理学博士，1986年10月生，中共党员，江苏徐州人。2014年硕博连读毕业于中国科学院广州地球化学研究所。随后进入中山大学地球科学与工程学院开展博士后研究，2017年进入中国科学院广州地球化学研究所工作，2019年1月起担任副研究员，硕士生导师。研究方向为沉积大地构造学，主要从事板块构造与沉积作用，以及东亚大型水系演化等研究工作。研究成果主要包括：建立南海板片自俯冲至出露台湾造山带的动态模型，修正增生楔最早隆升时间和隆升机制；识别出古特提斯洋晚泥盆世北向俯冲事件，进而限定古特提斯洋构造域的影响范围；较早发现第三纪中国沿海物质的远距离输送，并恢复其运移路径。目前成果主要发表于Tectonics, GSA Bulletin, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Marine and Petroleum Geology等国际刊物。 

    1.东亚/东南亚主动大陆边缘构造演化及盆地沉积记录

　　2.华南被动大陆边缘地质构造及沉积记录

    3.大型水系演化及古地理重建

• 1. X.C. Zhang, H.Y. Li, et al., 2025. On-land evidence for subduction of the proto–South China Sea beneath northern Borneo and tectonic reconstruction of Southeast Asia during the early Permian–Oligocene. Geological Society of America Bulletin 137, 2632–2646.

  2. X.C. Zhang, Y. Yan, Y. Dilek, W.H. Chen, Y.H. Shan, 2023. Mid-Miocene uplift and tectonic-sedimentary evolution of the Taiwan accretionary prism: Constraints from sedimentary records in the Hengchun Peninsula, southern Taiwan. Marine and Petroleum Geology 147, 105994.

  3  T.T. Li, L.L. Jia, X. Zhu, M. Xu, X.C. Zhang*, 2023. Distribution and risk assessment of heavy metals in surface sediments of coastal mudflats on Leizhou Peninsula, China. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 42, 25–34.

  4. X.C. Zhang, H.Y. Li, C.K. Lai, Q.L. Tan, 2022. New sedimentary constraints for the Late Devonian north-dipping Paleo-Tethys subduction and its eastern continuation on Hainan Island, South China. Marine and Petroleum Geology 142, 105743.

  5. X.C. Zhang, Y.J. Wang, R. Harris et al., 2019. Discovery of Middle-Late Devonian and Early Permian magmatic events in East Asia and their implication for the Indosinian orogeny in South China: Insights from the sedimentary record. Geological Society of America Bulletin 131, 1519–1536.

  6. X.C. Zhang, Y.J. Wang, P.D. Clift et al., 2018. Paleozoic tectonic setting and paleogeographic evolution of the Qin-Fang region, southern South China Block: Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronological and Hf isotopic constraints. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 19, 3962–3979.

  7. X.C. Zhang, C.Y. Huang, Y.J. Wang, P.D. Clift, et al., 2017. Evolving Yangtze River reconstructed by detrital zircon U-Pb dating and petrographic analysis of Miocene marginal Sea sedimentary rocks of the Western Foothills and Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan. Tectonics 36(4), 634–651.

  8. X.C. Zhang, P. A. Cawood, C.Y. Huang, Y.J. Wang et al., 2016. From convergent plate margin to arc–continent collision: Formation of the Kenting M lange, Southern Taiwan. Gondwana Research 38, 171–182.

  9. X.C. Zhang, Y. Yan, C.Y. Huang et al., 2014. Provenance analysis of the Miocene accretionary prism of the Hengchun Peninsula, southern Taiwan, and regional geological significance. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 85, 26–39.

  10. 张新昌等, 2014. 台湾南部恒春半岛垦丁混杂岩的成因及其构造意义. 大地构造与成矿学38(2), 441–453.

• 1. 国家重点研发计划，俯冲板块与大/小地幔楔相互作用机制差异，2022-2027, 参与

  2. 中国科学院战略性先导科技专项（B类），关键元素分布、状态及储库形成演化，2024-2028，参与