主要研究方向为行星空间物理,首次提出并证实巨行星独有的日侧磁盘磁重联,突破了传统理论的局限性,该成果发表在顶级期刊《自然-天文》,获得国际同行高度认可。在 Nature Astronomy、Nature Communications、ApJL、GRL 等发表SCI论文 70 余篇,被引 1000 余次;作为副主编出版《太空天气入门》。先后主持国家和省部级项目5项,横向课题2项。获得青年长江、山东省杰青、泰山青年学者等荣誉。讲授《地球和行星太空天气(科技素养)》《空间等离子体物理学》《电动力学》等课程。担任中国地球物理学会第三届行星物理专业委员会副主任;入选中国地球物理学会行星物理专业委员会会员和中国空间科学学会青年工作委员会委员;担任《地球与行星物理评论》和《Earth and Planetary Physics》青年编委。
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Jinyan Zhao,Ruilong Guo*, Quanqi Shi, Tao Tang, Alexander William Degeling, Zhonghua Yao, Denis Grodent, Shi-Chen Bai, Jong-Sun Park, Xiao Ma, Junjie Chen, Binzheng Zhang, Huizi Wang, Anmin Tian, Qiugang Zong(2024),Dayside Magnetodisk Reconnection in Jovian System: Galileo and Voyager Observation,Journal of Geophysical Research:Planets,129, e2023JE008240. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JE008240
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Shi-Chen Bai,Ruilong Guo*, Yuchen Xiao, Quanqi Shi*, Zhonghua Yao, Zuyin Pu, Wei-jie Sun, Alexander W. Degeling, Anmin Tian, I. Jonathan Rae, Shutao Yao, Qiu-Gang Zong, Suiyan Fu, Yude Bu, Christopher T. Russell, James L. Burch, Daniel J. Gershman (2025). Spontaneously generated flux ropes in 3-D magnetic reconnection.Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130, e2024JA033461. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA033461.
Guo, R. L., Pu, Zuyin, Yao, Zhonghua, Dunlop, Malcolm, Bogdanova, Yulia V., Wei, Yong, Wang, Xiaogang, Xiao, Chijie, He, Jiansen, Fu, Suiyan, Xie, Lun, Fazakerley, Andrew N., Wan, Weixing (2019), A three-dimensional model of spiral null pair to form ion-scale flux ropes in magnetic reconnection region observed by Cluster,Physics of Plasmas, 26, 112901, doi: 10.1063/1.5114620.
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Guo R. L., Zuyin Pu, Suiyan Fu, Lun Xie, Malcolm Dunlop, Yulia V Bogdanova, Jiansen He, Xin Wang, Zhonghua Yao (2016), Evolution of clustered magnetic nulls in a turbulent-like reconnection region in the magnetotail,Science Bulletin, 61, 1145-1150, doi:10.1007/s11434-016-1121-z.
Guo R. L., Zuyin Pu, Chijie Xiao, Xiaogang Wang, Suiyan Fu, Lun Xie, Qiugang Zong, Jiansen He, Zhonghua Yao, Jun Zhong, Jinxing Li (2013), Separator reconnection with antiparallel/component features observed in magnetotail plasmas,Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 118, doi:10.1002/jgra.50569.