Name (English):Zhuo Liu
Date of Employment:2026-08-10
School/Department:School of Geosciences and Info-physics
Administrative Position:特聘教授
Education Level:Postgraduate (Doctoral)
Business Address:中南大学潇湘校区（新校区）地科楼306
Sex:Male
Degree:Doctoral Degree in Philosophy
Status:报到中
Alma Mater:Colorado School of Mines
Teacher College:School of Geosciences and Info-physics
Discipline: Geological Resources and Geological Engineering
Admission Discipline: Geological Resources and Geological Engineering
Personal Profile
Teacher homepageLiu Zhuo, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor
School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University
Department of Applied Geophysics
His research primarily focuses on forward modeling, inversion, and geological interpretation of gravity, magnetic, and electromagnetic data. He received his B.Eng. in Geoscience Information and Technology from Central South University in 2015, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Geophysics with a minor in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines in 2018 and 2024, respectively. He was a visiting student at the University of Science and Technology of China. From March 2025 to June 2026, he conducted postdoctoral research in the Mineral-X group in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University.
His research findings have been published in journals such as Geophysics, Geophysical Prospecting, IEEE GRSL, and Journal of Applied Geophysics. He has published 16 journal papers, been granted 14 invention patents, obtained 1 software copyright, and participated in the formulation of 1 group standard. He has received honors including the Gold Medal at the BRICS Invention Exhibition, the Silver Award of the Geophysical Engineering Award of the Chinese Geophysical Society, and the First Prize of the Nonferrous Metals Industry Science and Technology Award. He currently serves as an editorial board member for Big Data and Earth System and Computing Techniques for Geophysical and Geochemical Exploration, and as a reviewer for journals such as Geophysics, GJI, and IEEE TGRS.
His research interests include but are not limited to: deep learning-based rapid forward modeling and inversion of gravity, magnetic, and electromagnetic data; inversion and geological interpretation of anisotropic physical properties; and joint inversion of multiple physical properties and geological differentiation. The research group is recruiting master's and doctoral students in research areas such as critical minerals/artificial intelligence, as well as postdoctoral researchers in research areas related to the upstream and downstream of the mineral development industry chain. Young scholars with backgrounds in mathematics/physics/geology/computer science are welcome to join the team!
Publications
1. Rong Liu, Jianxin Liu, Chunming Liu, Rongwen Guo, Hongyu Wang, Zhuo Liu⁎, “A feasibility study of the wide-field electromagnetic method for hidden ore deposits prospecting”. Journal of Applied Geophysics. 2020, 179, 104121.
2. Rong Liu, Jianxin Liu, Jianxin Wang, Zhuo Liu, Rongwen Guo*, “A time-lapse CSEM monitoring study for hydraulic fracturing in shale gas reservoir”. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 2020, 120, 104545.
3. Rong Liu, Jianxin Liu, Jianxin Wang, Zhuo Liu, Rongwen Guo*, “1D electromagnetic response modeling with arbitrary source-receiver geometry based on vector potential and its implementation in MATLAB”. Geophysics. 2020, 85 (3): 27–38.
4. Yahui Xue, Jianxin Liu, Rong Liu, Zhuo Liu, Rongwen Guo*, Chuanghua Cao, “Effect of Displacement Current on the Finite-Difference Modeling of Natural Source Electromagnetic Diffusion”. Applied Sciences-Basel. 2020, 10 (8): 2744.
5. Rong Liu, Rongwen Guo, Jianxin Liu, Zhuo Liu*, “An Efficient Footprint-Guided Compact Finite Element Algorithm for 3-D Airborne Electromagnetic Modeling”. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 2019, 16 (12): 1809-1813.
6. Zhuo Liu*, Yaoguo Li, and Kaijun Xu, “Constrained Simultaneous Recovery of the Depth to Basement and Lateral Susceptibility Variation”. Geophysical Prospecting. 72, no. 8 (2024): 3008-3025.
7. Zhuo Liu* and Yaoguo Li, “Connect Geophysical Data Interpretation and Geology Through Inversion for Anisotropic Magnetic Susceptibility”. Geophysical Prospecting. 73: e70037. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.70037.
8. Wang, Yong-fei, Rong-wen Guo, Zhuo Liu*, Ding-hui Yang, and Deng-kang Wang. 2026. "Three-dimensional Inversion of Metallic Minerals Electromagnetic Data Using Efficient Multigrid Solver." Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China 36 (3): 943–955.
9. LI, Jian, Zhuo LIU*, RongWen GUO, and ZhiXing ZHAO. "3D anisotropic forward modeling of controlled-source electromagnetic fields based on adaptive algebraic multi-resolution grids." Chinese Journal of Geophysics (2026): 1-16.
10. WANG, YongFei, Zhuo LIU*, RongWen GUO, Jian LI, Sheng HOU, WenXiang LIU, Peng XUE, and MengYu SUN. "Efficient regularization constraints forward modeling of anisotropic magnetotelluric in spherical-coordinate system." Chinese Journal of Geophysics 69, no. 3 (2026): 1351-1363.
11. Guo, Rong-wen, Chen-yang Li, Zhuo Liu*, Deng-kang Wang, and Ming Yu. "Hydrogeophysical Imaging and Joint Interpretation of Rainfall Infiltration on an Embanked Slope in the Mid-Lower Yangtze Hilly Region." Applied Geophysics (2026): 1-19.
12. Zhuo Liu*, and Yaoguo Li. "Simultaneous imaging of basement relief and varying susceptibility using trained deep neural network." Geophysics 91, no. 3 (2026): B63-B81.
13. Wang, Dengkang, Rongwen Guo, Yongfei Wang*, Zhuo Liu, Shenqi Tian, Xinhao Chen, and Akande Akintunde Abiodun. "Plane wave electromagnetic modeling based on Fourier transform in a mixed domain." Journal of Applied Geophysics (2026): 106284.
14. Kouadio, Kouao Laurent, Rong Liu, Kouamé Gbèlè Hermann Loukou, Wenxiang Liu, Zhanhui Qing, and Zhuo Liu*. "A diagnostic framework for interpreting spatiotemporal probabilistic forecasts." Environmental Modelling & Software (2026): 107052.
15. Jiajia Zeng, Jianxin Liu, Na Hao, Wenwu Tang, Rujun Chen, Keke Zhou, Shenqi Tian, Dongxu Ye, Zhuo Liu*. “Complex conductivity characteristics of soil samples and reshaped samples from ion-adsorption type REE deposit in South China.” Journal of Applied Geophysics (2026) 106456.
16. Haifei Liu, Daowei Zhu, Zhuo Liu*, and Talal M. S. Alqadhi. "Boundary-Element Modelling of the Anomalous Potential Field From a Point Current Source Over 3D Terrain." Geophysical Prospecting (2026): e70247.
Educational Experience
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2011.9 - 2015.6中南大学 一 University graduated 一 Bachelor's Degree in Engineering
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2016.8 - 2018.12Colorado School of Mines 一 Postgraduate (Master's Degree) 一 Master's Degree in Science 一 地球物理学硕士
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2019.1 - 2024.12Colorado School of Mines 一 Postgraduate (Doctoral) 一 Doctoral Degree in Philosophy 一 地球物理学博士
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