CV

Academic appointment

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geophysics
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh · 2024–present

Education

• PhD in Geophysics, University of Edinburgh · 2019–2023
  Supervised by Professor Andrew Curtis.
• MSc in Geophysics, China University of Petroleum (Beijing) · 2016–2019
• BSc in Exploration Geophysics, China University of Petroleum (Beijing) · 2012–2016

Research expertise

• Bayesian geophysical inversion and uncertainty quantification
• Seismic imaging, tomography and full waveform inversion
• Variational inference and computational statistics for inverse problems

Academic service

• Organiser, Edinburgh Geophysics weekly seminar · 2024–present
• Session Chair, Full Waveform Inversion session, EAGE · 2025–2026
• Peer reviewer for journals including Geophysical Journal International, Geophysics, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
• Active participant in AGU, EGU, EAGE and SEG.

Publications and teaching

For a complete and up-to-date list of research outputs, please see Publications. Teaching and student supervision are listed on the Teaching page.

For academic enquiries, please email xuebin.zhao@ed.ac.uk.