个人简历

教授、博导，长江学者青年学者、国家优青。主要从事石油地质学、有机地球化学和油气矿产普查与勘探的研究与教学工作，工作重点是含油气系统中的有机—无机交叉学科研究。
工作经历
2012.12－今 南京大学地球科学与工程学院，教授、博导
2007.11－2012.11 南京大学地球科学与工程学院，副教授
2005.09－2007.10 南京大学地球科学系，讲师
教育经历
2002.09－2005.08 南京大学地球科学系，矿物岩石矿床学专业，博士
1999.09－2002.08 西南石油学院（现西南石油大学），矿物岩石矿床学专业，硕士
1995.09－1999.08 西南石油学院，学士
海外合作经历
2017.07－2017.08 法国洛林（Lorraine）大学，地质资源中心（GeoResources），访问学者
2013.10－2015.02，加拿大英属哥伦比亚（UBC）大学，地球、海洋和大气科学系（EOAS），留学基金委公派访问学者
主要奖项
（1）长江学者青年学者（2017年）
（2）优秀青年科学基金（2014年）
（3）教育部自然科学二等奖（2017年，3/7）
（4）教育部科技进步二等奖（2015年，2/5）
（5）国家科技进步一等奖（2018年，单位奖）
其他奖项：
（1）第14届青年地质科技“银锤奖”（2014年）
（2）江苏省优秀硕士学位论文指导教师（2013年、2016年）
（3）百篇优秀博士学位论文提名（2007年）
（4）江苏省优秀博士学位论文（2006年）
（5）江苏省“青蓝工程”优秀青年骨干教师（2008年）
（6）江苏省地质优秀科技工作者（2010年）
（7）江苏省科技社团（学会）优秀青年人才（2013年）
（8）南京大学优秀中青年学科带头人（2011年）
（9）南京大学青年骨干教师（2008年）
（10）南京大学“五四”青年奖章（2009年）
（11）南京大学“大学生创新性实验计划”项目优秀指导教师（2010年）
（12）第11届“全国有机地球化学学术会议”优秀中青年论文（2007年）
主要教学
本科生《有机地球化学》，研究生《油气地球化学》、《地球化学进展》。
主要科研课题（纵向与省部级）
在研
（1）“大中型油气田分布规律与差异性研究”（“十三五”科技重大专项，批准号2016ZX05002-006-005），2016~2020，主持
（2）“含油气盆地溶蚀流体类型判识标志、水-岩作用机理及溶蚀型储层成因模式”（自然科学重点基金，批准号41830425），2019~2023，研究骨干
完成
（1）“石油地质学”（优秀青年科学基金，批准号41322017），2014~2016，主持
（2）“中国东南部早白垩世海侵事件识别及其对烃源岩形成的影响”（自然科学面上基金，批准号41072090），2011~2013，主持
（3）“烃-水-岩体系中过渡族金属元素的地球化学行为及其对油源对比的指示”（自然科学面上基金，批准号40872086），2009~2011，主持
（4）“含油气流体与矿物相互作用过程中的铁族元素交换机理及油气运移示踪”（自然科学青年基金，批准号40602014），2007~2009，主持
（5）“高演化烃源对比微量和稀土元素地球化学研究”（自然科学面上基金，批准号41472100），2015~2018，主持
（6）“下古生界油气封盖机理与盖层有效性评价”（“973”，批准号2012CB214803），2012~2016，研究骨干
（7）“华南高碳质黑色岩系中硫的生物地球化学循环及其成矿效应”（自然科学重点基金，批准号40638042），2007~2010，研究骨干
（8）“中国东南部海相油气烃源岩与成因成藏研究”（中石化海相前瞻项目，批准号YPH08115），2007~2010，研究骨干

研究领域

（1）石油地质学
（2）有机地球化学""

近期论文

2020
Jian Cao*, Liuwen Xia, Tingting Wang, Dongming Zhi, Yong Tang, Wenwen Li. 2020. An alkaline lake in the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA): A review and new insights into paleoenvironment and petroleum geology. Earth Science Reviews, 202 (2020) 103091, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103091.
Yan Wang, Jian Cao*, Jun Jin, Jingkun Zhang, Guang Hu, Ni Zhou, Tianming Shi. Diverse oil and gas seeps in the southern Junggar Basin, NW China (piedmont Northern-Tian Shan): Origin and links to tectono-sedimentary evolution. Geological Journal, DOI:10.1002/gj.3598.
