Faculty

xk星空官网 is an assistant professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology. Before joining SUSTech, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2018 and worked at the University of Western Ontario for a year, followed by a two-year postdoc at the University of New Mexico. Ruijia is interested in intraplate earthquakes, especially those associated with industrial or human activities. She has published 30 peer-reviewed articles on such topics and served as an editor or reviewer for multiple geophysical journals. She has won several student presentation awards from SSA, AGU, and CGU, and has been recognized as an outstanding reviewer by SRL, JGR, and ERA.
xk星空官网 EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
Assistant Professor Southern University of Science and Technology, xk星空官网 Dec. 2021 –
Postdoctoral Fellow University of New Mexico, U.S. May 2019 – Nov. 2021
Postdoctoral Associate University of Western Ontario, Canada May 2018 – April 2019
xk星空官网D. in Seismology University of Alberta, Canada 2018
B.xk星空官网. in Exploration Geophysics China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China 2013
AWARDS AND HONORS
University Outstanding Teaching Award | Southern University of Science and Technology 2023
ERA Outstanding Reviewer Awards | Earthquake xk星空官网 Advances 2022
AGU Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing | JGR-Solid Earth 2021
SRL Outstanding Reviewer | Seismological xk星空官网 Letters 2020
ES-SSA Best Student Paper Award | Seismological Society of America (Eastern Section) June 2018
SEG Best Student Oral Presentation | Society of Exploration Geophysicists (Hefei, xk星空官网) June 2017
Graduate Student Teaching Award | FGSR, University of Alberta April 2017
AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award | American Geophysical Union Jan. 2017
Graduate Student Travel Award | FGSR, University of Alberta Nov. 2016
AAPG Foundation Grants-in-Aid | American Association of Petroleum Geologists May 2016
IGR Roy Dean Hibbs Scholarship | Institute for Geophysical xk星空官网, University of Alberta April 2016
CAPP Graduate Scholarship in Geophysics | Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers Dec. 2015
Roy Dean Hibbs Memorial Travel Award | Institute for Geophysical xk星空官网, University of Alberta Oct. 2015
University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship | FGSR, University of Alberta 2014-2015
Professional Development Award | FGSR, University of Alberta Sept. 2014
CGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award | Canadian Geophysical Union May 2014
Best Student Award | xk星空官网 University of Petroleum (Beijing) 2010, 2011, 2012
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Associate Editor | Earthquake xk星空官网 Advances (地震研究进展) 2022 –
Reviewer for GRL, SRL, JGR(Solid Earth), BSSA, GJI, JPSE, Tectonophysics, Front. Earth Sci., TSR (The Seismic Record), Acta Geologica Sinica-English Edition, Scientific Reports, Chinese Journal of Geophysics (地球物理学报) , AIIG, Earthquake Science, Acta Seismologica Sinica(地震学报) ,IEEE Trans, IEEE GRSL
Guest editor | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America special section on induced seismicity
Convener for induced-seismicity related sessions in AGU (2018, 2019), SSA (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023), and GSA (2020)
Member of Seismological Society of xk星空官网-Young Scientists (中国地震学会青年科技工作委员会第十届委员) 2021 – 2026
Member of Geophysical Society of xk星空官网-Seismology (中国地球物理学会地震学会第一届委员) 2022 – 2027
Member of Geophysical Society of xk星空官网-Statistical Prediction (中国地震学会数值预测专业委员会委员) 2023 – 2026
Member of Young Earth Scientists xk星空官网 (世界青年地球科学家联盟中国委员) 2023 – 2026


