The main research field of Dr. Li is the triggering and evolution mechanisms of solar eruptive activities, including

1) What are the physical nature and observational characteristics of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection?

2) How are solar flares generated and triggered? What are the factors determining the eruptive character of solar flares?

3) What are the fine structures and three-dimensional dynamic evolution processes of flux ropes and filaments?  

4) Are coronal EUV waves MHD waves or apparent waves? What is the physical nature of coronal EUV waves?

Dr. Li has been selected by Young Elite Scientists Sponsors hip Program by CAST, the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS and NAOC Nebula Talents Program. Her two works have been selected as“top-cited papers” respectively by Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing and National Science Library Chinese Academy of Sciences.

(1) Li, Ting*; Hou, Yijun; Yang, Shuhong; Zhang Jun; Liu, Lijuan; Veronig, Astrid M.; Magnetic Flux of Active Regions Determining the Eruptive Character of Large Solar Flares, Astrophysical Journal, 2020, 900(2): 128.

(2) Li, Ting*; Liu, Lijuan*; Hou, Yijun; Zhang, Jun; Two Types of Confined

Solar Flares , Astrophysical Journal, 2019, 881(2): 0-151. 

(3) Li, Ting*; Zhang, Jun; Quasi-periodic Slipping Magnetic Reconnection

During an X-class Solar Flare Observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2015, 804(1): 8-14. 

(4) Li, Ting*; Zhang, Jun; Yang, Shuhong; Liu, Wei; SDO/AIA Observations of Secondary Waves Generated by Interaction of the 2011 June 7 Global EUV Wave with Solar Coronal Structures, The Astrophysical Journal, 2012, 746(1).

(5) Li, Ting*; Zhang, Jun; SDO/AIA Observations of Large-amplitude

Longitudinal Oscillations in a Solar Filament, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2012, 760(1).