Resume

Education

• Ph.D in Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, 2022-now
  • Supervisor: Prof. John Rudge
  • Ongoing PhD project: Reaction-infiltration instability in the partially molten mantle.
• M.S. in Geodynamics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019-2022
  • Supervisor: Dr. Yang Li
  • Key Courses: Foundation of Geodynamics, Finite Element Method and Computational Geodynamics, Physics of the Earth’s interior, Rheology in the Earth’s Interior
  • M.S. Degree Thesis: Effects of heterogeneous thermal, compositional and rheological properties on the long-term evolution of deep mantle thermochemical piles
• B.S. in Geology, School of Earth Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, 2015-2019
  • Supervisor: Prof. Yu Zhou
  • Key Courses: Igneous Petrology, Sedimentary Petrology, Petrology of Metamorphic Rocks, Paleontology, Structure Geology, Historical Geology, Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology
  • B.S. Degree Thesis: Earthquake deformation from optical images: advantages, problems, and a new DEM-based method for orthorectification error corrections

Publications

• M. Huang, J. Rudge, & D. W. Rees Jones, (2026). Channels or waves: controls on the reaction infiltration instabil- ity in the upper mantle. Geophysical Journal International , 245(3), ggag143, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggag143.
Contribution:

• Used finite-element method to study channelization and compaction-dissolution waves in melt migration.

• Conducted linear stability analysis with spectral method to understand the physical control on the problem

• M. Huang, Y. Li & L. Zhao (2022). Effects of Heterogeneous Thermal, Compositional and Rheological Properties on the Long-Term Evolution of Deep Mantle Thermochemical Piles, Science China: Earth Science, 1-12. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-021-9950-7
  Contribution:
  • Performed a series of numerical experiments over a range of buoyancy ratios, compositional viscosity ratios, and internal heating rates and analysed their effects to thermochemical piles
  • Compared simulations with constant heating and radioactive decay heating, and found that although simulations with radioactive decay showed a slight decline of the stability of piles, there was little difference among them
• M. Huang, Y. Zhou, L. Lu, W. Zheng & P. Zhang (2019). Some Thoughts on Measuring Earthquake Deformation Using Optical Imagery, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58(2), 1052-1062. DOI:10.1109/TGRS.2019.2943192
  Contribution:
  • Compiled and analysed all the earthquakes that have been investigated with optical image matching by 2019
  • Proposed a new DEM-based method using the ALOS World 3D DEM to reduce the orthorectification errors
  • Re-analysed coseismic slip distribution and shallow slip deficit (SSD) and found that the SSD model may primarily be artefacts in the measurements

Field Trips

• Composite geological field trip around Ningxia district, Northeastern Tibetan Plateau (August 2018, 20 days)
• Comprehensive experiments of geology in Changjiang, Hainan Province, China (July 2018, 15 days)
• Geological mapping in Chengjiang, Yunnan Province, China (July 2017, 25 days)
• Field work in the Linzhi, Southern Tibetan Pleteau (July 2017, 8 days)
• Elementary geological field trip in Yichang, Hubei Province, China (June 2016, 15 days)

Skills

• Good at Python, Matlab, ArcGIS, and LaTeX
• Just get familiar with DOLFINx / FEniCS

Activities

• Active player of the University of Cambridge badminton team
• Volunteer for science popularization of Danxiashan UNESCO Global Geopark, China