Curriculum Vitae

Education

• B.S. in Electric Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2005, Hangzhou, China
• M.S. in Electric Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2007, Hangzhou, China
• Ph.D in Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College, 2012, Hanover, NH, USA

Work experience

• 2018-present: Assistant Professor
  • Department of Earth Sciences, the University of Hong Kong
• 2016-2017: Postdoc Fellow
  • High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research
• 2012-2015: Research Scientist
  • Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

Funded Research

1. Magnetospheric Origin of Jovian Dawnstorm and Polar Auroral Emission (2022-2025), RGC General Research Fund
2. Ionospheric Control and Low-Altitude Signatures of Magnetopause Activity (2021-2023), RGC General Research Fund
3. Effects of non-thermal plasma populations in the global configuration of the Jovian magnetosphere (2020-2022), RGC General Research Fund
4. Ionosphere-Magnetosphere coupling in planetary space environment systems (2020-2022), NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Award
5. Impact of Terrestrial-Sourced Plasma on the Dayside Solar Wind- Magnetosphere-Ionosphere interaction (2019-2021), RGC General Research Fund
6. Effects of Meso-Scale Ionosphere-Thermosphere Dynamics on Topside O+ Ion Upflow and Outflow (2018-2020), RGC Early Career Scheme
7. Ion-neutral coupling in the cusp region, Principle Investigator (2016-2019), NSF-AGS, Award # 1521892
8. Global Simulations of Non-Ideal Transport in the Magnetotail, Co-Investigator (2014- 2017), NSF-GEM, Grant # 1404599
9. Drivers of thermal upwelling of neutral particles at high latitudes, Co-Principle Investigator (2014-2016), AFOSR, Award # 14RT2099

