JINGFEI ZHANG

(E-mail: zhangjingfei@pku.edu.cn)

CURRENT POSITION

2022- Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Peking University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in the history of earth sciences and science diplomacy in the 20th century. Currently, I am focusing on the China-U.S. exchanges and cooperation in earthquake research in the 1970s and 1980s, especially the scientific data and instruments’ role. I am also exploring Peking University’s role in training talents related to earthquake research in the People’s Republic of China.

EDUCATION

2019-2022 Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. History of Science

2008-2011 Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration, M.Sc. Geophysics

2004-2008 Central South University, School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, B.E. Geological Engineering

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

2011-2019 Book Editor in Earth Sciences, Science Press (China Science Publishing & Media Ltd).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1.“Leaving Some Wiggle Room” and “Pursuing Cooperation”: China-US Scientific and

Technological Exchanges in Earthquake from 1971 to 1979.Studies in the History of Natural Sciences, 2021, 40(1): 77-90. (in Chinese)

2.Problem Driving: The “Landing” of the Plate Tectonics Theory and the Response from Chinese

Academia.Journal of Dialectics of Nature, 2022, 44(1): 49-56. (in Chinese, with Jiuchen Zhang)

3.The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau:Pilot Site for International Collaboration in Geoscience during

China’s Early Period of Reform and Opening-up.Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 2021(75): 91-109. (with Jiuchen Zhang)