2023.01-今，特聘副研究员，硕士生导师，招生方向为行星物理（行星内部物理学）
2020.08-2022.12，中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所博士后，研究领域为行星物理
2017.09-2018.12，联合培养博士生，美国加州大学圣芭芭拉分校，研究方向为地球物理
2014.09-2020.08，清华大学，获工学博士学位，研究方向为有限元/谱元法数值模拟
2010.09-2014.07，河海大学，获工学学士学位

依托我国嫦娥、天问等任务的探测数据，以地震学和热力学为主要手段，结合数值模拟研究行星内部结构及其成因机制，以第一/通讯作者身份在Nature Astronomy、Physical Review D、The Innovation、Geophysics、BSSA、GJI等期刊发表论文13篇。

行星内部结构及成因机制、多尺度行星地震波场数值模拟、行星热成因地貌机制及演化

1. 火星乌托邦平原冻融循环多边形地貌的机制研究, 国家自然科学基金委“月球与深空探测科学研究”专项项目, 主持, 2025-01~2025-12
2. 基于谱元-有限元法的月震波场数值模拟研究, 国家自然科学基金委青年基金项目, 主持, 2023-01~2025-12
3. 特聘副研究员科研启动费, 研究所自主部署, 2023-01~2027-12
4. 月球重大地质事件的构造响应, 国家重点研发计划项目, 参与, 2022-12~2027-11
5. 面向嫦娥7号月震仪数据的月震和月球深部结构研究, 国家自然科学基金委重点项目, 参与, 2023-01~2027-12

一作论文：

1. Lei Zhang, Han Yan, Jinhai Zhang, and Xian Chen. Numerical simulation of lunar response to gravitational waves and its 3D topographic effect using the spectral-element method, Physical Review D, 2026,113(2): 023031. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/4rrr-w4tm 【PDF】【报道】
2. Lei Zhang, Han Yan, Xian Chen, and Jinhai Zhang. 2D numerical simulation of lunar response to gravitational waves using finite element method, Physical Review D, 2025,111(6): 063014. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.111.063014 (共同第一作者) 【PDF】【报道】
3. Lei Zhang, Chao Li, Jinhai Zhang, Bin Zhou, Yu-Yan Sara Zhao, Yang Liu, Kaichang Di, Ross N. Mitchell, Juan Li, Zhigang Zhang, Lin Chen, Xiaofeng Liang, Weijia Sun, Yike Liu, Xu Zhao, Jinlai Hao, Changyi Xu, Yikang Zheng, Yibo Wang, Xin Wang, Pan Zhao, Wenmin Lv, Yang Li, Haiqiang Lan, Yuxi Li, Wei Wang, Yang Lu, Honglei Lin, Peng Fang, Wei Lin, Yong Wei, Ling Chen, Guangyou Fang, Yangting Lin, Zhenxing Yao, Yongxin Pan. Buried palaeo-polygonal terrain detected underneath Utopia Planitia on Mars by the Zhurong radar. Nature Astronomy, 2024，8：69–76. doi: 10.1038/s41550-023-02117-3 (共同第一作者) 【PDF】【报道】
   
4. Lei Zhang, Fei Gao, Zai Liu, Peng Cao, Jinhai Zhang. Temperature-dependent modal analysis of the InSight lander on Mars. Geophysics, 2023, 88(2). doi: 10.1190/geo2022-0272.1 【报道】
5. Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang, Ross Mitchell, Peng Cao, Jihang Liu, A thermal origin for super-high-frequency marsquakes, Icarus, 2023, 390: 115327. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115327
   
6. Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang, Local wavefield refinement using Fourier interpolation and boundary extrapolation for finite-element method based on domain reduction method. Geophysics, 2022, 87(3): T251-T263. doi:10.1190/geo2021-0503.1 【报道】
7. Lei Zhang, Yang Lu, Jinhai Zhang. A polygonal terrain on Martian southern polar cap: Implication for its formation mechanism. Remote Sensing, 2022, 14(22), 5789. doi: 10.3390/rs14225789 【PDF】
8. Lei Zhang, Jinlai Hao, Wenze Deng, Chen Ji. Chuhan Zhang, Source parameters inversion of the global large earthquakes using 3-D SEM Green's functions: strain Green's function calculation and validation, Geophysical Journal International, 2022, 230(3): 1546–1564. doi:10.1093/gji/ggac135
9. Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang, Ross Mitchell. Dichotomy in crustal melting on early Mars inferred from antipodal effect. The Innovation, 2022, 3(5): 100280. doi:10.1016/j.xinn.2022.100280 【PDF】【报道】
10. Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang. Observation-based temperature field simulation at Zhurong landing site, Mars. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022, 9:1059242. doi:10.3389/fspas.2022.1059242 【PDF】
11. Meng-Zhong Zhang, Lei Zhang, Xiang-Chao Wang, Wei Su, Yi-Xiang Qiu, Jin-Ting Wang, Chu-Han Zhang, A framework for seismic response analysis of dams using numerical source-to-structure simulation. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. 2022, 1-16. doi:10.1002/eqe.3774 (共同第一作者)
    
12. Lei Zhang, Jin-Ting Wang, Yan-Jie Xu, Chun-Hui He, Chu-Han Zhang. A procedure for 3-D seismic simulation from rupture to structures by coupling SEM and FEM. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2020, 110，1134-1148. doi:10.1785/0120190289
    
13. Lei Zhang, Yanjie Xu, Jinting Wang, Chuhan Zhang. Velocity structure building and ground motion simulation of the 2014 Ludian Ms 6.5 Earthquake. Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration, 2018, 17, 719–727. doi:10.1007/s11803-018-0471-8

合作论文：

1. Chao Li, Yikang Zheng, Xin Wang, Jinhai Zhang, Yibo Wang, Ling Chen, Lei Zhang, Pan Zhao, Yike Liu, Wenmin Lv, Yang Liu, Xu Zhao, Jinlai Hao, Weijia Sun, Xiaofeng Liu, Bojun Jia, Juan Li, Haiqiang Lan, Wenzhe Fa, Yongxin Pan, Fuyuan Wu. Layered subsurface in Utopia Basin of Mars revealed by Zhurong rover radar. Nature, 2022. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05147-5
2. Xiang Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang, Ross Mitchell, Strong heterogeneity in shallow lunar subsurface detected by Apollo seismic data, JGR-Planets, 2022, 127 (11). doi:10.1029/2022JE007222
3. Xiang Zhang, Wenmin Lv, Lei Zhang, Jinhai Zhang, Yangting Lin, and Zhenxing Yao. Self-organization characteristics of lunar regolith inferred by Yutu-2 lunar penetrating radar. Remote Sensing, 2021, 13(15): 3017. doi:10.3390/rs13153017
4. Xiang-Chao Wang, Jin-Ting Wang, Lei Zhang, Chun-Hui He. Broadband ground-motion simulations by coupling regional velocity structures with the geophysical information of specific sites. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2021, 145: 106695. doi:10.1016/j.soildyn.2021.106695
5. Xiang‐Chao Wang, Jin‐Ting Wang, Lei Zhang, Shuai Li, Chu‐Han Zhang. A multidimension source model for generating broadband ground motions with deterministic 3d numerical simulations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2021, 111 (2): 989–1013. doi:10.1785/0120200221