Professor
School of Earth and Space Sciences
Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Education:
1.2005 - 2010
Ph.D. in space physics. Advisors: Prof. Chuanyi Tu, Prof. Eckart Marsch
School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, China
Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research, Germany
2.2001 - 2005
Bachelor of Engineering
School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, China
Employment:
1.2015 - now
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor at School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
2. 2012 - 2015
Astrophysicist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
3. 2010 – 2012
ASP Postdoc Fellow at High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
Research Interest:
1.Solar transition region
2.Sunspot and flare dynamics
3.Coronal heating and solar wind origin
4.Solar and stellar coronal magnetic field diagnostics
5.Stellar coronal activity and exoplanetary space weather
Honors:
1.2023: XPlorer Prize
2.2022: China Youth Science and Technology Award
3.2020: Karen Harvey Prize, Solar Physics Division, American Astronomical Society
4.2019: Young Researcher Award, Division of Plasma Physics, Association of Asian Pacific Physical Societies
5.2018: Distinguished Young Scientist Award from the National Science Foundation of China
6.2017: AOGS (Asia Oceania Geosciences Society) Early Career Researchers Distinguished Lecture
7.2016: Head of Max Planck Partner Group, appointed by Max Planck Society, Germany
Invited talks at international conferences/workshops:
1.Prevalent Sub-arcsec Intermittent Jets in the Solar Atmosphere, 7th GST Workshop, Antalya, Turkiye, Feb 2-7, 2026, keynote talk
2.Mapping the global coronal magnetic field through 2D coronal seismology, The third China-Europe Solar Physics Meeting, Beijing, China, Sept 14-19, 2025, invited
3.Mapping the global coronal magnetic field of the Sun, International Symposium on Cosmic Magnetic Fields, Beijing, China, Oct 12-16, 2025, invited
4.The solar transition region: current understanding and future perspectives, 45th COSPAR Scientific Assembly (COSPAR 2024), Busan, South Korea, July 13-21, 2024, invited
5.Supersonic downflows into sunspots, 45th COSPAR Scientific Assembly (COSPAR 2024), Busan, South Korea, July 13-21, 2024, invited
6.The Relationship Between UV Bursts and Ellerman Bombs, AOGS 2024, Pyeongchang, South Korea, June 23-28, 2024, invited
7.Generation of solar spicules and subsequent atmospheric heating, Hinode-14/IRIS-11 workshop (e-conference), Oct 25-28, 2021, invited
8.Mapping the global magnetic field in the solar corona through magnetoseismology, 5th Asia-Pacific conference on Plasma Physics (e-conference), Sept.26-Oct.1, 2021, invited (plenary)
9.Magnetoseismology for the solar corona: from ~10 Gauss to coronal magnetograms, Royal Astronomical Society specialist discussion meeting “MHD oscillations and waves from the photosphere to the corona” (e-conference), May 14, 2021, invited
10.Prevalent transverse waves in the corona and their potential for mapping the coronal magnetic field, IIA-50 Conference "Advances in Observation and Modelling of Solar Magnetism and Variability", Bangalore, India and online, March 1-4, 2021, invited
11.Mapping the global magnetic field in the solar corona through magnetoseismology, MHD Coronal Seismology 2020: Twenty Years of Probing the Sun’s Corona with MHD Waves (e-conference), Dec. 8-11, 2020, invited
12.Spectroscopic observations of the upper solar atmosphere, The 51th AAS/SPD meeting (e-conference), August 18-19, 2020, invited
13.Prevalent small-scale jets in the solar atmosphere, The 13th Hinode Science Meeting, Tokyo, September 2-6, 2019, invited
