China Vitae

Biography

Yao Zhenxing, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shanghai. He graduated from Beijing University in 1962 and received a postgraduate degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Geophysics in 1966.

Yao has long been engaged in the theory and application study of seismic waves. He has solved several problems of forward modeling for broadband seismic waveforms from an earthquake center, propagation to surface movement.

Yao also introduced the full-optimized inversion method for calculating the non-linearity geophysical problems and finished the study of the upper earth mantle velocity structure for different tectonic regions of the continent in China. He developed a new method for evaluating the explosive yield by seismic waves and proposed the integrated theatrical seismology method to forecast the near field-strength surface movement, and successfully evaluated the seismic dangerousness of Qianshan Nuclear Power Station and Ertan Hydropower Station.

Yao is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.