空间物理学，磁层物理

2004-07--2009-12   University of Minnesota   博士
2000-09--2004-07   中国科学技术大学   学士

​2010.1-2015  University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Research Associate

2015.1- 至今， 中国科学院国家空间科学中心， 空间天气学国家重点实验室，研究员。

Wang, T., Dai, L., Escoubet, C.P. et al. Substorm expansion embedded in a global cycle of field-aligned currents and auroral electrojets. Nat Commun 17, 2970 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-69753-x

Zhang, A., Duan, S*., Dai, L.*, Hou, Y., Ren, Y., Wang, C., et al. (2026). Observations of the magnetopause reconnection ion diffusion region with high-density O+ ions during the May 2024 superstorm. Geophysical Research Letters, 53, e2025GL121449. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL121449

Ren, Y., Zhu, M., Dai, L.*, Gonzalez, W., Wang, S., Wang, C., et al. (2026). Solar‐wind triggering of substorm onset during the May 2024 superstorm: Coordinated global observations and simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 53, e2025GL119629. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL119629

Dai, L., Kong, L.*, Zhang, A. et al. The Light Ion Analyzer (LIA) for the SMILE Mission. Space Sci Rev 221, 109 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-025-01235-w

Zhu, M., Dai, L.*, Ren, Y., Wang, X., Wang, T., Wang, K.,& Wang, C. (2025). Response of magnetospheric convection to the southward turning of the IMF in fast and slow solar wind streams. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130, e2025JA034529. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JA034529

Wang,X.,Dai,L*.,Wang,T.,Ren,Y.,Zhu,M.,Yang,X.,et al. (2025). Inner magnetospheric convection electric fields and corresponding geomagnetic indices during high‐speed solar wind streams. Space Weather,23,e2025SW004548. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025SW004548

Dai L*, Wang C, Ren Y, et al. Geomagnetic storms and substorms: progress and perspectives (in Chinese). Chin Sci Bull, 2025, 70: 4759–4774, doi: 10.1360/ CSB-2025-0235

Wang, K., Dai, L. *, Wang, S., Ren, Y., Zhu, M., Wang, C., et al. (2025). Bipolar reversal in the off-diagonal ion pressure term in collisionless magnetic reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130, e2025JA034185. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JA034185

Ma, F., Dai, L.*, Tong, J*. et al. SMILE Ground Support System and Science Application System. Space Sci Rev 221, 15 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-025-01141-1

Ren, Y., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Lavraud, B.,Escoubet, C. P., & Burch, J. L. (2024).Capsule electron distributions near the diffusion region of magnetic reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL112074. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112074

Wang, X., Dai, L.*, Yong, R., Xiong, S., & Wang, C. (2024). The evolution of Earth's outer radiation belt over geomagnetic storm phase in Van Allen Probe era. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2024JA032674. https://doi. org/10.1029/2024JA032674

Zhu, M., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Gonzalez, W., Samsonov, A., Guo, X., et al. (2024). The influence of ionospheric conductance on magnetospheric convection during the southward IMF. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2024JA032607. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA032607

Han, Y., Dai, L.*, Ren, Y., Wang, C., Gonzalez, W., & Zhu, M. (2024). Correlations of plasma properties between the upstream magnetosheath and the downstream outflow region of magnetopause reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2024JA032817. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA032817

Xiong, S., Dai, L.*, Wang, X., & Wang, C. (2024). Rapid relativistic electron enhancements during Van Allen Probes era. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2024JA032618. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA032618

Dai, L.*, Zhu, M., Ren, Y., Gonzalez, W., Wang, C., Sibeck, D., ... & Branduardi-Raymont, G. (2024). Global-scale magnetosphere convection driven by dayside magnetic reconnection. Nature Communications, 15(1), 639. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44992-y

Xiong, S., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Yang, X., Wygant, J. R., & Baker, D. N. (2024). Rapid relativistic electron enhancements and associated particle injections: A multi-spacecraft statistical study. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 129, e2023JA032095. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA032095

Ren Y, Dai, L.*, Wang C, Zhou M, Wang R S. 2024. Advancements in the study of collisionless magnetic reconnection and plasma waves. Reviews of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, 55(0): 1-25 (in Chinese). doi: 10.19975/j.dqyxx.2023-031

Ren, Y, Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Guo, Z. (2023). The Wave Growth, Saturation, and Electron Heating of Lower Hybrid Waves in the Magnetic Reconnection Exhaust. The Astrophysical Journal, 956(143), https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf855.