14.BBSO/GST observations of fine structures and fast dynamics in sunspot light bridges, First ten years of GST workshop, Newark, U.S., March 12-15, 2019, invited
15.Observations of magnetic reconnection in the partially ionized lower solar atmosphere, 2nd Asia-Pacific conference on Plasma Physics, Kanazawa, Japan, Nov. 12-17, 2018, invited
16.Multiepisode Chromospheric Evaporation Observed in a Solar Flare, AOGS 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-8, 2018, invited
17.The Solar Transition Region, AOGS 2017, Singapore, August 6-11, 2017, invited
18.The Solar Transition Region: Current Understanding and Future Perspectives, The 1st China-Europe Solar Physics Meeting, Kunming, May 15-19, 2017, invited
19.Observations and Simulations of Shock Waves in the Transition Region Above Sunspots, AOGS 2015, Singapore, August 2-7, 2015, invited
20.Connections Between Chromosphere,Transition Region and Corona: IRIS perspective, International conference on coupling and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, Pune, India, Nov 10-14, 2014, invited
21.IRIS observations of the solar wind source region, 2014 LWS/Hinode-8/IRIS-2 conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, Nov 3-6, 2014, invited
22.First results of NASA’s IRIS mission, 12th Scientific Assembly of the IAGA, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, Aug 26-30, 2013, invited
23.Two components of the coronal emission revealed by both spectroscopic and imaging observations, SHINE 2012, Wailea Maui, Hawaii, USA, June 25-29, 2012, invited
24.The mass cycle between the chromosphere and the corona/solar wind, SDO-4 / IRIS / Hinode Workshop, Monterey, California, USA, March 12-16, 2012, invited
25.Crossing the transition region, Workshop From the Heliosphere into the Sun, Bad Honnef, Germany, Jan 31-Feb 3, 2012, invited
26.The solar transition region in the quiet Sun and active regions, AOGS 2009, Singapore, August 11-15, 2009, invited
Community Service and Professional Activities
1.Chief scientist of the Solar Polar-orbit Observatory mission, since 2025
2.Associate Editor of Living Reviews in Solar Physics, 2024-2027
3.Member of the Coronal Solar Magnetism Observatory (COSMO) Steering Committee, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA, since 2021
4.Co-chair of the "Atmospheric Heating" science working group, ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission, 2021-2024
5.Scientific editor of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2023-2026
6.Editorial Board Member of Proceedings of the Royal Society A, since 2019
7.Leader of ISSI’s international team Diagnosing heating mechanisms in solar flares through spectroscopic observations of flare ribbons, 2016-2018
External Research Grant History
1.Distinguished Young Scientist Award (continued), NSFC, 2024-2028, Principle-Investigator
2.Hunting for stellar coronal mass ejections and associated numerical simulations, NSFC, 2023-2025, Principle-Investigator
3.Distinguished Young Scientist Award, NSFC, 2019-2023, Principle-Investigator
4.Diagnosing the magnetic field of the solar atmosphere through spectral imaging observations, NSFC, 2018-2022, Co-Investigator
5.Observational Study of Network Jets from the Solar Transition Region, NSFC, 2016-2019, Principle-Investigator
Recent Peer-reviewed Publications
1.Zhang, J., Tian, H.*, Bellotti, S., et al. 2025, Starspots as the origin of ultrafast drifting radio bursts from an active M dwarf, Science Advances, 11, eadw6116
2.Lu, H.-P., Tian, H*, Zhang, L.-Y., et al. 2025, An Extreme Stellar Prominence Eruption Observed by LAMOST Time-domain Spectroscopy, Astrophys. J. Lett., 978, L32
3.Gao, Y.-H., Tian, H.*, Berghmans, D., et al., 2025, Reconnection Nanojets in an Erupting Solar Filament with Unprecedented High Speeds, Astrophys. J. Lett., 985, L12
