• 1999-2003   Bachelor degree. School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
• 2003-2008   PhD degree. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.
• 2005-2006  Visiting scholar, Prairie View A&M University, USA.
• 2008-2010   Post-doctor. Peking University, Beijing, China.           
• 2009.4-2009.5 Visiting scholar, Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Irkutsk, Russia.
• 2010-2013  Post-doctor. Max-Planck Institute for solar system research.
• 2013-       Professor, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.

1. Comparative planetary space environment. 
2. Planetary magnetic field and habitability. 
3. Planetary ionospheric particle escape. 
4. Planetary magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling.

• 2013 Outstanding Young Scientist Award by European Geosciences Union.
• 2022 AOGS Distinguished Lecture

   

Full lists：       
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/H-5112-2011 
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rPUMOx0AAAAJ&hl=en 

1. Wei, Y., Z. Pu, Q. Zong, W. Wan, Z. Ren, M. Fraenz, E. Dubinin, F. Tian, Q. Shi, S. Fu, M. Hong (2014), Oxygen escape from the Earth during geomagnetic reversals: implications to mass extinction. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 394: 94-98. Doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.018
2. Wei, Y., M. Fraenz, E. Dubinin, M. He, Z. Ren, B. Zhao, J. Liu, W. Wan, K. Yumoto, S. Watari, S. Alex (2013), Can a nightside geomagnetic delta-H observed at equator manifest a penetration electric field? J. Geophys. Res., 118, 1-11, doi: 10.1002/jgra.50174. 
3. Wei, Y., M. Fraenz, E. Dubinin, J. Woch, H. Lühr, W. Wan, Q. Zong, T. Zhang, Z. Pu, S. Fu, S. Barabash, R. Lundin, I. Dandouras (2012), Enhanced atmospheric oxygen outflow on Earth and Mars driven by a corotating interaction region, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A03208, doi: 10.1029/2011JA017340.
   European Space Agency "Top Story":
   http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMXWW7YBZG_index_0.html
   http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=50113
4. Wei, Y., M. Fraenz, E. Dubinin, A. Coates, T. Zhang, W. Wan, L. Feng, A. Angsmann, A. Opitz, J. Woch, S. Barabash, R. Lundin (2012), A teardrop-shaped ionosphere at Venus in tenuous solar wind, Planet. Space Sci., V.73, 254-61, doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2012.08.024.
   European Space Agency "Top Story":
   http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/When_a_planet_behaves_like_a_comet
   http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=51315
5. Wei, Y., W. Wan, B. Zhao, M. Hong, A. Ridley, Z. Ren, M. Fraenz, E. Dubinin, M. He (2012), Solar wind density controlling penetration electric field at the equatorial ionosphere during a saturation of cross polar cap potential, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A09308, doi: 10.1029/2012JA017597. 
6. Wei, Y., Q. Zong, Z. Pu, W. Wan, J. Liu, S. Fu, Q. Shi (2011) Enhanced anti-sunward flow near local noon during a period of horizontal IMF and high solar wind velocity VY. Chinese Sci Bull, 2011, 56: 1117？1122, doi: 10.1007/s11434-011-4353-y. 
7. Wei, Y., W. Wan, Z. Pu, M. Hong, Q. Zong, J. Guo, B. Zhao, Z. Ren (2011), The transition to overshielding after sharp and gradual interplanetary magnetic field northward turning, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A01211, doi: 10.1029/2010JA015985. 
8. Wei, Y., M. Hong, Z. Pu, Q. Zong, T. Nagai, X. Cao, J. Wang, S. Fu, L. Xie, J. Guo, X. Liu (2011), Responses of the ionospheric electric field to the sheath region of ICME: A case study, J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys., 73, 123-129, doi: 10.1016/j.jastp.2010.03.004. 
9. Wei, Y., Z. Pu, M. Hong, Q. Zong, J. Liu, J. Guo, A. Ridley, W. Wan (2010), Long‐lasting goodshielding at the equatorial ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A12256, doi: 10.1029/2010JA015786. 
10. Wei, Y., Z. Pu, M. Hong, Q. Zong, Z. Ren, S. Fu, L. Xie, S. Alex, X. Cao, J. Wang, X. Chu (2009), Westward ionospheric electric field perturbations on the dayside associated with substorm processes, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A12209, doi: 10.1029/2009JA014445. 
11. Wei, Y., M. Hong, W. Wan, A. Du, J. Lei, B. Zhao, W. Wang, Z. Ren, X. Yue (2008), Unusually long lasting multiple penetration of interplanetary electric field to equatorial ionosphere under oscillating IMF Bz, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L02102, doi: 10.1029/2007GL032305. 
12. Wei, Y., M. Hong, W. Wan, A. Du, Z. Pu, M. Thomsen, Z. Ren, G. Reeves (2008), Coordinated observations of magnetospheric reconfiguration during an overshielding event, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L15109, doi: 10.1029/2008GL033972. 
13. Wei, Y., M. Hong, W. Wan, A. Du, (2008), A modeling study of interplanetary-equatorial electric field penetration efficiency, Chinese J. Geophys., 51(5), 909-915. 
14. Wei, Y., et al. (2005), A further study of multiple flux rope events at the magnetopause observed by TC-1 on 18 March 2004, Chinese J. Geophys., 49(3), 825-831.