Guo, Z., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., & Ren, Y. (2023). Statistical properties of lower hybrid waves within foreshock transient boundaries. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2023JA031844. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JA031844

Dai, L*, Han, Y.，Wang, C., Yao, S., Gonzalez, W., et al. (2023). Geoeffectiveness of Interplanetary Alfven waves: I. Magnetopause Magnetic Reconnection and Directly-Driven Substorms. The Astrophysical Journal, 945(1),47， https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb267

Han, Y.，Dai, L.*, Yao, S., Wang, C., Gonzalez,W., et al. (2023). Geoeffectiveness of Interplanetary Alfven Waves: II. Spectral Characteristics and Geomagnetic Responses. The Astrophysical Journal, 945(1), 48，https://doi.org/ 10.3847/1538-4357/acb266

Ren, Y., Dai, L*, Wang, C., & Lavraud, B. (2023). Statistical Properties of Lower Hybrid Waves in the Magnetopause Reconnection Exhaust Region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA031242. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA031242

Dai, L*, Wang, C. Kinetic Alfven wave (KAW) eigenmode in magnetosphere magnetic reconnection. Rev. Mod. Plasma Phys. 7, 3 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41614-022-00107-y

Ren, Y., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., & Lavraud, B. (2022). Parallel Electron Heating through Landau Resonance with Lower Hybrid Waves at the Edge of Reconnection Ion Jets. The Astrophysical Journal, 928(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac53fb.

Guo, Z., Dai, L*., Ren, Y., & Wang, C. (2022). MMS observations of lower hybrid and whistler waves inside a foreshock transient. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2022JA030707. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030707

Xiong, S.-L, Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Wygant, J., Cattell,C., Tao, X., Baker,D., Blake, J., (2022). Relativistic Electron Enhancements through Successive Dipolarizations during a CIR-driven Storm. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127,e2021JA030088. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA030088

Dai, L.*, Wang, C., & Lavraud, B. (2021). Kinetic imprints of ion acceleration in collisionless magnetic reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal, 919(1), 15.

Huang, Y., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Xu, R. L. and Li, L. (2021). A new inversion method for reconstruction of plasmaspheric He+ density from EUV images. Earth Planet. Phys., 5(2), 218–222. http://doi.org/10.26464/epp2021020

Ren, Y., Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Li, W., Tao, X., Lavraud, B., & Le Contel, O. (2021). Statistical characteristics in the spectrum of whistler waves near the diffusion region of dayside magnetopause reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters,48, e2020GL090816. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090816

Dai L*, Wang C, Cai Z, Gonzalez W,Hesse M, Escoubet P, Phan T, Vasyliunas V, Lu Q, Li L, Kong L,Dunlop M, Nakamura R, He J, Fu H, Zhou M, Huang S, Wang R,

Khotyaintsev Y, Graham D, Retino A, Zelenyi L, Grigorenko EE, Runov A,Angelopoulos V, Kepko L, Hwang K-J and Zhang Y (2020) AME: A Cross-Scale Constellation of CubeSats to Explore Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar–Terrestrial Relation. Front. Phys. 8:89. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2020.00089

Li, L.‐F., Tu, W*., Dai, L.*, Tang, B.‐B., Wang, C., Barani, M., et al (2020).Quantifying event‐specific radial diffusion coefficients of radiation belt electrons with the PPMLR‐MHD simulation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125 (5), e2019JA027634. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027634

Ren, Y., Dai, L*., Li, W., Tao, X.,Wang, C., Tang, B., et al. (2019). Whistler waves driven by field-aligned streaming electrons in the near-Earth magnetotail reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 46. https://doi.org/10. 1029/2019GL083283

L. Q. Zhang, W. Baumjohann, L.Dai*, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, C.Wang (2019). Measurements of the vorticity in the Bursty Bulk Flows. Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, 46(17-18), 10322-10329.

