• Zengqian  Hou
  SinoProbe Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, China
• Chairman of DEEP-2024 Scientific Commitee
Dr. Hou Zengqian, research fellow, is currently Director of the SinoProbe Lab. Director of IGCP China Branch, and regional president of SGA. He graduated from China University of Geosciences (Beijing). With his long-term devotion to geological exploration, he established collisional orogeny metallogenic theory and new metallogenic models for collision-type porphyry Cu deposits, folding belt Pb-Zn deposits, and carbonatite-type REE deposits; clarified metal enrichment mechanism and mineralization theory in continental collision settings, revealing regional metallogenic law in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. He has been awarded several prizes, such as Special Prize and the First Prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress of China, etc.

• Shuwen Dong
  SinoProbe Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, China
• Co-Chair of DEEP-2024 Scientific Committee,
  Co-Chair of the Section 1 of the Plenary Session
Chief Scientist of SinoProbe Laboratory of CAGS. Professor of Nanjing University. He has been engaged in interdisciplinary research of tectonic geology and geophysics for a long time, and has studied tectonic deformation, evolution and deep processes in Mesozoic East Asia. He was PI of "SinoProbe-I (2008-2014)", and is one of PIs of "SinoProbe-II (2024-2030)". He has published more than 220 papers, 6 specialized works, 17,540 Google Scholar citations, H-index 68, i10 index 196. He is the scientific Advisor of ILP and Vice President of China ILP. He served as Executive Committee and Treasurer of the International Union of Geosciences (IUGS), member of the Scientific Executive Board of the UNESCO Geoscience Programme (IGCP), and head of the Deep Earth Group Secretary General of the IGCP Committee of China. He was elected a member of the Erfurt Academy of Sciences, Germany, and an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

• Marco  Bohnhoff
  GFZ Potsdam, ICDP, Free University Berlin, Germany
• Co-Chair of the Section 1 of the Plenary Session
Marco Bohnhoff is Head of Section 4.2, Geomechanics and Scientific Drilling 'at the GFZ Potsdam German Research Center for Geosciences and Professor of Experimental and Borehole Seismology in a joint appointment with the Free University Berlin. His research has a focus on the scale-invariant analysis of deformation processes involving studies on induced seismicity -the occurrence of earthquakes caused by human activities in the subsurface- and on natural earthquakes along tectonic plate boundaries, such as the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey.

• Qingtian Lyu
  SinoProbe Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, China
• Time: 10:10 - 10:30 
• Topic: China Deep Exploration: A Review and New Initiative
Professor in Geophysics, Deputy Director of SinoProbe Center, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (CAGS). Major research interests include Mineral system research and exploration, hard rock seismic, magnetic and gravity inversion and interpretation. Received Ph.D. in 1997 from China University of Geosciences at Beijing (CUGB). Guest Professor of Jilin University, CUGB PI of a number of Major Geosciences Programs, Authored more than 220 peer-reviewed papers, Recipient of the Li Siguang Geoscience Research Award Member of Science Advisor Group (SAG) of ICDP (2017-2020), now the EC member of the ICDP and SC Member of DDE. Served on Resources and Environment subcommittee of National Commission on National High-technology Research and Development Plan (863) from 2006 to 2010. Chief Editor of Geological Bulletin of China, Associate Editor of Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition).

• Larry Brown
  Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, United States
• Time: 10:30 - 10:50 
• Topic: Trends and Opportunities in Deep Exploration 2024
Larry Brown is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) at Cornell University. He received his BS in Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology (1973) and his PhD in Geological Sciences from Cornell University (1976). He joined the faculty at Cornell in 1977. Prof. Brown’s research has focused on the exploration of the continental lithosphere using reflection seismology. He has been a principal investigator for major programs such as COCORP (US), URSEIS (Russia), INDEPTH (Tibet), TAIGER (Taiwan), and SEA-Calypso (Montserrat). He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union.

