Teaching

Courses：

·《Introduction to Space Plasma Physics》(postgraduate course)

Research Interests

·     Auroral electron acceleration

·     Space plasma simulation

·     Wave-particle interaction

Projects

·     Investigation of the generation of electron acoustic waves and the effect on auroral electron acceleration (41974193), 2020.1-2023.12👷‍♂️，630,000, National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, PI.

·     Investigation of the generation mechanism of plasmaspheric hiss based on the classic Kennel-Petschek theory (41674162), 2017.1-2020.12🏋️‍♂️，650,000, National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, PI.

·     Study of ionospheric Alfven resonator and the effects on Auroral electron acceleration (41004061), 2011.1-2013.12🏃‍♂️，200,000, Youth Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI.

Publications

·     Shi, R., Ni, B., Summers, D., Liu, H., Yoshikawa, A., & Zhang, B. (2018). Generation of electron acoustic waves in the topside ionosphere from coupling with kinetic Alfven waves: A new electron energization mechanism. Geophysical Research Letters, 45. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077898

·     Shi, R., Li, W., Ma, Q., Green, A., Kletzing, C. A., Kurth, W. S., Hospodarsky, G. B., Claudepierre, S. G., Spence, H. E., Reeves, G. D. (2019), Properties of whistler mode waves in Earth’s plasmasphere and plumes, Journal of 

·     Shi, R., Mourenas, D., Artemyev, A., Li, W., & Ma, Q. (2018). Highly oblique lower-band chorus statistics: Dependencies of wave power on refractive index and geomagnetic activity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 4767–4784. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025337

·     Shi, R., Li, W., Ma, Q., Claudepierre, S. G., Kletzing, C. A., Kurth, W. S., Hospodarsky, G. B., Spence, H. E., Reeves, G. D., Fennell, J. F., Blake, J. B., Thaller, S. A., and Wygant, J. R. (2018), Van Allen Probes observation of plasmaspheric hiss modulated by injected energetic electrons, Ann. Geophys., 36, 781-791, https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-781-2018.

·     Shi, R., Li, W., Ma, Q., Reeves, G. D., Kletzing, C. A., Kurth, W. S., … Claudepierre, S. G. (2017). Systematic evaluation of low-frequency hiss and energetic electron injections. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 122, 10,263–10,274. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024571

·     Shi R., D. Summers, B. Ni, Donald G. Mitchell, and Louis J. Lanzerotti (2016), A statistical study of proton pitch angle distributions measured by the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Ion Composition Experiment (RBSPICE), J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 121, 5233–5249, doi:10.1002/2015JA022140.

·     Shi, R., D. Summers, B. Ni, J. F. Fennell, J. B. Blake, H. E. Spence, and G. D. Reeves (2016), Survey of radiation belt energetic electron pitch angle distributions based on the Van Allen Probes MagEIS measurements, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 121, 1078–1090, doi:10.1002/2015JA021724.

·     Shi, R., Z.-J. Hu, B. Ni, D. Han, X.-C. Chen, C. Zhou, and X. Gu (2014), Modulation of the dayside diffuse auroral intensity by the solar wind dynamic pressure, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 119, 10,092–10,099, doi:10.1002/ 2014JA020180.

·     Shi, R., H. Liu, A. Yoshikawa, B. Zhang, and B. Ni (2013), Coupling of electrons and inertial Alfven waves in the topside ionosphere, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 118, doi:10.1002/jgra.50355.

·     Shi, R., D. Han, B. Ni, Z. J. Hu, C. Zhou, and X. Gu (2012), Intensification of dayside diffuse auroral precipitation: contribution of dayside whistler-mode chorus waves in realistic magnetic fields, Ann. Geophys., 30, 1297-1307, doi:10.5194/angeo-30-1297-2012.

·     Shi, R., B. Ni, X. Gu, Z. Zhao, and C. Zhou (2012), Resonance zones and quasi-linear diffusion coefficients for radiation belt energetic electron interaction with oblique chorus waves in the Dungey magnetosphere, Phys. Plasmas, 19, 072904, doi:10.1063/1.4737105.