Man Hua
A Bit About Me
Hey friends, I am a postdoc scholar in space physics, working with Prof. Jacob Bortnik in the Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Department at UCLA. I got both my bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from Wuhan University in China. I was once a visiting student at Boston University for about one and a half year.
My studies mainly focus on the radiation belt electron dynamics and resonant wave-particle interactions in Earth’s magnetosphere, including both naturally occurring and human-made plasma waves. I use several different techniques in my research, including satellite data analysis, physics-based numerical modeling, and ensemble simulation.
Experience
Sep 2021 - present
Sep 2016 - June 2021
Sep 2016 - June 2021
Sep 2012 - June 2016
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, CA. Advisor: Prof. Jacob Bortnik. Focus on the Earth’s radiation belt electron dynamics and resonant interactions between electrons and various inner magnetosphere plasma waves.
Ph.D., Department of Space Physics, Wuhan University, China Dissertation: Combined scattering effects of inner magnetospheric waves on radiation belt electrons. Supervised by Prof. Binbin Ni.
Joint Ph.D. Student, Center for Space Physics, Boston University, MA. Advisor: Prof. Wen Li. Duty includes scientific research on my thesis topic.
B.Eng., School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, China
Major in Radio Wave Propagation and Antenna.
Awards and Honors
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NSF/GEM Award, "The Upper Limit of the Earth's Outer Radiation Belt Electron Fluxes", PI, 2023-2026, $376k
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The Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) Distinguished Young Scientist Award (2024)
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UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research (2022)
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Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award (Annual Award for the top 5 outstanding Ph.D. dissertations in geophysics in China from the Chinese Geophysical Society, 2022)
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Outstanding Final-year Graduate Student (Wuhan University, 2021)
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IAGA Early Career Award (2021)
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Excellent Poster Presentation Award (The 9th VERSIM Workshop, the first prize, 2020)
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Outstanding Student Presentation Award (2020 Annual Meeting of CGU)
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Outstanding Student Presentation Award (2019 AGU Fall meeting)
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Outstanding Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award (the 10th National Space Weather Seminar, 2016)
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