Zengqian Hou

        Zengqian Hou (Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, China), Editor in Chief of Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica since 2009. Since obtained his Ph.D. from the China University of Geosciences (Beijing) in 1988, he has been a senior research geologist in Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (CAGS) including served as the Director-General of Institute of Mineral Resources (2000-2005) and Institute of Geology (2005-2018), CAGS. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. Currently he is the Vice-President of NSFC, responsible for Earth Sciences and Management Sciences. He has conducted several major scientific projects including an IGCP project and two Chinese State Key 973 Fundamental Research Projects on the lithospheric architecture and relevant mineral systems in collisional orogenies. These researches have led to an establishment of a new theoretical framework and genetic models for collision-related metallogenesis (REE, Cu, Pb-Zn, Au), and major discoveries of world-class copper and other metallic deposits in China. He authored or co-authored about 280 refereed papers with more than 10 000 citations. He was thus awarded the Grand and First Prizes of National Scientific and Technical Advancement and Second Prize of National Natural Science. He also serves as Chairman of the IGCP Committee of China, and Regional Vice President of the Society of Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits (2011-2013).