个人简历

Huirong Yan
I am a Bairen Professor in Kavli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Peking University. I have a joint appoinment at Fusion Simulation Center. I came to Beijing from University of Arizona where I was the Arizona Prize Fellow.Degrees:
6/2005 PHD. Astronomy in University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
6/2002 M.Sc. Astronomy in University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
7/1998 B.Sc. Astrophysics from Peking University
Research Experience:
7/2009 - present Assistant Professor (tenure-track ), KIAA, Peking University
10/2008 - 01/2010 Arizona Prize Fellow, U Arizona
8/2005 - 10/2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, CITA, Toronto
9/2004 - 5/2005 Predoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics, Stanford University
7/2002, 6/2004 Visiting Student, Dept. of Physics, Stanford University
2000 - 2004 PhD. Student, Department of Astronomy, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
Teaching Experience:
3/2013 - 5/2013 Graduate course: Frontiers of Astrophysics, PKU
2/2011 - 5/2011 Undergraduate course: Qualitative and Quantitative Physics, PKU
6/2010 - present Supervision of two graduates and a few undergraduates
3/2010 - 5/2010 Graduate course: Frontiers of Astrophysics, PKU
2008 Spring Graduate mini-course: “High Energy Astrophysics: Selected Topics”,
University of Toronto
5/2007 - 8/2007 Supervision of a summer student at CITA
2004 Spring TA for 100 Astronomy at the Department of Astronomy,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2001 Fall TA for 200 Astronomy at the Department of Astronomy,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1998 Fall TA for Electromagnetism at the Department of Geophysics, Peking University
Recent Grants and Awards:
2012 Winner of Templeton senior grant from Beyond the Horizons program
3/2012 - 6/2012 Visiting Professorship, International Institute of Physics, UFRN, Natal, Brazil
1/2012 Visiting Professorship, GCOE Program, Nagoya University, Japan
6/2011 - 7/2011 Visiting Professorship, Dept. of Physics, Ruhr University, Bochum
2010 PI at NSFC AST -11073004“Transport and Acceleration of Cosmic Rays
in MHD turbulence and their implications”)
2009 Bairen Fellowship, PKU
2008 Arizona Prize Fellowship
2008 Visiting Scholarship at ASIAA, Taipei
2008 Visiting Scholarship at MPA, Garching
2005 Postdoc Fellowship at CITA
2005 Visiting Scholarship at Ruhr University- Bochum
2004 Predoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University
Recent conference talks & school lectures:
Feb 2013 Gamma Ray Bursts powered by turbulence & reconnection
Invited talk at Magnetic field in the Universe IV, Cancun
Nov 2012 Ground state alignment and Probing magnetic field in diffuse medium
Invited review talk at APCTP Workshop on Astrophysics:
Magnetic Fields in Astrophysics, South Korea
Aug 2012 Cosmic ray transport in MHD turbulence
Invited session talk at IAU XXVIII General Assembly, Beijing
July 2012 Gamma ray Bursts powered by turbulence and reconnection
Invited session talk at 39th COSPAR General Assembly, Mysore, India
June 2012 Cosmic Ray transport and acceleration in turbulence
Invited lecturer at 2nd East-Asian School and Workshop
on Lab, Space, Astro Plasma, South Korea
Nov 2011 Cosmic Ray Transport and Gamma Ray Emission from SNRs,
Invited talk at 6th Korean Astrophysics Workshop on
Fundamental Process of Astrophysical Turbulence in Pohang, South Korea
Aug 2011 Cosmic Ray transport and acceleration in turbulent magnetic field,
Invited talk at Magnetic field in the Universe III in Zakopane, Poland
Aug 2011 Cosmic Ray transport in MHD turbulence: large and small scale interactions,
Invited talk at Plasma Physics session of OCPA7 in Kao Shiung, Taiwan
Jul 2011 Detecting Interstellar Magnetic fields through polarimetry, invited lecturer at
2nd summer school on Solar and Stellar Polarization in Yibin, China
Jun 2011 Cosmic Ray Transport in MHD Turbulence: large and small scale interactions,
Invited talk at ASTRONUM-2011 in Valencia, Spain
Jun 2011 Nonlinear Cosmic Ray transport in MHD turbulence,
Invited talk at MHD and Kinetic Processes in Laboratory, Space and
Astrophysical Plasmas (LSAP) in Beijing
May 2011 Cosmic Ray transport in MHD turbulence,
invited lecturer at summer school LSAP in Beijing

研究领域

Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Transport in MHD turbulence
Plasma Instabilities
Solar flares, space physics
Supernova Remnants, GRBs
Astrophysical Magnetic Field and Atomic Alignment
Interstellar Dust Dynamics
Accretion discs

近期论文

1. Yan, Huirong & Lazarian, A., 2012, “MHD turbulence: Consequences of and Techniques for Studies”, Lambert Academic Publishing (234 Pages)
Refereed publications (total citations > 860)
2. Yan, H. 2013,“Cosmic Ray transport in turbulent magnetic field”, chapter in Lecture Notes in
Physics “Magnetic Fields in Diffuse media”
3. Shangguan, J. & Yan, Huirong 2013, “Study of Interplanetary Magnetic Field with Atomic Alignment”, Ap&SS, 343,335
4. Lazarian, A.; Vlahos, L.; Kowal, G.; Yan, H.; Beresnyak, A.; de Gouveia Dal Pino, E. M. 2012,
“Turbulence, Magnetic Reconnection in Turbulent Fluids and Energetic Particle Acceleration”,
Space Science Review, 153, 557
5. Yan, Huirong & Lazarian, A. 2012, ‘Tracing Magnetic Fields with Ground State Alignment”, invited review, JQSRT, 113,1409
6. Yan, Huirong, Lazarian, A., & R. Schlickeiser 2012, “Cosmic Ray Streaming from SNRs and
Gamma Ray Emission from Nearby molecular clouds”, ApJ, 745, 140
7. Yan, Huirong & Lazarian, A., 2011, “Cosmic Ray transport through gyroresonance instability in
compressible turbulence”, ApJ, 731, 35
8. Zhang, B. & Yan, Huirong 2011, “ The Internal-Collision-Induced Magnetic Reconnection and
Turbulence (ICMART) Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts”, ApJ, 726, 90
9. Beresnyak, A., H. Yan, & Lazarian, A., 2011, “Numerical Study of Cosmic Ray Diffusion in MHD
Turbulence”, ApJ, 728, 60
10. Hiroyuki Hirashita, Takaya Nozawa, Huirong Yan, Takashi Kozasa, 2010, “Effects of grain shattering by turbulence on extinction curves in starburst galaxies”, MNRAS, 404, 1473
11. Yan, Huirong, 2009 “Nonresonant Grain Acceleration in MHD Turbulence”, MNRAS, 397, 1093
12. Hirashita, Hiroyuki; Yan, Huirong, 2009, “Shattering and coagulation of dust grains in interstellar
turbulence”, MNRAS, 394,1061