人物經歷
1984年7月畢業於長春地質學院地質系地質學專業；
1987年7月畢業於中國地質科學院研究生部，獲得碩士學位；
1989年9月在法國居里大學地質系獲DEA文憑，同年10月考入法國巴黎第七大學地球物理系深部地球物理專業，1992年10月獲得博士學位；
2003年受聘南京大學長江學者特聘教授；
1992年至1995年在法國巴黎地球物理研究所從事博士後研究工作；
1995年初回國, 同年12月任中國地質科學院研究員；
1996年首批入選人事部、教育部等七部委“百千萬人才工程”第一、二層次；
1997年享受國務院政府特殊津貼，浙江大學兼職教授；
1999年度獲國家傑出青年基金；
2000年任全國地層委員會磁性地層分委員會主席；
2000年當選聯合國教育科學文化組織國際地球科學計畫 (原國際地質對比計畫) (UNESCO/IUGS/IGCP) 執委會委員 (2000-2004年)；中國地質學會古地磁專業委員會 常務副主任兼秘書長；
2001年任地質學報英文版 (SCI收錄雜誌) 《Acta Geologica Sinica》 副主編；
2004年任國際地質科學聯合會科學刊物 (SCI收錄雜誌) 《Episodes》 主編。
教學情況
古地磁與大地構造專題
研究方向
大地構造學
古地磁學
磁性地層學
岩石磁學
科研情況
承擔國家級研究項目
1994年至1997年，國家自然科學基金重點項目－中國顯生宙古地磁視極移曲線的建立與地塊運動研究，為主要參加者；
1996年至1998年，負責國家自然科學基金項目－紅河大斷裂兩側地塊第三紀構造變形的構造磁性研究；
2000年至2003年，負責國家傑出青年基金項目－華南地塊晚元古代以來古構造位置變遷過程的動力學研究；
2002年至2005年，國家自然科學重點基金項目－燕山板內造山帶的結構、變形過程動力學，為主要參加者；
2003年至2005年，負責科技部重大基礎研究前期（973預）研究專項,青藏高原東北部柴達木盆地及周緣新生代塊體運動學與構造研究；
2006年至2008年,負責國家自然科學基金項目,峨眉山玄武岩的噴發持續時間和動力學背景。
代表性論著
（* 為SCI收錄論文）
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*2. Yang, Z., Courtillot, V., Besse, J.,et al., Jurassic paleomagnetic constraint on the collision of the North and South China blocks, Geophysical Research Letters, 19, 577-580. 1992.
*3. Enkin, R.,Yang, Z., Chen, Y.,et al., Paleomagnetic constraints on the geodynamic history of main Chinese blocks from the Permain to the present: a review, Journal Geophysical Research, 97:13953-13989. 1992.
*4. Enkin, R., Courtillot, V.,leloup, H., Yang,Z.,et al., The paleomagnetic records of Permo- Triassic rocks from the South China Block, Geophysical Research Letters, 19: 2147-2150. 1992.
*5. Yang, Z. and Besse, J.,Paleomagnetic study on Permain and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks from North Thailand supports the extrusion model for Indochina, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 117:525-552. 1993.
*6. Ma, X., Yang, Z., Xing, L.,The lower Cretaceous reference pole from the North China block, and its tectonic implications, Geophysical Journal International, 115: 323-331. 1993.
*7. Chen, Y., Courtillot, V., Cogne, J.P.,Besse, J., Yang, Z. and Enkin, R., The configuration of Asia prior to the collision of India Cretaceous paleomagnetic constraints, Journal Geophysical Research, (B), 98: 21937-21941. 1993.
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*9. Yang, Z., Besse, J., Sutheetorn, V.,et al., Jurassic and Cretaceous paleomagnetic data for Indochina: Paleogeographic evolution and deformation history of South Eastern Asia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 136:325-341. 1995.
*10. Yang, Z., Moreau, M. G., Bucher, H., et al., Hettangian and Sinemurian Magnetostratigraphy from the Paris basin, Journal Geophysical Research, 101: B4, 8025-8042. 1996.
*11. Yang , Z., Extrusion of Altyn Tagh wadge: A kinematic model for the Altyn Tagh fault and palinspatic reconstruction of northern China: comment, Geology, 25(5): 445-446. 1997.
*12. Sun, Z., Yang, Z., Zhao, Y. and X. Ma, Paleomagnetic results of the Early Cretaceous from the Lanping basin, Hebei province and its tectinic implications, Science in China, Series D, Vol. 41supp., 43-50, 1998.
*13. Yang, Z., Z., Sun, X. Ma, B. Huang, Remagnetization of the early Paleozoic rocks from southern part of Huabei basin-I: paleomagnetic results and its implications, Science in China, Series D, Vol. 41supp., 20-27, 1998.
