1.边缘海海盆成因演化的地球化学研究；

2.火成岩岩石学：南海和越南地区新生代玄武岩成因研究；

3.地幔地球化学：幔源岩浆和包体的元素和同位素地球化学研究。

主持的项目主要有：

（1）自然科学基金青年项目“南海扩张初期洋壳增生的岩石地球化学研究（IODP-U1500站）” （2020-2022）；

（2）上海市人才计划项目“南海洋中脊玄武岩成因研究”（2017-2020）；

（3）同济大学自主原创基础研究项目“南海洋陆转换模式的洋壳岩石原位地球化学研究”（2021-2023）；

（4）博士后面上资助项目“南海西南次海盆中新世洋中脊玄武岩成因研究与构造意义”（2017-2018）

9、Yu, X., Liu, Z., Zeng, G. et al. 2022. Mantle plume-stagnant slab interaction controls the generation of a mixed mantle source for continental intraplate basalts. Lithos, 426-427: 106795. 下载

8、俞恂, 陈立辉. 2020. 弧后盆地玄武岩的成分变化及其成因. 岩石学报, 36: 1953-1972.下载

7、Yu, X., Liu, Z. 2020. Non-mantle-plume process caused the initial spreading of the South China Sea. Scientific Reports, 10:8500, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65174-y. 下载

6、Yu, X., Zeng, G., Chen, L.-H. et al. 2019. Evidence for rutile-bearing eclogite in the mantle sources of the Cenozoic Zhejiang basalts, eastern China. Lithos, 324-325, 152-164. 下载

5、Yu, X., Zeng, G., Chen, L.-H. et al. 2018. Magma-magma interaction in the mantle recorded by megacrysts from Cenozoic basalts in eastern China. International Geology Review, doi: 10.1080/00206814.2018.1446190.下载

4、Yu, X., Chen, L.-H., Zeng, G. 2017. Magmatic recharge buffers the isotopic compositions against crustal contamination in formation of continental flood basalts. Lithos, 284-285, 1-10. 下载

3、Yu, X., Lee, C.-T. 2016. Critical porosity of melt segregation during crustal melting: constraints from zonation of peritectic garnets in a dacite volcano. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.025. 下载

2、Yu, X., Chen, L.-H., Zeng, G. 2015. Growing magma chambers control the distribution of small-scale flood basalts. Scientific Reports 5: 16824. doi: 10.1038/srep 16824. 下载

1、Yu, X., Lee, C.-T., Chen, L.-H. et al. 2015 Magmatic recharge in continental flood basalts: insights from the Chifeng igneous province in Inner Monogolia. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi: 10.1002/2015GC00585.