1991-1998年，于中科院地质所工作，任实习研究员和助理研究员，主要从事东南极中山站所在的拉斯曼丘陵(Larsemann Hills)地区麻粒岩相变质岩的变质演化历史研究，曾于1991和1997年两次参加中国南极科学考察队(中山站)。1999-2004年期间，于澳大利亚墨尔本大学地球科学学院变质地质学专业攻读博士学位，从事东南极茹尔群岛(Rauer Group)含假蓝宝石超高温(UHT)变质岩及南澳高温变质岩变质演化历史的研究，获博士学位，曾于1999年参加澳大利亚南极科学考察队(戴维斯站)。2005-2007年期间，于台湾中央研究院地球科学研究所进行博士后研究工作，主要从事苏鲁-大别超高压(UHP)变质榴辉岩的大陆深俯冲过程与变质历史研究。2007年12月经“引进海外杰出人才计画”答辩，以学术带头人身份到广州地化所工作。

变质岩石学/变质地质学，主要研究超高温(UHT)变质岩的变质演化历史及其大地构造背景以及超高压(UHP)变质榴辉岩的大陆深俯冲与剥蚀过程。

1. Wang Y., Liu D., Chung S.L., Tong L. & Ren L., 2008. SHRIMP zircon U-Pb age constraints from the Larsemann Hills region, Prydz Bay, for a late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic tectonothermal event in east Antarctica. American Journal of Science

2.Wang Y., Tong L., Liu D., 2007. Zircon U-Pb ages from an ultra-high temperature metapelite, Rauer Group, east Antarctica: implications for overprints by Grenvillian and Pan-African events. In: U.S. Geological Survey and The Academies; USGS Open-File Report

3.Wilson C.J.L., Quinn C., Tong L. & Phillips D., 2007. Early Palaeozoic intracratonic shears and post-tectonic cooling in the Rauer Group, Prydz Bay, east Antarctica constrained by Ar/Ar thermochronology. Antarctic Science

4.Tong L., Jahn B.M., Iizuka Y. & Xu Z., 2007. Assemblages and textural evolution of UHP eclogites from the Chinese Continental Scientific Drilling main hole. International Geology Review

5.Tong L. & Wilson C.J.L., 2006. Tectonothermal evolution of the ultrahigh temperature metapelites from the Rauer Group, east Antarctica. Precambrian Research

6.Tong L., Wilson C.J.L. & Vassallo J.J., 2004. Metamorphic evolution and reworking of the Sleaford Complex metapelites in the southern Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

7.Tong L., Wilson C.J.L. & Liu X., 2002. A high-grade event of ~1100 Ma preserved within the ~500 Ma mobile belt of the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica: further evidence from Ar-Ar dating, Terra Antartica,

8.Li Z., Tong L., Liu X., Ren L., Jin M. & Liu M., 2000. Quadrupole splitting distributions in grandidierite and kornerupine from Antarctica. Hyperfine Interactions

9.Tong L., Liu X., Zhang L., Chen H., Chen F., Wang Y. & Ren L., 1998. The Ar-Ar ages of hornblendes in Grt-Pl-bearing amphibolite from the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica and their geological implications. Chinese Journal of Polar Science

10.Tong L. & Liu X., 1997. The prograde metamorphism of the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica: evidence for an anticlockwise P-T path. The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes, ed. Ricci C.A., Terra Antartica Publication, Siena

11.Tong L., Liu X., Xu P., Han X., Zhao Y., Ren L. & Wang Y., 1997. Discovery of sapphirine-bearing hyperthene quartzite in the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica and its geological significance. Chinese Science Bulletin