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Yawei WU 武亚威

Humboldt Research Fellow

Structural Geology · Rock Deformation · Subduction Interface Mechanics

wuyawei@pku.edu.cnORCID: 0009-0003-6981-3579Beijing, China

Research interests

Stress and strain partitioning along subduction interfaces; rheological heterogeneity in high-pressure rocks; microstructures and deformation mechanisms; transient coupling and deep slow slip; shear-zone kinematics and oblique convergence.

Education & research experience

Humboldt Research Fellowship

Awarded July 2026

GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences · Potsdam, Germany

Postdoctoral fellowship awarded in July 2026. Research stay planned for December 2026, with a focus on experimental rock deformation and subduction interface mechanics.

Host: Dr. Sarah Incel · Collaboration with the group of Onno Oncken

PhD in Structural Geology

Sep 2022 – Jul 2026

Peking University × Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences

Joint doctoral training on stress, deformation and rheological heterogeneity in the North Qilian paleo-subduction interface.

Supervisors: Jianxin Zhang & Bo Zhang

Visiting doctoral research

2024 – 2025

Lyon, France

One-year research exchange supported by the China Scholarship Council, extending work on high-pressure rocks and deformation processes.

Supervisor: Samuel Angiboust

Selected first-author publications

  1. Wu, Y., Zhang, J., Angiboust, S., Zhang, B., Mao, X. & Teng, X. (2026). Triassic Sinistral Transpression of the Overriding Plate in NE Tibet Driven by Oblique Subduction of the Paleo-Tethys. Tectonics, 45, e2025TC009154.doi:10.1029/2025TC009154
  2. Wu, Y., Angiboust, S., Zhang, J., Zhang, B., Mao, X. & Oncken, O. (2025). Stress heterogeneities in exhumed high-pressure rocks shed light on deep subduction interface transient coupling. Nature Communications, 16, 9116.doi:10.1038/s41467-025-64159-7
  3. Wu, Y., Zhang, J., Zhang, B., Mao, X., Lu, Z., Zhou, G., Teng, X. & Guo, Q. (2024). Early Paleozoic oblique convergence from subduction to collision: Insights from timing and structural style of the transpressional dextral shear zone in the Qilian orogen, northern Tibet of China. GSA Bulletin, 136, 1889–1915. First published online in 2023.doi:10.1130/B36947.1

Honors & funding

Methods & academic service

Core expertise — EBSD & MTEX: Advanced expertise in electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and crystallographic analysis with MTEX, applied to quantitative microstructural analysis and rock deformation.

Additional methods: Field structural analysis, metamorphic petrology and MATLAB.

Peer review: Invited reviewer for Tectonophysics.

Updated November 2026 · wuyawei.me · Humboldt Network profile