主持科研项目（12）项, 其中国家自然科学基金面上基金（2）项，青年基金（1）项, 浙江省重点基金（1）项 ，东海实验室基金（1）项，海洋二所青年英才计划基金（1）项。
在研：
【1】项目名称： 海底地震探测北冰洋加克洋中脊(75°E-100°E)超慢 速扩张洋壳精细结构及成因机制 
         经费来源：国家自然科学基金面上项目（42276064）
         起止年月：2023.01-2026.12         经费：55万元
【2】项目名称： 北冰洋加克洋中脊深部物质循环机制的海底地 震层析成像研究  
         经费来源：浙江省自然科学基金重点项目（LZ23D060004）
         起止年月：2023.01-2025.12         经费：30万元
【3】项目名称：东海CO2储层深部结构及大地震风险—基于海洋地震仪层析成像         
         经费来源：东海实验室（DH-2022KF0213）
         起止年月：2022.10.16-2023.12.31         经费：15万元
【4】项目名称：超慢速扩张北冰洋加克洋中脊海洋地壳结构的成因机制
         经费来源：中央级公益性科研院所基本科研业务费专项资金项目（JG2204 ）
         起止年月：2022.01-2024.01         经费：14万元

已结题：
【1】项目名称： 用地震层析成像方法探讨水在洋中脊特殊构造形成中的作 用- 以西南印
                              度洋中脊50 °E  为例
         经费来源：国家自然科学基金面上项目（41876060）
         起止年月：2019.01-2022.12         经费：62万元
【2】项目名称：西南印度洋中脊热液区地壳结构的纵横波联合反演 
         经费来源：国家自然科学基金青年基金（41506048）
         起止年月：2016.01-2018.12         经费：22万元
【3】项目名称：海底地震仪天然地震研究热点对西南印度洋中脊热液区的影响
         经费来源：海洋二所“青年英才计划” (QNYC201601)
         起止年月：2016.06-2019.06          经费：60万元
【4】项目名称：中英南极洲普里兹湾洋陆过渡带的地震构造研究
          经费来源：国家海洋局极地考察对外合作专项（201610）
          起止年月：2016.01-2018.12               经费：7.5万元
【5】项目名称：超慢速扩张西南印度洋中脊热液活动A区微震研究
          经费来源：国土资源部海底矿产资源重点实验室
                           (KLMMR-2014-B-07)
          起止年月：2015.1-2016.12                 经费：3万元
【6】项目名称：地震波形反演西南印度洋中脊龙旂热液区精细构造
         经费来源：海洋二所基本科研业务费 (JG1506)
         起止年月：2015.07-2017.06                 经费：10万元
【7】项目名称：热液活动区构造的主被动源地震联合研究
         经费来源：国际海域资源调查与开发“十二五”前沿性课题
                           (DY125-22-QY-03)
         起止年月：2015.05-2016.04                  经费：7.5万元
【8】项目名称：西南印度洋方面海上调查（120天）
         经费来源：国际海域资源调查与开发“十三五”课题
         起止年月：2020.01-2020.12                  经费：70万元

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10)Wei, Xiaodong, Weiwei Ding, Gail L. Christeson, Jiabiao Li, Aiguo Ruan, Xiongwei Niu, Jie Zhang, Yifeng Zhang, Pingchuan Tan, Zhaocai Wu, Aoxing Wang, Hanghang Ding, 2021, Mesozoic suture zone in the East China Sea: Evidence from wide-angle seismic profiles. Tectonophysics, 820, 229116.
11)Wei, Xiaodong, Aiguo Ruan, Weiwei Ding, Zhaocai Wu, Chongzhi Dong, Yanghui Zhao, Xiongwei Niu, Jie Zhang, Chunyang Wang, 2020. Crustal structure and variation in the southwest continental margin of the South China Sea: Evidence from a wide-angle seismic profile, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104557.
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13)Niu, Xiongwei, Dapeng Zhao, Yukio Isozaki, Yukihisa Nishizono, and Hirohito Inakura. 2020.  Structural Heterogeneity and Megathrust Earthquakes in Southwest Japan.  Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 298. 106347. doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2019.106347.
