Curriculum Vitae （简历)

Education

• 2022     PhD in Earth and Environmental Science, Université Paris-Cité, France
• 2018     Master in Geophysics, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7), France
• 2014     Bachelor in Geophysics, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China
  

Professional Experience

• Since 2025.07             Research associate at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
• 2023.02-2025.06       Newton International Research Fellow at University of Southampton, UK
• 2022.07-2023.02       Postdoctoral researcher at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
  

Funding, Fellowships and Awards

• 2025       Editor’s Highlight in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
• 2022       Royal Society - Newton International Fellowship (host PI)
  

Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals

• [14] Wei Wang, Satish C. Singh and Zhikai Wang et al. (2025), Crustal structure and magmatism of the Limpopo transform margin at the Southern Mozambique using wide-angle seismic data, Geophysical Journal International, 243, 1–18.
• [13] Zhikai Wang, Satish C. Singh and J. Pablo Canales (2025), Link between Crustal thickness and Moho transition zone at 9°N East Pacific Rise, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 658, 119309.
• [12] Zhikai Wang, Satish C. Singh, Timothy A. Minshull and Wayne C. Crawford (2025), Fine-scale crustal velocity structure at the Lucky Strike segment of Mid-Atlantic Ridge from full waveform inversion of wide-angle seismic data, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130, e2024JB029982.
• [11] Zhikai Wang and Satish C. Singh (2022), Seismic evidence for uniform crustal accretion along slow-spreading ridges in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, Nature communications, 13, 7809.
• [10 Zhikai Wang, Satish C. Singh, Cecile Prigent, Emma P.M. Gregory and Milena Marjanović (2022), Deep hydration and lithospheric thinning at oceanic transform plate boundaries, Nature Geoscience, 15, 741–746.
• [9] Zhiteng Yu, Satish C. Singh, Emma P.M. Gregory, Marcia Maia, Zhikai Wang and Daniele Brunelli (2021), Semibrittle seismic deformation in high-temperature mantle mylonite shear zone along the Romanche transform fault, Science Advances, 7(15), eabf3388.
• [8] Emma P.M. Gregory., Satish C. Singh, Milena Marjanović and Zhikai Wang (2021), Serpentinized peridotite versus thick mafic crust at the Romanche oceanic transform fault, Geology, 49(9), 1132-1136.
• [7] Kevin Growe, Ingo Grevemeyer, Satish C. Singh, Milena Marjanović, Emma P.M. Gregory, Cord Papenberg, Venkata Vaddineni, Laura Gómez de la Peña and Zhikai Wang (2021), Seismic structure of the St. Paul Fracture Zone and Late Cretaceous to Mid Eocene oceanic crust in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean near 18°W, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2021JB022456.
• [6] Benfeng Wang, Jiakuo Li, Pu Wang, Wenpeng Si and Zhikai Wang (2021), Visco-acoustic full waveform inversion using decoupled fractional Laplacian constant-Q wave equation and optimal transport-based misfit function, Exploration Geophysics, 53, 140-150.
• [5] Milena Marjanović, Satish C. Singh, Emma P.M. Gregory, Ingo Grevemeyer, Kevin Growe, Zhikai Wang, Venkata Vaddineni, Muriel Laurencin, Hélène Carton, Laura Gómez de la Peña and Christian Filbrandt (2020), Seismic Crustal Structure and Morpho-tectonic Features Associated with the Chain Fracture Zone and their Role in the Evolution of the Equatorial Atlantic Region, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2020JB020275.
• [4] Zhikai Wang, Satish C. Singh and Mark Noble (2019), True-amplitude versus trace-normalized full waveform inversion, Geophysical Journal International, 220(2), 1421-1435.
• [3] Zhikai Wang, Jingye Li, Benfeng Wang, Yiran Xu and Xiaohong Chen (2018), A new central compact finite difference scheme with high spectral resolution for acoustic wave equation, Journal of Computational Physics, 366, 191-206.
• [2] Zhikai Wang, Jingye Li, Benfeng Wang, Yiran Xu and Xiaohong Chen (2017), Time-domain explicit finite-difference method based on the mixed-domain function approximation for acoustic wave equation, Geophysics, 82(5), T237-T248.
• [1] Ying Liu, Jingye Li, Xiaohong Chen, Zhikai Wang, Yiran Xu and Benfeng Wang (2017), Q estimation and its application in the 3D shallow weathering zone, Interpretation, 5(1), SC29-SC38.
  

