Ying Zhou

Assistant Professor of Geophysics

2069 Derring Hall

+1.540.231.0673 (Phone)

+1.540.231.3386 (FAX)

4044 Derring Hall (0420)
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Ph.D, Geophysics, Princeton University, 2005

Research Interests

my main research interests are to understand seismic wave propagations in the earth, to study the earth's seismic structure, and to interpret seismic heterogeneities in the earth's mantle/crust in terms of temperature and chemical variations.  In particular, we develop 3D Born sensitivity kernels for surface-wave phase, amplitude and polarization measurements, and image the global mantle S-wave velocity structure, radial anisotropy as well as 3-D attenuation structure by finite-frequency tomography.  I am also interested in crustal structures from P-wave code and the earth's lowest mantle from core-mantle diffracted phases. 


Graduate Students

Youyi Ruan (Ph.D candidate)
http://www.geos.vt.edu/people/chukren/

I am looking for motivated graduate students to work on seismic wave propagation problems  and mantle structure.