2000.09-2004.07，兰州大学，地理科学专业，学士；
2004.09-2006.07，兰州大学，自然地理专业，硕士；
2007.10-2009.10，宾夕法尼亚州立大学，联合培养；
2006.09-2010.12，兰州大学，第四纪地质专业，博士；

构造地貌与河流地貌

2011.01-2012.12，兰州大学，讲师，方向地貌与第四纪地质学；
2014.09-2015.09, 美国俄勒冈州立大学，访问学者
2013.01-2019年11月，兰州大学，副教授、硕导，方向地貌与第四纪地质学；
2019.12-今，兰州大学，教授、博导，方向地貌与第四纪地质学；

《地貌学》
《构造地貌学》
《新构造与年代学》

中国第四纪科学研究会-地层与年代学专业委员会，委员
中国地震学会-构造地貌专业委员会，委员
《地震地质》编委

1. 发展了断裂运动学分析的地貌学方法，推进了构造地貌学研究方法。
2. 率先利用褶皱和断层综合方法得到了北祁连山和中祁连山可靠的地壳缩短速率，验证了祁连山分散式地壳缩短、整体抬升的变形模式。
3. 通过兰州黄河阶地的宇生核素埋藏年代得到了黄河上游演化过程。

获得教育部自然科学一等奖，2019，“黄河中上游水系发育与环境变化研究”，4/6.

2024-2027，国家自然科学基金面上项目，“林波波河上游的形成与南部非洲地壳抬升研究”，批准号43272242，经费53万元，主持。
2021-2024，国家自然科学基金面上项目，“祁连山北缘断裂东段地貌面变形与逆冲系统运动学特征研究”，批准号42071001，经费56万元，主持。
2019-2024，国家专项，第二次青藏高原综合科学考察研究专题“碰撞以来古地理格局与构造地貌过程”， 2019QZKK0704，负责经费125万元，专题骨干。

