
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
ORCID: 0000-0002-0767-8573
Web of Science ResearcherID: AAC-9183-2022
Under review:
18. Wang H, Cai K, Li WR et al. Petrogenesis of early Earth's continental crust and its geodynamic implications: Constraints from thermodynamic-geochemical modelling and mineral hygrometers (under review). GCA
Published
2025
17. Wang P, Tan YJ, ... Li WR. (accepted) Source mechanism of impulsive seafloor events that track submarine lava flows. Science Advances
16. Davies, J. H., Panton, J., Altoe, I... Li WR... et al. (2025) How to assess similarities and differences between mantle circulation models and Earth using disparate independent observations. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 481(2315), 20240827. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0827
15. Li, W.R.*, Shorttle, O., Maclennan, J. et al. (2025) Taking the temperature of ocean islands: a petrological approach. Journal of Petrology, egaf033. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaf033
14. Li, W.R.* & Costa, F (2025) Leveraging radioisotope geochronology and diffusion chronometry to trace the thermal evolution of magmatic systems. National Science Review, nwaf141. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf141
2019-2024
13. Li, W.R.*, Bernard, O., Utami, S. B., & Phua, M. (2024). Volatile systematics in terrestrial igneous apatite: from microanalysis to decoding magmatic processes. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 179(7), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-024-02147-8
12. Lormand, C., Humphreys, M., Colby, D. J., Coumans, J. P., Chelle-Michou, C., & Li, W. Volatile Budgets and Evolution in Porphyry-Related Magma Systems, Determined Using Apatite. Lithos. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4688701
11. Zhang, Y., Namur, O., Li, W., Shorttle, O., Gazel, E., Jennings, E., Thy, P., Grove, T. L. & Charlier, B. (2023). An extended calibration of the olivine–spinel aluminum exchange thermometer: Application to the melting conditions and mantle lithologies of large igneous provinces. Journal of Petrology, 64(11), egad077. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egad077
10. Li, W.*, Costa, F, Oppenheimer, C. & Nagashima, K (2023). Volatile and trace element partitioning between apatite and alkaline melts. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 178 (2), 9. DOI: 10.1007/s00410-022-01985-8
9. Bernard, O., Li, W., Costa, F. Saunders, S., Itikarai, I., Sindang, M. & Bouvet de Maisonneuve, C. (2022) Explosive-effusive-explosive: The role of magma ascent rates and paths in modulating caldera eruptions. Geology. DOI: 10.1130/G50023.1
8. Yang, Q., Jenkins, S.F., Lerner, G.A., Li, W., et al. The Millennium Eruption of Changbaishan Tianchi Volcano is VEI 6, not 7. Bulletin of Volcanology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-021-01487-8
7. Li, W.*, Costa, F. & Nagashima K (2021). Apatite crystals reveal melt volatile budgets and magma storage depths at Merapi volcano, Indonesia. J Petrol. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaa100
6. Li, W.*, Chakraborty, S., Nagashima, K, & Costa, F (2020). Multicomponent diffusion of F, Cl, OH in apatite with application to magma ascent rates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 550, 116545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116545
5. Li, W.* & Costa, F (2020). A thermodynamic model for F-Cl-OH partitioning between apatite and melt including non-ideal mixing and applications to constraining melt volatile budgets, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 269, 203–222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.10.035
4. Schonwalder, D. A., Albert, H., Ngoc, T. L., Nguyen, X. P., Utami, S. B., Li, W., Phung, M. K., Widiwijayanti, C. & Costa, F. (2019) PWD: A Petrological Workspace & Database tool, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 20, 6095-6105. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008710
Before Ph.D.
3. Andreeva, O.A., Yarmolyuk, V.V., Andreeva, I.A., Ji, J.Q. Li, W. (2014), The composition and sources of magmas of Changbaishan Tianchi volcano (China-North Korea). Doklady Earth Sciences 456 (1), 572-578. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X14050213
2. Li, W., Ji, J., Sang, H., Zhou, J., Tu, J., Sa, X. & Ye, H. (2013), Laser 40Ar/39Ar isochron dating on Leizhou Quaternary volcanic rocks (in Chinese). Acta Petrologica Sinica. 29, 2775-2788. http://html.rhhz.net/ysxb/20130813.htm
1. Quan WuXun, Ji, Jianqing, Zhou, Jing, Li, Weiran, Tu, Jiyao (2013). Evaluation of K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar dating and Q value (in Chinese with English abstract). Acta Petrologica Sinica. 29, 2803-2810.
Talks and workshops at international conferences
(only showing invited talks or oral presentations as first/second author):
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(2026) Li, W.R. AOGS annual meeting, Fukuoka Japan (INVITED speaker)
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(2025) Li, W.R. SGGMP, Port Macquarie, Australia (INVITED keynote speaker)
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(2025) Li, W.R., Fonseca Teixeira, LM., Neave, D., Goldschmidt early career grant writing workshop, Prague Czech Republic, Organiser and lecturer
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(2025) Li, W.R., Phua M, Liu XY et al. IAVCEI scientific assembly conference, Geneva Switzerland, Oral presentation
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(2024) Li, W.R. 9th Young Scientist Forum of Earth Sciences, Xiamen China. INVITED Keynote speaker
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(2023) Li, W.R. Hutton X conference, Italy. INVITED Junior keynote speaker
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(2023) Li, W.R. The Geological Society of China, Annual Meeting, Hainan China. INVITED Keynote speaker
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(2021) Li, W., Costa F., & Oppenheimer C. AGU Fall Meeting (virtual).
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(2021) Bernard, O., Li, W., Costa, F. et al. EGU General Assembly (virtual).
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(2020) Li, W. & Costa, F. AGU Fall Meeting, virtual (INVITED).
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(2020) Li, W., Chakraborty, S., Nagashima, K, & Costa, F. JpGU-AGU joint meeting, virtual (INVITED).
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(2019) Li, W., Costa, F., & Nagashima, K. Goldschmidt Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
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(2018) Li, W., Costa, F., Chakraborty, S. et al. 16th International Symposium on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (EMPG), Clermont-Ferrand, France (BEST STUDENT AWARD).
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(2017) Li, W., Costa, F. et al. IAVCEI Scientific Assembly conference, Portland, USA.
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(2017) Li, W., Costa, F. et al. AOGS General Assembly conference, Singapore.