2023.01-今，特聘副研究员
2020.08-2023.01，于中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所做博士后研究，研究领域为行星物理
2017.09-2018.12，联合培养博士生，美国加州大学圣芭芭拉分校地球科学系
2014.09-2020.08，就读于清华大学水利系，获工学博士学位，研究方向为有限元/谱元法数值模拟
2010.09-2014.07，就读于河海大学大禹学院，获工学学士学位

以数值模拟为主要手段围绕火星“热-震”耦合问题开展了相关研究：模拟了祝融号着陆区地下温度场，为水冰探测提供了参考；开展了热力耦合有限元模拟，探究了超高频火星地震的机制；模拟了火星的“对跖点效应”，推测了古火壳的部分熔融程度。在国内外学术刊物发表论文10余篇，其中第一作者SCI论文9篇，以第一发明人授权发明专利2项。

火震/月震波场数值模拟、火星次表层热模拟、火星多边形地貌

1. 国家自然科学基金青年基金项目（项目负责人，在研）
2. 中国科学院重点部署项目子课题（子任务负责人，在研）
3. 中国博士后科学基金面上基金二等资助项目（项目负责人，已结题）
4. 国家自然科学基金重点项目（项目成员，在研）

第一作者论文：

　　　2023年：

1. Lei Zhang, Fei Gao, Zai Liu, Peng Cao, Jinhai Zhang. Temperature-dependent modal analysis of InSight lander on Mars. Geophysics, 2023, 88(2). doi: 10.1190/geo2022-0272.1
2. Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang, Ross Mitchell, Peng Cao, Jihang Liu, A thermal origin for super-high-frequency marsquakes, Icarus, 2023, 390: 115327. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115327
   
   2022年：
3. Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang, Local wavefield refinement using Fourier interpolation and boundary extrapolation for finite-element method based on domain reduction method. Geophysics, 2022, 87(3): T251-T263. doi:10.1190/geo2021-0503.1
4. Lei Zhang, Yang Lu, Jinhai Zhang. A polygonal terrain on Martian southern polar cap: Implication for its formation mechanism. Remote Sensing, 2022, 14(22), 5789. doi: 10.3390/rs14225789
5. Lei Zhang, Jinlai Hao, Wenze Deng, Chen Ji. Chuhan Zhang, Source parameters inversion of the global large earthquakes using 3-D SEM Green's functions: strain Green's function calculation and validation, Geophysical Journal International, 2022, 230(3): 1546–1564. doi:10.1093/gji/ggac135
6. Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang, Ross Mitchell. Dichotomy in crustal melting on early Mars inferred from antipodal effect. The Innovation, 2022, 3(5): 100280. doi:10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100280
7. Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang. Observation-based temperature field simulation at Zhurong landing site, Mars. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022, 9:1059242. doi: 10.3389/fspas.2022.1059242
8. Meng-Zhong Zhang#, Lei Zhang#, Xiang-Chao Wang, Wei Su, Yi-Xiang Qiu, Jin-Ting Wang, Chu-Han Zhang, A framework for seismic response analysis of dams using numerical source-to-structure simulation. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. 2022, 1-16. doi: 10.1002/eqe.3774 (共同第一作者)
   
   2020年：
9. Lei Zhang, Jin-Ting Wang, Yan-Jie Xu, Chun-Hui He, Chu-Han Zhang. A procedure for 3-D seismic simulation from rupture to structures by coupling SEM and FEM. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2020, 110，1134-1148
   
   2018年：
10. Lei Zhang, Yanjie Xu, Jinting Wang, Chuhan Zhang. Velocity structure building and ground motion simulation of the 2014 Ludian Ms 6.5 Earthquake. Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 2018, 17, 719–727.

合作论文：

1. Chao Li, Yikang Zheng, Xin Wang, Jinhai Zhang, Yibo Wang, Ling Chen, Lei Zhang, Pan Zhao, Yike Liu, Wenmin Lv, Yang Liu, Xu Zhao, Jinlai Hao, Weijia Sun, Xiaofeng Liu, Bojun Jia, Juan Li, Haiqiang Lan, Wenzhe Fa, Yongxin Pan, Fuyuan Wu. Layered subsurface in Utopia Basin of Mars revealed by Zhurong rover radar. Nature, 2022. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05147-5
2. Xiang Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang, Ross Mitchell, Strong heterogeneity in shallow lunar subsurface detected by Apollo seismic data, JGR-Planets, 2022, 127 (11). doi:10.1029/2022JE007222
3. Xiang Zhang, Wenmin Lv, Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang, Yangting Lin, and Zhenxing Yao. Self-organization characteristics of lunar regolith inferred by Yutu-2 lunar penetrating radar. Remote Sensing, 2021, 13(15): 3017. doi:10.3390/rs13153017
4. Xiang-Chao Wang, Jin-Ting Wang, Lei Zhang, Chun-Hui He. Broadband ground-motion simulations by coupling regional velocity structures with the geophysical information of specific sites. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2021, 145: 106695. doi:10.1016/j.soildyn.2021.106695
5. Xiang‐Chao Wang, Jin‐Ting Wang, Lei Zhang, Shuai Li, Chu‐Han Zhang. A multidimension source model for generating broadband ground motions with deterministic 3d numerical simulations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2021, 111 (2): 989–1013. doi:10.1785/0120200221

第一发明人授权发明专利：

1. 张磊等. ZL201310133573.7. 中国发明专利. 2015年2月11日.
2. 张磊等. ZL201410010410.4. 中国发明专利. 2015年4月8日.