4.Deng, Y.*, Tian, H.*, Jiang, J., et al. 2025, Probing Solar Polar Regions, Chinese Journal of Space Science, 45, 913
5.Chen, H.*, Tian, H.*, Zhang, Q., et al. 2025, Minifilament Eruptions as the Last Straw to Break the Equilibrium of a Giant Solar Filament, Astrophys. J., 983, 143
6.Chen, H.*, Tian, H.*, Priest, E. R., et al. 2025, Witnessing Magnetic Reconnection in Tangled Superpenumbral Fibrils around a Sunspot, Astrophys. J., 995, 94
7.Hou, Z., Tian, H.*, Yan, J.*, et al. 2025, Radio dimming associated with filament eruptions in the meter and decimeter wavebands, Astron. & Astrophys., 695, A12
8.Yang, Z.-H., Tian, H.*, Tomczyk, S., Liu, X.-Y., Gibson, S., Morton, R., Downs, C., 2024, Observing the evolution of the Sun’s global coronal magnetic field over 8 months, Science, 386, 76
9.Sun, Z., Tian, H.*, Li, T., Liu, R., Duan, Y.-D., 2024, Fast Downflows Observed during a Polar Crown Filament Eruption, Astrophys. J., 974, 205
10. Gao, Y.-H.*, Van Doorsselaere, T., Tian, H.*, Guo, M.-Z., Karampelas, K., 2024, Propagating kink waves in an open coronal magnetic flux tube with gravitational stratification: Magnetohydrodynamic simulation and forward modelling, Astron. Astrophys., 689, A195
11. Xu, Y.*, Alvarado-Gomez, J. D., Tian, H.*, Poppenhager, K., Guerrero, G., Liu, X.-Y., 2024, Simulated Coronal Mass Ejections on a Young Solar-type Star and the Associated Instantaneous Angular Momentum Loss, Astrophys. J., 971, 153
12. Hou, Z.-Y., Tian, H.*, Madjarska, M. S., Chen, H.-C., Samanta, T., Bai, X.-Y., Li, Z.-T., Su, Y., Chen, W., Deng, Y.-Y., 2024, Numerous bidirectionally propagating plasma blobs near the reconnection site of a solar eruption, Astron. Astrophys., 687, A190
13. Chan, L., Tian, H.*, Liu, X.-Y., Torok, T., Bai, X.-Y., Feng, Y.-F., Banerjee, D., 2024, Global Coronal Plasma Diagnostics Based on Multislit Extreme-ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Astrophys. J., 967, 162
14. Yang, Z.-H., Tian, H.*, Zhu, Y.-J., Xu, Y., Chen, L., Sun, Z., 2024, Is It Possible to Detect Coronal Mass Ejections on Solar-type Stars through Extreme ultraviolet Spectral Observations, Astrophys. J., 966, 24
15. Hou, Z.-Y., Tian, H.*, Su, W., Madjarska, M. S., Chen, H.-C., Zheng, R.-S., Bai, X.-Y., Deng, Y.-Y., 2023, A Type II Radio Burst Driven by a Blowout Jet on the Sun, Astrophys. J., 953, 171
16. Zhang, J.-L., Tian, H.*, Zarka, P., Louis, C. K., Lu, H.-P., Gao, D.-Y., Sun, X.-H., Yu, S.-J., Chen, B., Cheng, X., Wang, K., 2023, Fine Structures of Radio Bursts from Flare Star AD Leo with FAST Observations, Astrophys. J., 953, 65
17. Bai, X.-Y., Tian, H.*, Deng, Y.-Y., Wang, Z.-S.*, et al. 2023, The Solar Upper Transition Region Imager (SUTRI) Onboard the SATech-01 Satellite, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 23, 065014
18. Sun, Z., Tian, H.*, Chen, P.-F., Yao, S.*, Hou, Z.-Y., Chen, H.-C., Chen, L.-J. 2022, Cross-loop Propagation of a Quasiperiodic Extreme-ultraviolet Wave Train Triggered by Successive Stretching of Magnetic Field Structures during a Solar Eruption, Astrophys. J. Lett., 939, L18
19. Liu, X.-Y., Tian, H.*, Chen, Y.-J., Li, W.-X., Jin, M., Bai, X.-Y., Yang, Z.-H. 2022, Forward Modeling of Magnetic Field Measurements at the Bases of Stellar Coronae through Extreme-ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Astrophys. J., 938, 7
20. Chen, H.-C., Tian, H.*, Li, H., Wang, J.-G., Lu, H.-P., Xu, Y., Hou, Z.-Y., Wu, Y.-C. 2022, Detection of Flare-induced Plasma Flows in the Corona of EV Lac with X-Ray Spectroscopy, Astrophys. J., 933, 92
21. Yang, Z.-H., Tian, H.*, Bai, X.-Y.*, Chen, Y.-J., Guo, Y., Zhu, Y.-J., Cheng, X., Gao, Y.-H., Xu, Y., Chen, H.-C., Zhang, J.-L. 2022, Can We Detect Coronal Mass Ejections through Asymmetries of Sun-as-a-star Extreme-ultraviolet Spectral Line Profiles, Astrophys. J. Supp., 260, 36
