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Fenglin Niu

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Member Since 1994

Fenglin Niu

Professor, School of Earth and Space Sciences, USTC

Member, Macelwane Medal Committee; Editor, JGR Solid Earth Section

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School of Earth and Space Sciences, USTC

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2024 - Present

Rice University

Professor

2002 - 2024

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Rice University

Doctorate

1997

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Complex Shallow Unilateral Rupture of the 2025 Mw 7.0 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake Terminated by a Restraining Bend on the Connector Fault

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Asperity‐Driven Cascading Rupture of a Mw 1.6 Induced Microearthquake

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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH

Revealing Blind Faults Through High‐Resolution Imaging of Shallow Structures: A Case Study on Chenghai Fault, Yunnan, China

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

06 january 2026

Testing the Limits of Outermost Core Low-velocity Layer Detection with SmKS Phases

EARTH AND PLANETARY CORES: INTERDISCIPLINARY INSIGHTS ON STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, AND EVOLUTION II POSTER

study of earth's deep interior | 17 december 2025

Automatic Receiver Function Picking Using Fuzzy C‐Means Clustering

EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE

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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH

Seismic evidence for a thin rigid zone at the top of the core beneath north central Asia

DEEP CONNECTIONS: STRUCTURES, DYNAMICS, AND INTERACTIONS AT EARTH’S CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY III POSTER

study of earth's deep interior | 10 december 2024

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Received December 2023

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For leading-edge high resolution seismic imaging of Earth from the crust to the core

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