• Hans Thybo
  SinoProbe Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Denmark
• Time: 10:50 - 11:10 
• Topic: Lithosphere Research and International Lithosphere Program (ILP)
Hans Thybo is Distinguished Professor at SinoProbe Laboratory after being professor at University of Copenhagen for 31 years, building geophysics as a discipline. He is member of four academies of sciences in Denmark, Norway and Europe fellow of GSA and RAS-London and former President of EGU and current President of ILP. His research interests are mainly in seismology and processes related to plate tectonics and geodynamics. He was a member of the team that first identified structure from gt1.7 Ga plate tectonics. He discovered the Mid Lithospheric Discontinuity and identified a new role of magmatism in rifting and basin formation.

• Thomas Wiersberg
  International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, Germany
• Time: 11:10 - 11:30 
• Topic: Achievements and endeavors through International Continental Scientific Drilling
Thomas Wiersberg is currently leading the Operational Support Group (OSG) of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), having previously served as Outreach Coordinator for ICDP for 14 years. The OSG, which includes scientists, engineers, and technicians, is primarily responsible for supporting multinational scientific teams in the planning and execution of continental scientific drilling projects. Dr. Wiersberg represents ICDP’s operational support at international workshops and conferences, where he engages in discussions about project ideas that require scientific drilling to address significant research questions. Additionally, he serves as the Chief Editor of the journal Scientific Drilling. He holds a PhD in geochemistry, with a research focus on fluid and gas geochemical studies in boreholes.

• Yigang Xu
  Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Time: 11:30 - 11:50 
• Topic: Earth's habitability regulated by deep processes
Yi-Gang Xu is a professor at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, CAS. He is an expert on igneous petrology and geochemistry, and made remarkable contributions to mantle dynamics and magma genesis, in particular on the destruction of North China Craton, formation of large igneous provinces, and dynamics of the Big Mantle Wedge. Yi-Gang is the author of gt230 international journals with total citations of gt29000 and HI of 89 by Google Scholar. He has been elected CAS Academician and Fellows of the GSA, AGU and GS/EAG. Currently Yi-Gang is chairing a NSFC Major Project on “Earth's habitability regulated by deep processes”.

• William Collins
  School of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Australia
• Time: 11:50 - 12:10 
• Topic: A Voyage to Deep Arc Crust in Fiordland: Observations, Interpretations and Significance
William (Bill) Collins is an adjunct Professor of Geology at Curtin University, Western Australia. He has extensive knowledge on the origin of granites and their relation to tectonics and geodynamics. His major studies have included the Archean Pilbara craton in Western Australia, Proterozoic orogenic belts in central Australia , and Paleozoic/Mesozoic orogens in eastern Australia and New Zealand. He has also studied how zircon Hf isotopic systems in granites evolve through accretionary and collisional orogens, and through the Wilson and supercontinental cycles. He is recognised for his contributions to A-types granite petrogenesis and understanding the S-I-A granite spectrum for introducing "partial convective overturn" as a process in Archean greenstone belt evolution for introducing "tectonic switching" as a driver for accretionary orogen evolution, and for developing the concept of "extensional" (retreating) accretionary orogens. More recently, he has focused on understanding the role of mantle-derived water in controlling arc magmatism and continent formation.

• Tao Wang
  Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Science, China
• Time: 12:10 - 12:30 
• Topic: Probing deep material architecture: Based on magmatic big data
Tao Wang is a principal investigator at the SinoProbe Lab. and a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Germany. His research focuses on geological mapping, tectonics, and deep material probe. As the leader of IGCP-662 and co-leader of OnePetrology of DDE (Deep-time Digital Earth, a IUGS Big Science Programme), Wang has preliminary constructed a database of magmatic rocks of globale major Phanerozoic orogens and published a series of digital magmatic maps. He has proposed the concept of material orogen as well as methods for probing the deep material compositions. He published 300 papers and was listed in the top 2-rank global scientists and top 1-rank of global scientists in 2022, and the highly cited Chinese researcher of Elsevier with 15238 Google Scholar Citations and an H index 69.

