主要研究方向：

構造地質學及區域地質演化。

現今研究領域：

青藏高原及喜馬拉雅山新生代構造演化。

東北與華北地區中生代構造演化。

華北地區早前寒武紀構造演化。

油氣構造

主持國家自然科學基金委項目5項

主持全國優秀博士學位論文獎獲得者專項資金項目1項，

參加重點基金項目3項、基金創新群體項目1項， 973項目3項。

Liu Kai, Zhang Jinjiang*, Wilde Simon, et al., 2017. Initial subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Oceanic plate in NE China: Constraints from whole-rock geochemistry and zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopes of the Khanka Lake granitoids. Lithos, 274: 254-270. (SCI, 2017-03).

Yao Xi and Zhang Jinjiang*. 2017. A late Neoarchaean-early Palaeoproterozoic crustal thickening event in the eastern North China Craton: petrological and geochronological evidence from Eastern Hebei terrane. International Geology Review, 59: 502-522. (SCI, 2017-03)

Ling Yi-Yun, Zhang Jin-Jiang*, Liu Kai, et al. 2017. Geochemistry, geochronology, and tectonic setting of Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks in the northern segment of the Tan–Lu Fault region, northeast China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 144: 303–322. (SCI, 2017-08)

Wang Meng, Zhang Jinjiang*, Zhang Bo et al. 2016. Bi-directional subduction of the South Tianshan Ocean during the Late Silurian: Magmatic records from both the southern Central Tianshan Block and northern Tarim Craton. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 128: 64-78. (SCI, 2016-10)

Ge Mao-hui, Zhang Jin-jiang*, Liu Kai.et al. 2016. Geochemistry and geochronology of the blueschist in the Heilongjiang Complex and its implications in the late Paleozoic tectonics of eastern NE China. Lithos, 261: 232-249. (SCI, 2016-09)

Liu ShiRan; Zhang JinJiang; Qi GuoWei; et al. 2016. Ductile deformation and its geological implications for retrograded eclogites from the Hongqiyingzi Complex in Chicheng, northern Hebei, China. Science China-Earth Sciences, 59, 1610-1621.

Wang Jiamin, Zhang Jinjiang, Liu Kai, et al. 2016. Spatial and temporal evolution of tectonometamorphic discontinuities in the central Himalaya: Constraints from P-T paths and geochronology. TECTONOPHYSICS, 679: 41-60

Wang J.M., Zhang J.J.*, Wei C.J., Rai S.M., Wang M., Qian J.H., 2015. Characterising the metamorphic discontinuity across the Main Central Thrust Zone of eastern-central Nepal. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 101: 83–100.

Wang M., Zhang J.J.*, Liu K., 2014. An Early Paleozoic collisional event along the northern margin of the Central Tianshan Block: Constraints from geochemistry and geochronology of granitic rocks. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. In press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.07.001

Wang M., Zhang J.J.*, Zhang B., Qi G.W., 2014. Continuous denudation and pediplanation of the Chinese Western Tianshan orogen during Triassic to Middle Jurassic: Integrated evidence from detrital zircon age and heavy mineral chemical data. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. In press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2014.05.013

Wang J.M., Zhang J.J*, Wang X.X., 2013. Structural kinematics, metamorphic P-T profiles and zircon geochronology across the Greater Himalayan Crystalline Complex in south-central Tibet: implication for a revised channel flow. Journal of Metamorphic Geology 31:607–628.

Wang X.X., Zhang J.J.*, Santosh M., Liu J., Yan S.Y., Guo L., 2012. Andean-type orogeny in the Himalayas of south Tibet: Implications for early Paleozoic tectonics along the Indian margin of Gondwana. Lithos, 54, 248–262.

Zhang J.J.*, Santosh M., Wang X.X., Guo L., Yang X.Y., Zhang B., 2012. Tectonics of the northern Himalaya since the India-Asia collision. Gondwana Research 21, 936–960.

Yang X.Y., Zhang J.J.*, Qi G.W., Wang D.C., Guo L., Li P.Y., Liu J., 2009. Structure and deformation around the Gyirong basin, north Himalaya, and onset of the south Tibetan detachment system. Science China Series D-Earth Science, 52, 1046–1058.

Zhang J. J.*, Guo L., 2007. Structure and geochronology of the southern Xainza-Dinggye rift and its relationship to the south Tibetan detachment system. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 29, 722–736.

Zhang J.J.*, Ji J.Q., Zhong D.L., Ding L., He S.D., 2004. Structural pattern of eastern Himalayan syntaxis in Namjagbarwa and its formation process. Science in China (Series D) 47, 138–150.

Zhang J. and Zheng Y., 1997. Polar Mohr constructions for strain analysis in general shear zones. Journal of Structural Geology 19, 745-748.

Zhang J. J., Tectonics of northern Himalaya in China since early Oligocene. AGU 2014 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.

2000年，全國優秀博士學位論文獎獲得者，

2001年，中國高校科學技術二等獎第二作者，

2001年，國家自然科學二等獎參與者，

2012年，教育部自然科學一等獎（第四作者），

2015年，教育部自然科學二等獎（第五作者）。

beat365官方网站副院長，

中國地質學會構造地質學專業委員會副主任，

中國高等教育學會常務理事，

中國科學探險協會常務理事，

《地學前緣》中文版助理主編，《地學前緣》英文版、《地質科學》、《西北地質》、《地質通報》編委。