·     1978.10-1982.07: Northwest University🚵🏿‍♀️，Geology🤦🏿，B.Sc.

·     1982.09-1985.07: Northwest University，Geology👩🏽‍✈️🧜🏽‍♂️，M.Sc.

·     1990.10-1996.11: Kiel University, Germany, Geology🧑🏻‍⚕️，Ph.D.

·     2001.03- : Professor of Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai

·     1998.03-2001.03: Associate Professor

·     1997.01-1998.03: Post Doctor

·     1985.07-1990.10: Assistant Professor, Lecturer

Research Interests

·     Sedimentology, provenance analysis

·     Basin analysis, Geochemistry

Projects

·    National Natural Science Foundation of China supported Project: “Tectonic evolution and sedimentary response during Cretaceous-Miocene in the eastern South China Sea”. 2016-2019.

·    National Natural Science Foundation of China supported Project: “Sedimentary records of early tectonic evolution in the south China sea”. 2012-2015.

·    National Natural Science Foundation of China supported Project: “Evolution of the Pearl River and provenance abrupt change event in the northern South China Sea”, 2010-2012.

·    National Natural Science Foundation of China supported Project: “Provenance analysis of terrigenous deep sea sediments with high sedimentary rate in northern South China Sea”. 2003~2005.

Publications

·    Yuchi, Cui, Lei Shao*, Peijun Qiao, Jianxiang Pei, Daojun Zhang, Huyen Tran➕，Upper Miocene–Pliocene provenance evolution of the Central Canyon in northwestern South China Sea, Marine Geophysical Research🖐🏽，(2018)  DOI: 10.1007/s11001-018-9359-2.

·    Licheng Cao, Lei Shao∗, Peijun Qiao, Zhigang Zhao, Douwe J.J.vanHinsbergen🍄，Early      Miocene birth of modern Pearl River recorded low-relief, high-elevation surface formation of SE Tibetan Plateau, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 496 (2018) 120–131🏺，https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.039.

·    Shuhui Chen, Peijun Qiao, Houhe Zhang, Xiaojun Xie, Yuchi Cui, Lei Shao,Geochemical characteristics of Oligocene-Miocene sediments from the deepwater area of the northern South China Sea and their provenance implications. Acta Oceanol. Sin., 2018, 37(2): 1–9, DOI: 10.1007/s13131-017-1127-7.

·    Lei Shao, Licheng Cao, Peijun Qiao, Xiangtao Zhang, Qianyu Li, Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen. Cretaceous–Eocene provenance connections between the Palawan Continental Terrane and the northern South China Sea margin. 2017. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 477(2017)97-107. Doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.08.019.

·    Lei Shao, Anhui Meng, Qianyu Li, Peijun Qiao, Yuchi Cui, Licheng Cao, Shuhui Chen , Detrital zircon ages and elemental characteristics of the Eocene sequence in IODP Hole U1435A: Implications for rifting and environmental changes before the opening of the South China Sea, Marine Geology (2017), doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2017.08.002.

·    Lei Shao, Qianyu Li, Weilin Zhu, Daojun Zhang, PeijunQiao, Xinyu Liu, LiYou, Yuchi Cui, XixiDong，Neogene carbonate platform development in the NW South China Sea: Litho-, bio- and chemo-stratigraphic evidence，Marine Geology✢，2017，DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2017.01.009.

·    Zhu W L, Xie X N, Wang Z F, Zhang D J, Zhang C L, Cao L C, Shao L. 2017. New insights on the origin of the basement of the Xisha Uplift, South China Sea. Science China Earth Sciences, 60: 1–9, doi: 10.1007/s11430-017-9089-9.

·  Licheng Cao, Lei Shao, Peijun Qiao, Shuhui Chen, Mengshuang Wu🫶🏼，Geochemical evolution of Oligocene–Middle Miocene sediments in the deep-water area of the Pearl River Mouth Basin, northern South China Sea，Marine and Petroleum Geology，2017，DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.12.010.

·    Rong Li，Peijun Qiao，Yuchi Cui🈹，Daojun Zhang🫴🏻，Xinyu Liu, Lei Shao🪑，Composition and diagenesis of Pleistocene aeolianites at Shidao, Xisha Islands: Implications for palaeoceanography and palaeoclimate during the last glacial period, Volume 490, 15 January 2018, Pages 604-616，https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.049.