22. Xu, Y., Tian, H.*, Hou, Z.-Y., Yang, Z., Gao, Y.-H., Bai, X.-Y. 2022, Sun-as-a-star Spectroscopic Observations of the Line-of-sight Velocity of a Solar Eruption on 2021 October 28, Astrophys. J., 931, 76
23. Chen, H.-C., Tian, H.*, Li, L.-P.*, Peter, H., Chitta, L. P., Hou, Z.-Y. 2022, Coronal condensation as the source of transition-region supersonic downflows above a sunspot, Astron. Astrophys., 659, A107
24. Chen, Y.-J.*, Przybylski, D., Peter, H., Tian, H.*, Auchere F., Berghmans, D. 2021, Transient small-scale brightenings in the quiet solar corona: A model for campfires observed with Solar Orbiter, Astron. Astrophys., 656, L7
25. Chen, Y.-J., Li, W.-X.*, Tian, H.*, Chen, F., Bai, X.-Y., Yang, Y., Yang, Z.-H., Liu, X.-Y., Deng, Y.-Y. 2021, Forward Modeling of Solar Coronal Magnetic-field Measurements Based on a Magnetic-field-induced Transition in Fe X, Astrophys. J., 920, 116
26. Hou, Z.-Y., Tian, H.*, Berghmans, D., Chen, H.-C., Teriaca, L., Schuhle, U., Gao, Y.-H., Chen, Y.-J., He, J.-S., Wang, L.-H., Bai, X.-Y. 2021, Coronal Microjets in Quiet-Sun Regions Observed with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on Board the Solar Orbiter, Astrophys. J. Lett., 918, L20
27. Tian, H., Harra, L., Baker, D., Brooks, D. H., Xia, L.-D. 2021, Upflows in the upper solar atmosphere, Solar Physics, 296, 47
28. Samanta, T.*, Tian, H.*, Chen, B., Reeves, K. K., Cheung, M. C. M., Vourlidas, A., Banerjee, D. 2021, Plasma heating induced by tadpole-like downflows in the flaring solar corona, The Innovation, 2, 100083
29. Yang, Z.-H., Bethge, C., Tian, H.*, Tomczyk, S.*, Morton, R., Del Zanna, G., McIntosh, S. W., Binay Karak, B., Gibson, S., Samanta, T., He, J.-S., Chen, Y.-J., Wang, L.-H. 2020, Global maps of the magnetic field in the solar corona, Science, 369, 694
30. Yang, Z.-H., Tian, H.*, Tomczyk, S., Morton, R., Bai, X.-Y., Samanta, T., Chen, Y.-J. 2020, Mapping the magnetic field in the solar corona through magnetoseismology, Sci China Tech Sci, 63, 2357
31. Samanta, T., Tian, H.*, Yurchyshyn, V., Peter, H., Cao, W., Sterling, A., Erdélyi, R., Ahn, K., Feng, S., Utz, D., Banerjee, D., Chen, Y. 2019, Generation of solar spicules and subsequent atmospheric heating, Science, 366, 890
32. Samanta, T., Tian, H. *, Nakariakov, V. M. 2019, Evidence for Vortex Shedding in the Sun's hot corona, Physical Review Letters, 123, 035102
33. Chen, Y., Tian, H. *, Peter, H., Samanta, T., et al. 2019, Flame-like Ellerman Bombs and Their Connection to Solar UV Bursts, Astrophys. J. Lett., 875, L30
34. Zhu, Y.*, Kowalski, A. F., Tian, H.*, et al. 2019, Modeling Mg II h, k and Triplet Lines at Solar Flare Ribbons, Astrophys. J., 879, 19
35. Tian, H., Zhu, X.-S., Peter, H., Zhao, J., Samanta, T., Chen, Y.-J. 2018, Magnetic Reconnection at the Earliest Stage of Solar Flux Emergence, Astrophys. J., 854, 174
36. Tian, H., Yurchyshyn, V., Peter, H., Solanki, S., Young, P. R., Ni, L., Cao, W., Ji, K., Zhu, Y., Zhang, J., Samanta, T., Song, Y., He, J.-S., Wang, L.-H., Chen, Y. 2018, Frequently Occurring Reconnection Jets from Sunspot Light Bridges, Astrophys. J., 854, 92
37. Song, Y.-L., Tian, H.* 2018, Investigation of White-light Emission in Circular-ribbon Flares, Astrophys. J., 867, 159
38. Zhang, J., Tian, H.*, Solanki, S. K., Wang, H., Peter, H., Ahn, K., Xu, Y., Zhu, Y., Cao, W., He, J., Wang, L. 2018, Dark Structures in Sunspot Light Bridges, Astrophys. J., 865, 29
39. Chen, Y., Tian, H.*, Su, Y., et al. 2018, Diagnosing the Magnetic Field Structure of a Coronal Cavity Observed During the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse, Astrophys. J., 856, 21
40. Tian, H. 2017, Probing the solar transition region: current status and future perspectives, Research in Astron. and Astrophys., 17, 110