Journal Publications

1. Dang, T., Li, X., Luo, B., Li, R., Zhang, B., Pham, K., et al. (2022). Unveiling the space weather during the Starlink satellites destruction event on 4 February 2022. Space Weather, 20, e2022SW003152. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022SW003152
2. Dang, T., Lei, J., Zhang, B., Zhang, T., Yao, Z., Lyon, J., et al. (2022). Oxygen ion escape at Venus associated with three-dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL096961. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096961
3. Gong, F., Yu, Y., Cao, J., Wei, Y., Gao, J., Li, H., et al. (2022). Simulating the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction during the Matuyama-Brunhes paleomagnetic reversal. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL097340. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097340
4. Pham, K. H., Zhang, B., Sorathia, K., Dang, T., Wang, W., Merkin, V., et al. (2022). Thermospheric density perturbations produced by traveling atmospheric disturbances during August 2005 storm. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2021JA030071. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA030071
5. Guo, R.L., Yao, Z.H., Dunn, W.R., Palmaerts, B., Sergis, N., Grodent, D., Badman, S.V., Ye, S.Y., Pu, Z.Y., Mitchell, D.G. and Zhang, B.Z., 2021. A Rotating Azimuthally Distributed Auroral Current System on Saturn Revealed by the Cassini Spacecraft. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 919(2), p.L25. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac26b5
6. Xu, Y., Guo, R. L., Yao, Z. H., Pan, D. X., Dunn, W. R., Ye, S.-Y., Zhang B., et al. (2021). Properties of plasmoids observed in Saturn’s dayside and nightside magnetodisc. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL096765. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096765
7. Chen, X., Dang, T., Zhang, B., Lotko, W., Pham, K., Wang, W., et al. (2021). Global effects of a polar solar eclipse on the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere system. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL096471. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096471
8. Pan, D-X., Yao, Z-H., Manners, H., Dunn, W., Bonfond, B., GrodentD., Zhang, B., et al. (2021). Ultralow-frequency waves in driving Jovian aurorae revealed by observations from HST and Juno. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091579. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091579
9. Pan, D.-X., Yao, Z.-H., Guo, R.-L., Bonfond, B., Wei, Y., Dunn, W., Zhang, B., et al. (2021). A statistical survey of low-frequency magnetic fluctuations at Saturn. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028387. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028387
10. Li, Z., Lei, J., and Zhang, B. (2021). Numerical considerations in the simulation of equatorial spread F. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2021JA029622. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA029622
11. Wang, L., Luan, X., Lei, J., Lynch, K. A., and Zhang, B. (2021). The universal time variations of the intensity of afternoon aurora in equinoctial seasons. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028504, doi:10.1029/2020JA028504
12. McGranaghan, R. M., Ziegler, J., Bloch, T., Hatch, S., Camporeale, E., Lynch, K., M. Owens, J. Gjerloev, B. Zhang and S. Skone et al. (2021). Toward a next generation particle precipitation model: Mesoscale prediction through machine learning (a case study and framework for progress). Space Weather, 19, doi:10.1029/2020SW002684
13. B. Zhang, P. A. Delamere, Z. Yao, B. Bonfond, D. Lin, K. A. Sorathia, O. J. Brambles, W. Lotko, J. S. Garretson, V. G. Merkin （2021, How Jupiter’s unusual magnetospheric topology structures its aurora. Science Advances 7, eabd1204, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abd1204
14. K. H. Pham, W. Lotko, R. Varney, B. Zhang, J. Liu, Thermospheric Impact on the Magnetosphere through Ionospheric Outflow. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 126, e2020JA028656 (2021), doi:10.1029/2020JA028656
15. D. X. Pan, Z. H. Yao, H. Manners, W. Dunn, B. Bonfond, D. Grodent, B. Zhang, R. L. Guo, Y. Wei, Ultralow‐Frequency Waves in Driving Jovian Aurorae Revealed by Observations From HST and Juno (2021). Geophysical Research Letters 48, e2020GL091579, doi:10.1029/2020GL091579
16. T. Dang, B. Zhang, J. Lei, W. Wang, A. Burns, H.-l. Liu, K. Pham, K. A. Sorathia (2020), Azimuthal averaging–reconstruction filtering techniques for finite-difference general circulation models in spherical geometry. Geoscientific Model Development 14, 859-873. doi:10.5194/gmd-14-859-2021
17. B. Zhang, O. J. Brambles, W. Lotko, J. G. Lyon, Is Nightside Outflow Required to Induce Magntospheric Sawtooth Oscillations? Geophysical Research Letters 47, (2020). doi:10.1029/2019GL086419
18. Z. Yang, B. Zhang, J. Lei, T. Dang, Nonlinear response of the cross polar cap potential to solar wind density under northward interplanetary magnetic field. Geophysical Research Letters 47, e2020GL087559 (2020). doi:10.1029/2020GL087559
19. K. Sorathia, V. Merkin, E. Panov, B. Zhang, J. Lyon, J. Garretson, A. Ukhorskiy, S. Ohtani, M. Sitnov, M. Wiltberger, Ballooning‐interchange instability in the near‐Earth plasma sheet and auroral beads: Global magnetospheric modeling at the limit of the MHD approximation. Geophysical Research Letters 47, e2020GL088227 (2020). doi:10.1029/2020GL088227
