Brief Introduction
I have many interest in low-temperature thermochronology method and related constraints on geomorphology, tectonics, oil exploration and ore deposit. Welcome to graduate school, postdoctoral or collaborative research.

Education Background
2004—2007 Ph.D. Tongji University. Major: Tectonics and Basin analysis. 
2001—2004 M.S. Tongji University. Major: Tectonics and Basin analysis. 
1997—2001 B.E. Tongji University. Major: Geology.

Career Experience
2009 till now, Vice professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University
2007-2009, Postdoctor, Exploration & Production Research Institute, Sinopec

Research 
Low temperature thermochronology method and related constraints on geomorphology, tectonics, oil exploration and ore deposit.

Lectures
（1）Petrolumn 
（2）Geological mapping practice

Projects
（1）“Paleotopography reconstruction of Dabie mountain since Late Cretaceous” supported by the Natural Science Foundation, Granted No. 41102131
（2）“Paleotopography reconstruction of coast mountains since Late Cretaceous” supported by the Natural Science Foundation, Granted No. 42072229

Publications

• Ruxin Ding*, Shengcheng Lu, Yuliu Chen, Honghua Lu, Leyi Li, Weiliang Liu*, Jiawang Wu, Ke Zhang, Heping Zou, Peizhen Zhang. Reconstruction of paleotopography of the Yunkai Mountains in south China: Insights into the onset of the Asian monsoon. Catena, 2025, 258. 109256
• Rui Huang, Ruxin Ding*, Canjia Chen. A novel deep learning-based artificial intelligence method for automated apatite fission-track identification. Radiation Measurements, 2025, 187. 107482 
• Ruxin Ding, Li Wang*, Kunye Xiao, Yangshijia Li, Jie Hu, Yebo Du, Yu Yang, Xinshun Zhang, Lirong Dou*, Thermochronological constraints on the evolution of the Bongor Basin, Chad. Marine And Petroleum Geology, 2025, 171. 107165. 
• Li Wang, Zhiquan Nie, Yebo Du, Lin Wang, Fanchao Meng, Yuliu Chen, Jie Hu, Ruxin Ding*. Study on Hydrocarbon Accumulation History in the Bongor Basin, Central Africa. Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2024, 51(1): 141-151.  
• Ruxin Ding*, Ke Zhang, Kyoungwon Min, Heping Zou. Reconstruction of the topographic evolution of the Nanling Range in South China and its implications for the East Asian Monsoon evolution, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2024, 634,111947.  
• Ruxin Ding*, Li Wang, Yuliu Chen, Ke Zhang. The role of monsoon in the long-term topographic evolution of East Asia (North China), Geomorphology, 2024, 444, 108947. 
• Ruxin Ding*, Zhenghai Wang*, Kyoungwon Min, Nina Liu, Cleber Soares, Jing Liu-Zeng, Weitao Wang. Inversion of the paleo-geothermal gradient using low-temperature thermochronology: A case study of the Haiyuan-Liupanshan region, Journal of Earth Science, 2024   
• Ruxin Ding*, Yangshijia Li, Zilong Li, Rongli Huang, Minqiang Cao, Xingzhou Chen*, Hui Rong, Heping Zou. Metallogenic age of the Qianjiadian uranium deposit -- Evidence from fluid inclusions and (U-Th)/He. Journal of Earth Science, 2024   
• Ruxin Ding*,Diane Seward, Heping Zou. Late Cretaceous-Paleogene rift initiation of the southwestern East China Sea Basin: Implications from a fission-track study of the Changle–Nan’ao Belt.Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2023, 256,105824. 
• Ruxin Ding*. Several Problems in Low-Temperature Thermal History Modeling. Minerals, 2023, 13, 891.  
• Ruxin Ding*. Low Temperature Thermal History Reconstruction Based on Apatite Fission track Length Distribution and Apatite U-Th/He Age Using Low-T Thermo. Journal of Earth Science. 2023, 34, 717–725.   
