Li-Yong Zhou received his bachelor’s  (1995) from Department for Intensive Instruction (Kuang Yaming School now)  and doctorate (2000) from Department of Astronomy in Nanjing University. He has been working at Department of Astronomy / School of Astronomy and Space Science since 2000. He went to University of Turku in Finland for post-doc studies from 2003 to 2004 and has been a visiting scholar to University of São Paulo in Brazil from 2006 to 2007. He is a frequent visiting scholar to University of Vienna in Austria since 2008.

Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics; 

Fundamental Astronomy (Part I);

Qualitative Theory of Celestial Mechanics;

Numerical Methods in Astronomy.

Major interests include:  

    Dynamics of the small celestial bodies;

    Dynamics of planetary systems;

    Non-gravitational effects (Yarkovsky effect and YORP effect)

Book:

      Yi-Sui Sun & Li-Yong Zhou: From ordered to chaotic motion in celestial mechanics, World Scientific, Singapore, 2015 (420 pages)

Papers (selected):

n  Xuefeng Wang, Li-Yong Zhou, Cristian Beauge: Resonant chains in triple-planet systems, A&A 687, A266, 2024 

n  Hailiang Li, Li-Yong Zhou: Secular structure of 1:2 and 1:3 mean motion resonances with Neptune, A&A 687, A206, 2024

n  Zhou Yufan, Li Hailiang, Li Zhiyuan, Zhou Liyong: MARTIANS (MARs2020, TIANwen and So on) would see more potentially hazardous asteroids than Earthlings, MNRAS 532, L7, 2024

n  Lu R., Lei H., Zhou L.-Y.: On the co-orbital motion of any inclination, CAA 48, 142, 2024

n  Hailiang Li, Li-Yong Zhou: Asymmetric capture into Neptunian 1:2 resonance, A&A 680, A68, 2023

n  K. Shuai, H. Hui, L. Zhou, W. Li: Spatial distribution of isotopes and compositional mixing in the inner protoplanetary disk, A&A 673, A5, 2023

n  Xu Y.-B., Zhou L.-Y., Hui H., Li J.-Y.: The diurnal Yarkovsky effect of irregularly shaped asteroids, A&A 666, A65 , 2022

n  Xu Y.-B.,Zhou L., Lhotka C., Zhou L.-Y., Ip W.-H.: Trojan asteroids and the co-orbital dust ring of Venus, A&A 666, A88 , 2022

n  K. Shuai, H. Hui, L. Zhou, W. Li: Accretion regions of meteorite parent bodies inferred from a two-endmember isotopic mixing model, MNRAS 513, 363-373, 2022

n  X. Shi, et al (including Zhou L.-Y.): GAUSS – genesis of asteroids and evolution of the solar system, a sample return mission to Ceres, Experimental Astonomy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09800-1, 2021

n Zhou L., Dvorak R., Zhou L.-Y.: On the formation of terrestrial planets between two massive planets: the case of 55 Cancri, MNRAS 505, 4571-4585, 2021

n  Zhou L., Lhotka C., Gales C., Narita Y., Zhou L.-Y.: Dynamics of charged dust in the orbit of Venus, A&A 645 A63, 2021

n  Xu Y.-B., Zhou L.-Y., Ip W.-H.: Transit of asteroids across the 7/3 Kirkwood gap under the Yarkovsky effect, A&A 637, A19, 2020

n  Xu Y.-B., Zhou L.-Y., Lhotka C., Ip W.-H.: Asteroid migration due to the Yarkovsky effect and the distribution of the Eos family, MNRAS 493, 1447-1460, 2020

n  Zhou L., Zhou L.-Y., Dvorak R., Li J.: Systematic survey of the dynamics of Uranus Trojans, A&A 633, A153, 2020

n  Li J., Lawler S., Zhou L.-Y., Sun Y.-S.: A study of the high-inclination population in the Kuiper belt – III. The 4:7 mean-motion resonance, MNRAS 492, 3566-3579, 2020

n  董城昱,周礼勇: 冥族小天体与海王星特洛伊的近密交会, 天文学进展 37, 322-336, 2019

n  Li J., Xia Z., Zhou L.-Y.: Calibration of the angular momenta of the minor planets in the solar system, A&A 630, A68, 2019

n  Dvorak R., Loibnegger B., Zhou L.-Y., Zhou L.: The formation of habitable planets in the four-planet system HD 141399, MNRAS 458, 5604-5614, 2019

n  Zhou L., Xu Y.-B., Zhou L.-Y. et al: Orbital stability of Earth Trojans, A&A 622, A97, 2019

n  Niu C., Cui J., Gu H., Dong C., Zhou L.-Y. et al: A Test Particle Monte Carlo Investigation of the CH4 Torus around Saturn, AJ 157, 15, 2019

n  Wu R., Zhou L., Zhou L.-Y.: Neptune Trojans: a revisit and a new member, CAA 43, 262-277 (2019) (中文版: 天文学报59, 1, 2018)

