主要从事造山带结构-构造解析，扎根新疆，聚焦中亚造山带西段，通过解剖造山带弧前盆地、俯冲-增生杂岩、高压/超高压变质带等地体的物质组成、构造变形、以及运动学特征，厘定其大地构造单元属性、时空配置关系，以及构造古地理演化。服务于“一带一路”新疆-中亚跨境矿产能源领域的基础研究。

(1) 国家自然科学基金委，面上项目，吉尔吉斯南天山增生杂岩结构-构造解析及其意义，2021-2024，61万元，主持；

(2) 国家自然科学基金委，基础科学中心项目，“大陆演化与季风系统演变”委托项目，2023-2024，315万元，主持；

(3) 科技部第三次新疆综合科考项目，子课题，阿尔泰多岛洋增生成矿系统优势矿产资源综合调查和评价，2022-2025，70万元，主持；

(4) 中国科学院西部之光项目，铁克里克前陆褶皱冲断带结构-构造解析，2018-2020，40万元，主持；

(5) 中石油勘探开发研究院项目，天山周缘晚古生代-中生代区域构造与盆地格局，2022-2025，93万，主持；

(6) 自治区重大专项“丝路沿线造山带大型矿产资源系统和地质大数据工程”的企业自筹匹配项目“新疆东昆仑锑成矿地质条件和成矿预测研究”，2022-2024，390万，主持；

(1) Miao Sang, Wenjiao Xiao*, He Yang, Yin Liu, Peng Huang, Qigui Mao, Zhou Tan, Jingmin Gan, Hao Wang, Rui Li, Zhiheng Ren, Ziyuan Li, Mengqi Gao;Early Ordovician to Early Permian tectonic evolution of the northern Western Kunlun Orogen (NW China):Insights from the Omixia Complex and surrounding rocks[J]. Geological Journal, 2024,59(7),2051-2071.

(2) Miao Sang,Zhou Tan*,Wenjiao Xiao*, Qigui Mao,Hao Wang,Rui Li,Qingqing Qiao;Formation of the eclogites of the Atbashi complex,Kyrgyzstan,in a subduction zone mélange diapir[J]. Communications Earth & Environment,2023,doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-01106-8

(3) Miao Sang,Wenjiao Xiao*;Brian F. Windley,Qigui Mao,Zhiyong Zhang,Hao Wang,He Yang,Songjian Ao,Dongfang Song,Jingmin Gan,Zhixin Zhang,Liang Li;From Middle Neoproterozoic Extension to Paleozoic Accretion and Collision of the Eastern Tiklik Belt (the Western Kunlun Orogen,NW China) [J]. Minerals,2022,12(166):1-19.

(4) Miao Sang, Wenjiao Xiao*,Qinglai Feng,Brian F. Windley;Radiolarian age and geochemistry of cherts from the Atbashi accretionary complex,Kyrgyz South Tianshan[J]. Geological Journal, 2020,55(12):8329-8338.

(5) Miao Sang, Wenjiao Xiao*,Brian F. Windley;Unravelling a Devonian–Triassic seamount chain in the South Tianshan high‐pressure/ultrahigh‐pressure accretionary complex in the Atbashi area (Kyrgyzstan) [J]. Geological Journal, 2020,55(3):2300-2317.

(6) Miao Sang, Wenjiao Xiao*,Rustam Orozbaev,Apas Bakirov,Kadyrbek Sakiev,Nikolay Pak,Elena Ivleva,Kefa Zhou,Songjian Ao,Qingqing Qiao,Zhixin Zhang;Structural styles and zircon ages of the South Tianshan accretionary complex,Atbashi Ridge,Kyrgyzstan: Insights for the anatomy of ocean plate stratigraphy and accretionary processes[J]. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,2018,153: 9-41.

(7) Miao Sang,Wenjiao Xiao*,Apas Bakirov,Rustam Orozbaev,Kadyrbek Sakiev,Kefa Zhou;Oblique wedge extrusion of UHP/HP complexes in the Late Triassic: structural analysis and zircon ages of the Atbashi Complex,South Tianshan,Kyrgyzstan[J]. International Geology Review,2017,59: 1369-1389.

(8) Peng Huang,Zhen Yan,Wenjiao Xiao*,Miao Sang*,Qigui,Mao,Nijiati Abuduxun;Early cretaceous multi-stage extension in the North Dabie complex in the eastern central China: insights from structural and geochronological data. Frontiers in Earth Science,2024,doi: 10.3 389/feart.2024.1354317.

(9) Xiaoliang Jia,Wenjiao Xiao*,Miao Sang*,Mingguo Zhai,Liang Li,Peng Huang,Shaole An,Qigui Mao,Zhou Tan,Hao Wang;Early Ordovician to early Silurian forearc accretionary processes in front of the Selety–Stepnyak arc in the Kokchetav area,northern Kazakhstan: implications for continental growth in the northwestern Altaids. International Journal of Earth Sciences,2023,doi.org/10.1 007/s00531- 023-02347- w.

(10) Dzhovid Yogibekov,Miao Sang*,Wenjiao Xiao*,Yunus Mamadjanov,Chuanming Zhou,He Yang,Qigui Mao,Jovid Aminov,Gufron Khalimov,Sohib Ashuraliev;Post-collisional magmatism associated with the final closure of the Rushan-Pshart Meso-Tethys Ocean in Pamir,Tajikistan: Inference Cretaceous igneous rocks of the Pshart accretionary complex. Frontiers in Earth Science,2022,doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.1090952.

(11) Gufron Khalimov,He Yang*,Miao Sang*,Wenjiao Xiao*,Yunus Mamadjanov,Jovid Aminov,Dzhovid Yogibekov and Xijun Liu;Late Paleozoic Shoshonitic Magmatism in the Southwestern Middle Tianshan (Tajikistan) of the Southwestern Altaids: Implications for Slab Roll-Back With Extensional Arc-Related Basins After Flat Subduction. Frontiers in Earth Science,2022,doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.893751.

(12) Qigui Mao*,Wenjiao Xiao*,Miao Sang*,Songjian Ao;Dongfang Song,Zhou Tan,Hao Wang,Rui Li;Two different types of provenances and the amalgamation of subduction complexes in the Eastern Tianshan of the Southern Altaids. Frontiers in Earth Science,2022,doi: 10.3389/ feart.2022.1089700.

(13) Dzhovid Yogibekov,Miao Sang,Wenjiao Xiao*,Brian F. Windley,Yunus Mamadjonov,He Yang,Peng Huang,Jovid Aminov,Furkat Vatanbekov;Late Paleozoic to Late Triassic northward accretion and incorporation of seamounts along the northern South Pamir: Insights from the anatomy of the Pshart accretionary complex. Geological Journal,2020,doi: 10.1002/gj.3906.