中国科学技术大学地球和空间科学学院
固体地球物理学专业
教授,博士生导师。
承担国家自然科学基金委的面上项目,优秀青年科学基金项目,中科学先导专项(B)子课题以及基础科学中心项目。
2002年于中国科大地球物理专业获学士学位
2005年于中国科大获得地球物理学硕士学位
2010年于美国科罗拉多大学博得分校获地球物理学博士学位
2010年-2012 于美国加州理工学院从事博士后研究工作,获荣誉博士后称号(O.K. Earl Postdoctoral Fellowship)
2012年-现在,受聘中国科大。
近期的代表性论文如下(*为通讯作者):
(1) Huang, C.; Leng, W.*; Wu, Z.; The continually stable subduction, iron-spin transition and the formation of LLSVPs from subducted oceanic crust, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 2020, 125.
(2) Liu, H.; Leng, W.*; Plume-tree structure induced by low-viscosity layers in the upper mantle, Geophysical Research Letters, 2019, 47(e2019GL086508)
(3) Liu, H.; Wang, W.; Jia, X.; Leng, W.*; Wu, Z.; Sun, D., The combined effects of post-spinel and post-garnet phase transitions on mantle plume dynamics , Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018, 496:80-88.
(4) Liu, H.; Chen, F.; Leng, W.*; Zhang, H.; Xu, Y., Crustal footprint of the Hainan plume beneath southeast China, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 2018, 123(4): 3065-3079.
(5). Leng, W.*, and Gurnis, M., Subduction initiation at relic arcs, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL064985, 2015.
(6). Huang, C., Leng, W.*, and Wu, Z.Q., Iron-spin transition controls structure and stability of LLSVPs in the lower mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 423, 173-181,2015.
(7). Yang, T., and Leng, W.*, Dynamics of hidden hotspot tracks beneath the continental lithosphere, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 401, 294-300, 2014.
(8). Chu, R.*, Leng, W., Helmberger, D., and Gurnis, M., Hidden hotspot track beneath the eastern United States, Nature Geosci., doi:10.1038/NGEO1949, 4pp., 2013.
(9). Leng, W.*, and Gurnis, M., Plume shape in a compressible mantle with depth-dependent viscosity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L05310, 7pp., doi:10.1029/2012GL050959, 2012.