41. Tian, H., Xu, Z., He, J.-S., Madsen, C. 2016, Are IRIS bombs connected to Ellerman bombs? Astrophys. J., 824, 96
42. Tian, H., Young, P. R., Reeves, K. K., Wang, T.-J., Antolin, P., Chen, B., He, J.-S. 2016, Global sausage oscillation of solar flare loops detected by the interface region imaging spectrograph, Astrophys. J. Lett., 823, L16
43. Tian, H., Young, P. R., Reeves, K. K., Chen, B., Liu, W., McKillop, S. 2015, Temporal evolution of chromospheric evaporation: case studies of the M1.1 flare on 2014 September 6 and X1.6 flare on 2014 September 10, Astrophys. J., 811, 139
44. Tian, H., DeLuca, E. E., Cranmer, S. R., et al. 2014, Prevalence of small-scale jets from the networks of the solar transition region and chromosphere, Science, 346, 1255711
45. Tian, H., Li, G., Reeves, K. K., Raymond, J. C., Guo F., Liu, W., Chen, B., Murphy, N. A. 2014, Imaging and spectroscopic observations of magnetic reconnection and chromospheric evaporation in a solar flare, Astrophys. J. Lett., 797, L14
46. Peter, H., Tian, H., Curdt, W., et al. 2014, Hot explosions in the cool atmosphere of the Sun, Science, 346, 1255726
47. Tian, H., Tomczyk, S., McIntosh, S. W., Bethge, C., de Toma, G., Gibson, S. 2013, Observations of coronal mass ejections with the Coronal Multichannel Polarimeter, Sol. Phys., 288, 637
48. Tian, H., McIntosh, S. W., Wang, T.-J., Ofman, L., De Pontieu, B., Innes, D. E., Peter, H. 2012, Persistent Doppler shift oscillations observed with HINODE/EIS in the solar corona: Spectroscopic signatures of Alfvénic waves and recurring upflows, Astrophys. J., 759, 144
49. Tian, H., McIntosh, S. W., Xia, L.-D., He, J.-S., Wang, X. 2012, What can we learn about solar coronal mass ejections, coronal dimmings, and Extreme-Ultraviolet jets through spectroscopic observations, Astrophys. J., 748, 106
50. Tian, H., McIntosh, S. W., De Pontieu, B., Martínez-Sykora, J., Sechler, M., Wang, X. 2011, Two components of the solar coronal emission revealed by Extreme-Ultraviolet spectroscopic observations, Astrophys. J., 738, 18
51. Tian, H., McIntosh, S. W., Habbal, R. S., He, J.-S. 2011, Observation of high-speed outflow on plume-like structures of the quiet sun and coronal holes with Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, Astrophys. J., 736, 130
52. Tian, H., McIntosh, S. W., De Pontieu, B. 2011, The spectroscopic signature of quasi-periodic upflows in active region timeseries, Astrophys. J. Lett., 727, L37
53. Tian, H., Tu, C.-Y., Marsch, E., He, J.-S., Kamio, S. 2010, The Nascent Fast Solar Wind Observed by the EUV Imaging Spectrometer on Board Hinode, Astrophys. J., 709, L88
54. Tian, H., Yao, S., Zong, Q.-G., He, J.-S., Qi, Y. 2010, Signatures of magnetic reconnection at boundaries of interplanetary small-scale magnetic flux ropes, Astrophys. J., 720, 454
55. Tian, H., Teriaca, L., Curdt, W., Vial, J.-C. 2009, Hydrogen Lyα and Lyβ radiances and profiles in polar coronal holes, Astrophys. J. Lett., 703, L152
56. Tian, H., Curdt, W., Teriaca, L., Landi, E., Marsch, E. 2009, Solar transition region above sunspots, Astron. Astrophys., 505, 307
57. Tian, H., Marsch, E., Tu, C.-Y., Xia, L.-D., He, J.-S. 2008, Sizes of transition-region structures in coronal holes and in the quiet Sun, Astron. Astrophys., 482, 267
58. Tian, H., Tu, C.-Y., Marsch, E., He, J.-S., Zhou, G.-Q. 2008, Signature of mass supply to quiet coronal loops, Astron. Astrophys., 478, 915
59. Curdt, W., Tian, H., Teriaca, L., Schühle, U., Lemaire, P. 2008, The Ly-α profile and center-to-limb variation of the quiet Sun, Astron. Astrophys., 492, L9
60. Marsch, E., Tian, H., Sun, J., Curdt, W., Wiegelmann, T. 2008, Plasma flows guided by strong magnetic fields in the solar corona, Astrophys. J., 685, 1262