胡小飞, 易子昊*, 陈久英, 张亚男. 祁连山北缘断裂东段逆冲-褶皱系统运动学与变形速率. 中国科学: 地球科学, 2025, 55, doi: 10.1360/ SSTe-2024-0142.
Xiaofei Hu, Zihao Yi*, Jiuying Chen, Yanan Zhang. Kinematics and deformation rates of the fault-fold system along the eastern section of the North Qilian Shan Fault. Science China Earth Sciences, 2025, 68, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-024-1478-7.
Yanan Zhang, Xiaofei Hu*, Xilin Cao, Zihao Yi, Qixin Ren, Xuan Deng. Tectonic uplift recorded by the river terraces in the northern flank of East Kunlun Shan. Geomorphology, 2025, 476: 109677.
Yannan Zhang, Xiaofei Hu*, Wei Wang, Baotian Pan. Evolution of the alluvial fan channel longitudinal profile and aggradation/degradation processes in the piedmont. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024, 331: 108654.
Qiming Zhao, Xiaofei Hu*, Xiaoying Sun, Yanfei Pan, Baotian Pan*. Landform evolution of the Qilian Shan since 120 Ma revealed by apatite fission track data. Journal of the Geological Society, 2024, 181 (5): jgs2023–193.
Xiaofei Hu, Yannan Zhang*, Jiaqi Guo, Baotian Pan. How does climate affect the topography in tectonically active orogens. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2023, 48: 1267-1280.
Jing Yang, Junsheng Nie*, Haobo Zhang, Sonwabile Kidwell Rasmeni, Lindani Ncube, Helena Johanna van Niekerk, Baojin Zhao, Xiaofei Hu. Sr-Nd-Hf isotopic constraints on the provenance of the modern Zambezi River sand sediments, southern Africa. Basin Research, 35(3): 1053-1070.
Xilin Cao, Xiaofei Hu*, Baotian Pan, Zhijun Zhao. Spatiotemporal Variation of Late Quaternary River Incision Along the Heihe River in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Constrained by Dating Fluvial Terraces. Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022, 10: 929599. 
Xiaofei Hu, Jiakun Wu*, Zhenling Wen, Jiaxin Zhang, Qiming Zhao, Baotian Pan*. Fluvial evolution in a growing thrust-fold range of the Yumu Shan, NE Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022, 594, 117704.
Baotian Pan, Qiming Zhao*, Xiaofei Hu*, Jiaxin Zhang, Dianbao Chen. Uplift and expansion of the North Qilian Shan recorded by detrital frission tracks in the Jiudong Basin, NW China. Frontiers in Earth Scicence, 2022, 9, 826104.
张亚男，胡小飞*，潘彦菲. 北祁连山和东昆仑山的地貌特征对比及其对构造抬升的指示意义. 第四纪研究, 2022, 42(3), 809-822.
Yunfa Miao, Junsheng Nie, Xiaofei Hu, Zheng Wan, Baojin Zhao, Yongtao Zhao, Jing Yang, Lindani Ncube, Helena Johanna van Niekerk, Haobo Zhang, Taian Chen. Wildfire history and savanna expansion across southern Africa since the late Miocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2022, 603, 111189.
Jian Zhang, Haopeng Geng*, Baotian Pan, Junsheng Nie, Xiaofei Hu, Qiming Zhao, Dianbao Chen, Rong Xie. Coupling of tectonic uplift and climate change as influences on drainage evolution: A case study at the NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Catena, 2022, 216: 106433.
Xiaofei Hu, Xilin Cao*, Tao Li, Junwei Mao, Jian Zhang, Xin He, Yanan Zhang, Baotian Pan*. Late Quaternary Fault Slip Rate Within the Qilian Orogen, Insight Into the Deformation Kinematics for the NE Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics, 2021, 40(5), e2020TC006586.
Xiaofei Hu, Xianghe Ji*, Xilin Cao, Jiuying Chen, Baotian Pan. Test on the reliability of the subsurface fault geometry estimated by deformed river terraces along the Bailang River, north front of the Qilian Shan (NW China). Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021, 9, 665047.
Xilin Cao, Xiaofei Hu*, Baotian Pan, Qiming Zhao, Xianghe Ji, Zhijun Zhao. Using fluvial terraces as distributed deformation offset markers: Implications for deformation kinematics of the North Qilian Shan Fault. Geomorphology, 2021, 386, 107750.
