#  People 

 



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## People

Research involves collaboration among people at different career stages and from different nations and disciplines. Our lab has included scientists from France, China, the UK, Spain, Germany, Poland, Mexico and Chile, and people from the lab now have positions in most of these countries. New students are always welcome who wish to work hard to try to use geochemistry to unravel Earth's secrets, with opportunities for international field work and cooperation.



 

   ![Charles Langmuir](/sites/g/files/omnuum9046/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/solidearth/files/clangmuir-circle-crop.png?itok=6weSE6Xz) 

 

Principal Investigator

## [Charles Langmiur](/people/charles-h-langmuir)

Higgins Professor of Geochemistry  
[Director of Mineralogical and Geological Museum at Harvard University](https://mgmh.fas.harvard.edu/)

  
Charles Langmuir is a solid Earth geochemist who carries out reserach on diveres aspects of the plate tectonic geochemical cycle, including ocean ridges, convergent margins and intraplate volcanism.

#### [Read More](/people/charles-h-langmuir)



 

 Staff Graduate Students Visiting Scholars 

## Staff

 

 

  [### Zhongxing Chen, Ph.D.

 ](/people/zhongxing-chen-phd) <zchen@fas.harvard.edu>Staff Scientist / ICP-MS Lab Manager

 

 

 

      ![Chen](/sites/g/files/omnuum9046/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/solidearth/files/fullsizeoutput_20fb_1.jpeg?itok=BqGqq4hG) 

 

 

 

   [### Miranda Meyer

 ](/people/danielle-da-cruz) <mirandameyer@fas.harvard.edu>Lab Coordinator

 

 

 

      ![Miranda Meyer, Research Group Coordinator](/sites/g/files/omnuum9046/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/solidearth/files/meyer_profile_photo_1.jpg?itok=xk9W7tWl) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

## Graduate Students

 

 

  [### Mingzhen (Laila) Yu

 ](/people/mingzhen-laila-yu) <myu@g.harvard.edu>Graduate Student

 

 

 

      ![Laila](/sites/g/files/omnuum9046/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/solidearth/files/lailayu_1.jpg?itok=r-F15daZ) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

## Visiting Scholars

 

 

  [### Xuegang Chen

 ](/people/xuegang-chen)

 

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   [### Javier Escartín, Ph.D.

 ](/people/javier-escart%C3%ADn-phd)Former Visiting Scholar from Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

 

 

 

      ![Javier Escartín, Ph.D.](/sites/g/files/omnuum9046/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/solidearth/files/shapeimage_2.png?itok=7OqVRbTZ) 

 

 

 

   [### David Ferguson, Ph.D.

 ](/people/david-ferguson-phd)Research Associate

 

 

 

      ![David Ferguson, Ph.D.](/sites/g/files/omnuum9046/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/solidearth/files/ferguson.jpg?itok=iuiIPMaJ) 

 

 

 

   [###  Zilong Li, Ph.D.

 ](/people/zilong-li-phd)Former Visiting Scholar from Zhejiang University, China

 

 

 

      ![Zilong Li, Ph.D.](/sites/g/files/omnuum9046/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/solidearth/files/0310040745-945640185.jpg?itok=rQecdTQW) 

 

 

 

   [### Yin-Qi Li, Ph.D.

 ](/people/yin-qi-li-phd)Former Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 

 

      ![Yin-Qi Li, Ph.D.](/sites/g/files/omnuum9046/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/solidearth/files/screen_shot_2013-10-10_at_1.36.02_pm_0.png?itok=uUPqi1pP)