Xianzhe Jia

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Associate Professor

Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Room 1433, CSRB

Climate and Space Research Building University of Michigan 2455 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143

xzjia@umich.edu

(734)-764-7220

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Education Teaching Research Interests Professional Service Awards Publications

Education:

Ph.D., M.S., University of California, Los Angeles
M.S., B.S., University of Science and Technology of China

Teaching: ^top

Introduction to Space Physics (SPACE 574)
Space Weather Modeling (SPACE 477)

Research Interests: ^top

Space Physics and Planetary Science
Global modeling of planetary magnetospheres and plasma-moon interactions
Large-scale plasma transport and dynamics in planetary magnetospheres
Magnetic properties and interior structures of planetary satellites

Professional Service: ^top

Deputy Team Leader, Magnetometer team, NASA Europa Clipper Mission
Co-Investigator, NASA Io Volcano Observer (IVO) mission
Co-Investigator, PIMS and ICEMAG instrument teams, NASA Europa Clipper Mission
Co-Investigator, PEP , J-MAG, and RPWI instrument teams, ESA/NASA Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer(JUICE) mission
Member, ESA/NASA Europa-Jupiter-System-Mission/Jupiter-Ganymede-Orbitor Magnetosphere Working Group
Member of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) international teams for:
- “Rotational phenomena in the Saturnian magnetosphere” [2015-2016]
- “Towards a global unified model of Europa’s exosphere in view of the JUICE mission” [2014-2015]
- “Numerical Modeling of the Global Jovian and Saturnian Systems” [2014-2015]
- “Modes of Radial Plasma Motion in Planetary Systems” [2013-2014]
- “Investigating the Dynamics of Planetary Magnetotails” [2010-2011]
Proposal review panelist or mail-in reviewer for:
- NASA OPR, PMDAP, LASER, CDAP, DDAP, PDART, HGCR, SSW, NPP, NESSF Programs;
- NSF ATM/GEO Program
Manuscript and book reviewer for:
- Nature Geoscience; Nature Communications; Reviews of Geophysics; Astrophysical Journal Letters; Journal of Geophysical Research (-Space Physics; -Planets); Geophysical Research Letters; Icarus; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Planetary and Space Science; Annales Geophysicae
- AGU Geophy. Monograph Series; AGU Books in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Primary convener, “Magnetospheres in the outer solar system” session at the AGU Fall Meeting [2014 – 2019]
Member, Scientific Organizing Committee of the 2015 and 2018 “Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets” conferences
Member, Science Program Committee of the 2013 AGU Chapman conference on “Fundamental properties and processes of magnetotails”
Member, Scientific Organization Committee of the 2011 Solar/Space MHD International Summer School

Awards: ^top

Henry Russel Award, University of Michigan, 2020
Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2019
NASA Early Career Fellow, 2015
University of Michigan Research Faculty Recognition Award, 2014
Invited participant of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) workshop on “Plasma sources in solar system magnetospheres”, 2013
Invited participant of the ISSI workshop on “Giant Planet Magnetodiscs and Auroae“, 2012
Invited participant of the ISSI workshop on “Planetary Magnetism“, 2008
Eugene B. Waggoner Scholarship, UCLA, 2007

Publications: ^top

Selected from the full list of publications (Students underlined)

