Yifei Jiao
Yifei Jiao
(he/him)

Postdoc in planetary science

UC Santa Cruz | Tsinghua University
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at University of California Santa Cruz and Tsinghua University. My research interests are focused on the collisional and dynamical evolution of small planetary bodies, rings, and moons. I developed a open-source SPH code for simulating hypervelocity impacts and tidal responses of planetary bodies. I am eager to exploring any unsolved exciting questions of our solar system using theoretical and numerical methods and open to collaborations. Feel free to contact me at jiaoyf.thu@gmail.com for any discussions!

Experience

Postdoc

University of California Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Visiting scholar

Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Shanghai, China

Visiting scholar

University of Tokyo & NAOJ, Tokyo, Japan

Visiting student

LPL, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Education

PhD

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Numerical modeling of impact dynamics and collisional evolution of asteroids

  • Tsinghua Top Grade Scholarship (Highest Honor for Students, 10 per year)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China
  • Youth Talent Support Program of China Association for Science and Technology

Bachelor

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Monte Carlo tree search for optimizing multi-target deep space exploration