Planetary climatology and aeronomy
1.Atmospheric escape from terrestrial planets
2.Formation and structure of planetary ionospheres
3.Thermal balance in planetary atmospheres and ionospheres
4.Wave structures in planetary atmospheres and ionospheres
5.Interactions between space plasma and atmosphereless bodies

Venus Express Outstanding Award, European Space Agency
Distinguished young scholar, National Science Foundation of China

Statistical properties of Ultraluminous IRAS galaxies from an HST imaging survey, Cui, J., et al., 2001, Astron. J., 122, 63-82
Molecular hydrogen in the damped Lyα absorber of Q1331+170, Cui, J., et al., 2005, Astrophy. J., 633, 649-663
Distribution and escape of molecular hydrogen in Titan's thermosphere and exosphere, Cui, J., et al., 2008, J. Geophys. Res., 113, E10004
Analysis of Titan's upper atmosphere from Cassini Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer measurements, Cui, J., et al., 2009, Icarus, 200, 581-615
Diurnal variations of Titan's ionosphere, Cui, J., et al., 2009, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A06310
Ion transport in Titan's upper atmosphere, Cui, J., et al., 2010, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A06314
Suprathermal electron spectra in the Venus ionosphere, Cui, J., et al., 2011, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A04321
The implications of the H2 variability in Titan’s exosphere, Cui, J., et al., 2011, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A11324
The CH4 structure in Titan’s upper atmosphere revisited, Cui, J., et al., 2012, J. Geophys. Res., 117, E11006
Compositional effects in Titan’s thermospheric gravity waves, Cui, J., et al., 2013, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 43-47, doi:10.1029/2012GL054621
Density waves in Titan’s upper atmosphere, Cui, J., et al., 2014, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 490-518
The electron thermal structure in the dayside Martian ionosphere implied by the MGS radio occultation data, Cui, J., et al., 2015, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 278-286
Day-to-night transport in the Martian ionosphere: Implications from total electron content measurements, Cui, J., et al., 2015, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 2333-2346
The variability of HCN in Titan’s upper atmosphere implied by the Cassini Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer measurements, Cui, J., et al., 2016, Astrophys. J. Lett., 826, L5