Jia, X., J. A. Slavin, G. Poh, G. DiBrracio, G. Toth, Y. Chen, J. Raines, and T. Gombosi, MESSENGER observations and global simulations of highly compressed magnetosphere events at Mercury, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, doi:10.1029/2018JA026166, 2019.
Jia, X., M. G. Kivelson, K. K. Khurana, and W. S. Kurth, Evidence of a plume at Europa from Galileo magnetic and plasma wave signatures, Nature Astronomy, doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0450-z, 2018. (NASA Press Release, NASA’s Live Science Chat and Nature Research Highlight)
Sarkango, Y., X. Jia, and G. Toth, Global MHD simulations of the response of Jupiter’s magnetosphere and ionosphere to changes in the solar wind and IMF, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, doi:10.1029/2019JA026787, 2019.
Azari, A., X. Jia, M. Liemohn, G. B. Hospodarsky, G. Provan, S. -Y. Ye, S. W. H. Cowley, C. Paranicas, N. Sergis, A. Rymer, M. F. Thomsen, and D. G. Mitchell, Are Saturn’s interchange injections organized by rotational longitude?, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, doi:10.1029/2018JA026196, 2019.
Zhou, H., G. Toth, X. Jia, Y. Chen, and S. Markidis, Embedded kinetic simulation of Ganymede’s magnetosphere: Improvements and inferences, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, doi:10.1029/2019JA026643, 2019.
Kivelson, M. and X. Jia, Coupled SKR Emissions in Saturn’s Northern and Southern Ionospheres, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, doi: 10.1002/2017GL075425, 2018.
Azari, A., M. Liemohn, X. Jia, M. Thomsen, D. G. Mitchell, N. Sergis, A. M. Rymer, G. Hospodarsky, C. Paranicas, and J. Vandegriff, Interchange Injections at Saturn: Statistical Survey of Energetic H⁺ Sudden Flux Intensifications, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, doi: 10.1029/2018JA025391, 2018.
Chen, Y., G. Toth, P. Cassak, X. Jia, T. I. Gombosi, J. A. Slavin, S. Markidis, I. Peng, V. Jordanova, and M. Henderson, Global three-dimensional two-way coupled MHD with embedded PIC simulation of Earth’s magnetosphere: Initial results for dayside magnetic reconnection and flux transfer events, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, doi: 10.1002/2017JA024186, 2017.
Poh, G. K., J. A. Slavin, X. Jia, J. M. Raines, S. Imber, W. Sun, D. J. Gershman, G. DiBraccio, K. Genestreti, and A. Smith, Coupling between Mercury and its night-side magnetosphere: Cross-tail current sheet asymmetry and substorm current wedge formation, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, doi: 10.1002/2017JA024266, 2017.
Poh, G. K., J. A. Slavin, X. Jia, J. M. Raines, S. Imber, W. Sun, D. J. Gershman, G. DiBraccio, K. Genestreti, and A. Smith, Mercury’s Cross-tail Current Sheet: Structure, X-line Location and Stress Balance, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2016GL071612, 2017.
Jia, X. and M. G. Kivelson, Dawn-dusk asymmetries in rotating magnetospheres: Lessons from modeling Saturn, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1002/2015JA021950, 2016.
Jia, X., M. G. Kivelson, and T. I. Gombosi, Global MHD modeling of the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere system at Saturn, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Solar System (eds. R. Chappell, B. Schunk, R. Thorne, P. Banks and J. Burch), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.
Walker, R. J., and X. Jia, Simulation studies of plasma transport at Earth, Jupiter and Saturn, Magnetic Reconnection (eds, W. Gonzalez & E. Parker), Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26432-5_9, 2016.
Thomsen, M. F., D. Mitchell, X. Jia, C. M. Jackman, G. Hospodarsky, and A. Coates, Plasmapause formation at Saturn, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, doi: 10.1002/2015JA021008, 2015.
Jia, X., J. A. Slavin, T. I. Gombosi, L. Daldorff, G. Toth, and B. van de Holst, Global MHD simulations of Mercury’s magnetosphere with coupled planetary interior: Induction effect of the planetary conducting core on the global interaction, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, 120, doi: 10.1002/2015JA021143, 2015.
Jia, X., Satellite magnetotails, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series: Magnetotails in the Solar System, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ., doi:10.1002/9781118842324.ch8, 2015.
Arridge, C. S., J. P. Eastwood, C. M. Jackman, G.-K. Poh, J. A. Slavin, M. F. Thomsen, N. André, X. Jia, A. Kidder, L. Lamy, A. Radioti, N. Sergis, M. Volwerk, A. P. Walsh, P. Zarka, A. J. Coates, and M. K. Dougherty, Cassini in situ observations of long duration magnetic reconnection in Saturn’s magnetotail, Nature Physics, doi:10.1038/nphys3565, 2015.