n  夏睿奇, 周礼勇: 地球特洛伊天体稳定区域研究, 天文学报 59, 8, 2018

n  Wu N., Wang X., Zhou L.-Y.: Comment on “Out-of-plane equilibrium points in the restricted three-body problem with oblateness”, A&A 614, A67, 2018

n  Li J., Zhou L.-Y., Sun Y.-S.: A study of the high-inclination population in the Kuiper belt – II. The Twotinos, MNRAS 443, 1346–1357, 2014

n  Li J., Zhou L.-Y., Sun Y.-S.: A study of the high-inclination population in the Kuiper belt – I. The Plutinos, MNRAS 437, 215–226, 2014

n  周礼勇,管璞,孙义燧: 中国科学: 物理学 力学 天文学 44, 1252-1261, 2014 (邀请综述)

n  Zhou L.-Y., Li J., Cheng J., Sun Y.-S.: Hyperbolic structure and stickiness effect: A case of a 2D area-preserving twist mapping, SCIENTIA SINICA Physica, Mechanica & Astronomica 57, 1737–1750, 2014

n  Guan P., Zhou L.-Y. & Li Jian: Trailing (L5) Neptune Trojans: 2004 KV18 and 2008 LC18, RAA, 12, 1549-1562, 2012

n  R. Dvorak, C. Lhotka, L. Zhou, The orbit of 2010 TK7. Possible regions of stability for other Earth Trojan asteroids, A&A, 541, A127, 2012

n  Jian Li, Li-Yong Zhou, Yi-Sui Sun, Evolution of Jovian planets in a self-gravitating planetesimal disk, A&A 528, A86, 2011

n  Li-Yong Zhou, Rudolf Dvorak, Yi_sui Sun, The Dynamics of Neptune Trojans: II. Eccentric orbits and observed objects, MNRAS, 410, 1849-1860, 2011

n  Rudolf Dvorak, Akos Baszo, Li-Yong Zhou, Where are the Uranus Trojans? Cel. Mech. & Dyn. Astron.,107, 51-62, 2010

n  Li-Yong Zhou, Rudolf Dvorak, Yi_sui Sun, The Dynamics of Neptune Trojan: I. The inclined orbits, MNRAS, 398, 1217-1227, 2009

n  Yi-Sui Sun & Li-Yong Zhou, Stickiness effects in three-dimensional volume- preserving mappings, Cel. Mech. & Dyn. Astron., 103, 119-131, 2009

n  Li-Yong Zhou, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello & Yi-Sui Sun, Formation and transformation of the 3:1 mean-motion resonance in the 55 Cancri system, in “Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics”, Proceedings of IAU Symposium No.249, 2008

n  Jian Li, Li-Yong Zhou, & Yi-Sui Sun, The origin of the high-inclination Neptune Trojan 2005 TN53, A&A, 464, 775-778, 2007

n  Jian Li, Li-Yong Zhou & Yi-Sui Sun, Formation of the Kuiper belt by long time-scale Jovian planets, Chin. J. Aston. Astrophys., 6, 588-596, 2006

n  Yi-Sui Sun, Li-Yong Zhou & Ji-Lin Zhou, The role of hyperbolic invariant sets in stickiness effects, Cel. Mech. & Dyn. Astron., 92, 257-272, 2005

n  Li-Yong Zhou, Harry J. Lehto, Yi-Sui Sun & Jia-Qing Zheng, Apsidal corotation in mean motion resonance: the 55 Cancri as an example, MNRAS, 350, 1495-1502, 2004

n  Li-Yong Zhou，H.J. Lehto & J.Q. Zheng, The 3:1 resonance in the 55 Cancri, Order and Chaos in Stellar and Planetary Systems, ASP Conference Series, 316, 155-157, 2004

n  Ji-Lin Zhou, Yi-Sui Sun & Li-Yong Zhou, Evidence for Levy random walks in the evolution of comets from the Oort cloud, Cel. Mech. & Dyn. Astron., 84, 409-427, 2002

n  Li-Yong Zhou, Yi-Sui Sun, Ji-Lin Zhou, Jia-Qing Zheng & Mauri Valtonen, Stochastic effects in the planet migration and orbital distribution of the Kuiper belt, MNRAS, 336, 520-526, 2002

n  Zhou Ji-Lin, Zhou Li-Yong & Sun Yi-Sui, Hyperbolic structure and Stickiness effect. Chinese Phys. Lett.,19(9), 1254-1256, 2002

n  ZHOU Li-Yong，ZHOU Ji-lin & SUN Yi-sui, Stabilities of asteroid orbits in resonances，Science in China A, 45(1),122-128,2002

n  ZHOU Li-Yong, SUN Yi-sui & ZHOU Ji-lin, Diffusion Characters of the Orbits in the Asteroid Motion, Applied Math. & Mech.,22,808,2001

n  Zhou Liyong, Sun Yisui & Zhou Jilin, Diffusion in a Symplectic Map with Application to Asteroid Motion. Chin. Phys. Lett.,17, 708, 2000

n  Zhou Li-Yong, Sun Yi-Sui & Zhou Ji-Lin, Structrue of the phase space near Lagrange's triangular equilibrium points, Chin. Astron. Astrophys., 24, 119, 2000