吴乃琴，女，1956年9月生于盐城市，1982年毕业于南京大学地质系，1985年在中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所获硕士学位，1989年同济大学海洋地质系获博士学位。中国科学院地质与地球物理学研究所研究员。研究方向第四纪地质学；古环境学，古气候学，古生态学；古生物地层学；生物地球化学。先后主持和参加了多项中华人民共和国国家自然科学基金委员会，科学院重大项目和重点基础研究发展规划项目。已发表研究论文40余篇。

吴乃琴研究员选择晚新生代以来陆相风尘沉积中陆生软体动物门化石作为研究对象，开展系统的黄土生物地层学研究工作。从现生黄土蜗牛化石组合着手，确定现生蜗牛组合与气候环境因子的定量关系。建立晚中新世以来蜗牛化石的组合序列，定性－半定量的恢复地质历史时期气候环境状况，在轨道时间尺度上探讨东亚冬夏季风变化的阶段性、周期性，及季节性变化特征，在百－千年时间尺度上探索黄土高原的温湿度传感器的不同时性，探讨特征时段黄土高原区域性的气候环境状况及可能的原因与机制。

自然科学基金项目：末次冰消期以来黄土高原陆生软体动物门生物多样性变化对气候转暖过程的响应（2013-2016）；

自然科学基金项目：黄土高原早更新世生物化石研究及7Ma以来蜗牛化石序列的建立（2010-2012）；

黄土区生物多样性：科学院战略先导科技专项（碳专项）-项目12大暖期中原地区环境格局-专题3。

Li Fengjiang, Wu Naiqin, Lu Houyuan, Zhang Jianping, Wang Weilin, Ma Mingzhi, Zhang Xiaohu, Yang Xiaoyan, 2013, Mid- Neolithic exploitation of mollusks in the Guanzhong Basin of Northwestern China: Preliminary results. PLOS ONE.

Deke Xu, Houyuan Lu, Naiqin Wu, Zhenxia Liu, Tiegang Li, Caiming Shen, Luo Wang, 2013, Asynchronous marine-terrestrial signals of the last deglacial warming in East Asia associated with low- and high-纬度 climate changes. PNAS.

Huang , L.P., Wu, N.Q., Gu, Z. Y., Chen, X. Y., 2012, Variability of snail growing season at the 汉语词类 Loess 高原 during the last 75 ka. Chinese Science Bulletin.

B. Wu, N.Q.Wu, 2011, Terrestrial mollusk records from Xifeng and Luochuan L9 loess strata and their implications for paleocmilatic evolution in the Chinese Loess Plateau during marine 氧 Isotope Stages 24-22. Climate of the Past.

Li Fengjiang, Wu Naiqin, 2010, Pliocene land snail record from western 汉语词类 Loess 高原 and implications for impacts of summer insolation gradient between middle and low latitudes on the East Asian summer monsoon. Global and Planetary Change.

Rousseau DenisDidier, Wu Naiqin, Pei Yunpeng, Li Fengjiang, 2009, Three exceptionally strong East-Asian summer monsoon events during glacial times in the past 470 kyr. Climate of the Past.

Li Fengjiang, Rousseau DenisDidier, Wu Naiqin（Corre.author）, Hao Qingzhen, Pei Yunpeng, 2008, Late Neogene evolution of the East Asian monsoon revealed by terrestrial mollusk record in western 汉语词类 Loess Plateau: from winter to summer dominated sub-regime. 地球 and Planetary Science Letters.

Wu, N. Q., Chen, X. Y., Rousseau D. D., Li, F. J., Pei. Y. P., Wu, B., 2007, Climatic conditions recorded by terrestrial mollusc assemblages in the Chinese Loess Plateau during marine 氧 Isotope Stages 12-10. Quaternary Sciences 商品评价

Li Fengjiang, Wu Naiqin, Pei Yunpeng, Hao Qingzhen, Rousseau DenisDidier, 2006, Wind-blown Origin of Dongwan late Miocene-Pliocene dust 序列 documented by land snail record in western 汉语词类 Loess 高原 Geology.

Wu, N. Q., Pei, Y. P., Lu, H. Y., Guo, Z. T., Li, F. J., Liu, T. S., 2006, Marked ecological shifts during 6.2-2.4 Ma revealed by a terrestrial molluscan record from the 汉语词类 Red Clay Formation and implication for palaeoclimatic 翼豪陆神 Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, 古生态学

Wu, N.Q., Liu, T. S., Liu, X. P., Gu, Z. Y., 2002, Mollusk record of millennia climate variability in the Loess 高原 during the Last Glacial Maximum. Boreas.

Wu, N.Q., Rousseau, D. D., Liu, T. S., Lu, H.Y., Gu, Z.Y., Guo, Z. T., Jiang, W. Y. 2001, Orbital forcing of terrestrial mollusks and climatic changes from the Loess 高原 of China during the past 350 ka. Jounal of Geophysical Research.

Wu Naiqin, Rousseau, D. D., Liu Tungsheng, 2000, Response of mollusk assemblages from the Luochuan loess section to orbital forcing since the last 250 ka. 汉语词类 Science Bulletin.

Wu Naiqin, Rousseau, D. D., Liu Tungsheng, 1999, Climate instability recorded by the mollusk assemblages from the late glacial loess deposits in China, Chinese Science Bulletin.

Wu Naiqin, Lu Houyuan, Guo Zhengtang, 1997, Reconstrcution of paleoclimate in the Loess 高原 using nonlinear 数学 method. 汉语词类 Science Bulletin.

Wu Naiqin, Rousseau, D. D., Liu, T, S., Land mollusk records from the Luochuan loess 序列 and their paleoenvironmental significance. Science in China, 矮小锐额蚤

Wu Naiqin, Lu Houyuan, Sun Xiangjun, Guo Zhengtang, et al, 1995,Climate factor transfer 函数 from opal phytolith and its application in paleoclimate reconstruction of China loess-paleosol sequences. Scientic Geologica Sinica. Supplementary Issue.

2021年11月，荣获2020年度国家自然科学奖二等奖。