1.2016/12-至今，中山大学，地球科学与工程学院，教授；
2.2013/10– 2016/11：英国伦敦大学学院，地球科学学院，伦敦地质年代学中心，博士后、研究助理；

国自然面上项目，龙门山新生代构造格架的横向差异：来自三维热-动力模拟的制约，2018.01-2021.12，74万，主持；

1. Tian, Y., B. P. Kohn, N. Qiu, Y. Yuan, S. Hu, A. J. W. Gleadow, and P. Zhang (2018), Eocene to Miocene Out‐of‐Sequence Deformation in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights From Shortening Structures in the Sichuan Basin, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 123(2), 1840-1855.
2. Tian, Y., R. Li, Y. Tang, X. Xu, Y. Wang, and P. Zhang (2018), Thermochronological Constraints on the Late Cenozoic Morphotectonic Evolution of the Min Shan, the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Tectonics, 37(6), 1733-1749, doi:10.1029/2017TC004868.
3. Tian, Y., P. Vermeesch, M. Danišík, D. J. Condon, W. Chen, B. Kohn, J. Schwanethal, and M. Rittner (2017), LGC-1: A zircon reference material for in-situ (U-Th)/He dating, Chem. Geol., 454, 80-92.
4. Tian, Y., B. P. Kohn, D. Phillips, S. Hu, A. J. W. Gleadow, and A. Carter (2016), Late Cretaceous–earliest Paleogene deformation in the Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt, eastern Tibetan Plateau margin: Pre-Cenozoic thickened crust?, Tectonics, doi: 10.1002/2016TC004182.
5. Tian, Y., B. P. Kohn, S. Hu, and A. J. W. Gleadow (2015), Synchronous fluvial response to surface uplift in the eastern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for crustal dynamics, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2014GL062383, doi:10.1002/2014GL062383.
6. Tian, Y., B. P. Kohn, A. J. W. Gleadow, and S. Hu (2014), A thermochronological perspective on the morphotectonic evolution of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau,J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, doi:10.1002/2013JB010429.
7. Tian, Y., B. P. Kohn, S. Hu, and A. J. W. Gleadow (2014), Postorogenic rigid behavior of the eastern Songpan-Ganze terrane: Insights from low-temperature thermochronology and implications for intracontinental deformation in central Asia,Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.,15, doi:10.1002/2013GC004951.
8. Tian, Y., B. P. Kohn, A. W. Gleadow, and S. Hu (2013), Constructing the Longmen Shan eastern Tibetan Plateau margin: insights from low-temperature thermochronology,Tectonics, 32, 576-592, doi: 10.1002/tect.20043.
9. Shen, Xiaoming; Tian, Yuntao*; Zhang, Guihong; Zhang, Shimin; Carter, Andrew; Kohn, Barry; Vermeesch, Pieter; Liu, Rui; Li, Wei; Late Miocene Hinterland Crustal Shortening in the Longmen Shan Thrust Belt, the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2019, 124(11): 11972-11991.
10. Sun, X., Kuiper, K.F., Tian, Y.*, Li, C.a., Gemignani, L., Zhang, Z., Wijbrans, J.R., 2020. Impact of hydraulic sorting and weathering on mica provenance studies: An example from the Yangtze River. Chemical Geology 532, 119359.