主要研究方向：

构造地质学及区域地质演化。

现今研究领域：

青藏高原及喜马拉雅山新生代构造演化。

东北与华北地区中生代构造演化。

华北地区早前寒武纪构造演化。

油气构造

主持国家自然科学基金委项目5项

主持全国优秀博士学位论文奖获得者专项资金项目1项，

参加重点基金项目3项、基金创新群体项目1项， 973项目3项。

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，全国优秀博士学位论文奖获得者，

2001年，中国高校科学技术二等奖第二作者，

2001年，国家自然科学二等奖参与者，

2012年，教育部自然科学一等奖（第四作者），

2015年，教育部自然科学二等奖（第五作者）。

北京大学地球与空间科学学院副院长，

中国地质学会构造地质学专业委员会副主任，

中国高等教育学会常务理事，

中国科学探险协会常务理事，

《地学前缘》中文版助理主编，《地学前缘》英文版、《地质科学》、《西北地质》、《地质通报》编委。