Qianli Ma

Qianli Ma is a Senior Research Scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and holds dual affiliations: as an Assistant Researcher at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Space Physics, Boston University (BU). His research focuses on resonant wave-particle interactions in Earth and Jupiter’s magnetospheres, including radiation belt dynamics and plasma wave analysis using Juno and Van Allen Probes data.

• Education: Ph.D. in Space Physics (UCLA, 2015); B.Sc. in Physics (University of Science and Technology of China, 2010).

Research interests include simulating relativistic electron transport, global distributions of whistler-mode plasma waves, and ion interactions with electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves. Current projects involve modeling radiation belt electron evolution using Van Allen Probes data and analyzing Juno observations of Jovian auroras.

No scientific awards are explicitly listed. He collaborates with Professors Richard Thorne and Wen Li, with postdoctoral training at UCLA and visits to BU since 2016. His work bridges Earth and planetary space physics, contributing to understanding fundamental magnetospheric processes.