Shouzhi Hu*, Shuifu Li, Liuwen Xia, Qian Lv, Jian Cao*. 2020. On the internal oil migration in shale systems and implications for shale oil accumulation: A combined petrological and geochemical investigation in the Eocene Nanxiang Basin, China. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 184 (2020) 106493, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2019.106493.
Linjun Huang, Kongyou Wu, Yin Liu, Jianguo Pan, Weijiang Yao, Bo Liu, Jian Cao*. Deformation of the northwestern Junggar Basin (Che-Guai region, northwest China) and implications for hydrocarbon accumulation. The Journal of Geology, 128, 45–68.
2019
Liuwen Xia, Jian Cao∗, Shouzhi Hu, Shuifu Li. 2019. How marine incursion influences the quality of lacustrine source rocks: The Paleogene Nanxiang Basin, eastern China. AAPG Bulletin, 103(5): 1071-1096.
Jingkun Zhang, Jian Cao*, Baoli Xiang, Ni Zhou, Wayun Ma, Erting Li. 2019. Fourier-Transform Infrared proxies for oil source and maturity: Insights from the Early Permian alkaline lacustrine system, Junggar Basin (NW China). Energy Fuels, 33: 10704-10717.
Keyu Tao, Jian Cao∗, Xin Chen, Zhaman· Nueraili, Wenxuan Hu, Chunhua Shi. 2019. Deep hydrocarbons in the northwestern Junggar Basin (NW China): Geochemistry, origin, and implications for the oil vs. gas generation potential of post-mature saline lacustrine source rocks. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 109: 623-640.
Liuwen Xia, Jian Cao*, Ming Wang, Julei Mi, Tingting Wang. 2019. A review of carbonates as hydrocarbon source rocks: basic geochemistry and oil–gas generation. Petroleum Science, 16: 713-728.（Cover Article）
Jingkun Zhang, Jian Cao*, Yan Wang, Jun Li, Guang Hu, Ni Zhou, Tianming Shi. Geochemistry and genesis of oil and gas seeps in the Junggar Basin, NW China: Implications for hybrid petroleum systems. Geofluids, vol. 2019, Article ID 9732674, 26 pages, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9732674.
Jingkun Zhang, Jian Cao⁎, Yan Wang, Guang Hu, Ni Zhou, Tianming Shi. 2019. Origin of giant vein-type bitumen deposits in the northwestern Junggar Basin, NW China: Implications for fault-controlled hydrocarbon accumulation. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 179: 287-299.
Yan Wang, Jian Cao*, Xueyi Li, Jingkun Zhang, Yuce Wang. 2019. Cretaceous and Paleogene saline lacustrine source rocks discovered in the southern Junggar Basin, NW China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 185 (2019) 104019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.104019.
Di Xiao, Xiucheng Tan, Liyong Fan, Daofeng Zhang, Wancai Nie, Tong Niu, Jian Cao*. 2019. Reconstructing large-scale karst paleogeomorphology at the top of the Ordovician in the Ordos Basin, China: control on natural gas accumulation and paleogeographic implications. Energy Science and Engineering, 7: 3234-3254. DOI:10.1002/ese3.494.（Cover Article）
Di Xiao, Xiucheng Tan, Daofeng Zhang, Wei He, Ling Li, Yunhe Shi, Juanping Chen, Jian Cao*. 2019. Discovery of syngenetic and eogenetic karsts in the Middle Ordovician gypsum-bearing dolomites of the eastern Ordos Basin (central China) and their heterogeneous impact on reservoir quality. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 99: 190-207.
Liuwen Xia, Jian Cao∗, Shouzhi Hu, Shuifu Li, Chunhua Shi. 2019. Organic geochemistry, petrology, and conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resource potential of Paleogene saline source rocks in eastern China: The Biyang Sag of the Nanxiang Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 101: 343-354.
Guang Hu∗, Ruofei Yang, Lichao Wang, Wenxuan Hu, Jian Cao∗. 2019. Hydrocarbon potential and depositional environment of the Lower Cretaceous black mudstones and shales in the coastal Guangdong Province, China. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 99: 92-106.
