Dr Zhenhong Li

- Senior Lecturer (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences)
telephone: 01413302289
email: Zhenhong.Li@glasgow.ac.uk
BBC News: Mapping the planet's ups and downs
NEWS: A full scholarship is available for PhD research project: Is glacial isostatic adjustment continuing in Scotland?: Insights from InSAR and GPS observations
Eligibility: This is a full studentship, covering fees and living allowance, for UK and EU students. Non-EU international applicants will also be considered for a University of Glasgow College of Science and Engineering International studentship to cover the difference in tuition fees for international students. Non-EU international students may themselves fund the difference between the UK/EU tuition fees that are covered by the studentship and the full international tuition fees.
Research interests
My principal research interests include the use of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) for monitoring changes in the Earth’s surface for geophysical and engineering applications such as earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and city subsidence. I specialize in development of advanced space geodesy techniques for precise deformation mapping.
- InSAR atmospheric correction models
- Advanced InSAR time series techniques
- High-rate GPS data processsing
- Remote Sensing
- Satellite Gravity: GRACE for coseismic gravity changes
- Earthquake: fault geometry determination with geodetic measurements
- Earthquake: slip distribution constrained by geodetic measurements
- Continental deformation
- Ground subsidence in River Deltas
- Structural deformation of dams, buildings, railways, and motorways
- Atmospheric water vapour spatio-temporal variations
- Environmental changes (e.g. Lake water level change, coastal erosion, flood mapping and aerosol monitoring)
Education
BSc (Distinction) in Geodesy, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying & Mapping (now Wuhan University), China, 1993.09-1997.07
PhD in Space Geodesy and Remote Sensing, University College London, United Kingdom, 2001.09-2005.04
Chevening Technology Enterprise Fellow, Business Technology Transfer Course in London Business School, Imperial College London, and University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2004.09-2005.06
Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2008.09-2010.08
Professional Experience
Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2011.08-present
Luojia Chair Professor, Wuhan University, China, 2012-2016
Affiliated Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States, 2009-2012
Lecturer, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2008.04-2011.07
COMET Research Fellow, University College London, United Kingdom, 2005.06-2008.03
Looking inside the Continents from Space: Insights into Earthquake Hazard and Crustal Deformation, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Large Grant, PIs: Prof Barry Parsons and Tim Wright, Co-I: Z. Li, 2013-2018.
Using high resolution topographic data to detect regions of high seismic hazard from space, Carnegie Trust (Larger Grant), 2012
Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar image processing for rapid assessment of earthquake hazard damage, the RSE-NCFS International Joint Project, PI: Z. Li, 2012-2014.
Field investigation of landslides identified by radar interferometry in the Three Gorges region (China), Carnegie Trust, PI: Z. Li, 2012.
GAS: Generic Atmosphere Solutions for radar measurements. NERC, PI: Z. Li, 2009-2011.
National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO): Centre for the Observation and Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tectonics (COMET+), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Associated Investigator: Z. Li, 2008-2012.
Use of advanced InSAR time series techniques to map city subsidence in Jiangsu Province, China. PI: Z. Li, 2010-2012
Multi-wavelength PS InSAR techniques and their applications to land subsidence in Eastern China, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), PI: Guoxiang Liu, 2011-2013.
Sediment compaction over the Yellow River Delta, China, with Radar Interferometry Time Series Analysis, Carnegie Trust, PI: Z. Li, 2010-2011.
Use of InSAR to map surface cracks in Xi’an City, China, PI: Z. Li, 2009-2010
Use of InSAR to map city subsidence in Jiangsu Province, China. PI: Z. Li, 2009-2010
OSCAR: Online Services for Correcting Atmosphere in Radar, NASA, PI: Paul von Allmen; 2009-2012
Monitor active faults in Tibet using GPS/InSAR integrated techniques, China 863 programme (ID: 2009AA12Z317), PI: Caijun Xu, 2009-2010.
Using space geodesy techniques (i.e. GPS and InSAR) to monitor deformation over the Yellow River Delta, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). PI: Xinghua Zhou, 2006-2008.
Conference Grant for the 2008 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA. The Royal Society. PI: Z. Li, 2008.