• Rixiang Zhu
  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Co-Chair of the Section 2 of the Plenary Session
Prof. Rixiang Zhu, geophysicist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences, researcher, doctoral tutor and second director of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Zhu Rixiang received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Shanxi University in 1978, his master’s degree in geophysics from the Institute of Geophysics, CAS in 1984, and his PhD in geology and geophysics from the Institute of Geology, CAS in 1989. His main research has focused on several aspects: (1) Paleointensity of the geomagnetic field and its implications for the geodynamo (2) geomagnetic polarity transitions and the geodynamo (3) magnetostratigraphic dating (4) craton evolution (5) global tectonics, and (6) instrument development.

• Walter Mooney
  United States Geological Survey, United States
• Co-Chair of the Section 2 of the Plenary Session
Walter Mooney is a research seismologist and geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California (See video presentation). He is also a AGU member since 1974 (and Fellow since 1996). His major interest is global Earth crustal structure and tectonics, particularly of the continental lithosphere. Mooney was the branch Chief of Seismology from 1994 to 1997. He has led field work throughout North and South America and participated in extensive research affiliations with colleagues in Mexico, Europe, Russia, China and Taiwan, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, East Africa.Mooney is a consulting Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University, and a visiting faculty at the following institutions: University of Karlsruhe and Kiel University, Germany, University of Paris and University of Strasbourg, France, Rice University, and the California Institute of Technology. Finally, he is the Program Leader for the USGS contribution to the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System and has extensive experience at leading training.

• Adam Schultz
  Oregon State University, United States
• Time: 13:40 - 14:00 
• Topic: The continental scale USMTArray: lessons learned and synergies with SinoProbe-II
Adam Schultz is the Prof. of Oregon State University. Brief research interest is geophysical imaging to study the structure and composition of Earth’s interior. Specialty on using of geophysical imaging methods to study the structure, fluid distribution, composition, temperature and state of the Earths interior from the near-surface scale to the deep mantle. High performance computation including massively parallel architectures including GPU and hybrid computing. Instrumentation and sensor research and development. Renewable energy including geothermal power. Studies of fluid flow in cracked, porous, reactive media including seafloor hydrothermal systems. Recent important research experience includes: Magnetotelluric Array Principal Investigator, since 2006 directing systematic 3D mapping of the electrical resistivity structure of the conterminous USA under NSF EarthScope (2006-2018), NASA (2019-2020) and USGS (2021-2024) support. Development of a SMART Service System for the electric power grid, assimilating space weather data, magnetotelluric data, sensor streams from the power grid, and machine learning to mitigate damage to the power grid from geomagnetically induced currents resulting from geomagnetic disturbances caused by space weather and by electromagnetic pulse weapons. Novel use of combined geophysical and geochemical methods to study Enhanced Geothermal Systems (e.g. Newberry Volcano) in 4D to understand hydrologic impact of hydrofracturing. Development of a new generation of ultrawideband electromagnetic receivers and operation of the US National Geoelectromagnetic Facility, a series of national instrument pools operated by Oregon State University on behalf of the US academic community, and so on.

• Jeffrey Park
  Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, United States
• Time: 14:00 - 14:20 
• Topic: The Earthscope Project as a Seismic Precursor to SinoProbe
Jeffrey Park is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University. Dr. Park is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, with principal research activities in theoretical and observational seismology, elastic anisotropy, the deformation of Earth mantle, the seismo-tectonics of Italy, Kamchatka and North America, and paleoclimate time series. He served as Director of Yale's Institute for Biospheric Studies, and as Chairman of Yale's undergraduate Environmental Studies Program. Prof. Park received his A.B. in physics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.

• Mian Liu
  University of Missouri, United States
• Time: 14:20 - 14:40 
• Topic: 10 Questions of Asian Tectonics That SinoProbe II May Help to Answer
Mian Liu is a professor and the chair of the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Missouri. He is a Curator’s Distinguished Professor of the University of Missouri system and the William H. Byler Distinguished Chair of Geological Sciences. He received his B.Sc. degree from Nanjing University, China, an M.S. from McGill University, Canada, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona, USA. Liu specializes in geodynamics, he has studied mantle dynamics, lithospheric deformation, continental tectonics, faulting, and earthquakes. He currently serves as the Secretary General of the International Lithosphere Program.

