HKU ResearcherPage: Zhao, Guochun

Dr. Zhao's current research interest focuses on applying modern theories and methods of metamorphic petrology, structural geology and geochronology to tackle various geological problems, ranging from microscopic processes of mineral reactions during metamorphism, to macroscopic processes of assembly and breakup of supercontinents in Earth’s history.

Dr. Zhao’s major research findings and outcomes include discoveries of two Paleoproterozoic continent-continent collisional belts (Khondalite Belt and Trans-North China Orogen) in the North China Craton, and the first proposal of global scale 2.0-1.8 billion years old collisional events leading to the assembly of the Paleo-Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Columbia (Nuna).

According to All Databases on the Web of Knowledge from Thomson Reuters, Dr. Zhao’s record in the field of GEOSCIENCES includes 200 papers cited more than 8,000 times (h-index = 51) from January 2000 to February 2013, placing him in the top 1% of scientists in this field.

Dr. Guochun Zhao is now the Editor-in-Chief of Precambrian Research, Associate Editor of Gondwana Research and Geoscience Frontiers , and editorial member of Chinese Science Bulletin, Science China (Series D) and Acta Petrologica Sinica.