Yuqi Qian

PhD Candidate

Planetary Science Institute, School of Earth Sciences

China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

Email: yuqi_qian@cug.edu.cn, yuqii.qian@gmail.com

Address: 388 Lumo Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, 430074, China

Website: https://yuqiqian.com/

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7119-5501

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yuqi-Qian-3

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FDU0k2wAAAAJ&hl=en

EDUCATION

Sept. 2013 - June 2017 School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

Bachelor of Science, Geology (A National Training Base for Geosciences), Advisor: Dr. Long Xiao

Sept. 2017 - Current School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

Doctor of Science, Geology (Planetary Geology and Comparative Planetology), Advisor: Dr. Long Xiao

Degree Pending (January of 2023)

Visiting Graduate Student (Nov. 2019-Nov. 2021), Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Advisor, Dr. James Head

HONORS, AWARDS, & PRIZES

2014, National Scholarship (国家奖学金)

2015, Ruiming Scholarship (锐鸣奖学金)

2016, National College Students’ Geological Skills Competition (two first prizes, one second prize) (全国大学生地质技能竞赛)

2016, Ruiming Scholarship (锐鸣奖学金)

2019, Pandeng Scholarship (攀登奖学金)

2019, China Scholarship Council (2 years) (国家建设高水平大学公派研究生项目)

2021, National Scholarship for Graduate Students (博士研究生国家奖学金)

2021, Student of the Year, School of Earth Sciences (地球科学学院学生年度人物)

2022, Outstanding Graduate Student (优秀研究生标兵)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Planetary Landing Site, Planetary Geology, Planetary Volcanism, Planetary Chemistry

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

CHANG’E-5 MISSION

1. Qian Y., Xiao L., Wang Q., Head J.W., Yang R., Kang Y., van der Bogert C.H., Hiesinger H., Lai X., Wang G., Pang Y., Zhang N., Yuan Y., He Q., Huang J., Zhao J., Wang J., Zhao S., 2021. China’s Chang’e-5 landing site: Geology, stratigraphy, and provenance of materials. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 561, 116855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116855

2. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., van der Bogert C.H., Hiesinger H., Wilson L., 2021. Young lunar mare basalts in the Chang’e-5 sample return region, northern Oceanus Procellarum. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 555, 116702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116702

3. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., Wöhler C., Bugiolacchi R., Wilhelm T., Althoff S., Ye B., He Q., Yuan Y., Zhao S., 2021. Copernican-Aged (<200 Ma) Impact Ejecta at the Chang’e-5 Landing Site: Statistical Evidence From Crater Morphology, Morphometry, and Degradation Models. Geophys. Res. Lett. 48, e2021GL095341. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095341

4. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J. W., Wilson L., 2021. The Long Sinuous Rille System in Northern Oceanus Procellarum and Its Relation to the Chang'e-5 Returned Samples. Geophys. Res. Lett. 48, e2021GL092663. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092663

5. Qian Y., Xiao L., Yin S., Zhang M., Zhao S., Pang Y., Wang J., Wang G., Head J.W., 2020. The regolith properties of the Chang’e-5 landing region and the ground drilling experiments using lunar regolith simulants. Icarus 337, 113508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113508

6. Qian Y., Xiao L., Zhao S., Zhao J., Huang J., Flahaut J., Martinot M., Head J.W., Hiesinger, H., Wang, G., 2018. Geology and Scientific Significance of the Rümker Region in Northern Oceanus Procellarum: China’s Chang’E-5 Landing Region. J. Geophys. Res. Planets 123, 1407–1430. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JE005595

7. Xiao L., Qian Y., Wang Q., Wang Q., 2021. The Chang’e-5 mission, in: Longobardo, A.B.T. (Ed.), Sample Return Missions. Elsevier, pp. 195–206. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818330-4.00009-4

8. Meng Z., Lei J., Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., Chen S., Cheng W., Shi J., Ping J., Kang Z., 2020. Thermophysical Features of the Rümker Region in Northern Oceanus Procellarum: Insights from CE-2 CELMS Data. Remote Sens. 12, 3272. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12193272

9. He Q., Li Y., Baziotis I., Qian Y., Xiao L., Wang Z., Zhang W., Luo B., Neal C. R., Day J.M.D., Pan F., She Z., Wu X., Hu Z., Zong K., Wang L. 2022. Detailed petrogenesis of the unsampled Oceanus Procellarum: The case of the Chang’e-5 mare basalts. Icarus 383, 115082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115082

10. Cao K., Dong M., She Z., Xiao Q., Wang X., Qian Y., Li Y., Wang Z., He Q., Wu X., Zong K., Hu Z., Xiao L. 2022. A novel method for simultaneous analysis of particle size and mineralogy for Chang’E-5 lunar soil with minimum sample consumption. Sci China Earth Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-022-9966-5

CHANG’E-4 MISSION

1. Yuan Y., Zhu P., Xiao L., Huang J., Garnero E.J., Deng J., Wang F., Qian Y., Zhao N., Wang W., Li W., 2021. Intermittent volcanic activity detected in the Von Kármán crater on the farside of the Moon. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 569, 117062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117062

