Wang Chi

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Wang Chi ( Chinese  王 赤 , Pinyin Wáng Chì , born  February 1967 in Shaoyang , Hunan Province ) is a Chinese astrophysicist . He has been the director of the National Space Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since December 28, 2017 .

Youth and Studies

Wang Chi was born in February 1967, the second son of Wang Manqiu, a local cadre (处级 干部) at the Shaoyang Water Management Authority , where his mother also worked. His family is from the village Niaoshuxia (鸟树下村) of the then municipality of Qijiang (七江乡) in the district of Longhui the prefecture-level city Shaoyang . When Wang Chi and his brother were young, their parents were involved in building the Malin (Wasserk 林 水电站) hydroelectric power station in Xinning County of Shaoyang, a poor mountain area where the siblings could only attend a small village school. After acquiring basic reading and writing skills, they transferred to the Sanbating Elementary School (三八 亭 小学) in the Daxiang District of Shaoyang. Wang Chi was noticed early on because of his above-average performance and was often best in class. He also performed very well at the 2nd Municipal Gymnasium in Shaoyang and, after graduating from high school in 1985, was accepted into the then Faculty of Geosciences and Space Sciences (地球 和 空间 科学 系) of the Chinese University of Science and Technology in Hefei , a national since 1959 Specialized college (全国 重点 大学) and to this day one of the five best universities in China. In 1989 he received a Guo Moruo scholarship from the university for his outstanding achievements . After graduating in 1990, Wang Chi moved to what was then the Center for Space Science and Applied Research in Beijing , a campus of the Graduate School of the Chinese University of Science and Technology . There he specialized in astrophysics and obtained the degree of physicist in 1992.

WITH

In 1993 Wang Chi went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he studied solar physics at the Center for Space Research (since 2004 Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research ) with John W. Belcher and in 1998 with a thesis on the interaction of the heliosphere with the local interstellar Medium PhD. After completing his doctorate, Wang Chi stayed at MIT, initially as an assistant to John Belcher, the original Principal Investigator for the plasma spectrometer on board Voyager 2 . Together with Belcher, he published articles in the Journal of Geophysical Research on the hydrodynamic instability of the heliopause (1998) and the response of the heliopause to strong solar wind fluctuations (1999). In 2000 he was promoted to Research Scientist and now worked on the analysis of the Voyager data with John D. Richardson, who had succeeded Belcher as chief scientist for the plasma spectrometer. Wang Chi has worked very productively with John Richardson to this day, not only on jointly published articles, but also in organizing projects such as exploring the heliopause . At MIT, however, he always had the feeling that as an "eternal assistant" he primarily had to implement the approaches of his doctoral supervisor and not really be able to conduct his own research. When he was given the opportunity in 2001 to return to the Center for Space Science and Applied Research as a science councilor with the rank of professor (研究员) through the “Hundred Talents Program” (百人计划) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , he accepted the offer .

National Center for Space Science

Wang Chi joined the Space Science Center in December 2001. In 2004 he was promoted to deputy director and at the same time entrusted with the management of the laboratory for space weather . On December 28, 2017, he succeeded Wu Ji as director of the " National Center for Space Science " , which was renamed on July 7, 2011 . During the first years at the Center for Space Science, Wang Chi was primarily concerned with research on the solar wind and its interactions with the terrestrial magnetosphere , things that were then incorporated into the Double Star project carried out by the center in cooperation with ESA . In 2006 the State Commission for Development and Reform approved the space weather observation project " Meridian " of the Center for Space Science and other institutions. Wang Chi has been appointed project manager (“子午 工程” 总 师). On January 5, 2008, construction began on the project. At a cost of 167 million yuan, a total of 15 observation stations were set up along two intersecting lines at about 120 ° east longitude and 30 ° north latitude, one of them at the Hainan high-altitude research department of the center for space science.

In addition to its own research, the main task of the Center for Space Science is the construction of scientific payloads for the Chinese research satellites and deep space probes. In his capacity as deputy director, Wang Chi was responsible for the instruments of the Mars probe Yinghuo-1 (Wu Ji, the director of the center, was chief scientist of the mission), for the lunar probes Chang'e-4 and Chang'e-5 as well as for the Mars probe Tianwen-1 . He is also the deputy project manager for the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) and the Chinese chief scientist at the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), a planned joint project with ESA and the Canadian Space Agency .

In addition to scientific policy activities such as working on the steering committee of the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) or - as a representative of the National Space Agency of China - the steering committee of the Working Group on International Coexistence with One Star (ILWS), Wang Chi also deputy editor-in-chief of the Space Science Journal (空间 科学 学报) and the Deep Space Exploration Journal (深 空 探测 学报) published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology .

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Individual evidence

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  11. ^ Wang Chi: A Numerical Investigation of the Interaction of the Heliosphere with the Local Interstellar Medium. In: dspace.mit.edu. March 20, 1998, accessed June 15, 2020 .
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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wang is the family name here, Chi is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Wang, Chi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 王 赤 (Chinese); Wáng Chì (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese astrophysicist, director of the National Center for Space Science
DATE OF BIRTH February 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Shaoyang , Hunan Province