*14. Yang, Z., Z., Sun, X. Ma, B. Huang, Remagnetization of the early Paleozoic rocks from southern part of Huabei basin -II: rock magnetic results, Science in China, Series D, Vol. 41supp., 28-37, 1998.
*15. Yang, Z., Z., Sun, X. Ma, B. Huang and Y. Zhou, APWP and tectonic movements of the North China Block in the Phanerozoic, Science in China, Series D, Vol. 41supp., 51-65, 1998.
*16. Yang, Z., B. Huang, Z., Sun, X. Ma, Rock magnetism of lower Ordovvician limestone from northern part of Henan, China, Science in China, Series D, Vol. 41supp., 36-42, 1998.
*17. Zhu, R. Yang, Z., H. Wu, B. Huang, X. Ma and Y. Zhou, The APWPs of main Chinese blocks since the Phanerozoic and its tectonic movements, Science in China, Series D, Vol. 41supp., 1-19, 1998.
*18. Huang B. C., Yang, Z.Y.，Otofuji, Y. Zhu, R.X.，Early Paleozoic paleomagnetic poles from the western part of the North China block and their implications, Tectonophysics, v103, 377-402, 1999.
*19. Huang, B.C., Otofuji Y. and Yang Z.Y.，Paleomagnetic constraints on the tectonic relationship between the Alashan/Hexi corrodor terran and the North China block, Geophysical Research Letters, 26(6), 787-790. 1999.
*20. Sato, K., Liu Y Y, Zhu Z C, Yang Z Y and Y. Otofuji , Paleomagnetic study of middle Cretaceous rocks from Yunlong，western Yunnan，China：evidence of southward displacement of Indochina, Earth and Planetary Science Letters，165(1): 1-15. 1999.
*21. Yokoyama, M., Liu Y Y, Zhu Z C, Y. Otofuji and Yang Z Y, New Late Jurassic Paleomagnetic results from the Yangtze block and its tectonic implications, Geophysical. Journal International, 139, 795-805, 1999.
*22. Huang, B.C., Y. Otofuji, Z.Y. Yang and R. Zhu, New Silurian and Devonian palaeomagnetic results from the Hexi Corridor terrane, Northwest China and their tectonic implications, Geophysical Journal International, 140, 132-146, 2000.
23. 楊振宇,巴黎盆地下侏羅統的岩石磁學研究及其意義, 地球物理學報, 1997, 40(3): 386-391。
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26. 楊振宇,Y.Otofuji，孫知明，馬醒華，徐樹金, 河北唐山寒武系與奧陶系界線磁極性序列, 科學通報, 1998, 43(17): 1881-1885.
27. 楊振宇,M. G. Moreau，Montcornet鑽孔岩芯的古地磁研究，地球物理學報, 41(5): 652-657. 1998.
28. 楊振宇,Y.Otofuji,黃寶春,孫知明，華北地塊岡瓦納大陸親緣性的古地磁證據，地質論評，v45, No.4, 402-407, 1999.
29. 楊振宇,孫知明,馬醒華,尹濟雲, Y. Otofuji, 紅河斷裂兩側早第三紀古地磁研究及其地質意義, 地質學報, 75(1), 35-44, 2001
30. 楊振宇，董樹文，J. Besse, 中國南北地塊中生代構造演化與超高壓變質岩的折返機制，地質論評，Vol. 47(6), 568-576, 2001.
*31. Sato, K., Liu Y Y, Zhu Z C, Yang Z Y and Otofuji Y., Tertiary paleomagnetic data from northwestern Yunnan, China: further evidence for large clockwise rotation of the Indochina block and its tectonic implications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 185, 185-198, 2001
*32. Yang, Z. and J. Besse, New Mesozoic Apparent Polar Wander Path for South China: tectonic consequences, Journal Geophysical Research, (B), 106, B5, 8493-8520, 2001.
*33. Yang, Z., Yin, J., Sun, Z., Otofuji, Y. and Sato, K., Discrepant paleomagnetic poles between Eastern China and Indochina: a consequence of the extrusion of Indochina, Tectonophysics, 334(2), 101-113. 2001. 2001.
*34. Lin,A., Z. Yang, Z. Sun and T. Yang, When and how did the Yellow River develop its square bend? Geology, 29, 10, 951-954, 2001.
*35. Yang, Z. Sun, Z. Otofuji. Y. and B. Huang, Magnetostratigraphic Constraints on the Gondwanan Origin of North China: Cambrian/Ordovician boundary results, Geophysical Journal International, 151, 1-10, 2002.