2. Huang J., Xiao Z., Xiao L., Horgan B., Hu X., Lucey P., Xiao X., Zhao S., Qian Y., Zhang H., Li C., Xu R., He Z., Yang J., Xue B., He Q., Zhong J., Lin H., Huang C., Xie J., 2020. Diverse rock types detected in the lunar South Pole–Aitken Basin by the Chang’E-4 lunar mission. Geology 48, 723–727. https://doi.org/10.1130/G47280.1

TIANWEN-1 MISSION

1. Ye B.†, Qian Y.†, Xiao L., Michalski J.R., Li Y., Wu B., Qiao L., 2021. Geomorphologic exploration targets at the Zhurong landing site in the southern Utopia Planitia of Mars. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 576, 117199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117199

PLANETARY VOLCANISM

1. Zhao S., Qian Y., Xiao L., Zhao J., He Q., Huang J., Wang J., Chen H., Xu W., 2022. Lunar Mare Fecunditatis: A Science-Rich Region and a Concept Mission for Long-Distance Exploration. Remote Sens. 14(5), 1062. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14051062

CONFERENCE PROCEEINGDS (SELECTED)

1. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., Wilson L., 2022. The Long Sinuous Rille System in Northern Oceanus Procellarum, in 53^rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1819

2. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., 2022. The Chang’e-5 Mission to Young Mare Basalts Geological Context and Early Results, in 53^rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1690

3. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., Wilson L., 2021. The Long Sinuous Rille System in Northern Oceanus Procellarum and its Relation to the Chang’e-5 Returned Samples, in: 2021 AGU Fall Meeting. Abstract #P52A-07

4. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., van der Bogert C., Hiesinger H., Wilson L., 2021. Provenance of Materials at the Chang’e-5 Landing Site, in: 12^th Moscow Solar System Symposium. Abstract #12MS3-MN-08

5. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., van der Bogert C., Hiesinge, H., 2021. The Extoic Materials at the Chang’e-5 Landing Site, in: 2021 Europlanet Science Congress. Abstract #447

6. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., van der Bogert C., Hiesinger H., Wilson L., 2021. China's Chang'e-5 Landing Site: An Overview, in: 2021 NASA Exploration Science Virtual Forum & European Lunar Symposium

7. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., van der Bogert C., Hiesinger H., Wilson L., Yuan Y., 2021. China's Chang'e-5 Landing Site: An Overview, in: EGU General Assembly 2021. Abstract #1615

8. Qian Y., Head J.W., Wilson L., Xiao L., 2021. The Longest Sinuous Rille on the Moon (Rima Sharp) and Its Relationship to the Young Procellarum Mare Basalts: Implications for the Chang’e-5 Returned Samples, in: 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #2492

9. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., van der Bogert C.H., Hiesinger H., Wilson L., Yuan Y., 2021. China’s Chang’e-5 Landing Site: An Overview, in: 52^nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1306

10. Qian Y., Xiao L., Head J.W., 2020. The Young Mare Basalts in Chang’E 5 Mission Landing Region, Northern Oceanus Procellarum, in: 51^st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1459

11. Xiao L., Qian Y.Q., Wang J., Huang J., Zhao J.N., Xiao Z.Y., 2019. First and Historic Lunar Far Side Landing and Exploration of China’s Chang’E-4 Mission, in: 50^th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1538

12. Qian Y., Xiao L., Pang Y., Wang G., Zhao S., 2019. The Regolith Properties of the Rümker Region of the Moon (Chang’e-5 Landing Region) and the Ground Drilling Simulation, in: 50^th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #2217

13. Qian Y., Xiao L., Yin S., Zhang M., Zhao S., Pang,Y., Wang J., Wang G., 2019. The Regolith Properties of the Chang’e-5 Landing Region and the Ground Drilling Experiments Using Lunar Regolith Simulants, in: 4^th International Conference on Lunar and Deep Space Exploration. pp. 228

14. Qian Y., Xiao L., Pang Y., 2018. Regolith Properties and Engineering Constraints of the China's Chang'e-5 Landing Region on the Moon, in: 5^th Annual Meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union. pp. 2698

15. Qian Y., Xiao L., Zhao J., Zhao S., Head J.W., Flahaut J., Martinot M., Hiesinger H., Wang G., Huang J., 2018. Geology and Science Value of the Rümker Region in Northern Procellarum: Candidate Sample Return Area of the Chang’e-5 Lunar Mission, in: 49^th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Abstract #1433

PUBLIC TALKS

· Apr. 7, 2021, Planetary Utopia, China’s Chang’e-5 Landing Site: Geology and Implications for Sample Analysis

· July 21, 2021, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Local and Exotic Materials at the Chang’e-5 Landing Site

· Feb. 27, 2021, Washington University in St. Louis, Chang’e-5 Mission and Chang’e-5 Landing Site

· Sept. 26, 2021, National Space Science Center, 嫦娥五号着陆区地质背景：对样品分析及原位数据处理的启示

· Oct. 28, 2021, Brown University, The Chang’e-5 Sample Return Mission to Young Mare Basalts: Surface Operations, Geologic Context of the Landing Site, and Early Results

· Nov. 23, 2021, Macau University of Science and Technology, The Chang’e-5 Sample Return Mission to Young Mare Basalts:Surface Operations, Geologic Context of the Landing Site, and Early Results

· Apr. 22, 2022, Planetary Utopia, The Formation of Rima Sharp and its Relation to the Chang’e-5 Returned Samples