• Christopher Juhlin
  Dept. of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Time: 14:40 - 15:00 
• Topic: Overview of seismic investigations in conjunction with the ICDP Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC) project
Professor of Geophysics at Uppsala University since 2002. BA in Geology from Brown University (USA) in 1978, MSc in Oceanography from the University of Washington, (Seattle, WA, USA) in 1983, PhD in Geophysics from Uppsala University (Sweden) in 1990. Research interests include crustal geophysics, high resolution seismics, seismic modeling, mining geophysics, geological storage of CO2, and scientific drilling. Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (kva.se), adjunct professor at Curtin University, Australia (2006-2020) and currently guest professor at Jilin University, China.

• Ramon Carbonell
  Geosciences Barceloma, Spanish National Research Council GEO3BCN-CSIC, Spain
• Time: 15:00 - 15:20 
• Topic: The UnriDDLE Project: Placing geometrical constraints on the fracture system bounding the Guadalentín Valley (SE Iberian Peninsula)
Since my PhD. in 1991 I have focused my research in Geodynamics and multi-scale characterization of the subsurface including developments in seismic imaging methods, interdisciplinary model building (including Artificial intelligence, Machine Learning, wave propagation, inversion and technical implementation of numerical clones, digital twins in seismology (using HPC). I have tageted the structure, nature (i.e., evolution) of the Earths continental crust, and, applied geophysics addressing shallow environmental problems. I have addressed topics as: lower crustal anisotropy beneath extensional tectonic areas (Basin and Range, USA) Moho geometry under the Ural mountains (Russia) and, Rif (Morocco) characterization of the lithosphere across the Atlas (Morocco) the intern al architecture of the Variscan Orogen (Iberia peninsula) among others.

• Chengshan  Wang
  China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China
• Co-Chair of the Section 3 of the Plenary Session
Dr. Wang Chengshan, Professor at China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE) International Big Science Program. He has published articles in international journals such as Nature Geoscience, PNAS, and Science Advances, with a total of 22,318 citations and an H-index of 71. He has received over 10 national and provincial awards in China, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award for Scientific and Technological Achievement, and the title of Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

• Simon Klemperer
  Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, United States
• Co-Chair of the Section 3 of the Plenary Session
Simon Klemperer lead the "Crustal" research group within the Department of Geophysics. They study structure, tectonics, deformation, growth and composition of the continental lithosphere, largely using active and passive seismology. Their emphasis is the creative combination of the full range of geologic and geophysical data, existing or of their own collection, analyzed often using relatively standard techniques, rather than striving to create entirely new methodologies - though in the last few years we have significantly improved the VDSS (SsPmp) method, and have created the Sn/Lg method to test whether continental earthquakes are have hypocenters aboove or below the Moho. For 25 years, Prof. Kelmperer has studied Tibet and the Himalaya, including the INDEPTH reflection/refraction transect across the Plateau, analysis of broadband campaign data from India, Nepal and China, and most recently geochemical and isotopic studies of geothermal fluids to tackle the questions that seismology can’t reach. He helped institute, and have continued to be faculty director of, the SE3 Summer Undergraduate Research program that places and mentors >20 Stanford frosh/sophomores in SE3 research opportunities each year, and until recently was Director of Undergraduate Studies in Geophysics.

• Huaiyu Yuan
  Geological Survey of Western Australia, Australia
• Time: 15:40 - 16:00 
• Topic: Unveiling Shallow Lithospheric Structures with Dense Passive Seismic Arrays: Insights from Western Australia
Dr. Huaiyu Yuan is the lead seismologist for the WA Array project at the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA). He earned a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Wyoming in 2007 and later worked at the University of California, Berkeley. After joining Macquarie University in 2013, Dr. Yuan moved to GSWA in 2023. For over 15 years, he has specialized in mapping crustal and upper mantle structures using passive-source seismology across several continents. His current focus is on developing multi-scale lithospheric models of Western Australia.

