Dr. Ren is an Associate Professor in Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology. He earned a bachelor’s degree (2003) and a Ph.D. (2009) in Geophysics at Peking University. Later, he successively served as a postdoctor and an associate researcher in University of Science and Technology of China. He joined SUSTech in 2016. He became a committee member of Professional Committee on Seismoelectromagnetism, Seismological Society of China in 2017 and won the Liu Guangding Geophysical Youth Science and Technology Award in 2019. His research interests include the earthquake-related electromagnetic phenomena and potential applications of seismoelectric effect in exploration of subsurface fluid. So far, he has hosted 6 scientific research funds, published more than 10 journal articles as first/corresponding author, contributed 2 chapters to AGU’s monograph on seismoelectric exploration, and served as a reviewer of academic journals including JGR-Solid Earth, GJI, Solid Earth, and so on.

Education Background
2003-2009, Ph.D. in Geophysics, School of Earth & Space Sciences, Peking University
1999-2003, BS in Geophysics, School of Earth & Space Sciences, Peking University

Work Experience
2020.11-present, Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, Southern Univ. of Science & Technology
2016.10-2020.10, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, Southern Univ. of Science & Technology
2017.06-2017.10, Visiting Researcher, Earthquake Research Institute, The Univ. of Tokyo
2012.04-2016.10, Associate Researcher, School of Earth & Space Sciences, Univ. of Science & Technology of China
2009.07-2012.04, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Earth & Space Sciences, Univ. of Science & Technology of China

Academic Service Experience
Committee member of Professional Committee on Seismoelectromagnetism, Seismological Society of China
Reviewer of AGU Geophysical Monograh, JGR-Solid Earth, GJI, Solid Earth, PAGeoph, and so on.

Research
1. Numerical simulation technique for EM fields and elastic waves
2. Experimental study of the seismoelectric effect
3. Analysis and explanation of EM signals associated with natural earthquakes
4. Potential applicaiton of the electrokinetic effect in monitoring/detecting subsurface fluids and well logging

Teaching
1. Fundamentals of Geophysics II (Geomagnetism, Geoelectricity, Geothermics and Gravity)
2. Principal of Mechanical-Electromagnetic coupling

Publications (with the asterisk * indicating the corresponding author)

16. Huang Qinghua, Han Peng, Hattori Katsumi & Ren Hengxin, 2020. Electromagnetic signals associated with earthquakes: A review of observations, data processing, and mechanisms in China, in Seismoelectric Exploration: Theory, Experiments and Applications, eds Grobbe N., Revil A., Zhu Z. & Slob E., American Geophysical Union, doi:10.1002/9781119127383.ch26

15. Ren Hengxin, Huang Qinghua & Chen Xiaofei, 2020. Evanescent EM waves generated by seismoelectric conversion at an interface, in Seismoelectric Exploration: Theory, Experiments and Applications, eds Grobbe N., Revil A., Zhu Z. & Slob E., American Geophysical Union, doi:10.1002/9781119127383.ch20

14. Sun Yao-Chong, Uyeshima Makoto, Ren Hengxin*, Huang Qinghua, Aizawa Koki, Tsukamoto Kaori, Kanda Wataru, Seki Kaori, Kishita Takahiro, Ohminato Takao, Watanabe Atsushi, Ran Jiangjun & Chen Xiaofei, 2019. Numerical simulations to explain the coseismic electromagnetic signals: a case study for a M5.4 aftershock of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, Earth Planets and Space, 71, doi:10.1186/s40623-019-1122-7

13. Sun Yao-Chong, Ren Hengxin*, Zheng Xu-Zhen, Li Na, Zhang Wei, Huang Qinghua & Chen Xiaofei, 2019. 2-D poroelastic wave modelling with a topographic free surface by the curvilinear grid finite-difference method, Geophysical Journal International, 218(3), 1961-1982, doi:10.1093/gji/ggz263

12. Ren Hengxin*, Huang Qinghua & Chen Xiaofei, 2018. Quantitative understanding on the amplitude decay characteristic of the evanescent electromagnetic waves generated by seismoelectric conversion, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 175(8), 2853-2879, doi:10.1007/s00024-018-1823-z

11. Ren Hengxin*, Huang Qinghua & Chen Xiaofei, 2016. Numerical simulation of seismo-electromagnetic fields associated with a fault in a porous medium, Geophysical Journal International, 206(1), 205-220, doi:10.1093/gji/ggw144

10. Ren Hengxin*, Huang Qinghua & Chen Xiaofei, 2016. Existence of evanescent electromagnetic waves resulting from seismoelectric conversion at a solid–porous interface, Geophysical Journal International, 204(1), 147-166, doi:10.1093/gji/ggv400

9. Ren Hengxin, Wen Jian, Huang Qinghua & Chen Xiaofei*, 2015. Electrokinetic effect combined with surface-charge assumption: a possible generation mechanism of coseismic EM signals, Geophysical Journal International, 200(2), 835-848, doi:10.1093/gji/ggu435

8. Huang Qinghua*, Ren Hengxin & Zhang, D., 2015. Medium effect on the characteristics of the coupled seismic and electromagnetic signals, Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 91(1), 17-24, doi:10.2183/pjab.91.17

7. Li Na, Ren Hengxin*, Huang Qinghua & Chen Xiaofei, 2014. An integral expression of elastic waves in 3D stratified porous media II: Validation and numerical simulation experiments, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 57(7), 2244-2257, doi:10.6038/cjg20140719

6. Li Na, Ren Hengxin*, Huang Qinghua & Chen Xiaofei, 2014. An integral expression of elastic waves in 3D stratified porous media I: Theory, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 57(6), 1891-1899, doi:10.6038/cjg20140620

5. Huang Qinghua*, Zhang Dan & Ren Hengxin, 2014. Physics of electromagnetic phenomena associated with the rupture of a finite fault model, IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 140-142, EI Compendex, Accession number: 20154001332602

4. Zhang Dan, Ren Hengxin & Huang Qinghua*, 2013. Numerical simulation study of co-seismic electromagnetic signals in porous media, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 56(8), 2739-2747, doi:10.6038/cjg20130822

3. Ren Hengxin*, Chen Xiaofei & Huang Qinghua, 2012. Numerical simulation of coseismic electromagnetic fields associated with seismic waves due to finite faulting in porous media, Geophysical Journal International, 188(3), 925-944. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05309.x

2. Ren Hengxin, Huang Qinghua* & Chen Xiaofei, 2010. Analytical regularization of the high-frequency instability problem in numerical simulation of seismoelectric wave-fields in multi-layered porous media, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 53(3), 506-511, doi:10.3969/j.issn.0001-5733.2010.03.004

1. Ren Hengxin*, Huang Qinghua & Chen Xiaofei, 2010. A new numerical technique for simulating the coupled seismic and electromagnetic waves in layered porous media, Earthquake Science, 23(2), 167-176, doi:10.1007/s11589-009-0071-9