• 2012-2016 Ph.D. of Geophysics, GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ) Potsdam and Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany.
• 2009-2012 Master of Cartography & GIS (with one-year mobility in France), Beijing Normal University, China.
• 2010-2011 Master of Applied Geophysics, Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC), France.
• 2005-2009 Bachelor of Resources Science, Beijing Normal University, China.

• 2021-now Associate Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2019-2021 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International Fellow and long-term visitor at Earthquake Research Institute (ERI), The University of Tokyo, Japan.
• 2018-2019 Postdoctoral Scholar at The University of Iowa, USA.
• 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow at GFZ-Potsdam, Germany.
• 2011 Intern at The Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France

1. Geodynamics of tectonic processes at plate boundaries.
2. Earthquake cycle deformation processes at variable spatial and temporal scales.
3. Integration of short- and long-term crustal deformation.

1. GJI Outstanding Reviewers in 2020
2. JSPS international fellow in 2019-2021
3. European Erasmus Mundus full-funded master scholarship in 2010

1. Li S.* and W.D. Barnhart (2020), Impacts of Topographic Relief and Crustal Heterogeneity on Coseismic Deformation and Inversions for Fault Geometry and Slip: A Case Study of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake in the Central Himalayan Arc, G3, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009413

2. Li S.*, J. Fukuda, and O. Oncken (2020), Geodetic evidence of time-dependent viscoelastic interseismic deformation in the southwest Japan subduction zone, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085551

3. Shi F.^, S. Li*, and M. Moreno (2019), Megathrust locking and viscous mantle flow induce continental shortening in Central Andes, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 177(6), 2841-2852, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02403-0

4. Li S.*, J. Bedford, M. Moreno, W. Barnhart, M. Rosenau, and O. Oncken (2018), Spatiotemporal variation of mantle viscosity and the presence of cratonic mantle inferred from 8 years of postseismic deformation following the 2010 Maule Chile earthquake, G3, 19, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007645

5. Li S.*, W. Barnhart, and M. Moreno (2018), Geometrical and frictional effects on incomplete rupture and shallow slip deficit in ramp-flat structures, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079185

6. Li S., K. Wang*, Y. Wang, Y. Jiang and S. Dosso (2018), Geodetically inferred locking state of the Cascadia megathrust based on a viscoelastic Earth model, JGR-solid earth, 123, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015620

7. Li S.*, M. Moreno, J. Bedford, M. Rosenau, O. Heidbach, D. Melnick, and O. Oncken (2017), Postseismic uplift of the Andes following the 2010 Maule earthquake: Implications for mantle rheology, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 1768-1776, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071995

8. Li S.*, M. Moreno, J. Bedford, M. Rosenau, and O. Oncken (2015), Revisiting visco-elastic effects on interseismic deformation and locking degree: a case study of the Peru - North Chile subduction zone, JGR-Solid Earth, 120, 4522-4538, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB011903

9. Li S.*, M. Moreno, M. Rosenau, D. Melnick, and O. Oncken (2014), Splay fault triggering by great subduction earthquakes inferred from finite element models, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 385-391, https://doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058598

10. Schurr B.*, M. Moreno, A. M. Tréhu, J. Bedford, J. Kummerow, S. Li, and O. Oncken (2020), Forming a Mogi Doughnut during the inter- and pre-seismic phase of the 2014 M8.1 Iquique, Northern Chile Earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088351

11. Yousefi M.*, G. Milne, S. Li, K. Wang, and A. Bartholet (2020), Constraining Interseismic Deformation of the Cascadia Subduction Zone: New Insights from Estimates of Vertical Land Motion over Different Timescales, JGR-solid earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018248

12. Moreno M.*, S. Li, D. Melnick, et al. (2018), Chilean megathrust earthquake recurrence linked to frictional contrast at depth, Nature Geoscience,11, 285–290, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0089-5

13. Melnick D.*, S. Li, M. Moreno, et al. (2018), Back to full interseismic plate locking decades after the giant 1960 Chile earthquake, Nature Communications, 9.1, 3527, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05989-6

14. Peterson K., W. Barnhart*, and S. Li (2018), Viscous accretionary prisms: viscoelastic relaxation of the Makran accretionary prism following the 2013 Baluchistan, Pakistan earthquake, JGR-solid earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016057

15. Barnhart W.*, C. Brengman, S. Li, and P. Katherine (2018), Ramp-Flat basement structures of the Zagros Mountains inferred from co-seismic slip and afterslip of the 2017 Mw7.3 Darbandikhan, Iran/Iraq Earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 496, 96-107, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.036

16. Melnick D.*, M. Moreno, J. Quinteros, J. Baez, Z. Deng, S. Li, and O. Oncken (2017), The super-interseismic phase of the megathrust earthquake cycle in Chile, Geophysical Research Letters, 44，784–791, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071845

17. Bedford J.*, M. Moreno, S. Li, J. Baez, O. Oncken, M. Bevis, D. Lange, and O. Heidbach (2016), Separating simultaneous postseismic processes: An application of the postseismic straightening method to the Maule 2010 cGPS, JGR-solid earth, 121, 7618–7638, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB013093