Prof. ZHANG Zhen 張振
Research Assistant Professor
Room 319, Mong Man Wai Building
3943 5286
Education
| 2021 | Ph.D. Geotechnical Engineering | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Academic Employments
| 2025 - present | Research Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2025 - present | Visiting Scientist, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL |
| 2024 - 2025 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL |
| 2022 - 2024 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth and Environmental Sciences Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2019 - 2020 | Visiting PhD Student, Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology, ETH Zürich |
Research Fields and Current Research Interests
- Environmental Seismology
- Landslides and Debris flows
- Glacial lake outburst floods
Representative Publications
| 2024 | Zhang Z., Liu M., Tan Y. J., Walter F., He S., Chmiel M. &Su J. (2024). Landslide hazard cascades can trigger earthquakes. Nature Communications, 15: 2878. |
| 2024 | Zhang Z., Tan Y. J., Walter F., He S., Chmiel M., & Su J. Seismic monitoring and geomorphic impact of the catastrophic 2018 Baige landslide hazard cascades in the Tibetan plateau. (2024). Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 129, e2023JF007363. |
| 2021 | Zhang, Z., Walter, F., McArdell, B., de Haas, T., Wenner, M., Chmiel, M., & He, S. (2021). Analyzing bulk flow characteristics of debris flows using their high frequencey seismic signature. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,126, e2021JB022755. |
| 2021 | Zhang, Z., Walter, F., McArdell, B., Wenner, M., Chmiel, M., de Haas, T., & He, S. (2021). Insight from the particle impact model into the high frequency seismic signature of debris flows. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL088994. |
| 2019 | Zhang, Z., & He, S. (2019). Analysis of broadband seismic recordings of landslide using empirical Green’s function. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(9): 4628-4635. |
Honours and Awards
| 2021 | Dean Excellence Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2020 | Dean Excellence Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2019 | International Exchange Scholarship, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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