毛伟，中国科学院大学副教授，博士生导师，主要从事地球动力学数值模拟研究，入选2024年国家青年人才（海外）计划。2021年取得美国科罗拉多大学博尔德分校博士学位，之后在美国加州理工学院从事博士后研究工作。主要研究方向为地球动力学，包括地幔对流过程、俯冲带动力学过程以及地震活动和行星科学等，在Nature Geoscience，JGR，GRL等国内外刊物发表论文9篇。

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2016-2021 美国科罗拉多大学，固体地球物理，博士 

2013-2016 中国科学技术大学，固体地球物理，硕士 

2009-2013 中国科学技术大学，固体地球物理，学士

2025-至今  中国科学院大学地球与行星科学学院，长聘教轨助理教授

2021-2024 美国加州理工学院地震学实验室， 博士后

1. Shunjie Han, Tao Yuan, Wei Mao, and Shijie Zhong. (2024). The persisting conundrum of mantle viscosity inferred from mantle convection and glacial isostatic adjustment processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 648, 119069

2. Erin Hightower, Michael Gurnis, Wei Mao, (2024). Influence of Farallon slab loading on intraplate stress and seismicity in eastern North America in the presence of pre-existing weak zones. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25, e2024GC011493

3. Wei Mao, Michael Gurnis, Wenbo Wu, (2022). On the origin of small-scale seismic scatters at 660-km depth. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23, 2022GC010560

4. Kang Kaixuan, Shijie Zhong, A Geruo, Wei Mao, (2022). The effects of non-Newtonian rheology in the upper mantle on relative sea level change and geodetic observables induced by glacial isostatic adjustment process. Geophysical Journal International, 228, 1887-1906.

5. Wei Mao, Shijie Zhong, (2021). Formation of horizontally deflected slabs in the mantle transition zone caused by spinel-to-post-spinel phase transition, its associated grainsize reduction effects, and trench retreat. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL093679.

6. Wei Mao, Shijie Zhong, (2021). Constraints on mantle viscosity from intermediate-wavelength geoid anomalies in mantle convection models with plate motion history. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(4), e2020JB021561.

7. Wei Mao, Shijie Zhong, (2019). Controls on global mantle convective structures and their comparison with seismic models. Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, 124(8), 9345-9372

8. Wei Mao, Shijie Zhong, (2018). Slab stagnation due to a reduced viscosity layer beneath the mantle transition zone. Nature Geoscience, 11(11), 876-881

9. Wei Leng, Wei Mao, (2015). Geodynamic modeling of thermal structure of subduction zones, Science China Earth Science, 58(7), 1070-1083