Education and Appointments：

2009 – 2012: B. A. Geology, University of Colorado at Boulder

2012 – 2015: M. Sc. Geology, University of Malaya

2015 – 2018: Ph. D. Geology, University of Malaya

2019 – 2021: Post-doc, National Taiwan Normal University

2021 – 2022: Post-doc, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

2022 – 2025: Special research assistant (equivalent to Post-doc), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Interests：

Detrital mineral studies, igneous/metamorphic petrology, economic geology and volcanology

Selected Publication：

* = Corresponding author

1. Ghani, A.A., Hazad, F.I., Jamil, A., Quek, L.X., Wan Ismail, W.N.A., Chung, S.L., Lai, Y.M., Roselee, M.H., Islami, N., Nyein, K.K., Amir Hassan, M.H., Abu Bakar, M.F. and Umor, M.R. (2014). Permian ultrafelsic A-type granite from Besar Islands group, Johor, peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Earth System Science, 123: 1857-1878. Accession Number (WOS:000347512600011).

1. Quek, L.X., Jamil, A., Ghani, A. A., Saidin, M. (2015). Highly Potassic Melagranite of Bintang batholith, Main Range Granite, Peninsular Malaysia. Current Science, 108: 2159-2163. Accession Number (WOS:000357553600014).

2. Quek, L.X., Ghani, A.A., Badruldin, M.H., Saidin, M., Harith, Z.Z.T., and Roselee, M.H. (2015). Platinum group elements in proximal impactites of the Bukit Bunuh impact structure, Malaysia. Current Science, 109: 2303-2308. Accession Number (WOS:000367868900034).

3. Jamil, A., Ghani, A.A., Zaw, K., Osman, S., and Quek, L.X. (2016). Origin and tectonic implications of the∼ 200Ma, collision-related Jerai pluton of the Western Granite Belt, Peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 127: 32-46. Accession Number (WOS:000381323400003).

4. Quek, L.X.*, Ghani, A.A., Chung, S.L., Li, S., Lai, Y.M., Saidin, M., Hassan, M.H.A., Ali, M.A.M., Badruldin, M.H. and Bakar, A.F.A. (2017). Mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) in amphibole-bearing granites of the Bintang batholith, Main Range granite province: Evidence for a meta-igneous basement in Western Peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 143: 11-29. Accession Number (WOS:000404309000002).

5. Badruldin, M.H., Ghani, A.A. and Quek, L.X. (2017). Petrogenesis of Ajil mafic dykes from Eastern Belt of Peninsular Malaysia: fractionated within plate lithospheric mantle magma beneath the eastern Malaya Block. Current Science, 113: 1448-1455. Accession Number (WOS:000412386600039).

6. Quek, L.X.*, Ghani, A.A., Lai, Y.M., Lee, H.Y., Saidin, M., Roselee, M.H., Badruldin, M.H., Hassan, M.H.A., Abdul Aziz, J.H., Ng, T.F., Muhammad Ali, M.A. and Mohamad Zulkifley, M.T. (2018). Absolute age evidence of Early to Middle Ordovician volcanism in Peninsular Malaysia. Current Science, 115: 2291-2296. Accession Number (WOS:000454043500023).

7. Roselee, M. H., Umor, M. R., Ghani, A. A., Badruldin, M. H., & Quek, L. X. (2018). Petrographic and geochemical characteristic of volcanic rocks from Tasik Kenyir and Kampung Awah, East Malaya block, Peninsular Malaysia. In 2017 UKM FST Postgraduate Colloquium: Proceedings of the University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Faculty of Science and Technology 2017 Postgraduate Colloquium (Vol. 1940). [020033] American Institute of Physics Inc. DOI: 10.1063/1.5027948. Accession Number (WOS:000434184300033).

8. Ghani, A.A., Shahjamal, M., Ng, T.F., Ismail, N.E., Zulkifley, M.T., Islami, N., Quek, L.X., Bakar, A.F., Hassan, M.H., Aziz, J.H., and Masor, A.F. (2019). Ce anomaly in I‒type granitic soil from Kuantan, Peninsular Malaysia: Retention of zircon in the weathering product. Sains Malaysiana, 48: 309-315. Accession Number (WOS:000461019900006).

9. Quek, L.X., Lai, Y.M., Ghani, A.A., Roselee, M.H., Lee, H.Y., Iizuka, Y., Umor, M.R., Pecha, M., Lin, Y.L., Rahmat, R., Jamil, A. (2021). Peninsular Malaysia transitional geodynamic process from Gondwana to Pangaea: New constraints from 500-200 Ma magmatic zircon U-Pb ages and Hf isotopic compositions. Gondwana Research, 94: 56-72. Accession Number (WOS:000643562600004).

10. Quek, L.X.*, Lee, T.Y., Ghani, A.A., Lai, Y.M., Roselee, M.H., Lee, H.Y., Iizuka, Y., Lin, Y.L., Yeh, M.W., Amran, M.A., Rahmat, R. (2021). Tracing detrital zircon signature of Malayan Jurassic-Cretaceous strata in Peninsular Malaysia fluvial sediment: A potential detrital contributor to West Borneo. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 218: 104876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104876

11. Lin, Y.L., Lee, T.Y., Lo, C.H., Sherlock, S.C., Iizuka, Y., Usuki, T., Quek, L.X., Charusiri, P. (2021). Dating deformation using sheared leucogranite: temporal constraints by 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology for the Mae Ping shear zone, NW Thailand. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01822-4

12. Lai, Y.M., Cho, Y.Y., Lee, D.H., Iizuka, Y., Quek, L.X. (2021). Gabbroic enclave in intermediate ignimbrites: The youngest eruptive event in the northern Luzon Arc-Taiwan region. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic sciences journal, 32. https://doi.org/10.3319/TAO.2021.09.07.02

13. Lai, Y.M., Liu, P.P., Chung, S.L., Ghani, A.A., Lee, H.Y., Quek, L.X., Li, S., Roselee, M.H., Murtadha, S., Lintjewas, L., Iizuka, Y. (2023). Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic compositions of igneous rocks from Sumatra: implications for the Cenozoic magmatic evolution of the western Sunda Arc. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 537: SP537-2022–199. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP537-2022-199