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, 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. T.T. Li, X.C. Zhang, L.L. Jia, X. Zhu, M. Xu, 2022. Eco-geochemical evaluation of the Leizhou Peninsula (southern China) and the prediction of heavy metal content in soils. Marine Pollution Bulletin 185, 114275 (通讯作者).

5. Y. Zheng, L.K. Long, P.P. Yu, X.C. Zhang et al., 2022. Metal endowment and geodynamic evolution of the Late Paleozoic SEDEX deposits in South China: The Yunfu giant iron-sulfde deposit, Yunkai Domain. Ore Geology Reviews 145, 104918.

6. W.H. Chen, A. Carter, C.Y. Huang, G. P. Yumul Jr., C.B. Dimalanta, J.A.S. Gabo-Ratio, M.H. Wang, D.F. Chen, Y.H. Shan, X.C. Zhang, W.L Liu, 2021. Stratigraphy and Provenance of the Paleogene Syn-Rift Sediments in Central-Southern Palawan: Paleogeographic Significance for the South China Margin. Tectonics 40, e2021TC006753.

7. Y. Zhou, Y. Yan, H.L. Liu, J.X. Cai, M.F. Zhou, X.C. Zhang et al., 2020. U-Pb Isotope Geochronology of Syntectonic Granites from Hainan Island, South China: Constraints on Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean. Journal of Ocean University of China 19, 1315–1330.

8. W.H. Chen, Y.Yan, P.D. Clift, A. Carter, C.Y. Huang, K.T. Pickering, Jr., F. Chemale, Y. Shan, X.C. Zhang, 2020. Drainage evolution and exhumation history of the eastern Himalaya: Insights from the Nicobar Fan, northeastern Indian Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 548, 116472. 

9. Z.X. Tian, Y. Yan, C.Y. Huang, Y. Dilek, M. Yu, H.Q. Liu, X.C. Zhang, 2020. Fingerprinting subducted oceanic crust and Hainan Plume in the melt sources of Cenozoic Basalts from the South China Sea Region. Terra Nova, 1–9.

10. Z.X. Tian, Y. Yan, C.Y. Huang, X.C. Zhang et al., 2019. Geochemistry and geochronology of the accreted mafic rocks from the Hengchun Peninsula, southern Taiwan: Origin and tectonic implications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124 (3): 2469–2491.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. M.M. Yu, Y. Yan, C.Y. Huang, X.C. Zhang et al., 2018. Opening of the South China Sea and Upwelling of the Hainan Plume, Geophysical Research Letters 45, 2600–2609.

14. W.H. Chen, C.Y. Huang, Y. Yan, Y. Dilek, D.F. Chen, M. Wang, X.C. Zhang et al., 2017. Stratigraphy and provenance of forearc sequences in the Lichi M lange, Coastal Range: Geological records of the active Taiwan arc-continent collision. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 122(9), 7408–7436.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. W.H. Chen, C.Y. Huang, Y. Lin, Q. Zhao, Y. Yan, D.F. Chen, X.C. Zhang et al., 2015. Depleted deep South China Sea ¹³C paleoceanographic events in response to tectonic evolution in Taiwan-Luzon Strait since Middle Miocene. Deep Sea Research Part II 122, 195–225.

18. 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.

19. Q. Lan, Y. Yan, C.Y. Huang, P.D. Clift, X.J. Li, W.H. Chen, X.C. Zhang, M.M. Yu, 2014. Tectonics, topography, and river system transition in East Tibet: Insights from the sedimentary record in Taiwan. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 15(9), 3658–3674.

20. 张新昌, 闫义, 黄奇瑜, 陈多福, 单业华, 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.

21. 张新昌，李婷婷，陈文煌，余梦明，兰青, 2015. 台湾南部恒春半岛中新世增生楔碎屑锆石U-Pb年代学及其地质意义. 海洋地质与第四纪地质 35(2), 125–137.

　　1.国家自然科学基金青年基金项目，广东二叠-三叠系充填格架、物源示踪及印支期构造属性限定，2017-2019，主持

　　2.广东省自然科学基金面上项目，琼粤南北剖面石炭-二叠系源区示踪：剖析华南印支期构造属性及古特提斯东延问题，2021-2023，主持

　　3.广州市基础与应用基础研究项目，博士青年科技人员类，2021-2023，主持

　　4.中国科学院边缘海与大洋地质重点实验室，开放基金，2020-2022，主持

　　5.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

　　6.中国科学院战略性先导科技专项（B类），印太交汇区板块汇聚过程与俯冲起始机制，2020-2024，参与

　　7.南方海洋科学与工程广东省实验室（广州）人才团队引进重大专项项目，大洋板块形成、演化与消亡的地球化学示踪，2019-2022, 参与