周煦之，北京大学地球与空间科学学院研究员、博士生导师。2008年获北京大学博士学位，随后赴美国加州大学洛杉矶分校工作，历任助理研究员、副研究员，2014年获国家高层次人才计划青年项目资助，回北京大学任教至今。曾获全国优秀博士学位论文奖和亚太物理学联合会青年学者奖。目前主要从事磁层物理与空间等离子体物理方向的研究，尤为关注地球磁层中带电粒子加速与传输等动力学过程。

Xuzhi ZHOU, Researcher at School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University. Dr. Zhou received his Ph.D in Peking University in 2008. After that, he worked in University of California, Los Angeles as an assistant researcher and then an associate researcher before he went back to China to work in Peking University under the support of the Chinese National High-Level Young Talent Program. Dr. Zhou received several awards, including the Chinese National Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award and Young Researcher Award from Division of Plasma Physics, Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies. Most recently, Dr. Zhou’s research focuses on magnetospheric physics and space plasma physics, especially on the dynamic processes associated with the acceleration and transport of magnetospheric charged particles.