2011年：獲澳大利亞博物館“尤里卡”傑出導師獎（Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers）。 澳大利亞博物館舉辦的一年一度的“尤里卡”大獎被譽為澳大利亞學術界的“奧斯卡”，“尤里卡”傑出導師獎類似於“奧斯卡”最佳導演獎。
2001年：獲昆士蘭大學最佳基礎研究獎
2000年：獲國家基金委“海外傑青”稱號
1997年：獲澳大利亞研究委員會（ARC）特聘“伊莉莎白女王二世研究員”職務 (Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow，任期5年)
1994年：獲澳大利亞研究委員會（ARC）特聘“博士後研究員”職務(Australian Post-doctoral Research Fellow，任期3年)
代表論著
[1] G. Roff♥, T.R. Clark♥, C. Reymond♥, J.X. Zhao, Y.X. Feng, L.J. McCook, T.J. Done, J.M. Pandolfi, Palaeoecological evidence of a historical collapse of corals at Pelorus Island, inshore Great Barrier Reef, following European settlement, Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences (被媒體報導).
[2] K.F. Yu, J.X. Zhao, Q. Shi, G.J. Price, Recent massive coral mortality events in the South China Sea: was global warming and ENSO variability responsible? Chemical Geology
[3] E. St Pierre♥, J.X. Zhao*, Y.X. Feng, E. Reed, U-series dating of soda straw stalactites from excavated deposits: method development and application to Blanche Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia, Journal of Archaeological Science
[4] P. Nuriel♥, G. Rosenbaum, J.X. Zhao, Y.X. Feng, S.D. Golding, B. Villemant, R. Weinberger, U-Th dating of striated fault planes, Geology
[5] A.D. Nguyen♥, J.-x. Zhao*, Y.-x. Feng, W.-p. Hu, K.F. Yu, M. Gasparon, T.B. Pham, T.R. Clark, Impact of recent coastal development and human activities on Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam: evidence from a Porites lutea geochemical record, Coral Reefs
[6] T.R. Clark♥, J.X. Zhao, Y.X. Feng, T.J. Done, S. Jupiter, J. Lough, J.M. Pandolfi, Spatial variability of initial 230Th/232Th in modern Porites from the inshore region of the Great Barrier Reef, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta
[7] D.V. Burkey, M.I. Weisler, J.X. Zhao, High Precision U/Th Dating of First Polynesian Settlement, PLoS ONE (被媒體報導).
[8] H.Y. Zhou, J.X. Zhao, Q. Wang, Y.X. Feng, J. Tang, Speleothem-derived Asian summer monsoon variations in Central China during 54-46 ka, Journal of Quaternary Science
[9] I.T. Uysal, Y.X. Feng, J.X. Zhao, R. Bolhar, V. Işik, K.A. Baublys, A. Yayo, S.D. Golding, Seismic cycles recorded in late Quaternary calcite veins: Geochronological, geochemical and microstructural evidence, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
[10] G.J. Price, G.E. Webb, J.-X. Zhao, Y.-x. Feng, A.S. Murray, B.N. Cooke, S.A. Hocknull, I.H. Sobbe, Dating megafaunal extinction on the Pleistocene Darling Downs, eastern Australia: The promise and pitfalls of dating as a test of extinction hypotheses, Quaternary Science Reviews
[11] M. Lybolt♥, D.T. Neil, J.X. Zhao, Y.X. Feng, K.F. Yu, J.M. Pandolfi, Instability in a marginal coral reef: the shift from natural variability to a human-dominated seascape, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (被媒體報導).
