主要从事脉状金矿床和离子吸附型稀土矿床成矿理论和矿产勘查的研究。太阳成集团“东陆青年学者”入选者，主持及参与多个国家级项目，以第一/通讯作者在Earth Science Reviews、Geoscience Frontiers、Lithos、Ore Geology Reviews等期刊上发表论文10余篇。

学习工作经历

2023.09至今，太阳集团7237网站，副教授；

2020.07-2023.07，中国科学院广州地球化学研究所，博士后，合作导师：牛贺才研究员；

2015.09-2020.06，中国地质大学（武汉）资源学院，博士研究生，导师：魏俊浩教授，专业：矿产普查与勘探；

2018.12-2019.12，澳大利亚詹姆斯库克大学，博士联合培养；

2011.09-2015.06，中国地质大学（武汉）资源学院，本科，专业：资源勘查工程。

发表论文

Zhao X., Li, N.B*., Niu, H.C., Jiang, Y.H., Yan, S., Yang, Y.Y., Fu, R.X., 2023. Hydrothermal alteration of allanite promotes the generation of ion-adsorption LREE deposits in South China. Ore Geology Review, 105337.

Zhang, X., Zhao, X*., Fu, L., Li, Y., Kamradt, A., Santosh, M., Xu, C., Huang, X., Wei, J. 2023. Crustal architecture and metallogeny associated with the Paleo-Tethys evolution in the Eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt, Northern Tibetan Plateau. Geoscience Frontiers, 101654.

Zhao, X., Fu, L.B*., Santosh.M., Wei, J.H., Chen J.J. 2022. The growth and evolution of continental crust contributed by multiple sources in the East Kunlun Orogen during Early Paleozoic. Earth-Science Reviews, 233, 104190.

Zhao, X., Li, N.B*., Niu, H.C., Wang, J., Yan, S., Yang, Y.Y., Fu, R.X., Huizenga, J.M. 2022. HREE enrichment during magmatic evolution recorded by apatite: Implication for the ion-adsorption HREE mineralization in South China. Lithos, 106896.

Zhao, X., Li, N.B*., Huizenga, Y.M., Zhang, Q.B., Yang, Y.Y., Yan, S., Yang, W.B., Niu, H.C. 2022. Granitic magma evolution to magmatic-hydrothermal processes vital to the generation of HREEs ion-adsorption deposits: Constraints from zircon texture, U-Pb geochronology, and geochemistry. Ore geology reviews, 146, 104931.

Xu, C., Zhao, X*., Huizenga, J. M., Wei, J., Zhou, H., Wang, F., Zhang, X., 2022. Petrogenesis of Permian to Triassic granitoids from the East Kunlun orogenic belt: implications for crustal evolution during oceanic subduction and continental collision. International Geology Review, 65(11), 1781-1799.

Zhao, X., Li, N.B*., Huizenga, Y.M., Yan, S., Yang, Y.Y., Niu, H.C., 2021. Rare earth element enrichment in the ion-adsorption deposits associated granites at Mesozoic extensional tectonic setting in South China. Ore Geology Review, 104317.

Zhao, X., Fu, L.B*., Wei, J.H., Huizenga, Y M., Liu, Y., Chen, J.J., Wang, D.Z., 2021. Generation and structural modification of the giant Kengdenongshe VMS-type Au-Ag-Pb-Zn polymetallic deposit in the East Kunlun Orogen, East Tethys: Constraints from geology, fluid inclusions, noble gas and stable isotopes. Ore Geology Reviews, 104041.

Zhao, X., Fu, L.B*., Wei, J.H*., Huizenga, Y.M., Santosh, M., Chen, J.J., Wang, D.Z., Li, A.B., 2020. Multi-stage crustal melting from Late Permian back-arc extension through Middle Triassic continental collision to Late Triassic post-collisional extension in the East Kunlun Orogen. Lithos, 105446.

Zhao, X., Fu, L B*., Wei, J H., Bagas, L., Santosh, M., Liu, Y., Zhang, D.H., Zhou, H.Z., 2019. Late Permian back-arc extension of the eastern Paleo–Tethys Ocean: Evidence from the East Kunlun Orogen, northern Tibetan Plateau. Lithos, 340-341(34-48).

