Xuan JiGraduate Student

Research Focus:

Exoplanets; Planetary Climate

Email:

xuanji@uchicago.edu

Biography

BS in Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, 2020

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in how the formation history and orbital evolution of exoplanets shape their potential habitability. My current research focuses on climate with varying orbits and atmospheric retention. My long-term goal as a researcher is to identify which types of planetary system architectures are most likely to produce and sustain habitable planets.

Selected Publications

Ji, X & Abbot, D. Climate Regime Transitions Driven by Variable Eccentricity. (in prep).
Ji, X & Abbot, D. Land Heat Stress on Eccentric Planets is Limited by Ocean via Atmospheric Circulation. (in prep).

Ji, X & Abbot, D, 2025. Snowball Bistability Vanishes at Moderate Orbital Eccentricity (submitted
to PSJ).

Ji, X., R.D. Chatterjee, B. Park Coy and E.S. Kite, 2025 : The Cosmic Shoreline Revisited: A Metric for Atmospheric Retention Informed by Hydrodynamic Escape,  (Accepted by ApJ) 

Ji, X., N. Bailey, D. Fabrycky, E.S. Kite, J.H. Jiang and D.S. Abbot, 2023: Inner Habitable Zone Boundary for Eccentric Exoplanets. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Williams, D.A. X. Ji, P. Corlies and J.M. Lora, 2024: The Effects of Rotation Rate on Clouds on Terrestrial Planets. The Astrophysical Journal

Gu, J.T., B. Peng, X. Ji, J. Zhang, H. Yang, S. Hoyos, MM. Hirschmann, E.S. Kite, and R.A.Fischer 2024: Composition of Earth's initial atmosphere and fate of accreted volatiles set by core formation and magma ocean redox evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters