，韩以贵，刘潜，余珊，Simon Williams，何艳红，李阳，2021. 晚新元古代—早寒武世现代板块构造与现代地球系统的建立. 西北大学学报(自然科学版), 51(6), 1007-1018.

Yao, J. L., Shu, L. S., Cawood, P. A., Zhao, G.C., 2019. The Jiangnan Belt in South China: a ~970-820 Ma Rodinia margin accretionary orogen. Earth-Science Reviews, 196, 102872.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Cawood, P.A., Zhao, G.C., 2019. Differentiating continental and oceanic arc systems and retro-arc basins in the Neoproterozoic Jiangnan belt, South China. Geological Magazine156, 2001–2016.

Yao, J. L., Shu, L. S., Cawood, P. A., Li, J. Y., 2017. Constraining timing and tectonic implications of Neoproterozoic metamorphic event in the Cathaysia Block, South China. Precambrian Research 293, 1–12.

Yao, J.L, Cawood, P.A., Shu, L.S., Li, J.Y., 2016. An Early Neoproterozoic Accretionary Prism Ophiolitic Mélange from the Western Jiangnan Orogenic Belt, South China. The Journal of Geology 124 (5), 587-601.

Yao, J. L., Shu, L. S., Cawood, P. A., Li, J. Y., 2016. Delineating and characterizing the boundary of the Cathaysia block and the Jiangnan orogenic belt in South China. Precambrian Research 275, 265–277.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., Li, J. Y., 2015. Neoproterozoic arc-related andesite and orogeny-related unconformity in the eastern Jiangnan orogenic belt: constraints on the assembly of the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks in South China. Precambrian Research 262, 84–100.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., Zhao, G.C., 2014. Neoproterozoic arc-related mafic-ultramafic rocks and syn-collision granite from the western segment of the Jiangnan Orogen, South China: constraints on the Neoproterozoic assembly of the Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks. Precambrian Research 243, 39-62.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., 2014. Neoproterozoic arc-trench system and breakup of the South China Craton: constraints from N-MORB type and arc-related mafic rocks, and anorogenic granite in the Jiangnan orogenic belt. Precambrian Research 247, 187–207.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., Xu, Z.Q., 2014. Palaeozoic metamorphism of the Neoproterozoic basement in NE Cathaysia: zircon U–Pb ages, Hf isotope and whole-rock geochemistry from the Chencai Group. Journal of the Geological Society, London 171, 281–297.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., Li, J.Y., 2013. Geochronology and Hf isotope of detrital zircons from Precambrian sequences in the eastern Jiangnan Orogen: Constraining the assembly of Yangtze and Cathaysia Blocks in South China. Journal of Asian Earth Science 74, 225–243.

Yao, J.L, Shu, L.S, Santosh, M., Li, J.Y, 2012. Precambrian crustal evolution of the South China Block and its relation to supercontinent history: constraints from U–Pb ages, Lu–Hf isotopes and REE geochemistry of zircons from sandstones and granodiorite. Precambrian Research 208, 19-48.

Yao, J.L., Shu, L.S., Santosh, M., 2011. Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology, Hf-isotopes and geochemistry — new clues for the Precambrian crustal evolution of Cathaysia Block, South China. Gondwana Research 20, 553–567.

赵国春; 韩以贵; 李建华; 姚金龙; 刘潜; 张东海; 王潮; 唐卿; 张健; 尹常青; 张国伟, 2022.超大陆聚散的环境效应. 地质学报, 96(9): 3120-3127.

Cawood, P.A., Zhao, G.C., Yao, J.L., Wang, W., Xu, Y.J., Wang, Y.J., 2018. Reconstructing South China in Phanerozoic and Precambrian supercontinents. Earth-Science Reviews 186, 173-194.

王旭东，姚金龙*，赵喜军等. 北阿尔金早古生代弧-盆体系重建：来自沉积记录的约束. 西北地质, 2025.