Rubin, M., X. Jia, K. Altwegg, M. Combi, L. K. S. Daldorff, T. Gombosi, K. K. Khurana, M. Kivelson, V. Tenishev, G. Toth, B. van der Holst, and P. Wurz, Self-consistent multi-fluid MHD simulations of Europa’s exospheric interaction with Jupiter’s magnetosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, doi: 10.1002/2015JA021149, 2015.
Saur, J., S. Duling, L. Roth, X. Jia, D. F. Strobel, P. D. Feldman, U. R. Christensen, K. D. Retherford, M. A. McGrath, F. Musacchio, A. Wennmacher, F. M. Neubauer, and S. Simon, The search for a subsurface ocean in Ganymede with Hubble Space Telescope observations of its auroral ovals, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, doi: 10.1002/2014JA020778, 2015. (Reported in NASA press release)
Radioti, A., D. Grodent, X. Jia, J.-C. Gérard, B. Bonfond, J. Gustin, W. Pryor, D. Mitchell, and C. M. Jackman, A multi-scale magnetotail reconnection event at Saturn and associated flows: Cassini/UVIS observations, Icarus, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.12.016, 2015.
Plainaki, C., A. Milillo, S. Massetti, A. Mura, X. Jia, S. Orsini, V. Mangano, E. De Angelis, and R. Rispoli, The H₂O and O₂ exospheres of Ganymede: The result of a complex interaction between the Jovian magnetospheric ions and the icy moon, Icarus, 245, 306-319, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.09.018, 2014.
Kivelson, M. and X. Jia, Control of periodic variations in Saturn’s magnetosphere by compressional waves, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, 119, doi: 10.1002/2014JA020258, 2014.
Jackman, C., C. Arridge, N. André, F. Bagenal, J. Birn, M. Freeman, X. Jia, A. Kidder, S. Milan, A. Radioti, J. Slavin, M. Vogt, M. Volwerk, and A. Walsh, Large-scale structure and dynamics of the magnetotails of Mercury, Earth, Jupiter and Saturn, Space Science Reviews, Vol.182, 85–154, doi: 10.1007/s11214-014-0060-8, 2014.
Kivelson, M. G. and X. Jia, An MHD model of Ganymede’s mini-magnetosphere suggests that the heliosphere forms in a sub-Alfvénic flow, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, Vol. 118, 1-8, doi: 10.1002/2013JA019130, 2013.
McGrath, M. A., X. Jia, K. Retherford, P. D. Feldman, D. F. Strobel, and J. Saur, Aurora on Ganymede, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1002/jgra.50122, in press, 2013.
Volwerk, M., X. Jia, C. Paranicas, W. S. Kurth, M. G. Kivelson, and K. K. Khurana, ULF waves in Ganymede’s upstream magnetosphere, Ann. Geophys., 31, 45 – 59, doi:10.5194/angeo-31-45-2013, 2013.
Jia, X. and M. G. Kivelson, Driving Saturn’s magnetospheric periodicities from the atmosphere/ionosphere: Magnetotail response to dual sources, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2012JA018183,2012. (Selected as AGU Research Spotlight)
Jia, X., M. G. Kivelson and T. I. Gombosi, Driving Saturn’s magnetospheric periodicities from the atmosphere/ionosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 117, A04215, doi:10.1029/2011JA017367, 2012. (Highlighted in the “Cassini Science League” by NASA/JPL and the 2012 June issue of the journal Nature Physics)
Jia, X., K. C. Hansen, T. I. Gombosi, M. G. Kivelson, G. Tóth, D. L. DeZeeuw, and A. J. Ridley, Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics of Saturn’s magnetosphere: A global MHD simulation, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1029/2012JA017575,2012.
Khurana, K. K., X. Jia, M. G. Kivelson, F. Nimmo, G. Schubert, and, C. T. Russell, Evidence of a global magma ocean in Io’s interior, Science, doi:10.1126/science.1201425, 2011. (Reported in NASA press release)
Jia, X., R. J. Walker, M. G. Kivelson, K. K. Khurana and J. A. Linker, Dynamics of Ganymede’s magnetopause: Intermittent reconnection under steady external conditions, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 115, A12202, doi:10.1029/2010JA015771, 2010.
Kivelson, M. G., X. Jia and K. K. Khurana, Medicean moons sailing through plasma seas: Challenges in establishing magnetic properties, Galileo’s Medicean Moons: Their Impact on 400 Years of Discovery, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposia and Colloquia, Vol. 269, 58 -70, doi: 10.1017/S1743921310007271, 2010.
Jia, X., R. J. Walker, M. G. Kivelson, K. K. Khurana and J. A. Linker, Properties of Ganymede’s magnetosphere inferred from improved three-dimensional MHD simulations, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 114, A09209, doi: 10.1029/2009JA014375, 2009.
Olsen, N., K.-H. Glassmeier and X. Jia, Separation of the magnetic field into external and internal parts, Space Science Reviews, doi:10.1007/s11214-009-9563-0, 2009.
Jia, X., M. G. Kivelson, K. K. Khurana and R. J. Walker, Magnetic fields of the satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, Space Science Reviews, doi:10.1007/s11214-009-9507-8, 2009.
Jia, X., R. J. Walker, M. G. Kivelson, K. K. Khurana and J. A. Linker, Three dimensional MHD simulations of Ganymede’s magnetosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 113, A06212, doi:10.1029/2007JA012748, 2008.