Jing Yang, Junsheng Nie*, Eduardo Garzanti, Mara Limonta, Sergio Andò, Pieter Vermeesch, Haobo Zhang, Xiaofei Hu*, Zhao Wang, Baojin Zhao, Lindani Ncube, Thomas Stevens, Maotong Li, Hua Li, Taian Chen, Yunfa Miao, Baotian Pan. Climatic Forcing of Plio‐Pleistocene Formation of the Modern Limpopo River, South Africa. Geophysical Research Letters, 2021, 48(14), e2021GL093887.
Zhenling Wen, Dianbao Chen, Lianyong Guo, Baotian Pan, Xiaofei Hu, Qiong Li, Xianghe Ji, Jiaming Yang. Response of terrace deposit thickness to climate change and tectonic deformation: An example of the Liyuan River in the Northeast Tibetan Plateau. Terra Nova, 2021, 34: 37-46.
贺鑫，胡小飞*，潘保田. 黄河兰州段河谷演化研究与认识. 地球科学进展, 2020, 35(4): 404-413.
Chen DB, Pan BT, Ma JF, Hu XF, Geng HP, Pang HL. Paleoclimatic record from the clay mineralogy of Quaternary sediments of drill core DWJ from Jiudong subbasin (western Hexi Corridor), NW China. Quaternary Research, 2020, 93: 124-138.
Zhang J, Geng HP, Pan BT, Hu XF, Chen LP, Wang W, Chen DB, Zhao QM. Climatic zonation complicated the lithology controls on the mineralogy and geochemistry of fluvial sediments in the Heihe River basin, NE Tibetan Plateau. Quaternary International, 2020, 537: 33-47.
Xiaofei Hu, Dianbao Chen*, Baotian Pan*, Jinjun Chen, Jian Zhang, Jing Chang, Changsheng Gong, Qiming Zhao. Sedimentary evolution of the foreland basin in the NE Tibetan Plateau and the growth of the Qilian Shan since 7 Ma. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 2019, 131, 1744-1760, doi: 10.1130/B35106.1. 
Xiaofei Hu, Zhenling Wen*, Baotian Pan, Lianyong Guo, Xilin Cao. Constraints on deformation kinematics across the Yumu Shan, NE Tibetan Plateau, based on fluvial terraces. Global and Planetary Change, 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103023.
Cao Xilin, Hu Xiaofei*, Pan Baotian*, Zhang Jian, Wang Wei, Mao junwei, Liu Xiaopeng. A fluvial record of fault-propagation folding along the northern Qilian Shan front, NE Tibetan Plateau. Tectonophysics, 2019, 755, 35-46, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2019.02.009.
Junsheng Nie, Gregory Ruetenik, Kerry Gallagher, Gregory Hoke, Carmala N. Garzione, Weitao Wang, Daniel Stockli, Xiaofei Hu, Zhao Wang, Ying Wang, Thomas Stevens, Martin Danišík, Shanpin Liu, Rapid incision of the Mekong River in the middle Miocene linked to monsoonal precipitation, Nature Geoscience, 2018, 11: 944-948.
陈苗, 胡小飞*, 王维. 走廊南山河流纵剖面高海拔裂点的成因. 地理学报, 2018, (09):1702~1713.
陈殿宝, 陈进军, 胡小飞*, 苏航, 陈颖, 张建. 祁连山北麓梨园河沉积物粒径的变化特征与分析. 第四纪研究, 2018, 38(6):1336~1347
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.
温振玲, 胡小飞*, 潘保田, 张建, 曹喜林. 金塔南山河流砾石特征指示的青藏高原东北缘地貌演化. 第四纪研究，2016，36，907-916.
曹喜林，胡小飞，潘保田，毛俊伟，张建，刘晓鹏.三角剪切断层传播褶皱在祁连山北缘断裂中的应用：以黑河口断层为例. 第四纪研究，2016，36，870-883.
张建，胡小飞，耿豪鹏，陈殿宝，潘保田. 钻孔及现代河流重矿物特征揭示的更新世以来酒东盆地水系演化历史. 地理科学, 2016, 36, 1595-1604.
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.
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. 
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.
李琼, 潘保田, 高红山, 胡小飞, 温振玲. 祁连山东段基岩河道宽度对差异性构造抬升的响应. 第四纪研究, 2015, 35: 453-464.
温振玲，胡小飞，潘保田，卢耀洋，曹喜林，张建. 甘肃金塔南山河流阶地褶皱变形分析. 地质评论, 2015, 5: 1032-1046.
胡小飞*, 潘保田, 李琼. 基岩河道水力侵蚀模型原理及其最新研究进展. 兰州大学学报（自然科学版）, 2014, 50(6): 824-831.
胡小飞*, 潘保田, 高红山, 胡振波, 曹泊, 李清洋, 耿豪鹏. 祁连山东段全新世河流阶地发育及其与气候变化的关系研究. 第四纪研究, 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. 
潘保田, 胡振波*, 胡小飞, 张忱, 李富强, 2012. 晋陕峡谷北段晚新生代河流演化初步研究. 第四纪研究 1, 111-121.
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
胡小飞, 潘保田. 磷灰石(U-Th)/He热年代学方法及其在地貌演化研究中的应用. 原子能科学技术, 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
胡小飞, 潘保田, 苏怀, 安春雷, 周天.宛川河阶地的年代与下切机制. 地理科学, 2007, 27(6): 808-813
潘保田, 苏怀, 刘小丰, 胡小飞, 周天, 胡春生, 李吉均. 兰州东盆地最近1.2Ma的黄河阶地序列与形成原因. 第四纪研究, 2007, 27(2): 172-180