Travel Award for an excellent paper presented at the 2008 ISPRS Congress, Beijing, China, the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). PI: Z. Li, 2008.
I am always looking for enthusiastic and professionally curious PhD students with geophysics, geology, geomatics engineering, mathematics or physics backgrounds. If you are interested in space geodesy and its geophysical and engineering applications, please contact me: Zhenhong.Li@glasgow.ac.uk
NEWS: A full scholarship is currently available for PhD research project: Is glacial isostatic adjustment continuing in Scotland?: Insights from InSAR and GPS observations
Eligibility: This is a full studentship, covering fees and living allowance, for UK and EU students. Non-EU international applicants will also be considered for a University of Glasgow College of Science and Engineering International studentship to cover the difference in tuition fees for international students. Non-EU international students may themselves fund the difference between the UK/EU tuition fees that are covered by the studentship and the full international tuition fees.
Current postgraduate students
- Zhiwei Zhou (PhD candidate)
- Andrew Singleton (PhD candidate)
- Wanpeng Feng (PhD candidate)
- Haval A. Sadeq (PhD candidate)
Research Associate
- David Milodowski
Visiting Professors/Scientists
- Prof Peijun Du (Nanjing University, August - September 2013)
- Dr Lianying Li (Wuhan University, March 2013 - March 2014)
- Dr Yangmao Wen (Wuhan University, June 2013 - June 2014)
- Dr Xiaolan Xu (Wuhan University, March 2013 - March 2014)
- Dr Juqing Zhang (Chang'an University, September - December 2013)
Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Roberto Tomás Jover (Associate Professor, University of Alicante, Spain)
Past Postdoc Research Fellow
- Dr Cem Kincal (Lecturer, Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey)
Past PhD Students
- Dr Peng Liu (2012)
Past Visiting Professors/Scientists/Researchers/Interns
- Prof Yanxiong Liu (First Institute of Oceanography, SOA, China, 2008)
- Prof William Hammond (University of Neveda, Reno, 2010)
- Dr Xiaoqing Pi (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, 2010)
- Yangmao Wen (Lecturer, Wuhan University, 2009)
- Wei Qu (Lecturer, Chang'an University, 2010)
- Chengsheng Yang (Lecturer, Chang'an University, 2010)
- Yang Liu (PhD student, Wuhan University, 2010)
- Marie-Laure Bachschmidt (MSc Intern, University of Strasburg, 2012)
- Simon Taussig (MSc Intern, ENSG, 2012)
- Dr Sergio Fernandez (Postdoc, DLR, 2012)
- Qiong Li (PhD Intern, Wuhan University, 2012)
- Yongsheng Li (PhD student, Institute of Crustal Dynamic, China Earthquake Administration, 2012)
- Peng Li (PhD student, Wuhan University, 2012)
- Prof Jingfa Zhang (Institute of Crustal Dynamic, China Earthquake Administration, Nov 2012 - May 2013)
- Dr Dominique Derauw (Centre Spatial de Liège, Belgium, April 2013)
- Geodesy and GNSS (MSc)
- Engineering Surveying (MSc)
- Radar Interferometry and Precise Deformation Mapping (MSc)
- Ardentinny Fieldwork (MSc)
- Digital Geosciences (Levels 3 and 4)
Peer review activities
- Editorial Board Member for Earthquake Science, and Survey Review
- Paper reviewer for more than 30 international journals including JGR, GRL, GJI, RS, BSSA, IEEE TGRS, IJRS, and EPS
- Grant reviewer for 6 national and international research councils including the UK NERC, the Portuguese FCT, the Romanian NRC and the EU FP7 Marie Curie Individual Fellowships.
- Acting as PhD examiners: University of Nottingham (November 2012, External); Imperial College London (November 2012, External); University of Glasgow (January 2013, Internal).
Professional affiliation
- President of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) sub-commission 4.4: Applications of Satellite & Airborne Imaging System (2011-2015).
- Ellected Fellow of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (FRSPSoc), Council Member of the RSPSoc (2010-present) and Chairman of RSPSoc SIGs (2011-present)
- Member of the NERC Space Geodesy Facilities Steering Committee (2010-2014)
- Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Member of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (IEEE GRSS)