Chao Wei, Lei Dai*, Suping Duan, Chi Wang and Yuxian Wang, Multiple Satellites Observation Evidence: High-m Poloidal ULF Waves with Time-varying Polarization States, Earth and Planetary Physics, (2019). Earth Planet. Phys., 3(3), 1–7. http://doi.org/10.26464/epp2019021

Lei Dai*. (2018). Structures of Hall fields in asymmetric magnetic reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025251

Hongtao Huang, Yiqun Yu*, Lei Dai*, Tieyan Wang， (2018), Kinetic Alfvén Waves Excited in Two-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JA025071

Dai, L.*, Wang, C., Zhang, Y., Lavraud, B., Burch, J., Pollock, C., & Torbert, R. B. (2017). Kinetic Alfven wave explanation of the Hall fields in magnetic reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 634–640. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071044

S. P. Duan* ; Lei Dai*; Chi Wang; J. Liang; A. T. Y. Lui; L. J.Chen; Z. H. He; Y. C. Zhang; V. Angelopoulos, Evidence of kinetic Alfvén eigenmode in the near-Earth magnetotail during substorm expansion phase, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2016, 121(5): 4316~4330

Zhaohai He ; Lei Dai* ; Chi Wang; Suping Duan; Lingqian Zhang; Chen Tao; I. Roth, Contributions of substorm injections to SYM‐H depressions in the main phase of storms, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2016.12.03, 121(12): 11,729~11,736

L. Q. Zhang ; L. Dai* ; W. Baumjohann; A. T. Y. Lui; C. Wang; H. Rème; M. W. Dunlop, Temporal evolutions of the solar wind conditions at 1 AU prior to the near-Earth X-lines in the tail: Superposed epoch analysis: SW conditions prior to tail X-lines., Journal of Geophysical Research, 2016.07.01, 121(8): 7488~7496

Dai, L.*, C. Wang, S. Duan, Z. He, J. R. Wygant, C. A. Cattell, X. Tao, Z. Su, C. Kletzing, D. N. Baker, et al. (2015), Near-Earth injection of MeV electrons associated with intense dipolarization electric fields: Van Allen Probes observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 6170–6179, doi:10.1002/2015GL064955.

Dai, L., K. Takahashi, R. Lysak, C. Wang, J. R. Wygant, C. Kletzing, J. Bonnell, C. A. Cattell, C. W. Smith, R. J. MacDowall, S. Thaller, A. Breneman, X. Tang, X. Tao, and L. Chen (2015), Storm time occurrence and spatial distribution of Pc4 poloidal ULF waves in the inner magnetosphere: A Van Allen Probes statistical study. J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 120, 4748–4762. doi: 10.1002/2015JA021134.

Dai, L.*,Wang, C., Angelopoulos, V.,& Glassmeier, K. (2015). In situ evidence of breaking the ion frozen-in condition via the non-gyrotropic pressure effect in magnetic reconnection. Annales Geophysicae, 33(9), 1147–1153.

Suping Duan* ; Lei Dai* ; Chi Wang; A. T. Y. Lui; Zhenxing Liu; Zhaohai He; Yongcun Zhang; I. Dandouras; H. Reme, Cluster observations of unusually high concentration of energetic O+ carried by flux ropes in the night-side high-latitude magnetosheath during a storm initial phase, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2015.10.03, 120(10): 8317~8326

Dai, L.*, J. R. Wygant, C. A. Cattell, S. Thaller, K. Kersten, A. Breneman, X. Tang, R. H. Friedel, S. G. Claudepierre, and X. Tao (2014), Evidence for injection of relativistic electrons into the Earth's outer radiation belt via intense substorm electric fields, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 1133–1141, doi:10.1002/2014GL059228.

Dai, L.*, J. R. Wygant, C. A. Cattell, S. Thaller, K. Kersten, A. Breneman, and X. Tang (2014), Cluster observations of fast magnetosonic waves in the heliosphere current sheet, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 1398–1405, doi:10.1002/2014GL059223.

Dai, L.*, et al. (2013), Excitation of poloidal standing Alfvén waves through drift resonance wave-particle interaction, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 4127–4132, doi:10.1002/grl.50800.

Dai, L.*, Wygant, J. R., Cattell, C., Dombeck, J., Thaller, S., Mouikis, C., Balogh, A., and Rème, H.: Cluster observations of surface waves in the ion jets from magnetotail reconnection, J. Geophys. Res.-Space, 116, A12227, doi:10.1029/2011JA017004, 2011.

Lei Dai*: Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection via Alfvén Eigenmodes, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 245003, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.245003, 2009.