20. D. X. Pan, Z. H. Yao, R. L. Guo, B. Bonfond, Y. Wei, W. Dunn, B. Zhang, Q. G. Zong, X. Z. Zhou, D. Grodent, A Statistical Survey of Low‐Frequency Magnetic Fluctuations at Saturn. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, e2020JA028387 (2020)， doi:10.1029/2020JA028387
21. Dang, T., Lei, J., Wang, W., Wang, B., Zhang, B., Liu, J., et al (2019). Formation of double tongues of ionization during the 17 March 2013 geomagnetic storm. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 10619– 10630. doi:10.1029/2019JA027268
22. Zhang, B., et al. (2019), GAMERA: A three-dimensional finite-volume MHD solver in non-orthogonal curvilinear geometries, the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series., 244(1), 20, doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab3a4c
23. Lin, D., Wang, W., Scales, W. A., Pham, K., Liu, J., Zhang, B., et al. (2019). SAPS in the 17 March 2013 storm event: Initial results from the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 6212– 6225. doi:10.1029/2019JA026698
24. W. Wang, Dang, T., Lei, J., Zhang, B., and Zhang, S.-R. (2019).,Physical Processes Driving the Response of the F2-region Ionosphere to the 21 August 2017 Solar Eclipse at Millstone Hill, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 2978– 2991. doi:10.1029/2018JA025479
25. Lotko, W., and Zhang, B. (2018). Alfvenic heating in the cusp ionosphere-thermosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 10,368–10,383. doi:10.1029/2018JA025990
26. Zhang, B., K. A. Sorathia, J. G. Lyon, V. G. Merkin, M. Wiltberger, A three-dimensional finite-volume MHD solver in non-orthogonal curvilinear geometry: GAMERA, a reinvention of LFM (2018), arXiv, doi:arXiv/1810.10861
27. Zhang, B., et al. (2018), Conservative averaging reconstruction (Ring Average) techniques for finite- volume MHD solvers with axis singularity, J. Comp. Phys., Volume 376, 2019, Pages 276-294, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2018.08.020.
28. Dang, T., Lei, J., Wang, W., Burns, A., Zhang, B., and Zhang, S.-R. (2018)., Global responses of the coupled thermosphere and ionosphere system to the August 2017 great American solar eclipse, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 7040–7050. doi:10.1029/2018JA025566
29. Liu, J., Wang, W., Zhang, B., Huang, C., and Lin, D. (2018). Temporal Variation of Solar Wind in Controlling Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Energy Budget. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123. doi:10.1029/2017JA025154
30. Lei, J., Dang, T., Wang, W., Burns, A., Zhang, B., and Le, H. (2018). Long-lasting response of the global thermosphere and ionosphere to the 21 August 2017 solar eclipse. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 4309–4316. doi:10.1029/2018JA025460
31. Dang, T., Lei, J., Wang, W., Burns, A., Zhang, B., and Zhang, S.-R. (2018). Suppression of the polar tongue of ionization during the 21 August 2017 solar eclipse. Geophys. Res. Lett, 45, 2918–2925. doi:10.1002/2018GL077328
32. Zhang, B., Delamere, P. A., Ma, X., Burkholder, B., Wiltberger, M., Lyon, J. G., Sorathia, K. A. (2018). Asymmetric Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at Jupiter’s magnetopause boundary: Implications for corotation-dominated systems. Geophys. Res. Lett, 45, 56–63. doi:10.1002/2017GL076315
33. Dang, T., Zhang, B., Wiltberge, M., Wang, W., Varney, R., Dou, X., … Lei, J. (2018). On the relation between soft electron precipitations in the cusp region and solar wind coupling functions. J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 123, 211–226. doi:10.1002/2017JA024379
34. Lin, D., B. Zhang, W. Scales, M. Wiltberger, R. Clauer, Z. Xu (2017), The Role of Solar Wind Density in Cross Polar Cap Potential Saturation under Northward Interplanetary Magnetic Field, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL075275.
35. Hatch, S., J. LaBelle, W. Lotko, C. Chaston, B. Zhang, (2017), IMF control of Alfvenic energy transport and deposition at high latitudes, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 122, doi:10.1002/2017JA024175
36. Zhang, B., O. J. Brambles, P. A. Cassak, J. E. Ouellette, M. Wiltberger, W. Lotko, and J. G. Lyon (2017), Transition from global to local control of dayside reconnection from ionospheric-sourced mass loading, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 122, 9474–9488, doi:10.1002/2016JA023646
37. Wiltberger, M., V. Merkin, B. Zhang, F. Toffoletto, M. Oppenheim, W. Wang, J. G. Lyon, J. Liu, Y. Dimant, M. I. Sitnov, G. K. Stephens (2017), Effects of electrojet turbulence on a magnetosphere-ionosphere simulation of a geomagnetic storm, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 122, 5008–5027, doi:10.1002/2016JA023700
38. Varney R., M. Wiltberger, B. Zhang, W. Lotko, and J.G. Lyon (2016), Influence of Ion Outflow in Coupled Geospace Simulations: 2. Sawtooth Oscillations Driven by Physics-Based Ion Outflow, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JA022778
39. Zhang, B., W. Wang, Q. Wu, D.J. Knipp, L. Kilcommons, O.J. Brambles, J. Liu, M. Wiltberger, J.G. Lyon, and I. Haggstrom (2016), Effects of magnetospheric lobe-cell convection on dayside upper thermospheric winds at high latitudes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, doi:10.1002/2016GL069834
