Jiutong Zhao

I am a postdoctoral researcher studying the plasma environments of planetary magnetospheres. My work focuses on how charged particles are distributed, transported, energized, and lost around planets — the electron radiation belt, proton & sodium ion ring current at Mercury, and how they respond to solar wind driving, and heavy-ion outflow at Mars — combining MESSENGER and MAVEN observations with test-particle and Monte Carlo modeling. I also study the statistical structure and variability of the interplanetary magnetic field from 0.1 to 30 au.