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Benjun Wu
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Personal Profile

Educational Background

EDUCATION


2006 – 2011，Ph.D,   Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 

                                    Johns Hopkins University


2003 – 2006，M.Sc.,  Department of Earth Sciences, 

                                     Nanjing University


1999 – 2003，B.Sc.,   Department of Earth Sciences, 

                                     Nanjing University



Work Experience

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE

    

    2013 – now,   Associate Professor,          

                                      School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, 

                                      Nanjing University

    

    2011 – 2013,  Postdoctoral Associate,    

                                      Department of Geology and Geophysics, 

                                      Yale University


Academic Service

Research Intersets

RESEARCH  INTERESTS

  

  

  

        

        Subduction processes

        Dynamics of the Earth's Mantle

        Plate tectonics on the early Earth

        The structure of the deep Earth's interior

        The internal structure and geodynamics of Mars

        Integration of machine learning and physical modelling

  



COURSES  TAUGHT


        Introduction to Continuum Mechanics    (连续介质力学)

        Introduction to Geodynamics    (地球动力学)      

        Geological Field Mapping    (地质综合实习)

        Geophysics and Geodynamics    (地球物理与动力学)

        Deep Structure and Geodynamics    (深部构造)



PUBLICATIONS (* Corresponding author)

  

X. Wang, H. Wu, H. Wang, Benjun Wu*, Z. Huang*. 2022. Rayleigh wave tomography of central and southern Mongolia. Tectonophysics, 836, 229426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229426

Z. Zhang, Benjun Wu,T. Wang, H. Hui*. 2020. Settling of Immiscible Droplets: A Theoretical Model for the Missing Link Between Microscopic and Outcrop Observations[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(6). 

T. Lyu, Z. Zhu, Benjun Wu*. 2019. Subducting slab morphology and mantle transition zone upwelling in double-slab subduction models with inward-dipping directions. Geophysical Journal International, 218(3), 2089–2105. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz268

Benjun Wu, H. H. Xia, T. Wang*, and X. Shi. 2018. Simulation of core phases from coda interferometry.Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JB015405 

Benjun Wu*, P. Driscoll, and P. Olson. 2011. A Statistical Boundary Layer Model for the Mantle D Region. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 116, B12112.

C. P. Conrad*,Benjun Wu, E. I. Smith, T. A. Bianco, and A. Tibbetts. 2010. Shear-driven upwelling induced by lateral viscosity variations and asthenospheric shear: A mechanism for intraplate volcanism. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 178, 162-175. [highlighted in Nature Geoscience, 3, 78, 2010].

Benjun Wu, C. P. Conrad*, A. Heuret, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, and S. Lallemand. 2008. Reconciling strong slab pull and weak plate bending: The plate motion constraint on the strength of mantle slabs. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272,412–421.




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