40. Varney R., M. Wiltberger, B. Zhang, W. Lotko, and J.G. Lyon (2016), Influence of Ion Outflow in Coupled Geospace Simulations: 1. Physics-Based Ion Outflow Model Development and Sensitivity Study, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JA022777
41. Zhang, B., O. J. Brambles, M. Wiltberger, W. Lotko, J. E. Ouellette, and J. G. Lyon (2016), How does mass loading impact local versus global control on dayside reconnection?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 1837–1844, doi:10.1002/2016GL068005
42. Ouellette, J. E., J. G. Lyon, O. J. Brambles, B. Zhang, and W. Lotko (2016), The effects of plasmas- pheric plumes on dayside reconnection, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 121, 4111–4118, doi:10.1002/2016JA022597
43. Xi, S., W. Lotko, B. Zhang, M. Wiltberger, and J. Lyon (2016), Effects of auroral potential drops on plasma sheet dynamics, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 121, 11,129–11,144, doi:10.1002/2016JA-022856
44. Zhang, B., O. J. Brambles, W. Lotko, J. E. Ouellette, and J. G. Lyon (2015), The role of ionospheric O+ in the generation of earthward plasmoids, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 120, doi:10.1002/2015JA021667
45. Zhang, B., R. Varney, W. Lotko, O. J. Brambles, W. Wang, J. Lei, M. Wiltberger, and J. G. Lyon (2015), Pathways to thermospheric heating via soft electron precipitation, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 120, 5824–5831, doi:10.1002/2015JA020999
46. Zhang, B., W. Lotko, O. Brambles, M. Wiltberger, and J. Lyon (2015), Electron precipitation models in global geospace simulations, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 120: 1035–1056. doi:10.1002/2014JA020615
47. S. Xi, W. Lotko, B. Zhang, J. Lyon (2014), Poynting flux-conserving low-altitude boundary conditions for global magnetosphere models, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 120, 384–400, doi:10.1002/2014JA020470
48. W. Lotko, R. Smith, B. Zhang, J. Ouellette, O. Brambles, J. Lyon (2014), Ionospheric Control of Magnetotail Reconnection, Science, Vol. 345 no. 6193 pp. 184-187, doi:10.1126/science.1252907
49. Zhang, B., W. Lotko, O. J. Brambles, S. Xi, M. Wiltberger, and J. G. Lyon (2014), Solar wind control of auroral Alfvenic power generated in the magnetotail, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 119, 1734–1748, doi:10.1002/2013JA019178
50. Zhang, B., O. Brambles, J. Ouellette, W. Lotko, M. Wiltberger, and J. Lyon (2013), Predicting the locations of polar cusp in the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry global magnetosphere simulation, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 6327–6337, doi:10.1002/jgra.50565
51. Brambles, O. J., W. Lotko, B. Zhang, J. Ouellette, J. Lyon, and M. Wiltberger (2013), The effects of ionospheric outflow on ICME and SIR driven sawtooth events, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 6026–6041, doi:10.1002/jgra.50522
52. Zhang, B., W. Lotko, O. J. Brambles, M. Wiltberger, W. Wang, P. Schmitt, and J. G. Lyon (2012), Enhancement of thermospheric mass density by soft electron precipitation, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2012GL053519
53. Zhang, B. (2012), Electron precipitation models in global magnetosphere simulations, Ph. D. Thesis, Dartmouth College, http://libarchive.dartmouth.edu/cdm/ref/collection/dcdis/id/81206
54. Zhang, B., W. Lotko, O. Brambles, P. Damiano, M. Wiltberger, and J. Lyon (2012), Magnetotail origins of auroral Alfv ́enic power, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A09205, doi:10.1029/2012JA017680
55. Lynch, K. A., D. L. Hampton, M. R. Mella, B. Zhang, H. Dahlgren, M. Disbrow, P. Kintner, M. R. Lessard, E. T. Lundberg, and H. C. Stenbaek-Nielsen (2012), Structure and dynamics of the nightside poleward boundary: sounding rocket and groundbased observations of auroral electron precipitation in a rayed curtain, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2012JA017691
56. Brambles, O. J., W. Lotko, B. Zhang, M. Wiltberger, J. Lyon, and R. J. Strangeway (2011), Magne- tosphere sawtooth oscillations induced by ionospheric outflow, Science, 332(6034), 1183–6, doi:10.1126/science.1202869
57. Zhang, B., W. Lotko, M. J. Wiltberger, O. J. Brambles, P. A. Damiano (2011), A statistical study of M-I coupling in the LFM global MHD model, J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phys. 73(5-6), 686, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2010.09.027
58. Damiano, P. A., O. J. Brambles, W. Lotko, B. Zhang, M. Wiltberger, and J. Lyon (2010), Effects of solar wind dynamic pressure on the ionospheric O+ fluence during the 31 August 2005 storm, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A00J07, doi:10.1029/2010JA015583
59. Brambles, O. J., W. Lotko, P. A. Damiano, B. Zhang, M. Wiltberger, and J. Lyon (2010), Effects of causally driven cusp O+ outflow on the storm-time magnetosphere-ionosphere system using a multifluid global simulation, J. Geophys. Res. 115, A00J04, doi:10.1029/2010JA015469
60. Zhang B., D. Yang and H. Xie (2006), Simplified Analysis of a Coherent THz Cherenkov Radiation Generator, Infrared Millimeter Waves, P62-63, doi:10.1109/ICIMW.2006.368270

