Chuanming Liu
My research focuses on using seismic imaging and advanced inversion techniques to investigate Earth’s subsurface dynamics, with a particular emphasis on seismic anisotropy and its relationship to tectonic and geodynamic processes. By integrating global seismic datasets—including surface and body waves derived from ambient seismic noise and teleseismic earthquakes—my work resolves three-dimensional isotropic and anisotropic structure of the crust and uppermost mantle across large-scale regions, strike-slip fault systems, and cryospheric environments. These approaches provide new insights into lithospheric deformation, mantle flow, and plate dynamics in tectonically active settings and polar regions.
Ph.D. University of Colorado Boulder, 2023
M.S. University of Science and Technology of China, 2017
B.S. China University of Geosciences, 2014
Seismic anisotropy; seismic imaging and inversion; surface wave tomography; lithospheric structure; subduction zone; strike-slip fault systems; Antarctica.