2004: B.S, physical geography, Lanzhou University
2007~2008: Visiting student, Pennsylvania State University 
2010: PhD, Quaternary Geology, Lanzhou University 

Fluvial geomorphology, tectonic geomorphology, cosmogenic dating,

2011.01-2012.12: Lecturer, Lanzhou University.
2014.09-2015.08: Visiting scholar, Oregon State University.
2013.01- present: Associate Professor, Lanzhou University.

1.         Teaching the “Geomorphology” and “Tectonic Geomorphology” for the undergraduate
2.         Teaching the “Neotectonics and geochronology” for the graduate
3.         Supervising 3 graduates and co-advised 3 PhD students

Xiaofei Hu, Baotian Pan, Yuxin Fan, Jun Wang, Zhenbo Hu, Bo Cao, Qingyang Li, Haopeng Geng. Folded fluvial terraces in a young, actively deforming intramontane basin between the Yumu Shan and the Qilian Shan mountains, NE Tibet. Lithosphere, 2017, 9, 545-560.
Zhijun Zhao, Darryl E. Granger, Ye Chen, Qiang Shu, Guofei Liu, Maoheng Zhang, Xiaofei Hu, Qingling Wu, Erya Hu, Ying Li, Yujing Yan. Cosmogenic nuclide burial dating of an alluvial conglomerate sequence: An example from the Hexi Corridor, NE Tibetan Plateau. Geochronology, 2017, 39: 68-78.
Baotian Pan, Dianbao Chen*, Xiaofei Hu, Xilin Cao, Jinjun Chen, Junwei Mao. Drainage evolution of the Heihe River in western Hexi Corridor, China, derived from sedimentary and magnetostratigraphic results. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016, 150, 250-263.
Zhenbo Hu, Baotian Pan*, Lianyong Guo, Jef Vandenberghe, Xiaopeng Liu, Junping Wang, Yunlong Fan, Junwei Mao, Hongshan Gao, Xiaofei Hu. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016, 133, 1-14.
Xiaofei Hu, Baotian Pan, Eric Kirby, Hongshan Gao, Zhenbo Hu, Bo Cao, Haopeng Geng, Qingyang Li, and Guoliang Zhang. Rates and kinematics of active shortening along the eastern Qilian Shan, China, inferred from deformed fluvial terraces, Tectonics, 2015, 34, 2478-2493.
Junsheng Nie, Thomas Stevens, Martin Rittner, Daniel Stockli, Eduardo Garzanti, Mara Limonta, Anna Bird, Sergio Ando, Pieter Vermeesch, Joel Saylor, Huayu Lu, Daniel Breecker, Xiaofei Hu, Shanpin Liu, Alberto Resentini, Giovanni Vezzoli, Wenbin Peng, Andrew Carter, Shunchuan Ji & Baotian Pan. Loess Plateau storage of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau-derived Yellow River sediment. Nature Communications, 2015, 6:8511 doi: 10.1038/ncomms9511. 
Pan Baotian, Li Qiong, Hu Xiaofei, Geng Haopeng, Gao Hongshan. Bedrock channels response to differential rock uplift in eastern Qilian Mountain along the north-eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2015, 100: 1-19
Hu Xiaofei*, Pan Baotian, Gao Hongshan, Hu Zhenbo, Cao Bo, Li Qingyang, Geng Haopeng. Development of Holocene fluvial terraces in the eastern Qilian Shan Mountain and its relationships with climatic changes. Quaternary Sciences (in Chinese with English abstract), 2013, 33(4): 1-14
Pan Baotian, Hu Xiaofei*, Gao Hongshan, Hu Zhenbo, Cao Bo, Geng Haopeng, Li Qingyang. Late Quaternary river incision rates and rock uplift pattern of the eastern Qilian Shan Mountain, China. Geomorphology, 2013, 184: 84-97.
Pan Baotian, Li Qingyang*, Hu Xiaofei, Geng Haopeng, Liu Zibian, Jiang Shaofei, Yuan Wanming.                       
Cretaceous and Cenozoic cooling history of the eastern Qilian Shan, north‐eastern margin of the       
Tibetan Plateau: evidence from apatite fission‐track analysis, Terra Nova, 2013, 25(6): 431-438.
Li Qingyang*, Pan Baotian, Hu Xiaofei, Hu Zhenbo, Li Fuqiang, Yang Shunzhi. Apatite fission track   
constraints on the pattern of faulting in the north Qilian Mountain, Journal of Earth Sciences, 2013,   
24(4): 569-578.
Baotian Pan, Zhenbo Hu*, Junping Wang, Jef Vandenberghe, Xiaofei Hu, Yuhua Wen, Qiong Li, Bo Cao. The approximate age of the planation surface and the incision of the Yellow River. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 2012, 356-357 (15): 54-61. 
Hu Xiaofei*, Kirby Eric, Pan Baotian, Granger E. Darryl, Su Huai. Cosmogenic burial ages reveal sediment reservoir dynamics along the Yellow River, China. Geology, 2011, 39(9): 839-842.
Pan Baotian, Hu Zhenbo*, Wang Junping, Vandenberghe Jef, Hu Xiaofei. A magnetostratigraphic record of landscape of development in the eastern Ordos Plateau, China: Transition from late Miocene and Early Pliocene stacked sedimentation to Late Pliocene and Quaternary uplift and incision by the Yellow River. Geomorphology, 2011, 125:225-238.
Hu Xiaofei*, Pan Baotian, Kirby Eric, Li Qingyang, Geng Haopeng, Chen Jifeng. Spatial differences in rock uplift rates inferred from channel steepness indices along the northern flank of the Qilian Mountain, northeast Tibetan Plateau. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2010, 55(27-28): 3205-3214
Pan Baotian, Geng Haopeng*, Hu Xiaofei, Sun Ranhao, Wang Chao. The topographic controls on the decadal-scale erosion rates in Qilian Shan Mountains, NW China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010, 292(1-2): 148-157
Pan Baotian*, Su Huai, Hu Zhenbo, Hu Xiaofei, Gao Hongshan, Li Jijun, Kirby Eric. Evaluating the role of climate and tectonics during non-steady incision of the Yellow River: evidence from a 1.24 Ma terrace record near Lanzhou, China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2009, 28(27-28): 3281-3290
Hu Xiaofei*, Pan Baotian. (U-Th)/He thermochronology of apatite and its application in landform revolution. Atomic Energy Science and Techonogy (in Chinese), 2008, 42(7): 662-664. 
Pan Baotian, Su Huai*, Hu Chunsheng, Hu Xiaofei, Zhou Tian, Li Jijun. Discovery of a 1.0 Ma Yellow River terrace and redating of the fourth Yellow River terrace in Lanzhou area. Progress in Natural Science, 2007, 17 (2): 197-205
Hu Xiaofei*, Pan Baotian, Su Huai, An Chunlei, Zhou Tian. Terrace Formation Age and River Incision Mechanism of Wanchuan River. Scientia Geographica Sinica (in Chinese), 2007, 27(6): 808-813.
Pan Baotian, Su Huai*, Liu Xiaofeng, Hu Xiaofei, Zhou Tian, Hu Chunsheng, Li Jijun. River terraces of the Yellow River and their genesis in eastern Lanzhou Basin during last 1.2 Ma. Qunternary Sciences (in Chinese), 2007, 27(2): 172-180