1991年1994年在中國地質(zhì)大學(武漢)獲地球化學學士和碩士學位，1998年在中國科學院長沙大地構(gòu)造研究所獲構(gòu)造地質(zhì)學博士學位，1994-2001年在中國科學院長沙大地構(gòu)造研究所任助研、副研；2002-2013年在中國科學院廣州地球化學研究所任研究員，2014年入職中山大學。

科技部中青年科技創(chuàng)新領(lǐng)軍人才(2015)、國家杰出青年基金(2008)，新世紀百千萬人才工程國家級人選(2009)、中國科學院百人計劃(2013)、陜西省百人計劃(短期, 2012)；國務(wù)院政府特殊津貼(2012)、Sino-British Fellowship Trust Visitorship (2010)；中國礦物巖石地球化學學會侯德封青年科學家獎(2006)和中國地質(zhì)學會青年地質(zhì)科技銀錘獎(2006)。

“Precambrian Research”等刊物編委、現(xiàn)主要從事華南及鄰區(qū)地質(zhì)構(gòu)造及其動力學機制研究, 發(fā)表論文近150篇，是ESI全球地球科學領(lǐng)域高引用學者。

近五年第一作者代表性論文

Wang YJ, Zhang LM, Cawood, PA. Ma LY, Fan WM, Zhang AM, Zhang YZ, Bi XW. 2014. Eocene supra-subduction zone mafic magmatism in the Sibumasu Block of SW Yunnan: Implications for Neotethyan subduction and Indiau2013Asia collision. Lithos. 206-207 ,15-32

Wang YJ, Zhang YZ, Fan WM, Geng HY, Zou HP, Bi XW.2014. Early Neoproterozoic accretionary assemblage in the Cathaysia Block:Geochronological, Luu2013Hf isotopic and geochemical evidence fromgranitoid gneisses. Precambrian Research. 249,144-161

Wang Y.J., Fan W.M., Zhang G.W., Zhang Y.H.. 2013. Phanerozoic tectonics of the South China Block: Key observations and controversies. Gondwana Research. 23:1273-1305.

Wang Y.J., Zhang A.M., Cawood P.A., Fan W.M., Xu J.F., Zhang G.W., Zhang Y.Z.. 2013. Geochronological, geochemical and Nd-Hf-Os isotopic fingerprinting of an early Neoproterozoic arc-back-arc system in South China and its accretionary assembly along the margin of Rodinia. Precambrian Research 231,343-371

Wang Y.J., Zhang A.M., Fan W.M., Zhang Y.H.. 2013. Origin of paleosubduction -modified mantle for Silurian gabbro in the Cathaysia Block: Geochronological and geochemical evidence. Lithos. 160: 37-54.

Wang YJ, Xing XW, Cawood, PA, Lai SC, Fan WM, Liu HC, Zhang FF. 2013. Petrogenesis of early Paleozoic peraluminous granite in the Sibumasu Block of SW Yunnan and diachronous accretionary orogenesis along the northern margin of Gondwana. Lithos 182u2013183,67u201385

Wang Y.J., Wu C.M., Zhang A.M., Fan W.M., Zhang Y.H., Zhang Y.Z., Peng T.P., Yin C.Q.. 2012. Kwangsian and Indosinian reworking of the eastern South China Block: Constraints on zircon Uu2013Pb geochronology and metamorphism of amphibolites and granulites. Lithos. 150: 227-242.

Wang Y.J., Zhang A.M., Fan W.M., Zhao G.C., Zhang G.W., Zhang Y.Z., Zhang F.F.. 2011. Kwangsian crustal anatexis within the eastern South China Block: Geochemical, zircon U-Pb geochronological and Hf isotopic fingerprints from the gneissoid granites of Wugong and Wuyi-Yunkai Domains. Lithos. 127: 239-260

Wang Y.J., Zhang A.M., Fan W.M., Peng T.P., Zhang F.F., Zhang Y.H., Bi X.W.. 2010. Petrogenesis of late Triassic post-collisional basaltic rocks of the Lancangjiang tectonic zone, southwest China, and tectonic implications for the evolution of the eastern Paleotethys: Geochronological and geochemical constraints. Lithos. 120:529-546.

Wang Y.J., Zhang F.F., Fan W.M., Zhang G.W., Chen S.Y., Cawood P.A., Zhang A.M.. 2010. Tectonic setting of the South China Block in the early Paleozoic: Resolving intracontinental and ocean closure models from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology. Tectonics 29. doi:10.1029/ 2010TC002750