2018
Jian Cao*, Ruofei Yang, Guang Hu, Wenxuan Hu, Suping Yao, Xie, Yuqiao Gao, Jun Gao. 2018. Hydrocarbon potential of the Lower Cretaceous mudstones in coastal southeastern China. AAPG Bulletin, 102(2): 333-366.
Chunhua Shi, Jian Cao*, Xiucheng Tan, Bing Luo, Wei Zeng, Haitao Hong, Xin Huang, Yong Wang. 2018. Hydrocarbon generation capability of Sinian–Lower Cambrian shale, mudstone and carbonate rocks in the Sichuan Basin, southwestern China: Implications for contributions to the giant Sinian Dengying natural gas accumulation. AAPG Bulletin, 102(5): 817-853.
Jian Cao*, Ruofei Yang, Wei Yin, Guang Hu, Lizeng Bian, Xiugen Fu. 2018. Mechanism of organic matter accumulation in residual bay environments: the Early Cretaceous Qiangtang Basin, Tibet. Energy Fuels, 32(2): 1024-1037.
Shou-zhi Hu*, Shui-fu Li, Jiang-hai Wang, Jian Cao*. 2018. Origin of unresolved complex mixtures (UCMs) in biodegraded oils: Insights from artificial biodegradation experiments. Fuel, 231, 53-60.
Dongdong Hong, Ming Fan, Lingjie Yu, Jian Cao*. 2018. An experimental study simulating the dissolution of gypsum rock. Energy Exploration & Exploitation, DOI: 10.1177/0144598717751927.
2017
Chunhua Shi, Jian Cao*, Xiucheng Tan, Bing Luo, Wei Zeng, Wenxuan Hu. 2017. Discovery of oil bitumen co-existing with solid bitumen in the Lower Cambrian Longwangmiao giant gas reservoir, Sichuan Basin, southwestern China: Implications for hydrocarbon accumulation process. Organic Geochemistry 108: 61-81.
Ruofei Yang, Jian Cao*, Guang Hu, Lizeng Bian, Kai Hu, Xiugen Fu. 2017. Marine to brackish depositional environments of the Jurassic–Cretaceous Suowa Formation, Qiangtang Basin (Tibet), China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 473: 41-56.
Ming Wu, Jun Jin, Wanyun Ma, Baoli Xiang, Ni Zhou, Jianglin Ren, Jian Cao*. 2017. Deep-buried Triassic oil-source correlation in the central Junggar Basin, NW China. Geofluids, doi: 10.1155/2017/7581859.
2016
Keyu Tao, Jian Cao*, Yuce Wang, Wanyun Ma, Baoli Xiang, Jianglin Ren, Ni Zhou. 2016. Geochemistry and origin of natural gas in the petroliferous Mahu sag, northwestern Junggar Basin, NW China: Carboniferous marine and Permian lacustrine gas systems. Organic Geochemistry, 100: 62-79.
Ping'an Sun, Yuce Wang, Kun Leng, Hui Li, Wanyun Ma, Jian Cao*. 2016. Geochemistry and origin of natural gas in the eastern Junggar Basin, NW China. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 75: 240-251.
2015
Jian Cao*, Wenxuan Hu*, Xulong Wang, Dongya Zhu, Yong Tang, Baoli Xiang, Ming Wu. 2015. Diagenesis and elemental geochemistry under varying reservoir oil saturation in the Junggar Basin of NW China: implication for differentiating hydrocarbon-bearing horizons. Geofluids, 15: 410-420.
Chunhua Shi,Jian Cao*, Jianping Bao, Cuishan Zhu, Xingchao Jiang, Ming Wu. 2015. Source characterization of highly mature pyrobitumens using trace and rare earth element geochemistry: Sinian–Paleozoic paleo-oil reservoirs in South China. Organic Geochemistry, 83-84: 77-93.
Ruofei Yang, Jian Cao*, Guang Hu, Xiugen Fu. 2015. Organic geochemistry and petrology of Lower Cretaceous black shales in the Qiangtang Basin, Tibet: Implications for hydrocarbon potential. Organic Geochemistry, 86: 55-70.
Tingting Wang, Shaoyong Yang, Shengsheng Duan, Haitao Chen, Haizhen Liu, Jian Cao*. 2015. Multiple-stage primary and secondary hydrocarbon migration and accumulation in lacustrine Jurassic petroleum systems in the northern QaidamBasin, NW China. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 62: 90-101.
