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Member Since 2006
Lijun Liu
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professional Experience
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor
2017 - Present
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Assistant Professor
Education
CalTech Seismological Laboratory
Doctorate
2010
Current Roles
Member
Bucher Medal Committee
Honors & Awards
Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Received 2015
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Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received 2009
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Publications
Back‐Arc Tectonics and Plate Reconstruction of the Philippine Sea‐South China Sea Region Since the E...

Insight into the evolution of Philippine Sea‐South China Sea (SCS) plate motions helps reveal the driving mechanisms of the long‐term t...

March 01, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Upper-Mantle Anisotropy from Global Adjoint Tomography: Model GLAD-M50-AZI
SEISMIC ANISOTROPY AND MANTLE DYNAMICS: OBSERVATIONS, MODELS, AND EXPERIMENTS I ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 14 december 2023
Ebru Bozdag, Ridvan Orsvuran, Lijun Liu, Daniel B....
Starting from the global adjoint tomography model GLAD-M25, transversely isotropic in the upper mantle, we performed 25 conjugate gradient iterations ...
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Paleogene India-Eurasia Collision as Constrained by Plate Rotation
FILLING IN THE MARGINS: 3D ARCHITECTURE OF CONVERGENT MARGINS AND THE TRANSFERABILITY FROM SUBDUCTION TO COLLISION II ORAL
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Xiaoyue Wu, Jiashun Hu, Ling Chen, Liang Liu, Liju...
The Cenozoic India-Eurasia collision has a profound impact on the formation of the Tibetan plateau. However, the early history of the collision proces...
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Evaluating tomotectonic plate reconstructions using geodynamic models with data assimilation, the case for North America
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ON THE INTERPLAY OF SURFACE PROCESSES, LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION, AND MANTLE DYNAMICS: APPLICATION TO OROGENIC PLATEAUS AND OTHER TECTONIC ENVIRONMENTS II POSTER
study of earth's deep interior | 13 december 2023
Yanchong Li, Lijun Liu, Diandian Peng, Hao Dong, S...
Reconstructions of Earths past surface kinematics are traditionally based on a combination of relative plate motions inferred mostly from preserved se...
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Volunteer History
2024 - 2025
Member
Bucher Medal Committee
2021 - 2022
Member
Tectonophysics Jason Morgan Early Career Award Committee
2021 - 2022
Member
Tectonophysics Jason Morgan Early Career Award Committee
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