Conference Abstracts in English

• [15] Zhikai Wang and Satish C. Singh (2025), Thick crust, thin Moho transition zone and negative velocity gradient in the mantle along a 30.6 Ma segment in the South Atlantic Ocean at 31°S, EGU General Assembly, Vienna.
• [14] Zhikai Wang et al. (2024), Seismic evidence for the upper crustal accretion by long-distance lateral dyke injection at the Lucky Strike segment of Mid-Atlantic Ridge, AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C.
• [13] Zhikai Wang et al. (2024), Fine-scale crustal velocity structures along and across the Lucky Strike segment of Mid-Atlantic Ridge from full waveform inversion of wide-angle seismic data, EGU General Assembly, Vienna.
• [12] Wei Wang, Satish C. Singh and Zhikai Wang et al. (2024), Crustal Structure of Continental Margin and Oceanic Basin at the Southern Mozambique Margin, EGU General Assembly, Vienna.
• [11] Zhikai Wang and Satish C. Singh (2024), Fine-scale crustal velocity structure of the East Pacific Rise at 9°15’–10°N from full waveform inversion of wide-angle seismic data, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
• [10] Nirmit Dhabaria, Satish C. Singh and Zhikai Wang (2023), Nature of oceanic crust and Moho transition zone of 70 Ma old lithosphere formed at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Equatorial Atlantic Ocean using elastic full-waveform inversion of the ocean bottom seismometer data, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
• [9] Zhikai Wang et al. (2021), Evidence for uniform crustal accretion and 2-D passive mantle upwelling in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean from wide-angle seismic tomography, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans.
• [8] Zhikai Wang et al. (2021), Lithospheric thinning due to deep hydration and water-induced mantle melting at oceanic transform plate boundaries, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans.
• [7] Nirmit Dhabaria, Satish C. Singh and Zhikai Wang (2021), 2D elastic full-waveform inversion of wide-angle seismic data to characterize a 70 Ma old crust and Moho in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean, AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans.
• [6] Emma P.M. Gregory, Milena Marjanović, Zhikai Wang and Satish C. Singh (2020), Structure and composition of large-offset Atlantic transform faults: an extreme example at the Romanche transform from wide-angle refraction data, General Assembly, Vienna.
• [5] Milena Marjanovic, Kevin Growe, Emma P.M. Gregory, Satish C. Singh, Ingo Grevemeyer, Venkata A. Vaddineni, Muriel Laurencin, Zhikai Wang et al., (2019), Variations in structural and thermal properties of the lithosphere across large fracture zones/transform fault in the equatorial Atlantic, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
• [4] Zhikai Wang et al. (2017), A New Class of Central Compact Finite-difference Scheme with High Spectral Resolution for Acoustic Wave Equation, the 79th EAGE Meeting, Paris.
• [3] Zhikai Wang et al. (2017), An Explicit Finite Difference Method Based on the Mixed Domain Function Approximation and Adaptive Spatial Operator Length Scheme, the 79th EAGE Meeting, Paris.
• [2] Zhikai Wang et al. (2016), Event registration of converted-wave images using the inverted PS-wave section and dynamic time warping, SEG Fall Meeting, Dallas.
• [1] Benfeng Wang, Xiaohong Chen, Wenkai Lu, Zhikai Wang and Jie Mu (2016), An Amplitude Preserving S-transform for Seismic Data Attenuation Compensation, the 78th EAGE Meeting, Vienna.