·    2003 to 2005, Postdoctoral, Université de Lille

·    1998 to 2002, PhD, Tongji University

·    1991 to 1998, BS & MS, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

·    Since 2002, School of Ocean & Earth Science, Tongji University

Teaching

·    Structural Geology; Advanced Structural Geology; Advanced Petroleum and Gas Geology; Oceanic Plate; Principles of Marine Geology

Research Interests

·    Geology and resources of South, East China Seas and South China, Paleo-Pacific subduction

·    Fission track thermochronolog

Projects

·   Late-Mesozoic arc-subduction-related igneous rocks from SW East China Sea to N South China Sea: Key constraints on East Asia convergent margin, NSFC-China (No.41876045), 2019.1–2022.12.

·   Late-Mesozoic granitoids from the northern South China Sea: new constraints on the active continental margin of SE China, NSFC-China (No.41272218), 2013.1–2016.12.

·   Reconstruction on Jurassic tectonothermal history of DabieShan orogen using fission-track and Ar/Ar thermochronology, NSFC-China (No.40872138), 2009.1–2011.12.

·   Basement and tectonic evolution in the western South China Sea, Van Den Haute, P., Donelick,R.A., De Grave,J., Ma,C.Q., Reiners,P.W.Apatite Fission Track Geochronology and its Tectonic Correlation in the Dabieshan Orogen, Central China. Science in China (Ser. D earth sciences), 2005, 48(4): 506–520.

·   Reiners, P.W., Zhou, Z.Y., Ehlers, T.A., Xu, C.H., Brandon, M.T. Post-orogenic evolution of the Dabie Shan, Eastern China, from (U-Th)/He and fission-track thermochronology.American Journal of Science, 2003, 303(6): 489–518.

·    Zhou, Z.Y., Xu, C.H., Reiners, P.W., et al. Late Cretaceous-Cenozoic exhumation history of Tiantangzhai region of Dabieshan orogen: constraints from (U-Th)/He and fission track analysis. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2003, 48(11): 1151–1156.

·   Xu, C.H., Zhou, Z.Y., Ma, C.Q., Reiners, P.W. Geochronological constraints on 140~85 Ma thermal doming extension in the Dabie orogen, central China. Science In China (Ser. D), 2002, 45 (9): 801–817.

·   Xu, C.H., Zhou, Z.Y., Ma, C.Q., Reiners, P.W. Geochronological constraints on the post-collisional (150–75Ma) thermal extension in the Dabieshan orogen, central China. Gondwana Research, 2001, 4 (4): 829–831.

·    Ding, S.J., Xu, C.H., Long, W.G., Zhou, Z.Y., Liao, Z.T., 2002. The tectonic attribute and geochronology of metavocanics, Tongchang, Hainan island (in Chinese with English abstract). Acta Petrologica Sinica, 18(1): 83-91.

·    Zhou, Z.Y., Reiners, P.W., Xu, C.H., Liao, Z.T., et al. Zircon (U-Th)/He Thermochronology Constraints on Cretaceous Thermal Extension of Dabieshan Orogen. Process In Natural Science, 2002, 2 (7): 524–527.

·  Ma, C.Q., Carl, E., Xu, C.H., Li, Z.C., Yang, K.G. The roots of the Dabieshan ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane: constrains from geochemistry and Nd-Sr isotope systematics. Precambrian Research, 2000, 102 (3~4): 297–301.

·   Yang, K.G., Ma, C.Q., Xu, C.H., Yang, W.R. Differential uplift between Beihuaiyang and Dabie orogenic belts. Science in China (Ser. D), 2000, 43 (2): 192–199.

·   Xu, C.H., Zhou, Z.Y., Ma, C.Q. Post-orogenic exhumation process of the Dabie block: evidences from petrology and thermal-chronology study. Gondwana Research, 1999, 10(4): 519–521.

·   Ma, C.Q., Yang, K.G., Xu, C.H., Li, Z.C., Ehlers, C., 1999. Mesozoic potassic magmatism in the Dabie mountains: implication for exhumation mechanism of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terranes (in Chinese with English abstract). Acta Ptrologica Sinica, 15(3): 379-395.

·   Xu, C.H., Ma, C.Q., Yang, K.G., Liu, G.Y., 1998. Petrogenesis and thermal history of Xi Xiongwen intrusion in the Dabieshan: insight into shaping process of western Dabie thermodynamic dome (in Chinese with English abstract). Geological Journal of China Universities, 4(2): 177-187.

·  Yang, K.G, Ma, C.Q., Xu, C.H., Yang, W.R., 1998. A study of the Yaohe pluton and its northern ductile shear zone at the northeastern margin of the Dabie Mountain (in Chinese with English abstract). Seismology and Geology, 20(4): 305-311.

·   Xu, C.H., Ma, C.Q., Yang, K.G., Yan, Y.Q., 1998. Discussion on Mesozoic magmatism and metamorphic transformation in Dabie block (in Chinese with English abstract). Geology and Mineral Resources of South China, 54(2): 16-23.

·  Ma, C.Q., Yang, K.G., Xu, C.H. Vertical chemical variation of Mesozoic synuplift plutonic rocks in Dabieshan orogen, Central China. Proc. 30th Int'l. Geol. Congr., 1997, 15: 101–108, VSP, the Netherlands.

·    State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology

·    Center for Marine Resources, Tongji University

·    Shanghai Petroleum Society