14)Niu, Xiongwei, Dapeng Zhao, and Jiabiao Li. 2018.  Precise Relocation of Low-Frequency Earthquakes in Northeast Japan: New Insight into Arc Magma and Fluids.  Geophysical Journal International 212 (2): 1183–1200.
15)Yu, Zhiteng, Jiabiao Li, Xiongwei Niu*, Nicholas Rawlinson, Aiguo Ruan, Wei Wang, Hao Hu, Xiaodong Wei, Jie Zhang, and Yuyang Liang. 2018.  Lithospheric Structure and Tectonic Processes Constrained by Microearthquake Activity at the Central Ultraslow‐Spreading Southwest Indian Ridge (49.2° to 50.8°E).  Journal of Geophysical Research 123 (8): 6247–62.
16)Yu, Zhiteng, Dapeng Zhao, Xiongwei Niu, and Jiabiao Li. 2018.  Spatiotemporal Distribution of Low-Frequency Earthquakes in Southwest Japan: Evidence for Fluid Migration and Magmatic Activity.  Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 151: 148–72.
17)Ruan, Aiguo, Hao Hu, Jiabiao Li, Xiongwei Niu, Xiaodong Wei, Jie Zhang, and Aoxing Wang. 2017.  Crustal Structure and Mantle Transition Zone Thickness beneath a Hydrothermal Vent at the Ultra-Slow Spreading Southwest Indian Ridge (49°39′E): A Supplementary Study Based on Passive Seismic Receiver Functions.  Marine Geophysical Research 38: 39–46.
18)Wei, Xiaodong, Aiguo Ruan, Jiabiao Li, Xiongwei Niu, Zhenli Wu, and Weiwei Ding. 2017.  S-Wave Velocity Structure and Tectonic Implications of the Northwestern Sub-Basin and Macclesfield of the South China Sea.  Marine Geophysical Research 38 (38): 125–36.
19)Yu, Zhiteng, Jiabiao Li, Weiwei Ding, Jie Zhang, Aiguo Ruan, and Xiongwei Niu. 2017.  Crustal Structure of the Southwest Subbasin, South China Sea, from Wide-Angle Seismic Tomography and Seismic Reflection Imaging.  Marine Geophysical Research 38: 85–104.
20)Niu, Xiongwei, Dapeng Zhao, Jiabiao Li, and Aiguo Ruan. 2016.  P Wave Azimuthal and Radial Anisotropy of the Hokkaido Subduction Zone.  Journal of Geophysical Research 121 (4): 2636–60.
21)Zhang, Jie, Jiabiao Li, Aiguo Ruan, Zhenli Wu, Zhiteng Yu, Xiongwei Niu, and Weiwei Ding. 2016.  The Velocity Structure of a Fossil Spreading Centre in the Southwest Sub‐basin, South China Sea.  Geological Journal 51: 548–61.
22)Ruan, Aiguo, Xiaodong Wei, Xiongwei Niu, Jie Zhang, Chongzhi Dong, Zhenli Wu, and Xinyang Wang. 2016.  Crustal Structure and Fracture Zone in the Central Basin of the South China Sea from Wide Angle Seismic Experiments Using OBS.  Tectonophysics 688: 1–10.
23)Niu, Xiongwei, Aiguo Ruan, Jiabiao Li, T. A. Minshull, Daniel Sauter, Zhenli Wu, Xuelin Qiu, Minghui Zhao, Y. John Chen, and Satish Singh. 2015.  Along-Axis Variation in Crustal Thickness at the Ultraslow Spreading Southwest Indian Ridge (50°E) from a Wide-Angle Seismic Experiment.  Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 16 (2): 468–85.
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25)Wei, Xiaodong, Aiguo Ruan, Minghui Zhao, Xuelin Qiu, Zhenli Wu, and Xiongwei Niu. 2015.  Shear Wave Velocity Structure of Reed Bank, Southern Continental Margin of the South China Sea.  Tectonophysics 644: 151–160.
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