• B.S. (2006) University of Science and Techology of China, Hefei, China
• Ph.D. (2011) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
• Employment:
  • 2011-2013 Directors' Funded Postdoc Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
  • 2013-2015 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Research Interests:

• Solar wind - Magnetosphere - Ionosphere Coupling
• Radiation Belt, Ring Current Dynamics
• Wave-Particle Interactions in Inner Magnetosphere
• Data Assimilation, Machine Learning, MHD modeling, kinetic modeling

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Yu, Yiqun, V. Jordanova, S. Zou, R. Heelis, M. Ruohoniemi, and J. Wygant,Modeling Sub-auroral Polarization Streams during the March 17, 2013 storm, J. Geophy. Res., accepted, (2015).
2. V. Jordanova, Y. Yu, J. Niehof, R. Skoug, G. Reeves, C. Kletzing, J. Fennell, and H. Spence, RAM-SCB simulations of ring current ion spectra measured by the Van Allen Probes during the Nov 1, 2012 Storm, Geophy. Res. Lett. 41, 2687-2694, (2014).
3. Yu, Yiqun, V. Jordanova, D. Welling, B. Larsen, S. Claudepiree, and C. Keltzing, The role of ring current ion injections: Global simulations and Van Allen Probes Observations during the March 17, 2013 storm, Geophy. Res. Lett. 41,1-7, (2014).
4. Yu, Yiqun, J. Koller, V. Jordanova, S. Zaharia, S. Morley, R. Friedel, and Y. Chen, Applicability and testing of L* neural network to physics-based magnetic configurations from RAM-SCB, J. Geophy. Res., 119, 1-10, (2014).
5. Yu, Yiqun, J. Koller, V. Jordanova, S. Zaharia, and H. Godinez, Radiation belt data assimilation of a moderate storm event using the physics-based magnetic field configuration from RAM-SCB, Annales Geophysicae, (2014).
6. Yu, Yiqun, and A. Ridley, Exploring the effect of ionospheric heavy ion outflow on magnetospheric dynamics: effect of intensity, J. Geophy. Res., 118, (2013).
7. Yu, Yiqun, J. Koller, and S. K. Morley, Quantifying the effect of magnetopause shadowing during electron radiation belt dropouts, Annales Geophysicae, 30, 1929-1939 (2013).
8. Yu, Yiqun, and A. Ridley, Exploring the effect of ionospheric heavy ion outflow on magnetospheric dynamics: dependent of source location, J. Geophy. Res., 118,(2013).
9. Rastatter, L.; Kuznetsova, M. M.; Glocer, A.; Welling, D.; Meng, X.; Raeder, J.; Wiltberger, M.; Jordanova, V. K.; Yu, Y.; Zaharia, S.; Weigel, R. S.; Sazykin, S.; Boynton, R.; Wei, H.;Eccles, V.; Horton, W.; Mays, M. L.; Gannon, J. Geospace environment modeling 2008–2009 challenge: Dst index, Space Weather, 11, (2013).
10. Yu, Yiqun, V. Jordanova, S. Zaharia, J. Koller, J. Zhang, and L. Kistler Validation of the magnetically self-consistent inner magnetosphere model RAM-SCB,J. Geophy. Res.,117, A03222, (2012).
11. Yu, Yiqun, J. Koller, S. Zaharia, and V. Jordanova L* neural networks from different magnetospheric field models and their applicability,Space Weather,10, S02014, (2012).
12. Yu, Yiqun, and A. Ridley, Understanding the response of the ionosphere-magnetosphere system to sudden solar wind density increases, J. Geophy. Res.,116, A04210, (2011).
13. Yu, Yiqun, A. J. Ridley, D. T. Welling, and G. Toth,Including gap-region field-aligned and magnetospheric currents in MHD calculation of ground-based magnetic field perturbations,J. Geophy. Res.,115, 8207, (2010).
14. Samsonov, A., D. G. Sibeck, and Y. Yu,Transient changes in magnetospheric-ionospheric currents caused by interplanetary shock passage: 1. Northward IMF case, J. Geophy. Res.,115, 5207, (2010).
15. Yu, Yiqun, and A. J. Ridley, The response of the magnetosphere-ionosphere system to a sudden dynamic pressure enhancement under southward imf conditions, Annales Geophysicae, 27 (12), 4391-4407, (2009).
16. Yu, Yiqun, and A. J. Ridley, Response of the magnetosphere-ionosphere system to a sudden southward turning of interplanetary magnetic field, J. Geophy. Res., 114, 3216, (2009).
17. Wang, H., H. Luhr, A. Ridley, P. Ritter, and Y. Yu,Storm time dynamics of auroral electrojets: CHAMP observation and the Space Weather Modeling Framework comparison, Annales Geophysicae, 26, 555-570, (2008).
18. Yu, Yiqun, and A. J. Ridley, Validation of the space weather modeling framework using ground-based magnetometers, Space Weather, 6, 5002, (2008).