*36. Yang, T., Yang, Z., Sun, Z., Lin, A., New Early Cretaceous paleomagnetic results from the Qilian orogenic belt and its tectonic implications, Science in China, 45(6), 565-576, 2002
*37. Lin, A., Sun, Z., Yang, Z., Multiple generations of pseudotachylyte in the brittle to ductile regimes, Qinling–Dabie Shan ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic complex, central China, The Island Arc, 12, 423–435,2003
*38. Yang,Z.,Zhiming Sun,Tienshui Yang,Junling Pei,A long connection (750-380Ma) between South China and Australia: paleomagnetic constraints, Earth Planetary Science Letters, 220, 423-434，2004
*39. Wang,X., Zhenyu Yang, Reidar Løvlie, Longrui Min. High-resolution magnetic stratigraphy of fluvio-lacustrine succession in the Nihewan Basin, China, Quaternary Science Reviews, 23, 1187-1198, 2004
*40. Dong, S. and Z. Yang, Three Decades of IGCP in China, Episodes, 27(1), 2004
*41.Yang, T., M. Hyodo, Z. Yang and J. Fu, J., Evidence for the Kamikatsura and Santa Rosa excursions recorded in aeolian deposits from the southern Chinese Loess Plateau, Journal Geophysical Research (B), 109, B12105, doi:10.1029/2004JB002966, 2004
*42.Yang, T., M. Hyodo, Z. Yang, and Z. Sun, A first paleomagnetic and rock magnetic investigation of calcareous nodules from the Chinese Loess Plateau, Earth Planetary and Space,57, 29–34, 2005
*43.Wang, X, R. Løvlie, Z. Yang, J. Pei, Z. Zhao and Z. Sun, Remagnetization of Quaternary eolian deposits: a case study from SE Chinese Loess Plateau, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., Volume 6, Number 6, Q06H18, doi:10.1029/2004GC000901, 2005.
*44.Su, L., Z. Yang, Z. Sun, T. Yang, H. Zaman, K. Takemoto and Y. Otofuji，Regional deformation aspects of the South China Block inferred from Middle Triassic palaeomagnetic data, Geophysical Journal International, 162, 339–356, 2005.
*45.Sun, Z., Z. Yang, J. Pei, X. Ge, X. Wang, T. Yang, W. Li and S. Yuan, Magnetostratigraphy of Paleogene sediments from northern Qaidam Basin, China: implications for tectonic uplift and block rotation in northern Tibetan plateau, Earth Planetary Science Letters, 237, 635– 646, 2005.
*46. Narumoto, K., Z. Yang, K. Takemoto, H. Zaman, H. Morinaga and Y. Otofuji, Anomalously shollowing inclination in middle-northern part of the South China block: Paleomagnetic study of late Creataceous redbeds from Yichang area, Geophysical Journal International, 164, 290–300, 2006.
*47. Sun, Z., Zhenyu Yang, Tienshui Yang, Junling Pei, Qinfan Yu, New Late Cretaceous and Paleogene paleomagnetic result from South China and their geodynamic implications, Journal Geophysical Research (B), 111, No. B3. B03101, 10.1029/2004JB003455, 2006.
*48. Sun, Z., Z. Yang, J. Pei，T. Yang, and X. Wang, New Early Cretaceous paleomagnetic data from volcanic and red beds of the eastern Qaidam Block and implications for tectonics of Central Asia, Earth Planetary Science Letters, 243, 268–281, 2006.
*49. Wang, X., Z. Yang, et al. A magnetostratigraphic reassessment of correlation between Chinese loess and marine oxygen isotope records over the last 1.1 Ma, Physics of Earth and Planetary Interiors, 159, 109-117, 2006.
*50. Pei, J. Z. Yang and Y. Zhao, A Mesoproterozoic paleomagnetic pole from the Yangzhuang Formation, North China and its tectonics implications, Precambrian Research,151,1–13,2006.
*51. Zhang. S, Y. Zhao, B. Song, Z. Yang, J. Hu & H. Wu, Carboniferous granitic plutons from the northern margin of the North China block: Implications for a late Paleozoic active continental margin, Journal of Geological Society of London, Vol. 164, pp. 451–463, 2007.
*52. Bin Wang and Zhenyu Yang, Late Cretaceous paleomagnetic results from southeastern China and their geological implication, Earth Planetary Science Letters, 258, 315-333, 2007.
*53. Sato, K., Y. Liu, Y. Wang, M. Yokoyama, S. Yoshioka, Z. Yang and Y. Otofuji, Paleomagnetic study of Cretaceous rocks from Pu'er, western Yunnan, China: Evidence of internal deformation of the Indochina block, Earth Planetary Science Letters, 258, 1-15 2007.
*54. Yang, T., M. Hyodo, Z. Yang, Lin Ding, Jianli Fu, Toshiaki Mishima, Early and middle Matuyama geomagnetic excursions recorded in the Chinese loess-paleosol sediments, Earth Planetary and Space, 59, 825–840, 2007.
*55.Yang, T., M. Hyodo, Z. Yang and Jianli Fu, Two geomagnetic excursions during the Brunhes chron recorded in Chinese loess-palaeosol sediments, Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03522.x.
