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Assistant Professor Yi-Wei Chen

Education
2011 B.S. at National Taiwan University, Taiwan
2014 M.Sc at National Taiwan University, Taiwan
2021 Ph.D. at the University of Houston, USA

 

Experiences
2021-2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Houston, USA
2022-2025 Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Technical University of Munich, Germany
2025-today Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University, Taiwan

 

Honors
2014 The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China
2014 Dean's Award - College of Science, National Taiwan University
2021 Outstanding Graduate Award in Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (University of Houston)
2025 National Science and Technology Council Announcement for 2030 Cross-Generation Young Scholars Program

[Pubications]

  1. Chen, Y. W., Wu, J., Bunge HP, Stotz I., Robl G. and Schuberth B.S.A (2025) Tomopac2: an unfolded-slab plate reconstruction validated via mantle circulation models in a closed-loop experiment. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, v. 481, no. 2318, p. 20240726.
  2. Chen, Y. W., Wu, J., & Goes, S. (2024). Lesser Antilles slab reconstruction reveals lateral slab transport under the Caribbean since 50 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 627, 118561.
  3. Chen, Y. W., Colli, L., Bird, D.E. Wu, J., Zhu, H. (2021) Caribbean plate tilted and actively dragged eastwards by low-viscosity asthenospheric flow. Nat Commun 12, 1603.
  4. Li, L. and Chen, Y. W., Zheng, Y., Hu, H., and Wu, J. (2019) Seismic Evidence for Plume-Slab Interaction by High-resolution Imaging of the 410-km Discontinuity Under Tonga. Geophysical Research Letters, 46.
  5. Chen, Y. W., Wu, J., Suppe, J. (2019). Southward propagation of Nazca subduction along the Andes. Nature, 565(7740), 441-447.
  6. Chen, Y. W., J. B. H. Shyu, and C.-P. Chang (2015). Neotectonic characteristics along the eastern flank of the Central Range in the active Taiwan orogen inferred from fluvial channel morphology. Tectonics, 34,2249–2270.

Additional Info

  • Position: Assistant Professor
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  • Tel: (02)3366-2926
  • Field:

    1.Global Plate Tectonics

    2.Mantle Geodynamics

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