Prof. Dr. Shangbin Yang is a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received a PhD from the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 2004 to 2009. From 2009 to 2010, he went to the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany as a
visiting scholar. He also served as the deputy director of the Solar and Heliospheric Professional Committee of the 14th and 15th Council of the Chinese Astronomical Society and was elected to the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019. In 2016, he won the Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists of the International Space Science Organization (COSPAR); was the first winner of the NSFC's original exploration project fund in the field of astronomy in China (2023); was the runner-up of the first National Astronomical Observatory Youth Academic Exchange Competition (2022); and won the second prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for educational and teaching achievements (2020). He is engaged in the observation and theoretical research of the topological structure of solar magnetic fields. The three-dimensional spatial relative magnetic helicity calculation model he established is representative and influential internationally. In 2014, this model was listed as a reference model for the “Magnetic Snail Calculation Working Group” at the Swiss Academy of Space Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Yu Liu is a researcher at the School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University. In 2002, he received his PhD from the NAOC (National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) after several years of studying and training at the Huairou Solar Observing Station of NAOC. His main research areas include solar physics, astronomical site selection techniques, and their applications. He has won provincial- and ministerial-level natural science awards multiple times and published over 100 academic papers. At present, his team mainly carries out coronal observation and coronal wave research; operates the Lijiang Coronal Observatory Station and the Daocheng Astronomical Site Monitoring Station; strives to develop the next generation of large-aperture coronagraphs; and solves key scientific problems in coronal physics.