Baoli Xiang, Ni Zhang, Wanyun Ma, Ming Wu, Jian Cao*. 2015. Multiple-stage migration and accumulation of Permian lacustrine mixed oils in the central JunggarBasin (NW China). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 59: 187-201.
Shuifu Li*, Jian Cao*, Shouzhi Hu. 2015. Analyzing hydrocarbon fractions in crude oils by two-dimensional gas chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry under reversed-phase column system. Fuel, 158: 191-199.
Shuifu Li*, Jian Cao*, Shouzhi Hu, Genming Luo. 2015. Characterization of compounds in unresolved complex mixtures (UCM) of a Mesoproterzoic shale by using GC × GC – TOFMS. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 66: 791-780.
Shanchu Han, Kai Hu*, Jian Cao*, Jiayong Pan, Fei Xia, Weifang Wu. 2015. Origin of early Cambrian black-shale-hosted barite deposits in South China: Mineralogical and geochemical studies. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 106: 79-94.
2014
Ming Wu, Jian Cao*, Xulong Wang, Yong Tang, Bin Wang, Baoli Xiang, Sufang Kang, Wenfang Lan. 2014. Hydrocarbon generation potential of Triassic mudstones in the JunggarBasin, northwest China. AAPG Bulletin, 98(9): 1885-1906.
Ming Wu, Jian Cao*, Xulong Wang, Yong Tang, Baoli Xiang, Bin Wang. 2014. Organic geochemical identification of reservoir oil-gas-water layers in the JunggarBasin, NW China. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 57: 594-602.
Chunhua Shi, Jian Cao*, Kai Hu, Lizeng Bian, Suping Yao, Jie Zhou, Shanchu Han. 2014. New understandings of Ni–Mo mineralization in early Cambrian black shales of South China: constraints from variations in organic matter in metallic and non-metallic intervals. Ore Geology Reviews, 59: 73-82.
Ruofei Yang,Yuce Wang, Jian Cao *. 2014. Cretaceous source rocks and associated oil and gas resources in the world and China: A review. Petroleum Science, 11(3):331-345.
2013
Jian Cao*, Kai Hu, Jie Zhou, Chunhua Shi, Lizeng Bian, Suping Yao. 2013. Organic clots and their differential accumulation of Ni and Mo within early Cambrian black-shale-hosted polymetallic Ni-Mo deposits, Zunyi, South China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 62: 531-536.
Jinlai Feng, Jian Cao*, Kai Hu, Xiaoqun Peng, Yan Chen, Yanfei Wang, Mu Wang. 2013. Dissolution and its impacts on reservoir formation in moderately to deeply buried strata of mixed siliciclastic-carbonate sediments, northwestern QaidamBasin, northwest China. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 39(1): 124-137.
2012
Jian Cao*, Xulong Wang, Ping’an Sun, Yueqian Zhang, Yong Tang, Baoli Xiang, Wenfang Lan, Ming Wu. 2012. Geochemistry and origins of natural gases in the central JunggarBasin, northwest China. Organic Geochemistry, 53, 166-176.
Jian Cao*, Ming Wu, Yan Chen, Kai Hu, Lizeng Bian, Longgang Wang, Ying Zhang. 2012. Trace and rare earth element geochemistry of Jurassic mudstones in the northern QaidamBasin, northwest China. Chemie Erde – Geochemistry, 72(3): 245-252.
Ping’an Sun, Jian Cao*, Xulong Wang, Yueqian Zhang, Yong Tang, Abulimiti, Baoli Xiang, Ming Wu. 2012. Geochemistry and origins of natural gas in the southwestern JunggarBasin, northwest China. Energy Exploration and Exploitation, 30(5): 707-726.
Suping Yao*, Jian Cao*, Ke Zhang, Kun Jiao, Hai Ding, Wenxuan Hu. 2012. Artificial bacterial degradation and hydrous pyrolysis of suberin: implications for hydrocarbon generation of suberinite. Organic Geochemistry, 47(1): 22-33.
Guang Hu, Wenxuan Hu, Jian Cao*, Suping Yao, Xie, Yongxiang Li, Youxiang Li, Xueyin Wang. 2012. Deciphering the Early Cretaceous transgression in coastal southeastern China: Constraints based on petrography, paleontology and geochemistry. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 317-318: 182-195.