Zhao, X., Fu, L B*., Wei, J.H., Santosh, M., Cheng, Z., Chen, J.J., Xu, C.W., Zhang, X.M., 2023. Petrogenesis of the Triassic andesites in the East Kunlun Orogen, East Tethys: Implications for crustal maturation within an extensional setting. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(3), jgs2022-124..

赵旭, 付乐兵, 魏俊浩, 等; 2018. 东昆仑按纳格角闪辉长岩体地球化学特征及其对古特提斯洋演化的制约. 地球科学, 43(2): 354-370.

Fu, L.B., Bagas, L., Wei, J.H., Chen, Y., Chen, J.J., Zhao, X., Zhao, Z.X., Li, A.B., Zhang, W.K., 2022. Growth of early Paleozoic continental crust linked to the Proto-Tethys subduction and continental collision in the East Kunlun Orogen, northern Tibetan Plateau. Geological Society of America Bulletin.

Yan, S., Niu, H.C., Zhao, X., Zhang, Q.B., Zhang, H.J., Zhao, X.C. 2022. Rare metal enrichment of the Tianbao trachytic complex, North Daba Mountains (South Qinling): insights from textures and geochemistry of trachytes and Nb-REE minerals. Ore Geology Reviews, 104948.

Yan, S., Shan, Q., Niu, H.C., Yu, X.Y., Zhao, X., Zhao, X.C., Zhang, H.J., Xiong, Y.L., 2021. Timing and genesis of the Tudiling trachyte Nb-Ta-Zr-REE deposit in the South Qinling (Central China): Implications for rare metal enrichment in extrusive peralkaline magmatic systems. Ore Geology Reviews, 104535.

Chen, J.J., Fu, L.B., Selby, D., Wei J.H., Zhao, X., Zhou, H.Z., 2020. Multiple episodes of gold mineralization in the East Kunlun Orogen, western Central Orogenic Belt, China: Constraints from Re-Os sulfide geochronology. Ore Geology Reviews, 103587.

 Zhou, H.Z., Zhang, D.H., Wei, J.H., Wang, D.Z., Santosh, M., Shi, W.J., Che, J.J., Zhao, X., 2020. Petrogenesis of Late Triassic mafic enclaves and host granodiorite in the Eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt, China: Implications for the reworking of juvenile crust by delamination-induced asthenosphere upwelling. Gondwana Research, 84, 52-70.

Chen, J.J., Fu, L.B., Wei J.H., Selby, D., Zhang, D.H., Zhou, H.Z., Zhao, X., Liu, Y., 2020. Proto-Tethys magmatic evolution along northern Gondwana: Insights from Late Silurian–Middle Devonian A-type magmatism, East Kunlun Orogen, Northern Tibetan Plateau, China. Lithos, 105304.

Fu L.B, Wei J.H, Bagas L, Pirajno F, Zhao X, Chen J.J, Zhang D.H, Chen Y, and Chen Y. 2020. Multistage exhumation of the Anjiayingzi gold deposit, northern North China Block: Geodynamic settings and exploration implications. Ore Geology Reviews, 116(103220).

Chen, J.J., Wei, J.H., Fu, L.B., Li, H, Zhou, H.Z., Zhao, X, Zhan, X.F, Tan, J., 2017. Multiple sources of the early Mesozoic Gouli batholith, eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan plateau: Linking continental crustal growth with oceanic subduction. Lithos, 292–293, 161–178.

主要科研项目

国家自然科学青年基金：花岗岩中热液交代对淋积型稀土矿床的贡献—磷灰石年代学和指纹特征约束，30万，在研，主持；

中国博士后基金面上资助：俯冲背景下铜镍硫化物矿床成矿物理化学条件-来自橄榄石的约束，8万，结题，主持；

国家重点研发项目子课题：深部地质过程对中重稀土富集的制约，119万，在研，参与；

广东省基础与应用基础研究项目课题：源区性质与稀土初始富集，300万，在研，主要参与；

国家自然科学基金重点项目：碱性岩浆作用对稀土矿床形成的制约，在研，参与；

中国地调局：青海都兰沟里金多金属矿整装勘查区矿产调查与找矿预测，336万，结题，主要参与。