News
02/20/2024
I was selected as a 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Physics, which was highlighted by Boston University's The Brink.
11/28/2023
I got the 2023 HPC Innovation Excellence Award for performing the world’s largest three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence simulation (using 200 million hours of computer time on NASA supercomputers). Winners will receive a trophy, monetary award, and recognition via a global press release. BU's Hariri Institute for Computing wrote a news story here.
10/27/2023
The paper "Detection of magnetospheric ion drift patterns at Mars" led by the group member Dr. Chi Zhang was published in Nature Communications.
08/17/2023
Boston University's The Brink highlighted my DOE Early Career Research Award; also read it here.
05/10/2023
Our JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) Cycle 2 proposal entitled "TRAPPIST-1 Planets: Atmospheres Or Not?" led by Dr. Michael Gillon, was selected and awarded 70.2 hours!
12/07/2022
My recent article titled "Reconnection-driven energy cascade in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence," which achieved the world's largest MHD turbulence simulation, was published in Science Advances. News Stories in PPPL, EurekAlert, Phys.org, Newswise, ScienceDaily, Scienmag, The Debrief, etc.
11/30/2022
The BepiColombo SERENA team paper titled "Inner southern magnetosphere observation of Mercury via SERENA ion sensors in BepiColombo mission" was published in Nature Communications.
05/04/2021
I was invited to give an Astrobiology Colloquium at the University of Washington. Here is the Youtube video of the colloquium.
03/17/2021
James Green (NASA Chief Scientist) and I were interviewed by Yale Scientific Magazine for a news article entitled Planetary Protection: How the Ancient Moon Shielded Earth’s Atmosphere (also see page 25 of the print version) to highlight our recent lunar study.
12/20/2020
My co-authored book chapter on Magnetic Fields on Rocky Planets (in the Book "Planetary Diversity") is now published by AAS | IOP Astronomy.
10/14/2020
I co-authored one paper published in Science Advances to study the role of the ancient lunar magnetosphere led by NASA Chief Scientist James Green. News stories can also be found at NASA News Releases, New Scientist, etc.
07/06/2020
My recent article (in ApJL) titled "Atmospheric Escape From TOI-700 d: Venus versus Earth Analogs" was highlighted on AAS Nova.
04/02/2020
I was on U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) News for my Mercury work. Similar news stories can also be found at Phys.org, Newswise, EurekAlert, Mirage News etc.
11/11/2019-11/14/2019
I was invited by NASA to participate in the NASA Research Exhibit at the 2019 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC19) in Denver, CO. Our multi-moment multifluid Earth's magnetosphere simulation is highlighted below (right one).
10/28/2019-10/29/2019
I was selected to give a presentation in the National Academy of Sciences as a New Leader in Space Science (in the subfield of Planetary Science) in Washington, DC.
10/07/2019
My recent article (in ApJL) titled "Role of Planetary Obliquity in Regulating Atmospheric Escape: G-dwarf versus M-dwarf Earth-like Exoplanets" was highlighted on AAS Nova.
05/21/2019
Four scientists (including myself) at PPPL awarded national and international honors. See PPPL News, Princeton University News, EurekAlert, and vaaju for details.
01/08/2019
I was on U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) "Ten not-to-be-missed top stories" in both 2017 and 2018. Similar news stories can also be found at Newswise etc.
12/21/2018
I was on U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) News. (News story: New findings reveal the behavior of turbulence in the exceptionally hot solar corona). Similar news stories can also be found at Phys.org, EurekAlert!, R & D Magazine, Science Daily, Newswise and Market Research News etc.
10/24/2018
What would happen if Mars and Venus swapped places? Get answers from experts in different fields at Many Worlds and at NASA’s astrobiology site. My discussions are mainly focus on the impact of atmospheric losses.
09/27/2018
I was invited to Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics to give a Science Seminar: Star-Terrestrial (Exo)Planet Interaction in Our Solar System and Beyond.
09/11/2018-09/14/2018
I was supported by NASA to attend the International Venus Conference 2018 in Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan, where I will present a poster on the Venusian interior-magnetospherere coupling process and its consequence on the magnetic topology of Venus.
08/27/2018-08/30/2018
I was supported by NASA to attend the Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets III in Houston, Texas, where I gave an oral presentation on the atmospheric loss from M-Dwarf exoplanets and a poster on the atmospheric loss from Mars over time.
08/06/2018-08/10/2018
I was selected to attend NASA's 30th Annual Planetary Science Summer Seminar at JPL, where we proposed a New Frontiers mission concept for the exploration of Uranus.
07/24/2018-07/31/2018
I was invited to give one 90-minute lecture on the topic of "Living with Stars and Societal Relevance" in 2018 Heliophysics Summer School in the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, CO. Youtube link of my lecture.
07/23/2018
Phys.org wrote a news article to highlight my recent study on TRAPPIST-1 planets.
05/30/2018
My recent article on modeling Martian atmospheric losses over time was highlighted on AAS Nova.
04/08/2018
My recent TV interview on "Terraforming Mars" is now available at German TV Program zdf/3sat, which is the scientific and cultural flagship program of the German, Austrian and Swiss public broadcasting channels.
01/13/2018
New Scientist magazine wrote an article about my recent PNAS paper.
12/11-12/15/2017
I presented one invited talk on atmospheric ion escape from exoplanets, one talk on solar wind-Mercury interaction, and one poster on the Martian atmospheric ion loss at the 2017 AGU Fall meeting.
12/04/2017
My recent study on TRAPPIST-1 planets was accepted for publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. My joint corresponding author work on the role of solar energetic particles in the origin of life was accepted for publication in ApJ.
11/30/2017
I was on Princeton University News.
11/29/2017
I was on U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) News. Similar news stories can also be found at Phys.org, space.com, Science Daily, Space Daily, Yahoo, siliconrepublic, Daily Galaxy, BGR and Newswise etc.
11/13--11/17/2017
I was invited to attend Habitable Worlds 2017: A System Science Workshop in Laramie, WY, where I talked about my study of the exoplanetary atmospheric loss.
10/25/2017
I was interviewed by Universe Today about my paper on the dehydration of water worlds via atmospheric losses. Similar news stories can also be found at Harvard-Cfa, Phys.org and Science Alert etc.
09/01/2017
My paper on the dehydration of water worlds via atmospheric losses was accepted for publication in ApJL less than a week after submission. (super fast!)
08/28/2017
I was interviewed by SPACE.COM regarding the magnetic fields and habitability of exoplanet Proxima b.
05/15/2017
I was invited to Rice Space Institute at Rice University to give a talk on atmospheric ion loss at Mars and exoplanets.
04/03/2017
I was invited to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at George Mason to give a talk on the habitability of exoplanets.
03/09/2017
My work with James Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, on protecting Mars from the solar wind interaction by placing an artificial magnetic dipole at Mars L1 Lagrange Point has been posted on ~100 websites, such as ManyWorlds.space, phys.org, yahoo.com, universetoday.com, sciencealert.com, and popularmechanics.com.
03/03/2017
I was invited to LASP, CU-Boulder to give a talk on the Martian atmospheric (ion) loss over the past 4.5 billion years.
11/29--12/02/2016:
I gave an invited talk on the current and early Mars at the NExSS workshop at New Orleans, LA.
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