[12] K.F. Yu, J.X. Zhao*, M.G. Lawrence, Y.X. Feng, Timing and duration of growth hiatuses in mid-Holocene massive Porites corals from the northern South China Sea, Journal of Quaternary Science
[13] K.F. Yu, J.X. Zhao*, U-series dates of Great Barrier Reef corals suggest at least +0.7 m sea level ~7000 years ago, The Holocene
[14] K.F. Yu, Q. Hua, J.X. Zhao*, E. Hodge, D. Fink, M. Barbetti, Holocene marine 14C reservoir age variability: evidence from 230Th-dated corals in the South China Sea, Paleoceanography 2
[15] M.L. Griffiths♥, R.N. Drysdale, M.K. Gagan, J.X. Zhao, L.K. Ayliffe, S.H. Wahyoe, S. Frisia, J.C. Hellstrom, M.J. Fischer, Y.X. Feng, B.W. Suwargadi, Evidence for Holocene changes in Australian-Indonesian monsoon rainfall from stalagmite trace element and stable isotope ratios, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
[16] H.Y. Zhou, Y.X. Feng, J.X. Zhao, C.C. Shen, C.F. You, Y. Lin, Deglacial variations of Sr and 87Sr/86Sr ratio recorded by a stalagmite from Central China and their association with past climate and environment, Chemical Geology
[17] J.X. Zhao, K.F. Yu, Y.X. Feng, High-precision 238U-234U-230Th disequilibrium dating of the recent past - a review, Quaternary Geochronology
[18] J.X. Zhao, D.T. Neil, Y.X. Feng, K.F. Yu, J.M. Pandolfi, High-precision U-series dating of very young cyclone-transported coral reef blocks from Heron and Wistari reefs, southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Quaternary International
[19] K.F. Yu, J.X. Zhao*, Q. Shi, Q.S. Meng, Reconstruction of storm/tsunami records over the last 4000 years using transported coral blocks and lagoon sediments in the southern South China Sea, Quaternary International
[20] K.F. Yu, J.X. Zhao*, T. Done, T.G. Chen, Microatoll record for large century-scale sea-level fluctuations in the mid-Holocene, Quaternary Research
[21] I.T. Uysal, Y.X. Feng, J.X. Zhao, V. Isik, P. Nuriel, S.D. Golding, Hydrothermal CO2 degassing in seismically active zones during the late Quaternary, Chemical Geology
[22] E. St Pierre♥, J.X. Zhao, E. Reed, Expanding the utility of Uranium-series dating of speleothems for archaeological and palaeontological applications, Journal of Archaeological Science
[23] R.G. Roberts, K.E. Westaway, J.X. Zhao, C.S.M. Turney, M.I. Bird, W.J. Rink, L.K. Fifield, Geochronology of cave deposits at Liang Bua and of adjacent river terraces in the Wae Racang valley, western Flores, Indonesia: a synthesis of age estimates for the type locality of Homo floresiensis, Journal of Human Evolution
[24] G.J. Price, J.X. Zhao, Y.X. Feng, S.A. Hocknull, New U/Th ages for classic Pleistocene megafauna deposits of southeastern Queensland, Australia, and implications for megafauna extinction, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
[25] M.L. Griffiths♥, R.N. Drysdale, M.K. Gagan, J.-x. Zhao, L.K. Ayliffe, J.C. Hellstrom, W.S. Hantoro, S. Frisia, Y.-x. Feng, I. Cartwright, E. St. Pierre, M. Fischer, B.W. Suwargadi, Increasing Australian-Indonesian monsoon rainfall linked to early Holocene sea level rise, Nature Geoscience
[26] H.Y. Zhou, J.-X. Zhao, Y.X. Feng, M.K. Gagan, J. Yan, Distinct climate change synchronous with Heinrich event one, recorded by stable oxygen and carbon isotopic compositions in stalagmites from China, Quaternary Research
[27] H.Y. Zhou, J.X. Zhao, P.Z. Zhang, C.C. Shen, B.Q. Chi, Y.X. Feng, Y. Lin, H.Z. Guang, H.C. Li, Decoupling of stalagmite-derived Asian summer monsoon records from North Atlantic temperature change during Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 5d, Quaternary Research
[28] J. Yan, J.X. Zhao, Cenozoic alkali basalts from Jingpohu, NE China：The role of lithosphere-asthenosphere interaction, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
[29] K.E. Westaway, J.X. Zhao, R.G. Roberts, A.R. Chivas, M.J. Morwood, T. Sutikna, Initial speleothem results from western Flores and Eastern Java, Indonesia: were climate changes from 47 to 5 ka responsible for the extinction of Homo floresiensis, Journal of Quat
[30] I.T. Uysal, J.X. Zhao, S.D. Golding, M.G. Lawrence, M. Glikson, K.D. Collerson, Sm-Nd dating and rare-earth element tracing of calcite: implications for fluid-flow events in the Bowen Basin, Australia, Chemical Geology
[31] I.T. Uysal, Y.X. Feng, J.X. Zhao, E. Attunel, D. Weatherley, S.D. Golding, O. Cengiz, M.G. Lawrence, V. Karabacak, K.D. Collerson, U-series dating and geochemical tracing of late Quaternary travertine in co-seismic fissures, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
[32] S.A. Hocknull, J.X. Zhao, Y.X. Feng, G.E. Webb, Responses of middle Pleistocene rainforest vertebrates to climate change in Australia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters(被媒體報導).
