Faculty Profile

Jiaxuan LiJiaxuan Li

Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Seismology

Curriculum Vitae

Office: 125-A SR1
Contact:  jxli@uh.edu

Education: 

University of Houston Ph.D. in Geophysics 2015 - 2020
Peking University B.S. in Geophysics 2011 - 2015

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Accepting Graduate Students? Yes

  • Earthquake seismology
  • Distributed acoustic sensing
  • Subsurface imaging
  • Induced seismicity
  • Volcanology

Published Abstracts

  • Li, J., Biondi, E., Heimisson, E. R., Puel, S., Zhai, Q., Zhang, S., Hjörleifsdóttir, V., Wei, X., Bird, E., Klesh, A., Kamalov, V., Gunnarsson, T., Geirsson, H., & Zhan, Z. (2025). Minute-scale dynamics of recurrent dike intrusions in Iceland with fiber-optic geodesy. Science, 388(6752), 1189–1193.
  • Li, J., Kim, T., Lapusta, N., Biondi, E. & Zhan, Z. (2023). The break of earthquake asperities imaged by distributed acoustic sensing. Nature 1–7.
  • Li, J., Zhu, W., Biondi, E., & Zhan, Z. (2023). Earthquake focal mechanisms with distributed acoustic sensing. Nature Communications, 14(1). 
  • Li, J., Zheng, Y., Thomsen, L., Lapen, T. J., & Fang, X. (2018). Deep earthquakes in subducting slabs hosted in highly anisotropic rock fabric. Nature Geoscience, 11(9).