Selected Conference Presentations

• Zhang, B. et al. (2019), Asymmetric Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at Giant Magnetospheres (Invited), Astronum 2019, Paris, Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne, 1-5 Jul.
• Zhang, B. et al. (2018), A Numerical Experiment of the global Jupiter Magnetosphere: Initial Results from Multifluid MHD, AGU Fall meeting abstract SM23E-3233, Washington D.C., 10-14 Dec.
• Zhang, B. et al. (2017), Global Geospace Modeling of Upper Thermospheric Dynamics during Storm Time (Invited), AGU Fall meeting abstract SM32B-02, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 Dec.
• Zhang, B. et al. (2016), Effects of mass loading on dayside solar wind-magnetosphere interactions, AGU Fall meeting abstract SM12A-03, San Francisco, CA, 12-16 Dec.
• Zhang, B. et al. (2015) Impacts of ionospheric outflow on storm-time F-region thermospheric mass density modeling (Invited), AGU Fall meeting abstract SM14A-07, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 Dec.
• Zhang, B.et al. (2014). Predicting Thermospheric Density at High Latitude during Magnetic Storms using Coupled Global Geospace Simulations (Invited), AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, 13-19 Dec.
• Zhang, B. et al. (2014), Electron precipitation models in global geospace simulations (Invited), AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, 13-19 Dec.
• Zhang, B. et al. (2013), Magnetotail origins of auroral Alfv ́enic power (Invited), Chapman Conference, AGU, Reykjavik, Iceland, 10-15 Mar.
• Zhang, B. et al. (2013), Pathways of thermospheric heating via cusp electron precipitation, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 Dec.
• Zhang, B. et al. (2012). Ionospheric Control of the Distribution of Magnetospheric Reconnection and Convection (Invited), Abstract SM22A-05 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 Dec.
• Zhang, B. et al. (2012), Effects of soft electron precipitation on the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere- thermosphere, Abstract SA33A-2169 presented at 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 3-7 Dec.
• Zhang, B. et al. (2011), Effects of soft electron precipitation on the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere- thermosphere, Abstract SM42A-05 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 5-9 Dec.
• Zhang, B. et al. (2010), Broadband Electron Precipitation in Global MHD Simulation and its Effect on the Ionosphere, Abstract SM21A-1887 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 Dec.
• Zhang, B. et al.(2009), Climatology of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry Global Magnetosphere Model, Eos Trans. AGU, 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract SA23B-1476
• Zhang, B. et al. (2008), Production and Effects of Secondary Electrons in Global Simulations of the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Interaction, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract SM13A- 1652.

Honors and Awards

• McQueen Fellow, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR
• Excellent Young Scientst Award, NSFC
• Science and Technique Achievement Award， UCAR
• NASA-Space Grant Award