NAME, First Name: YAO, Shutao

Affiliation: Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong, China

Role in the project: Multi-spacecraft data, energy transfer processes, Earth’s bow shock, magnetosheath, and magnetotail.

Current position: 2023-Present Research fellow

Former Position(s):
2021-2023 Postdoc, Shandong University
2018-2020 Space scientist, Zhongshan Station in Antarctica

Education:
2020 Ph.D. in space physics, Shandong University, Weihai.
2017 M.Sc. in space physics, Shandong University, Weihai.

Honors:
2024 Tai-Shan young scholar of Shandong province
2023 Qi-Lu young scholar of Shandong University
2022 Outstanding doctoral dissertation Award of Shandong Province, China
2021 Outstanding doctoral dissertation Award of Chinese Geophysical Society
2020 President's Scholarship of Shandong University
2020 National Scholarship for Ph.D. students
2019 National Scholarship for Ph.D. students
2017 National Scholarship for M.Sc.students
2015 Outstanding Youth Award of the 16th China Solar Earth Space Physics Seminar

Selected Publications:

1.       Shi, Q. Q., Yao, S. T*., Hamrin, M., and Liu, J (2024). Kinetic Scale Magnetic Holes in the Terrestrial Magnetosheath: A Review. SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, 67.

2.       Xiao, Y. C., Yao, S. T*., et al. (2023). Statistical properties of the distribution and generation of kinetic-scale flux ropes in the terrestrial dayside magnetosheath. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL105469.

3.       Yao, S. T., et al. (2023). Ion-Vortex Magnetic Hole With Reversed Field Direction in Earth's Magnetosheath. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128(7).

4.       Yao, S. T., et al. (2021). Low-frequency whistler waves modulate electrons and generate higher-frequency whistler waves in the solar wind. The Astrophysical Journal, 923(2), 216.

5.       Yao, S. T., et al. (2021). Statistical properties of kinetic-scale magnetic holes in terrestrial space. Earth and Planetary Physics, 5(1), 63-72.

6.       Yao, S. T., et al. (2020). Kinetic-scale flux rope in the magnetosheath boundary layer. The Astrophysical Journal, 897(2), 137.

7.       Yao, S. T., et al. (2020). Propagating and dynamic properties of magnetic dips in the dayside magnetosheath: MMS observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125(6).

8.       Yao, S. T., et al. (2019). Electron mirror-mode structure: magnetospheric multiscale observations. Astrophys. J. Lett., 881(2), L31.

9.       Yao, S. T., et al. (2019). Waves in kinetic-scale magnetic dips: MMS observations in the magnetosheath. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(2), 523–533.

10.   Yao, S. T., et al. (2018). Electron dynamics in magnetosheath mirror-mode structures. J. Geophys. Res., 123(7), 5561-5570.

11.   Yao, S. T., et al. (2018). Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of electron scale magnetic peak. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(2), 527-537.

12.   Yao, S. T., et al. (2017). Observations of kinetic-size magnetic holes in the magnetosheath. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 122(2), 1990–2000.

13.   Yao, S. T., et al. (2016). Propagation of small size magnetic holes in the magnetospheric plasma sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 121(6), 5510-5519.