2002年于中国科大地球物理专业获学士学位

2005年于中国科大获得地球物理学硕士学位 

2010年于美国科罗拉多大学博得分校获地球物理学博士学位

2010年-2012 于美国加州理工学院从事博士后研究工作，获荣誉博士后称号（O.K. Earl Postdoctoral Fellowship）

2012年-现在，受聘中国科大。

目前正在承担国家自然科学基金委的面上项目,优秀青年科学基金项目以及科技部的973项目。

近期的代表性论文如下(*为通讯作者)：

(1). Leng, W.*, and Gurnis, M., Subduction initiation at relic arcs, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL064985, 2015.

(2). Huang, C., Leng, W.*, and Wu, Z.Q., Iron-spin transition controls structure and stability of LLSVPs in the lower mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 423, 173-181,2015.

(3). Yang, T., and Leng, W.*, Dynamics of hidden hotspot tracks beneath the continental lithosphere, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 401, 294-300, 2014.

(4). Chu, R.*, Leng, W., Helmberger, D., and Gurnis, M., Hidden hotspot track beneath the eastern United States, Nature Geosci., doi:10.1038/NGEO1949, 4pp., 2013.

(5). Leng, W.*, and Gurnis, M., Plume shape in a compressible mantle with depth-dependent viscosity, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L05310, 7pp., doi:10.1029/2012GL050959, 2012.

(6). Leng, W.*, Gurnis, M., and Asimow, P., From basalts to boninites: The geodynamics of volcanic expression during induced subduction initiation, Lithos., 4(6), 511-523, 2012.

(7). Leng, W.*, and Gurnis, M., Dynamics of subduction initiation with different evolutionary pathways, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 12, Q12018, doi:10.1029/2011GC003877, 2011.

(8). Leng, W.*, and Zhong, S.J., Surface subsidence by mantle plume and volcanic loading in large igneous provinces, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 291, 207-214, 2010.

(9). Leng, W.*, and Zhong, S.J., Constraints on viscous dissipation of plate bending from compressible mantle convection, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 297, 154-164, 2010.

(10). Leng, W.*, and Zhong, S.J., Constrols on plume heat flux and plume excess temperature, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B04408, doi:10.1029/2007JB005155, 2008.