Dr Siyuan Zhao
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About
Academic qualifications
- Ph.D. Australian National University
- M.Sc (advanced) with commendation. Australian National University
- B.Sc. (Hons) University of Adelaide
Employment history
- ARC DP funded Postdoctoral Fellow (ANU)
- UK Royal Society funded Research Fellow (COMET, UOL)
- Research Officer (ANU)
- Intern geologist (Santos Ltd.)
Projects history
As main investigator:
- Interactions between the tectonic earthquakes and volcanic behaviours, Royal Society (UK) funded.
- Speed-of-Light Earthquake and Tsunami Detection, ARC Discovery Project.
- A pass characterization of the regional tectonic framework of the Tonga based on newly developed InSAR workflow, Geoscience Australia funded.
- Geometric structure of the Australia/Eurasia margin from inverse numerical models of lithosphere dynamics for the benefit of Tsunami Warning Systems, Geoscience Australia funded.
- New Insights into the Active Tectonic Processes of the Indonesia-Australia-New Guinea Collision Zone, PhD project (RTP scholarship).
- Relative Age of Structures within the Papua New Guinea Fold-Thrust Belt Using Morphotectonic Indicators, Santos Ltd funded.
As collaborator:
- Century-long Postseismic Viscoelastic Relaxation Following the 1920 M8 Haiyuan Earthquake Masks Progressive Interseismic Slip Decay Along the Northeastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Shaanxi Earthquake Agency, Xi'an, China
- Could Surface Precipitations Destabilize a Craton?, Zhejiang University
- Constraining Fault Kinematics and India-Tarim Convergence Partitioning in Southwestern Tibet with Geodetic Block Modelling, University of Leeds
- Early Earthquake Detection with Elasto-Gravitational Waves, ETH & ANU
Awards and distinctions
- Best Student Poster Award, the 20th Annual Meeting of Asia and Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2023).
- Mervyn & Katalin Paterson Travel Fellowship (2023)
- Internship scholarship, Australian School of Petroleum, the University of Adelaide (2016)
Affiliations
- Seismology & Mathematical Geophysics, Researcher
Research interests
Currently, Siyuan's research involves:
1. Investigating the interactions between the tectonic earthquakes and volcanic behaviours based on the SAR and optical satellites.
2. Speed-of-Light earthquake and tsunami detection based on the advanced low-frequency gravitational-force sensors, TorPeDO, for prompt elasto-gravity signal.
Location
J3-160, RSES
Publications
Ollarves, R., Zhao, S. and Gilby, F., (2020), Interaction between the folded structures of the Western Papua New Guinea Highlands: an example of how surface observations can assist in subsurface understanding. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 490(1), pp.311-327. (DOI:10.1144/sp490-2018-124).
Cummins, P. R., Pranantyo, I. R., Pownall, J. M., Griffin, J. D., Meilano, I., & Zhao, S. (2020). Earthquakes and tsunamis caused by low-angle normal faulting in the Banda Sea, Indonesia. Nature Geoscience, 13(4), 312-318 (DOI:10.1038/s41561-020-0545-x).
Zhao, S., McClusky, S., Cummins, P.R., Miller., S.M., Nugroho, H. (2023). New insights into crustal deformation of the Indonesia-Australia-New Guinea collision zone from a broad-scale synthetic kinematic model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (DOI: 10.1029/2022JB024810).
Siyuan Zhao, Simon McClusky, Phil Cummins, Meghan Miller (2024), Co-seismic and Post-seismic Deformation Associated with the 2018 Lombok, Indonesia, Earthquake Sequence, Inferred from InSAR and Seismic Data Analysis. Remote Sensing of Environment (DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114063).
Zhao, S., Cummins, P. R., McClusky, S., & Miller, M. S. (2025). Interseismic coupling along the Java‐Timor subduction‐collision zone at East Indonesia. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(6), e2024GL112563.
Zhang, Z., Yang, X., Mooney, W.D., Bell, R.E., Zhao, S., Lin, J., Zheng, T. and Xu, H., 2024. An integrated study of age and formation of the Aru Trough, eastern Banda Arc, Indonesia: Implications for seismic hazards. Tectonics, 43(9), p.e2024TC008449.