• Ruxin Ding*, Yuntao Tian, Kyoungwon Min, Heping Zou. Reconstruction of the topographic evolution of the coastal mountain system in southeastern China. Geomorphology, 2023, 436: 1-14. 
• Ruxin Ding*, Weihao Chen, Soares Cleber, Weisheng Hou*, Zilong Li, Yangshijia Li, Rongli Huang, Heping Zou. Late Cretaceous Activity Record of the Guangsan Fault—Insights from Zircon U-Pb and Apatite Fission-Track Thermochronology. Minerals, 2022, 12, 1163.  
• Ruxin Ding*, Yuan Chang, Kyoungwon Min, Changhai Xu, Wei Wang. Post-orogenic topographic evolution of the Dabie orogen, Eastern China: Insights from apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology. Geomorphology, 2021. 374: 107487  
• Ruxin Ding, Kyoungwon Min*, Heping Zou. Inversion of topographic evolution using low-T thermal history: A case study from coastal mountain system in Southeastern China. Gondwana Research, 2019, 67: 21~32  
• Zhenghai Wang, Weilong Lin, Ruxin Ding*. Quantitative Measurement of Bedding Orientation Using Remote Sensing Data: Yili Basin, Northwest China. Journal of Earth Science, 2018, 29(3): 689~694  
• Ruxin Ding, Heping Zou*, Kyoungwon Min, Feng Yin*, Xiaodong Du, Xuxuan Ma, Zhangxin Su, Wenjie Shen. Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of Sinian-Cambrian strata in the Eastern Guangxi area, China. Journal of Earth Science, 2017. 28 (2): 295-304    
• Ruxin Ding, Wei Wang*. Paleotopographic Reconstruction on the Basis of Low-Temperature Thermochronological Thermal History Modelling. Journal of Earth Science, 2013, 04: 652-656  
• Ruxin Ding*, Zuyi Zhou, Changhai Xu, YuZhu Liu, Hao Cheng, Fei Xu. Modelling of low-temperature exhumation rate in Dabie Shan based on （U-Th）/He and fission-track thermochronological data. Science in China, Ser. D, 2006, 49:1009~1019   
• Wei-Liang Liu, Hui Liang, Harald Furnes, Xu Zhang, Qing-Gao Zeng, Yao-Liang Ma, Chi Yan, Ru-Xin Ding, Yun Zhong, Run-Xi Gu, A snapshot of subduction initiation within a back-arc basin: Insights from Shiquanhe ophiolite, western Tibet, Geoscience Frontiers, 2025, 16, 5, 102088.
• Leyi Li, Hong Chang, Ruxin Ding, Xiaoke Qiang, Philippe Sorrel, Cretaceous-Cenozoic cooling history of central-northern Tibet: Insights from the fission track thermochronology of detrital apatite from sediments of the Tuotuohe Basin, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2024, 272, 106256.
• Xu Zhang, Di-Zhu Cai, Harald Furnes, Wei-Liang Liu, Rui Wang, Wei Li, Xing Liao, Chi Yan, Ru-Xin Ding, Yun Zhong. Neoproterozoic back-arc and arc-type magmatisms in the Rutong and Shiquanhe region, west of Tibet: Tectonic implications for the early-stage evolution of the Bangong-Nujiang suture zone and North Lhasa terrane, Precambrian Research, 2024, 405, 107374  
• Weiliang Liu, Zhongxi Xia, Yun Zhong*, Chris Yakymchuk, Zhourong Cai, He Xiao, Xing Liao, Chi Yan, Ruxin Ding, Jinnan Liu. The early Late Triassic Yumen mafic rocks in the eastern Tethyan Himalaya: A record of the progressive opening of the Yarlung Zangbo Neo-Tethyan Ocean, Lithos, Volumes 2023, 452–453, 107216.  
• Junhao Zhang, Weiliang Liu*, Chris Yakymchuk, Rina Sa, Zhen Zeng, Ruxin Ding, Gongjian Tang, Hanqi Liu, Qingyan Xu, Yong Wang. Partial Melting and Crustal Deformation during the Early Paleozoic Wuyi–Yunkai Orogeny: Insights from Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Structural Analysis of the Fuhuling Migmatites in the Yunkai Region, South China. Minerals. 2019; 9(10):621. 
• Guangming Hu*, Ruxin Ding, Yanbing Li, Jingfu Shan, Xiaotao Yu, Wei Feng. Role of flood discharge in shaping stream geometry: Analysis of a small modern stream in the Uinta Basin, USA, Journal of Palaeogeography-English, 2017, 6(1): 84~95