·    Li Q Y, Wu G X, Zhang L L, Shu Y, Shao L. Paleogene marine deposition records of rifting and breakup of the South China Sea: An overview. Science China Earth Sciences, 2016. doi: 10.1007/s11430-016-0163-x.

·  Shao, L., L. Cao, X. Pang, T. Jiang,P. Qiao, and M. Zhao (2016), Detrital zircon provenance of the Paleogene syn-rift sediments in the northern South China Sea, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 17, 255–269, doi:10.1002/2015GC006113.

·    Li Q Y, Wu G X, Zhang L L, Shu Y, Shao L. Paleogene marine deposition records of rifting and breakup of the South China Sea: An overview. Science China Earth Sciences, 2016. doi: 10.1007/s11430-016-0163-x.

·    SHAO Lei, QIAO Peijun, ZHAO Meng , Li Qianyu, WU Mengshuang, PANG Xiong，Depositional style of the northern South China Sea between Oligocene and Miocene in Response to the Evolution of the Pearl River🫳🏽🦸🏼，In: Clift, P. D., Harff, J., Wu, J. & Yan, Q. (eds)  River-Dominated Shelf Sediments of East Asian Seas, Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 429, 2016. http://doi.org/10.1144/SP429.2.

·  Meng Zhao, Lei Shao, Jianshe Liang, Qianyu Li. No Red River capture since the late Oligocene: Geochemical evidence from the northwestern South China Sea. Deep-Sea Research Part II  (2015), pp. 185-194 DOI information: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.02.029.

·    SHAO Lei, QIAO PeiJun, PANG Xiong, WEI GangJian, LI QianYu, MIAO WeiLiang, LI Ang👭，Nd isotopic variations and its implications in the recent sediments from the northern South China Sea，Chinese Science bulletin, 2009, 54(2): 311-317.

·  Lei Shao, Xiong Pang, Changmin Chen, Hesheng Shi, Qianyu Li and Peijun Qiao. Late Oligocene sedimentary environments and provenance abrupt change event in the northern South China Sea, Frontiers of Earth Science in China, 2008, 2(2): 138-146.

·  SHAO Lei, LI Xuejie, GEN Jianhua, PANG Xiong, LEI Yongchang, QIAO Peijun, WANG Liaoliang & WANG Hongbin，Deep water bottom current deposition in the northern South China Sea，Science in China, Series D, 2007, 50(7): 1060-1066.

·    Shao Lei, Chuanlian Liu, Karl Stattegger, 2001. Determination of tectonic evolution of sedimentary basin from sandstone components. International Journal of sediment research, v.16(4): 499-507.

·   Shao Lei, Li Xianhua, Wei Gangjian et al., 2001. Provenance of a prominent sediment drift on the northern slope of the South China Sea, Science in China (Ser. D), 44(10): 919.

·    Shao, L. (1996). Sedimentology and Evolution of the Turpan Basin (NW China). University of Kiel Press, Germany, No.80, p.134.

·    Shao, L., Stattegger, K., Li, W.H. (1998): Determination of tectonic background for sedimentary basin from sandstone geochemistry. Chinese Science Bulletin，43, 1191-1196.

·    Shao, L., Stattegger, K., Li, W.H., Haupt, B-J. (1999): Depositional Style and Subsidence history of the Turpan Basin (NW China). Sedimentary Geology, 128, 155-169.

·    Shao, L., Stattegger, K., Li, W.H., Haupt, B-J., Liu, Y.Q. (1998): Subsidence Characteristics of the Turpan Basin (NW China) and its Tectonic Implications. Progress in Natural Science, 8, 597-603.

·  Shao, L., Stattegger, K. (1996). Sandstone Composition and Geochemistry of the Turpan Basin: Implications for Provenance and Tectonic Evolution. In Abstract of 30th International Geol. Congr. Beijing, p.201.

·  Shao, L.,Stattegger, K. (2001): Sandstone Petrology and Geochemistry of the Turpan Basin (NW China)：Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of a Continental Basin. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 71(1): 37-49.