Welcome to My Horizon!

My name is Yingjie Zhu (朱英杰). I am a postdoc researcher at the Physikalisch-Meteorologische Observatorium Davos/World Radiation Center (PMOD/WRC) working with Prof. Louise Harra. I did my Ph.D. at the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP), the University of Michigan, where I worked with Dr. Enrico Landi to understand different physical processes in the solar atmosphere with spectroscopic observations made by Hinode/EIS and SOHO/SUMER. I also used RADYN and RH codes to study Mg \({\rm {\scriptsize II}}\) line profiles at solar flare ribbons when I was an undergraduate.

I was an ambassador of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) at the University of Michigan. The DKIST is a 4m solar telescope located in Maui, Hawaii. It will have its scientific first light in 2020 and start a one-year commission phase. Before the arrival of DKIST data, I attended several DKIST workshops on data reduction and analysis. I am interested in using the Cryogenic Near-Infrared Spectropolarimeter (Cryo-NIRSP) to perform plasma and magnetic diagnostics to the corona.

The Sun is the nearest star and the ultimate driver of space weather. Frequent solar eruptions like flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) release a large number of coronal plasma along with electromagnetic waves. A better knowledge of our giant neighbor would benefit the space weather predictions and our understanding of other stellar physics.

About the Theme

This website uses the Jekyllrb theme Lagrange developed by Paul, which is completely free and open source software. I also used the HTML and CSS code from Cynthia Costa to post photos in the gallery. Yingjie would like to thank Paul, Cynthia, and all the other contributors to the open-source code used to develop this website.

It is distributed under the MIT License. If you are having any problems about Paul’s theme, any questions or suggestions, feel free to tweet at him, or file a GitHub issue.