• Alain Prinzhofer
  GEO4U, France
• Time: 16:00 - 16:20 
• Topic: What do we know and need to know about natural hydrogen systems? What are the existing tools for exploration?
Professor Alain Prinzhofer is a Civil Engineer of the School of Mines of Paris. He got a PhD in structural geology and petrology and a second one in isotope geochemistry. He has developed competences characterized by a large multi-disciplinarily. (structural geology and petrology of ophiolites, melting processes in the mantle, nucleosynthesis and chronology of the early stages of the solar system, geochemistry of natural gases, oil and gas exploration, and now geology of natural hydrogen systems). He started as an independent researcher in 2015, when he began to form groups of researchers on the new thematic of natural hydrogen. This allowed him to increase ties to the scientific and industrial community. His scientific production in international journals continues with 72 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals, 11 patents, and numerous participations in congresses.

• Gregory Houseman
  China University of Geosciences, Beijing, Australia
• Time: 16:20 - 16:40 
• Topic: The Gravitational Instability of Tibetan Mantle Lithosphere
Professor Gregory Houseman's research focusses on the large-scale structure of the Earth lithosphere and the processes that have acted through geological time to produce the structures we observe today. Mantle convection and tectonic plate movements cause large-scale deformation of the continental lithosphere. Professor Houseman has developed innovative modelling software using 2D and 3D finite element methods to explain how the deformation is distributed at the regional scale and has used models of such deformation to measure the large-scale rheological properties of the crust and lithosphere. In support of these investigations Professor Houseman has undertaken large-scale seismic experiments involving the deployment of temporary seismograph stations, with the objective of mapping the large-scale lithospheric structure of the paleozoic fold belts of south-east Australia (1998-2000), the Pannonian-Carpathian region (2005-2011) and the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey (2012-2013). In addition to using non-linear viscous models to explain geological deformation on the long time scale, he has developed visco-elastic deformation modelling software to explain how the earth responds during and after a major earthquake.

• Elena Sokolova
  Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, RAS and All-Russian Research Institute of Petroleum Geology, Russian Federation
• Time: 16:40 - 17:00 
• Topic: Contribution to DESS at regional stage of hydrocarbon prospecting: a case study of probing the deep crust and upper mantle of the Yenisei-Khatanga trough
Elena graduated from Moscow State University (Geophysics, Computational Mathematics), received Ph.D. degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, where has a long carrier as researcher in electromagnetic geophysics. Now she is also the Leading Researcher in All-Russian Research Institute of Petroleum Geology, Ministry of Natural Resources RF.Research interests: - methods for magnetotelluric data processing and interpretation- MT transfer functions variability in correlation with Space Weather, GICs, Seismicity- investigations of the crust-upper mantle resistivity with applications for geodynamic, seismotectonics, HC/mineral system studies- integrated interpretation of geophysical data for volume modeling of OG provinces.PI/active participant of international academic research projects: BEAR (Fennoscandia) KIROVOGRAD (EEC) EMTEZS (Tesseir-Tornquist Suture) NARYN (Tien Shan) GARHWAL (Himalaya) EHS3D (East Himalayan Syntaxes) - and East-Siberian HC exploration projects of ROSNEDRAVisiting researcher of European, Asian, African and USA geophysical institutes.

• Xiaodong Song
  SinoProbe Laboratory, Peking University, China
• Time: 17:00 - 17:20 
• Topic: A new generation of tomographic models the lithosphere and upper mantle of China and surrounding areas: model uncertainties and ways forward
Prof. Xiaodong Song, Professor of Peking University. He is mainly engaged in research on seismology, structure and dynamics of the Earth's deep interior, deep structure and regional tectonics of East Asia, and seismic hazards. He received Ph.D. degree in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow, associate researcher and lecturer at Columbia University, assistant professor, tenured associate professor and tenured full professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His major research achievements include the rotation of the Earth's inner core, the layered structure, the discovery of equatorward anisotropy of the inner core, the imaging of China's lithosphere, the tear structure of the Indian Plate rocks in the southern Tibetan Plateau, and the process of major earthquakes. His discovery of the super-rotation of the Earth's inner core with his collaborator Prof. Paul Richards in 1996 was recognized as one of the top ten scientific breakthroughs of the year by SCIENCE journal and one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century by DISCOVER journal.