[33] K.-F. Yu, J.-X. Zhao*, P.-X. Wang, Q. Shi, Q.-S. Meng, K.D. Collerson, T.-S. Liu, High-precision TIMS U-series and AMS 14C dating of a coral reef lagoon sediment core from southern South China Sea and its environmental significance, Quaternary Science Reviews
[34] K.-F. Yu, J.-X. Zhao*, Q. Shi, T.-G. Chen, P.-X. Wang, K.D. Collerson, T.-S. Liu, U-series dating of dead Porites corals in the South China Sea: evidence for episodic coral mortality over the past two centuries, Quaternary Geochronology
[35] B.P. Li♥, J.-X. Zhao, A. Greig, K.D. Collerson, Y.-X. Feng, X.-M. Sun, M.-S. Guo, Z.-X. Zhuo, Characterisation of Chinese Tang sancai from Gongxian and Yaozhou kilns using ICP-MS trace element and TIMS Sr-Nd isotopic analysis, Journal of Archaeological Science (被媒體報導).
[36] K.F. Yu, J.X. Zhao*, G.J. Wei, X.R. Cheng, P.X. Wang, Mid-late Holocene monsoon climate retrieved from seasonal Sr/Ca and delta O-18 records of Porites lutea corals at Leizhou Peninsula, northern coast of South China Sea, Global and Planetary Change
[37] K.F. Yu, J.X. Zhao*, G.J. Wei, X.R. Cheng, T.G. Chen, T. Felis, P.X. Wang, T.S. Liu, delta O-18, Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca records of Porites lutea corals from Leizhou Peninsula, northern South China Sea, and their applicability as paleoclimatic indicators, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
[38] P.W. Williams, D.N.T. King, J.X. Zhao, K.D. Collerson, Late pleistocene to holocene composite speleothem O-18 and C-13 chronologies from south island, new Zealand-did a global younger dryas really exist?, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
[39] B.P. Li♥, A. Greig, J.X. Zhao, K.D. Collerson, K.S. Quan, Y.H. Meng, Z.L. Ma, ICP-MS trace element analysis of Song dynasty porcelains from Ding, Jiexiu and Guantai kilns, north China, Journal of Archaeological Science
[40] K.F. Yu, J.X. Zhao*, T.S. Liu, G.H. Wei, P.X. Wang, K.D. Collerson, High-frequency winter cooling and reef coral mortality during the Holocene climatic optimum, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
[41] M.J. Morwood, R.P. Soejono, R.G. Roberts, T. Sutikna, C.S.M. Turney, K.E. Westaway, W.J. Rink, J.X. Zhao, G.D. van den Bergh, R.A. Due, D.R. Hobbs, M.W. Moore, M.I. Bird, L.K. Fifield, Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia, Nature
[42] J.X. Zhao, Y.J. Wang, K.D. Collerson, M.K. Gagan, Speleothem U-series dating of semi-synchronous climate oscillations during the last deglaciation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
[43] J.X. Zhao, K.F. Yu, Timing of Holocene sea-level highstands by mass spectrometric U-series ages of a coral reef from Leizhou Peninsula, South China Sea, Chinese Science Bulletin
[44] G.J. Shen, W. Wang, Q. Wang, J.X. Zhao, K. Collerson, C.L. Zhou, P.V. Tobias, U-Series dating of Liujiang hominid site in Guangxi, Southern China, Journal of Human Evolution
[45] J.X. Zhao, Q.K. Xia, K.D. Collerson, Timing and duration of the Last Interglacial inferred from high resolution U-series chronology of stalagmite growth in the Southern Hemisphere, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
[46] J.X. Zhao, K. Hu, K.D. Collerson, H.K. Xu, Thermal ionization mass spectrometry U-series dating of a hominid site near Nanjing, China, Geology
