Education Experience 

• 2000-2004.7, Nanjing University, B.S.
• 2004-2007.7, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, M.S. in Geochemistry
• 2007-2010.7, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, Ph.D. in Geochemistry

Professional Positions 

• 2010-2012.12, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Postdoc Fellow
• 2012-Now, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor

Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA, 2010. 

1. Chi Zhang, Zhenhao Duan and Mingyan Li (2010) Interstitial voids in silica melts and implication for Argon solubility under high pressures, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(14): 4140-4149.
2. Chi Zhang, Zhenhao Duan and Mingyan Li (2010) GFluid: An Excel spreadsheet for investigating C-O-H fluid composition under high temperatures and pressures. Computers and Geosciences, 36(4):569-572.
3. Chi Zhang and Zhenhao Duan (2009) A model for C-O-H fluid in the Earth’s mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73 (7): 2089-2102.
4. Chi Zhang, Zhenhao Duan and Zhigang Zhang (2007) Molecular dynamics simulation of the CH4 and CH4-H2O systems up to 10 GPa and 2573 K. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71 (8): 2036-2055.
5. Mingyan Li, Zhenhao Duan, Zhigang Zhang, Chi Zhang and John Weare (2008) The structure, dynamics and solvation mechanisms of ions in water from long time molecular dynamics simulations: a case study of CaCl2 (aq) aqueous solutions. Molecular Physics, 106 (24): 2685-2697.

Conference contributions

1. Chi Zhang, Yingwei Fei and Bjorn O Mysen (2011) Carbon Speciation and Precipitation in C-O-H System at High Temperature and Pressure, AGU Fall Meeting, MR21A-2115, San Francisco, CA, USA 
2. Chi Zhang, Yingwei Fei and Bjorn O Mysen (2011) Study of carbon-bearing fluid/melts in silicate matrix, GL-GRC Symposium,Washington, DC, USA 
3. Chi Zhang, Yingwei Fei and Bjorn O Mysen (2011) Graphite Precipitation in C-O-H System in the Earth’s Mantle, COMPRES Meeting, Williamsburg, VA, USA