Dr. Haoyu Hu

Institut für Geowissenschaften
Im Neuenheimer Feld 236, Raum 402
D-69120 Heidelberg

E-Mail: Haoyu.Hu@geow.uni-heidelberg.de
Telefon: +49 6221 54-6021

Education and career

• Since 2026: Post-doctoral researcher, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
• 2021-2025: PhD in Geosciences, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
  Thesis title: “ The Greater Antilles Arc of Cuba, a nature laboratory to understand the evolution of intra-oceanic convergent margin magmatism”
• 2017-2019: M.Sc. in Geosciences, University of Texas, USA
• 2013-2017: B.Sc. in Geological Sciences, Arizona State University, USA

Expeditions

April 2025: Geological Society of America Thompson Field Forum
Co-leading GSA TFF: The Geology of Cuba: Key for the Tectonic Evolution of the Caribbean-North American Plates

Presentations at conferences

• Hu, H., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., García-Delgado, D.E., Bousquet, R., Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., & Garcia‐Casco, A. (2025, April). 60 MILLION YEARS OF INTRA-OCEANIC ISLAND ARC CONSTRUCTION: INSIGHTS FROM CENTRAL CUBA. 11th Cuban Convention on Earth Sciences (GEOCIENCIAS 2025), Havana, Cuba
• Hu, H., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Caraasquilla, S., Lázaro, C., Iturralde-Vinent, M.A., & Garcia‐Casco, A. (2023, April). A disaccredited exotic origin for the arc-related Mabujina Amphibolite Complex of central Cuba: revisited. 10th Cuban Convention on Earth Sciences (GEOCIENCIAS 2023), Havana, Cuba
• Hu, H., Stern, R. J., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., & Garcia‐Casco, A. (2021, April). Geochronologic and geochemical evidence for the evolution of the Greater Antilles. 9th Cuban Convention on Earth Sciences (GEOCIENCIAS 2021), Havana, Cuba
• Hu, H., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., & Stern, R. J. (2020, December). Geochronologic evidence for the evolution of the Greater Antilles. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2020, p. V012-06). American Geophysical Union.

Publications

• Hu, H., Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Carrasquilla, S., Lázaro, C., Vinent, I., & Garcia-Casco, A. (2024). Exotic vs local Caribbean origin for the arc-related Mabujina Amphibolite Complex (Cuba): implications for segmentation of the Caribbean arc during the Cretaceous. International Geology Review, 66(1), 254-277.
• Hu, H. Y., Stern, R. J., Rojas‐Agramonte, Y., & Garcia‐Casco, A. (2022). Review of geochronologic and geochemical data of the greater antilles volcanic arc and implications for the evolution of oceanic arcs. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(4), e2021GC010148.
• Rojas-Agramonte, Y., Hu, H. Y., Iturralde-Vinent, M., Lewis, J., de Lepinay, B, M., and García-Casco, A., (2021) A Late Cretaceous Adakitic intrusion from Northern Haiti: additional evidence for slab melting and implications for migration of ridge-trench-trench triple junction during the Cretaceous in the Greater Antilles. International Geology Review, 1-10, 
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• Hu, H., and Stern, R.J., (2020) Early Cretaceous subduction initiation beneath southern Tibet caused the northward flight of India, Geoscience Frontiers, v. 11, no. 4, p. 1123– 1131,