The 11^th Members’ Congress of the Chinese Geophysical Society (CGS) was recently held online, during which they held their 75^th anniversary commemorative meeting and award ceremony.

Associate Professor Lingling YE and Assistant Professor Shiqing XU from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) were announced as recipients of the 2022 Fu Chengyi Youth Science and Technology Award.

Prof. Lingling YE joined SUSTech in 2021, with her research focusing on the rupture process and physics of global earthquakes, the deep structure of the earth, and understanding the mechanism for natural disasters such as volcanoes, landslides, and tsunamis.

She has published more than 50 related research papers in journals such as Science, Science Advances, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL), JGR: Solid Earth, and Geophysical Research Letters.

She was the recipient of the Keiiti Aki Young Seismologist Award from the American Geophysics Union in 2018, and has served as Associate Editor of JGR: Solid Earth, The Seismic Record (TSR), and Solid Earth Sciences since 2021.

Prof. Shiqing XU joined SUSTech in 2019, with his main research interests covering a wide range of earthquake problems, including earthquake dynamics and faulting, the evolution of fault zones, rock friction experiments, and earthquake physics.

He has published 22 papers as the first author or co-author in internationally renowned journals, including Nature, Nature Communications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, and Tectonophysics.

Prof. XU has twice served as the primary session convener for the AGU fall meeting. As the chief guest editor, he has organized a special issue, “Physics of Earthquake Rupture Propagation”, in Tectonophysics. As a referee, he has helped to review journal articles and NSF proposals (US) on multiple occasions.

The Fu Chengyi Youth Science and Technology Award is awarded annually to promote basic and applied geophysical research and encourage young scholars under the age of 45 to carry out innovative research. A total of ten scholars received the award this year.