2011
Cao Jian*, Wang Xulong, Sun Ping'an, Shi Xinpu, Hu Wenxuan, Yao Suping, Zhang Yueqian, Tang Yong, Xie . 2011. Grains containing oil inclusions in different hydrocarbon production and show types of sandstone reservoirs from the central JunggarBasin, Northwest China.Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 85(5): 1163-1172.
Feng Jinlai, Cao Jian*, Hu Kai, Chen Yan, Yang Shaoyong, Liu Yuntian, Bian Lizeng, Zhang Guoqing. 2011. Forming mechanism of middle-deep mixed rock reservoir in the Qaidam basin. Acta Petrologica Sinica, 27(8): 2461-2472.(注：中文岩石学报文章，SCI检索)
2010
Jian Cao*, Zhijun Jin, Wenxuan Hu, Yijie Zhang, Suping Yao, Xulong Wang, Yueqian Zhang, Yong Tang. 2010. Improved understanding of petroleum migration history in the Hongche fault zone, northwestern JunggarBasin (northwest China): constrained by vein-calcite fluid inclusions and trace elements. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27(1): 61-68.
Jian Cao*, Xulong Wang, Dongtao Wei, Ping'an Sun, Wenxuan Hu, Dong Jia, Yingcheng Zhao. 2010. Complex petroleum migration and accumulation in the central region of the southern JunggarBasin, northwest China. Journal of Earth Science, 21(1): 83-93.
2009
Cao Jian*, Bian Lizineg, Hu Kai, Liu Yuntian, Yang Shaoyong, Wang Liqun, Chen Yan, Peng Xiaoqun. 2009. Benthic macro red alga: A new possible bio-precursor of Jurassic source rocks in the northern QaidamBasin, NW China. Science China: Earth Sciences, 52(5): 647-654.
2008
Jian Cao*, Kai Hu, Kun Wang, Lizeng Bian, Yuntian Liu, Shaoyong Yang, Liqun Wang, Yan Chen. 2008. Possible origin of 25-Norhopanes in Jurassic organic poor mudstones from the northern QaidamBasin (NW China). Organic Geochemistry, 39(8): 1058-1065.
2007
Cao Jian*, Hu Wenxuan, Yao Suping, Zhang Yijie, Wang Xulong, Zhang Yueqian, Tang Yong, Shi Xinpu. 2007. Mn content of reservoir calcite cement: A novel inorganic geotracer of secondary petroleum migration in the tectonically complex JunggarBasin (NW China). Science China: Earth Sciences, 50(12): 1796-1809.
Cao Jian*, Jin Zhijun, Hu Wenxuan, Xie , Wang Xulong, Yao Suping. 2007. Integrate GOI and composition data of oil inclusions to reconstruct petroleum charge history of gas-condensate reservoirs: example from the Mosuowan area, central JunggarBasin (NW China). Acta Petrologica Sinica, 23(1): 137-144.
2006
Jian Cao, Suping Yao*, Zhijun Jin, Wenxuan Hu, Yijie Zhang, Xulong Wang, Yueqian Zhang, Yong Tang. 2006. Petroleum migration and mixing in NW Junggar Basin (NW China): constraints from oil-bearing fluid inclusion analyses. Organic Geochemistry, 37(7): 827-846.
Cao Jian*, Yao Suping, Hu Wenxuan, Zhang Yijie, Wang Xulong, Zhang Yueqian, Tang Yong. 2006. Detection of water in petroleum inclusions and its implications. Chinese Science Bulletin, 51(12): 1501-1508.
2005
Jian Cao*, Yijie Zhang, Wenxuan Hu, Suping Yao, Xulong Wang, Yueqian Zhang, Yong Tang. 2005. The Permian hybrid petroleum system in the northwest margin of the JunggarBasin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 22(3): 331-349.
（1）Associate Editor（副主编）：《AAPG Bulletin》、《Organic Geochemistry》、《Energy Exploration & Exploitation》、《Petroleum Science》
（2）Editorial Board（编委）：《Journal of Asian Earth Sciences》
（3）编委：《石油实验地质》、《天然气地球科学》、《地质科技情报》、《新疆石油地质》