Qianli Ma
Senior Research Scientist
- Title Senior Research Scientist
- Office CAS 501
- Email qma@bu.edu
- Education 2015 Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
2010 B.Sc., University of Science and Technology of China
Dr. Ma is a Senior Research Scientist in Center for Space Physics at Boston University. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2010, and PhD degree in space physics at UCLA in 2015. After graduating, he worked with Professor Richard Thorne and Wen Li as a postdoc at UCLA and came to Boston University as a Visiting Research Scientist in November 2016. He became a Research Scientist in 2019 and a Senior Research Scientist in 2022 at Boston University. Dr. Ma has a joint position as an Associate Researcher at UCLA.
Research Interests:
- Resonant wave-particle interactions in Earth and Jupiter’s magnetospheres;
- Transport, acceleration, precipitation, and decay of energetic electrons in the radiation belts;
- Global distributions, properties, and impacts of whistler-mode plasma waves in planetary magnetospheres.