• B.S. (2004) Physics Education, Anhui Normal University, P.R.China
• Ph.D. (2013) Plasma Physics, Univeristy of California at San Diego, US
• Employment: (2013-present) Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Research Interests:

• Whistler wave generation and relativistic electrons acceleraction in magnetosphere
• Turbulence and turbulence transport in strongly magnetized plasmas
• Quasilinear wave-particle interaction, nonlinear wave-particle interaction,drift wave turbulence and zonal flow interaction in fusion plasmas

Selected Recent Publications:

1. L. Zhao and P.H. Diamond, Nonlinear ion turbulent heating in electron drift wave turbulence, To be submitted (2014).
2. L. Zhao and P.H. Diamond, Collisionless inter-species energy transfer and turbulent heating in drift wave turbulence, Phys.Plasma.19, 082309(2012).
3. Lu Wang, Lei Zhao and P.H. Diamond, New results in the theory of non-diffusive heat transport and anomalous electron-ion energy coupling, Proceedings of the 24th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference TH/P2-09(2012).
4. G.Q. Li, S.J. Wang, L.L. Lao, A.D. Turnbull, M.S. Chu, D.P. Brenman, R.J. Groebner and L. Zhao, Ideal MHD stability of double transport barrier plasmasin DIII-D, Nucl. Fusion.48, 015001(2008).