Postdoctoral Associate

phone (617) 253 7872
email xcui@mit.edu

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E25-631, 45 Carleton Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
USA

 

Bio

  • 2020-current – Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • 2017-2019 –Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT
  • 2013-2016 – Ph.D., Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida
  • 2012-2013 – Ph.D., Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University (transferred out)
  • 2011-2012 – M.S., College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China
  • 2007-2011 – B.A., College of Marine Geosciences, Ocean University of China

Research

My research focuses on how biological markers could preserve information on microbial evolution/emergence and environmental shifts over geological time scales. One of my research focus is to use biomarker to better constrain the first appearance of eukaryotes and further compare with fossil records during Mesoproterozoic era. My another interests is to use biomarker and bulk techniques to better understand the evolution of South Atlantic rifts and sag basins during earth Cretaceous era.

Select Publications

Google Scholar Citations

T.S. Bianchi, X. Cui, N.E. Blair, D.J. Burdige, T.I. Eglinton, V. Galy. 2017. Centers of Organic Carbon Burial and Oxidation at the Land-Ocean Interface, Organic Geochemistry: doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.09.008

X. Cui, T.S. Bianchi, C. Savage. 2017. Erosion of Modern Terrestrial Organic Carbon as a Major Source of Fjord Sediments, Geophysical Research Letters, 44: 1457-1465, doi: 10.1002/2016GL072260.

X. Cui, T.S. Bianchi, R. Smith, J.M. Jaeger. 2016. Biospheric and Petrogenic Organic Carbon Flux along Southeast Alaska. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 452: 238-246, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.08.002.

X. Cui, T. S. Bianchi, C. Savage, R. Smith. 2016. Organic Carbon Burial in Fjords: Terrestrial versus Marine Inputs. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 451: 41-50, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.003.

X. Cui, T.S. Bianchi, J. Hucthings, C. Savage, J. Curtis. 2016. Partitioning of Organic Carbon among Density Fractions in Surface Sediments of Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 121: 1016-1031,doi:10.1002/2015JG003225.