Xianzhe Jia
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(734)-764-7220
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 MHD modeling of planetary magnetospheres and magnetosphere-moon interactions
- Large-scale plasma transport and dynamics in planetary magnetospheres
- Magnetic properties of planetary satellites
Professional Service: ^top
- Member of the ESA/NASA Europa-Jupiter-System-Mission/Jupiter-Ganymede-Orbitor Magnetosphere Working Group
- Member of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) international teams on “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]
- Review Panelist: NASA OPR, PMDAP, and NESSF Programs
- Mail-in Reviewer: NASA OPR, LASER, CDAP, PDART, NPP, and NESSF Programs; NSF ATM/GEO Program
- Manuscript Reviewer: Nature Geoscience; Reviews of Geophysics; Journal of Geophysical Research (-Space Physics; -Planets); Geophysical Research Letters; Icarus; Planetary and Space Science; Annales Geophysicae
- 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” conference
- Member, Science Program Committee of the 2013 AGU Chapman conference on “Fundamental properties and processes of magnetotails”, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Member, Scientific Organization Committee of the 2011 Solar/Space MHD International Summer School, Hefei, China
Awards: ^top
- Henry Russel Award, University of Michigan, 2019
- Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2019
- NASA Early Career Fellow, 2015
- Co-Investigator on the PIMS and ICEMAG instrument teams of the NASA Europa Clipper Mission, since 2015
- University of Michigan Research Faculty Recognition Award, 2014
- Co-Investigator on the PEP, J-MAG, and RPWI instrument teams of the ESA/NASA Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer(JUICE) mission to the Jupiter system, since 2013
- 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
- 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)
- 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.
- Kivelson, M. and X. Jia, Coupled SKR Emissions in Saturn’s Northern and Southern Ionospheres, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, doi: 10.1002/2017GL075425, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Thomsen, M. F., D. B. Reisenfeld, R. J. Wilson, M. Andriopoulou, F. J. Crary, C. M. Jackman, X. Jia, K. K. Khurana, C. Paranicas, E. Roussos, N. Sergis, and R. L. Tokar, Ion composition in interchange injection events in Saturn’s magnetosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, doi:10.1002/2014JA020489, 2014.
- 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.
- Delamere, P., F. Bagenal, C. Paranicas, A. Masters, K. Radioti, B. Bonfond, L. Ray, X. Jia, J. Nichols, and C. Arridge, Solar wind and internally driven dynamics: Influences on magnetodiscs and auroral responses, Space Science Reviews, doi:10.1007/s11214-014-0075-1, 2014.
- Sulaiman, A. H., A. Masters, M. K. Dougherty, and X. Jia, The magnetic structure of Saturn’s magnetosheath, Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, Vol. 119, 5651-5661, doi:10.1002/2014JA020019, 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,, , , and, 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.
- Grodent, D., B. Bonfond, A. Radioti, J.-C. Gérard, X. Jia, J. D. Nichols and J. T. Clarke, The auroral footprint of Ganymede, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 114, A7, doi:10.1029/2009JA014289, 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.