[47] Q.K. Xia♥, J.X. Zhao*, K.D. Collerson, Early-Mid Holocene climatic variations in Tasmania, Australia: multi-proxy records in a stalagmite from Lynds Cave, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
[48] J.X. Zhao, D.J. Ellis, J.A. Kilpatrick, M.T. McCulloch, Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic study of charnockites and related rocks in the northern Prince Charles Mountains, east Antarctica: Implications for charnockite petrogenesis and Proterozoic crustal evolution, Precambrian Research
[49] D.N. Young♥, J.X. Zhao*, D.J. Ellis, M.T. McCulloch, Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic mapping of source provinces for the Mawson charnockites, east Antarctica: implications for Proterozoic tectonics and Gondwana reconstruction, Precambrian Research
[50] X.H. Li, J.X. Zhao*, M.T. McCulloch, G.Q. Zhou, F.M. Xing, Geochemical and Sm-Nd isotopic study of Neoproterozoic ophiolites from southeastern China: Petrogenesis and tectonic implications, Precambrian Research
[51] J.X. Zhao, K. Shiraishi, D.J. Ellis, J.W. Sheraton, Geochemical and Isotopic Studies of Syenites from the Yamato Mountains, East Antarctica - Implications for the Origin of Syenitic Magmas, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta
[52] J.X. Zhao, M.T. McCulloch, Geochemical and Nd Isotopic Systematics of Granites from the Arunta Inlier, Central Australia - Implications for Proterozoic Crustal Evolution, Precambrian Research
[53] J.X. Zhao, V.C. Bennett, Shrimp U-Pb Zircon Geochronology of Granites in the Arunta-Inlier, Central Australia - Implications for Proterozoic Crustal Evolution, Precambrian Research
[54] J.X. Zhao, M.T. McCulloch, R.J. Korsch, Characterization of a Plume-Related Similar-to-800 Ma Magmatic Event and Its Implications for Basin Formation in Central-Southern Australia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
[55] J.X. Zhao, Geochemical and Sm-Nd Isotopic Study of Amphibolites in the Southern Arunta Inlier, Central Australia - Evidence for Subduction at a Proterozoic Continental-Margin, Precambrian Research
[56] J.X. Zhao, M.T. McCulloch, Melting of a Subduction-Modified Continental Lithospheric Mantle - Evidence from Late Proterozoic Mafic Dike Swarms in Central Australia, Geology
[57] J.X. Zhao, M.T. McCulloch, Sm-Nd Mineral Isochron Ages of Late Proterozoic Dyke Swarms in Australia - Evidence for 2 Distinctive Events of Mafic Magmatism and Crustal Extension, Chemical Geology
[58] J.X. Zhao, J.A. Cooper, Fractionation of Monazite in the Development of V-Shaped Ree Patterns in Leukogranite Systems - Evidence from a muscovite leukogranite body in Central Australia, Lithos
[59] J.X. Zhao, M.T. McCulloch, V.C. Bennett, Sm-Nd and U-Pb Zircon Isotopic Constraints on the Provenance of Sediments from the Amadeus Basin, Central Australia - Evidence for REE Fractionation, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta
[60] J.X. Zhao, J.A. Cooper, The Atnarpa Igneous Complex, Southeast Arunta Inlier, Central Australia - Implications for Subduction at an Early Mid Proterozoic Continental-Margin, Precambrian Research
[61] Z. Fang, J.X. Zhao*, M.T. McCulloch, Geochemical and Nd Isotopic Study of Paleozoic Bimodal Volcanics in Hainan Island, South China - Implications for Rifting Tectonics and Mantle Reservoirs, Lithos
