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Name  
 WANG Wei
Title  
   Special-term Professor
Highest Education  
   Ph.D.
Subject Categories  
   Geophysics
Phone  
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Zip Code  
   100029
Fax  
   010-62010846
Email  
   weiwang053[a]mail.iggcas.ac.cn; weiwang053[a]gmail.com
Office  
   No.19 Beitucheng West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, China

Education and Appointments：
  • 2022.10 - now      Special-term Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 2019.09 - 2022.08  Postdoc Scholar, University of Southern California
  • 2013.09 - 2019.08  Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
  • 2010.09 - 2013.06  M.S., School of Earth and Spaces, University of Science and Technology of China
  • 2006.09 - 2010.06  B.S., School of the Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China

Research Interests：
  1. Earth Interior structure
  2. Scattering and intrinsic attenuation
  3. Multi-scale earthquake triggering
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Publications：
  1. Zheng J., Wang W.*, Zhang J.*, Detecting dominant tidal periodicities of earthquakes and its application in Japan, Seismol. Res. Lett.
  2. Zhang H., Vidale J., Wang W., Aftershocks on the Planar Rupture Surface of the Deep-Focus MW 7.9 Bonin Islands Earthquake, The Seismic Record.
  3. Zhang Z., Wang W., Liu J., Zhang Y., Zhang Z. (2024), Oxygen driving hydrogen into the inner core and the composition of the Earth’s core, Geophys. Res. Lett.
  4. Yang F., Li J., Yu C., Chen S., Li Y., Zhang Z., Wang W. (2024), Complicated thermo-chemical heterogeneity of the mantle transition zone beneath the Philippine Sea Plate revealed by SS precursors investigation, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett, 648, 119092.
  5. Wang R., Vidale J., Wang W. (2024), No temporal change seen in high-frequency waves scattered near the Core-Mantle Boundary, Geophys. Res. Lett, 51(23), e2024GL112155.
  6. Zhang H., Vidale J., Wang W. (2024), Scattering evidence for an ancient subducted slab using the novel raypath P*PKP, Geophys. Res. Lett. 51, e2024GL110130.
  7. Wang, W., Vidale, J., Pang, P., Koper, P., Wang, R. (2024), Inner core backtracking by seismic waveform change reversals. Nature, 631, 340–343.
  8. Zhang, L., Li C., J. Zhang, B. Zhou, Y. S. Zhao, Y. Liu, K. Di, R. N. Mitchell, J. Li, Z. Zhang, L. Chen, X. Liang, W. Sun, Y. Liu, X. Zhao, J. Hao, C. Xu, Y. Zheng, Y. Wang, X. Wang, P. Zhao, W. Lv, Y. Li, H. Lan, Y. Li, W. Wang, Y. Lu, H. Lin, P. Fang, W. Lin, Y. Wei, L. Chen, G. Fang, Y. Lin, Z. Yao, Y. Pan, 2023. Buried palaeo-polygonal terrain detected underneath Utopia Planitia on Mars by the Zhurong radar. Nat. Astron., doi: 10.1038/s41550-023-02117-3. 
  9. Li, G., Zhang, Z., Niu, X., Liu, J., Li, J., Wang, W., & Zhang, Z. (2023). Equations of state and phase boundaries of SiO2 polymorphs under lower mantle conditions. J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 128(10), e2023JB026774.
  10. Zhao, X., Xiao, Z., Wang, W., Li, J., Zhao, M., Chen, S., & Tang, L. (2023). Fine seismogenic fault structures and complex rupture characteristics of the 2022 M6. 8 Luding, Sichuan earthquake sequence revealed by deep learning and waveform modeling. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50(18), e2023GL102976.
  11. Ma, H., Chu, R., Sheng, M., Wei, Z., Zeng, X., & Wang, W. (2023). Source characteristics of icequakes caused by surface crevasses on Urumqi Glacier No. 1, Tianshan, China. Geophys. J. Int., 234(1), 620-635.
  12. Pang, G., Koper, K. D., Wu, S. M., Wang, W., Lasbleis, M., & Euler, G. (2023). Enhanced inner core fine-scale heterogeneity towards Earth’s centre. Nature, 1-6.
  13. Tian, D., Wei, S. S., Wang, W., & Wang, F. (2022). Stress Drops of Intermediate‐Depth and Deep Earthquakes in the Tonga Slab. J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 127(10), e2022JB025109.
  14. Ma, S., Li, Z., & Wang, W. (2022). Machine learning of source spectra for large earthquakes. Geophys. J. Int., 231(1), 692-702.
  15. Li J., Chen S., He X., Wang W., Yang F. (2022). Mid-lower mantle scatterers: Detection methods, research progress and prospect. Rev. Geophys. Planet. Phys., 53(0): 1-15 (in Chinese).
  16. Wang W., Vidale J., Seismological observation of Earth’s oscillating inner core, Sci. Adv., doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abm9916
  17. Wang, W., Vidale, J.E. (2022). An initial map of fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth’s inner core, Nat. Geosci., 15(3), 240-244.
  18. Wang W., Shearer P., Vidale J., Xu X., Trugman D., Fialko Y. (2022). Tidal modulation of seismicity at the Coso geothermal field, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 579, 117335.
  19. Wang W., and Vidale, J. (2022). Earth’s inner core rotation, 1971 to 1974, illuminated by the inner-core scattered waves, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 577, 117214.
  20. Sun J., Gao Y., Tong P., He X., and Wang W. (2021), Seismic responses to an earthquake source in stratified transversely isotropic porous media, Geophys. Prospect., 69: 1336-1357.
  21. Huang H., Meng L., Bürgmann R., Wang W., and Wang K. (2020). Spatio-temporal foreshock evolution of the 2019 M 6.4 and M 7.1 Ridgecrest, California earthquakes. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 551, 116582.
  22. Shearer P., Abercrombie R., Trugman D., and Wang W. (2019), Comparing EGF Methods for Estimating Corner Frequency and Stress Drop from P-wave Spectra, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, doi: 10.1029/2018JB016957.
  23. Wang W. and Shearer P. (2019), An improved method to determine coda-Q, earthquake magnitude and site amplification: theory and application to southern California, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 124, doi: 10.1029/2018JB015961.
  24. Wang W. and Shearer P. (2017), Using direct and coda wave envelopes to resolve the scattering and intrinsic attenuation structure of Southern California, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth 120 (9), 7236-7251.
  25. Wang W. and Shearer P. (2015), No clear evidence for localized tidal periodicities in earthquakes in the central Japan region, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth 120 (9), 6317-6328.
  26. Huang F., Chen L., Wu Z., Wang W. (2013), First-principles investments of equilibrium Mg isotope fractionations in garnet, cpx, opx, and ol: implications for Mg isotope thermometry, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 367 61-70, 2013.
  27. Dai Z.†, Wang W.†, and Wen L. (2012), Irregular topography at the Earth's inner core boundary, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., doi:10.1073/pnas.1116342109 († Equal Contribution).
 
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