2007年本科毕业于北京大学，获地球物理学学士学位以及数学与应用数学双学位。2013年于美国南加州大学（USC）获地质学博士学位。2013年至2019年以Research Fellow身份在日本防灾科学技术研究所（NIED）从事研究工作。2019年9月正式加入南方科技大学地球与空间科学系，任助理教授。本人的研究方向为地震破裂传播的理论模型和数值模拟，断层结构演化，岩石摩擦实验，以及地震物理学。以第一作者或者共同作者在国际知名期刊诸如Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Tectonophysics, Nature等上共发表论文18篇。2次在AGU会议上担任主题会议召集人。作为主要客座编辑组织并编撰了Tectonophysics特刊Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation。多次为国际知名期刊和美国自然科学基金委担任同行评审。

教育经历

2007 － 2013: 博士，美国南加州大学，地球科学系，导师：Yehuda Ben-Zion

2003 － 2007: 学士，北京大学，地球与空间科学学院

工作经历

2019 － 至今：助理教授，南方科技大学，地球与空间科学系

2013 － 2019：Research Fellow，日本防灾科学技术研究所，地震海啸防灾研究部门，导师：Eiichi Fukuyama

教学经历

2007 － 2013: 助教，美国南加州大学，地球科学系

获奖经历

2019：AGU优秀审稿人（2018年度）

2019: 日本防灾科学技术研究所成就奖（2018年度）

2018: 日本地震学会青年科学家奖 （2017年度）

2006:  中国科学院地球物理专业奖学金，二等奖

2004: 北京大学学习优秀奖

2003: 国家奖学金

学术服务

期刊审稿人

AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, JGR, GRL, Nature Geoscience, EPSL, Tectonophysics, BSSA, GJI, PAGEOPH等

研究领域

• 地震破裂传播的理论模型和数值模拟
• 损伤力学和断裂力学
• 岩石摩擦实验
• 断层演化
• 常规地震和慢地震
• 俯冲带地震
• 地震物理学

Submitted 

[S1] Fukuyama, E., F. Yamashita, and S. Xu, Supersonic propagation of slow slip rupture during rock friction experiments, revised to Scientific Reports, on 14 September, 2019. 

Peer-reviewed journal articles

[18] Xu, S., E. Fukuyama, F. Yamashita, and S. Takizawa (2019), Evolution of Fault-Interface Rayleigh Wave speed over simulated earthquake cycles in the lab: Observations, interpretations, and implications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 524, 115720, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115720.

[17] Xu, S. (2019), Probing earthquake physics using multidisciplinary approaches, Zisin, 72(2), 17–34, doi:10.4294/zisin.2018-12.

[16] Xu, S., E. Fukuyama, and F. Yamashita (2019), Robust estimation of rupture properties at propagating front of laboratory earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 124(1), 766–787, doi:10.1029/2018JB016797.

[15] Xu, S., E. Fukuyama, A. Sagy, and M.-L. Doan (2018), Preface: Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation, Tectonophysics – Special Issue "Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation", 733, 1–3, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2018.04.013.

[14] Yamashita, F., E. Fukuyama, S. Xu, K. Mizoguchi, H. Kawakata, and S. Takizawa (2018), Rupture preparation process controlled by surface roughness on meter-scale laboratory fault, Tectonophysics – Special Issue "Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation", 733, 193–208, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2018.01.034.

[13] Fukuyama, E., K. Tsuchida, H. Kawakata, F. Yamashita, K. Mizoguchi, and S. Xu (2018), Spatiotemporal complexity of 2-D rupture nucleation process observed by direct monitoring during large-scale biaxial rock friction experiments, Tectonophysics – Special Issue "Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation", 733, 182–192, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2017.12.023.

[12] Xu, S., E. Fukuyama, F. Yamashita, K. Mizoguchi, S. Takizawa, and H. Kawakata (2018), Strain rate effect on fault slip and rupture evolution: Insight from meter-scale rock friction experiments, Tectonophysics – Special Issue "Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation", 733, 209-231, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2017.11.039.

[11] Aldam, M., S. Xu, E.A. Brener, Y. Ben-Zion, and E. Bouchbinder (2018), Non-monotonicity of the frictional bimaterial effect, Journal of Geophysical Research, 122(10), 8270–8284, doi:10.1002/2017JB014665.

[10] Xu, S., and Y. Ben-Zion (2017), Theoretical constraints on dynamic pulverization of fault zone rocks, Geophysical Journal International, 209(1), 282–296, doi:10.1093/gji/ggx033.

[9] Xu, S., E. Fukuyama, H. Yue, and J.-P. Ampuero (2016), Simple crack models explain deformation induced by subduction zone megathrust earthquakes, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 106(5), 2275–2289, doi:10.1785/0120160079.

[8] Fukuyama, E., S. Xu, F. Yamashita, and K. Mizoguchi (2016), Cohesive zone length of metagabbro at supershear rupture velocity, Journal of Seismology (Special Issue: Imaging Earthquakes and Earth Structure Through Waves), 20(4), 1207–1215, doi:10.1007/s10950-016-9588-2.

[7] Yamashita, F., E. Fukuyama, K. Mizoguchi, S. Takizawa, S. Xu, and H. Kawakata (2015), Scale dependence of rock friction at high work rate, Nature, 528, 254–257, doi:10.1038/nature16138.

[6] Xu, S., E. Fukuyama, Y. Ben-Zion, and J.-P. Ampuero (2015), Dynamic rupture activation of backthrust fault branching, Tectonophysics, 644–645, 161–183, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.01.011.

[5] Xu, S., Y. Ben-Zion, J.-P. Ampuero, and V. Lyakhovsky (2015), Dynamic ruptures on a frictional interface with off-fault brittle damage: Feedback mechanisms and effects on slip and near-fault motion, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 172, 1243–1267, doi: 10.1007/s00024-014-0923-7.

[4] Xu, S., and Y. Ben-Zion (2013), Numerical and theoretical analyses of in-plane dynamic rupture on a frictional interface and off-fault yielding patterns at different scales, Geophysical Journal International, 193, 304–320, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggs105.

[3] Xu, S., Y. Ben-Zion, and J.-P. Ampuero (2012b), Properties of inelastic yielding zones generated by in-plane dynamic ruptures: II. Detailed parameter-space study, Geophysical Journal International, 191, 1343–1360, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05685.x.

[2] Xu, S., Y. Ben-Zion, and J.-P. Ampuero (2012a), Properties of inelastic yielding zones generated by in-plane dynamic ruptures: I. Model description and basic results, Geophysical Journal International, 191, 1325-1342, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05679.x.

[1] Ben-Zion, Y., T. Rockwell, Z. Shi, and S. Xu (2012), Reversed-polarity secondary deformation structures near fault stepovers, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 79(3), 031025, doi:10.1115/1.4006154.