• 2010.09-2014.06, B.S., China University of Geoscience (Wuhan), Hubei Province, China
• 2014.09-2019.06, Ph. D., Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• 2018.05-2019.02, Visiting PhD student at Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
• 2019.07-2022.12, Post-doctoral fellow, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
• 2023.01-Present, Associate Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

1. Early plate tectonics
2. Diffusion chronology
3. Thermodynamic simulation

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant 42002211)
2. Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (BX20190328)
3. Special Research Assistant Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Selected Publication (First author)：

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yi-Zou-15

1. Zou, Y., Mitchell, R. N., Chu, X., Brown, M., Jiang, J., Li, Q., Zhao, L. and Zhai, M., 2023. Surface evolution during the mid-Proterozoic stalled by mantle warming under Columbia–Rodinia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 607: 118055.
2. Zou, Y., Chen, J. X., Wu, J. L., Zhao, L., Li, Q. L. and Zhai, M. G., 2022. Diffusion in metamorphic geology: Principles, applications, and problems. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 38(10): 2949-2970.
3. Zou, Y., Chu, X., Wu, J. L. and Zhao, L., 2022. No evidence for Archean eclogite-facies metamorphism. PNAS, 119(39): e2208090119.
4. Zou, Y., Li, Q., Chu, X., Zhai, M., Mitchell, R. N., Zhao, L., Zhou, L., Wang, Y. and Liu, B., 2021. Older orogens cooled slower: new constraints on Orosirian tectonics from garnet diffusion modeling of metamorphic timescales, Jiaobei terrain, North China Craton. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 176(11): 91.
5. Zou, Y., Zhai, M. G., Mitchell, R. N., Zhao, L., Zhou, L. G., Liu, B., Wang, Y. Q. and Chen, M. D., 2020b. Discovery of kyanite in typically cordierite/sillimanite-bearing low- to medium-pressure pelitic granulites from the Jiaobei terrain, North China Craton. Precambrian Research: 105677.
6. Zou, Y., Chu, X., Li, Q. L., Mitchell, R. N., Zhai, M. G., Zou, X. Y., Zhao, L., Wang, Y. Q. and Liu, B., 2020a. Local Rapid Exhumation and Fast Cooling in a Long-lived Paleoproterozoic Orogeny. Journal of Petrology, 61(10): 1-32.
7. Zou, Y., Zhai, M. G., Zhou, L. G., Zhao, L., Lu, J. S., Wang, Y. Q. and Shan, H. X., 2019. Relics of a Paleoproterozoic orogen: New petrological, phase equilibria and geochronological studies on high-pressure pelitic granulites from the Pingdu-Laiyang areas, southwest of the Jiaobei terrane, North China Craton. Precambrian Research, 322: 136-159.
8. Zou, Y., Zhai, M. G., Santosh, M., Zhou, L. G., Zhao, L., Lu, J. S., Liu, B. and Shan, H. X., 2018. Contrasting P-T-t paths from a Paleoproterozoic metamorphic orogen: Petrology, phase equilibria, zircon and monazite geochronology of metapelites from the Jiao-Liao-Ji belt, North China Craton. Precambrian Research, 311: 74-97.
9. Zou, Y., Zhai, M. G., Santosh, M., Zhou, L. G., Zhao, L., Lu, J. S. and Shan, H. X., 2017. High-pressure pelitic granulites from the Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt, North China Craton: A complete P-T path and its tectonic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 134: 103-121.