Personal Information

Gang Luo
Professor of Geophysics
School of Geodesy and Geomatics
Wuhan University
Email: gangluo66@whu.edu.cn
Address: 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, P. R. China

Education

·        PhD, Computational Geodynamics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

·        MS, Geophysics, Peking University, P.R.China

·        BS, Geodynamics, Peking University, P.R.China

Experience

·        Professor, School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, P.R.China, 2019.5-present

·        Professor, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R.China, 2014.6-2019.4

·        Professor, Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R.China, 2014.6-2019.4

·        Research Associate, Applied Geodynamics Lab & GeoFluids Lab, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, 2011.9-2014.5

·        Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Geodynamics Lab & GeoFluids Lab, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, 2009.8–2011.8

Research Interests and Research Areas

      My research focuses on theoretical and applied computational geodynamics. Details are followed as below.

·        Surface/Subsurface deformation and its mechanisms

·        Numerical modeling on fluid flow-stress/strain-temperature coupled processes

·        Crustal/lithospheric stress and strain evolutions during earthquake cycles

·        Rheology and crustal/lithospheric geodynamic processes

·        Numerical modeling on fault interactions, and earthquake triggering

·        Numerical modeling on seismicity in a faut system; synthetic seismic catalogs 

·        Earthquakes and subduction processes

·        Numerical modeling on geological evolution of salt structures

·        Stresses, pore pressures and fluid flow around salt structures

·        Geomechanics, rock and soil mechanics, and wellbore stability near salt bodies

·        Numerical modeling on metallogenic geodynamics 

Selected Publication

  Please see http://jszy.whu.edu.cn/gangluo/zh_CN/index.htm