EMPLOYMENT
2021/10–PresentShenzhen University Assistant professor
2020/09–2021/10Southern University of Science and Technology Presidential Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow
2020/08–2020/09Southern University of Science and Technology Visiting Scholar
2017/07–2020/08Sun Yat-sen UniversityAssociate Researcher
EDUCATION
2017, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ph.D in Astronomy
2015, Terza Universita' Degli Studi Di RomaJoint training of Ph.D student
2012, Hunan University of TechnologyB.E. inCommunicationEngineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Remote sensing of planetary radar; Lunar and Planetary Science
Numerical simulation of Radar system, and Radar detection of terrestrial planets
Surface evolution of terrestrial bodies in the Solar System;
MISSION INVOLVEMENT
CNSA Chang’E-4, core scientific member
CNSA First Mars Mission, team member on the radar group
International Space Science Institute (ISSI), “Searching for Subglacial Water On Mars with Orbiting Ground Penetrating Radars”, core team member
FUNDING
·2021/01–2023/12:Dielectric properties of laminar structures in the lunar regolith revealed by the Lunar penetrating radar.National Natural Science Foundation of China. 240,000 RMB.Principle Investigator
·2020/01–2021/12:Investigations of the Physical Properties of Lunar Regolith at Chang’e 4 Landing Site Using the Lunar Penetrating Radar. Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, CAS. 50,000 RMB.Principle Investigator
·2018/01–2019/12:Establishment and Application of Multi-Scale In-homogeneous Lunar Regolith Layer Model. Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, CAS. 50,000 RMB.Principle Investigator
·2020/01–2024/12:B-type Strategic Priority Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant No. XDB41000000 (2,000,0000 RMB in total).Principle Investigatorin a topic with fund of 300,000 RMB
·2018/12–Present: Chang’E-4 Core Science Team Member. Scientific Data Processing Methodology and Geology Group
PEER REVIEWWORKS (*Corresponding author)
1.Ding, Chunyu*. Chang Yiren, Su Yan, Wang Jiawei, Minggang Xie. (2024). Rover-Mounted Radar Observation of Discrete Layers within the Top 4 Meters of Regolith at the Chang'E-3 Landing Site, the Moon.IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.Vol. 62, pp. 1-16. (SCI, JCR Q1; IF= 8.2)
2.Changzhi Jiang†,Chunyu Ding*, Yan Su, Shuguo Xing, Jiawei Li, Shun Dai.(2024). Water ice and possible habitability in the landing area of Tianwen-1 mission.Space Science Reivew.In pressing.(SCI, JCR Q1; IF= 10.3)
3.Naihuan Zheng†,Chunyu Ding*, Yan Su, Roberto Orosei. (2024). Rover-Mounted Radar Observation: Future Prospects and Progress in Detecting Shallow Surface Water Ice on Mars.RemoteSensing.16(5), 824. (Special Invitation, SCI, JCR Q1; IF= 5.0)
4.Junyi Zhou†,Chunyu Ding *, Siting Xiong, Yan Su, Jiawei Li, Mengna Chen, Shun Dai. (2024).Radar Observations of Liquid Water in the South Polar Region of Mars: Indications to Astrobiology Perspectives.Universe.10(1):43.(Special Invitation, SCI, JCR Q2; IF= 2.9)
5.Ding, Chunyu,Li Jing*, Rong Hu†. (2023). Moon-based Ground Penetrating Radar Observation of the Latest Volcanic Activity at the Chang'E-4 Landing Site.IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 61, pp. 1–10. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3277992. (SCI, JCR Q1; IF= 8.13).
6.Feiyang Fang†,Chunyu Ding*, Jianqing Feng, Yan Su, Ravi Sharma, Iraklis Giannakis. (2023). In-situ Radar Observation of Shallow Lunar Regolith at the Chang’e-5 Landing Site: Research Progress and Perspectives.Remote Sensing.15(21), 5173(Special Invitation, SCI, JCR Q1; IF= 5.0)
7.Zhonghan Lei†,Chunyu Ding*.(2023).Yutu-2 Radar observations at the Chang'E-4 landing site: The shallow geological structures and its dielectric properties. Universe.9(11), 461.(Special Invitation, SCI, JCR Q2; IF= 2.9)
8.Ding, Chunyu*; Li Qingquan; Xu Jiangwan; Lei Zhonghan; Li Jiawei, Su Yan; and Huang Shaopeng*. (2023). Moon-based Ground Penetrating Radar Derivation of the Helium-3 Reservoir in the Regolith at the Chang’E-3 Landing Site.IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.vol. 16, pp. 2764–2776. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3253499 (SCI, JCR Q1; IF= 5.5)
9.Xiaohang Qiu†,Chunyu Ding*. (2023). Radar observation of the lava tubes on the Moon and Mars.Remote Sensing.15(11),2850. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15112850(SCI, JCR Q1; IF= 5.35)
10.Jianqing Feng, Matthew Siegler, Yan Su,Chunyu Ding, Iraklis Giannakis. (2023). Layered structures in the upper several hundred meters of the Moon along the Chang'E-4 rover's first 1000-m traverse.Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 128, e2022JE007714. doi: 10.1029/2022JE007714 (SCI, JCR Q1; IF= 4.43)
11.Siting Xiong, Jan-Peter Muller, Yu Tao,Chunyu Ding, Bochen Zhang and Qingquan Li (2023).Combination of MRO SHARAD and deep learning based DTM to detect subsurface features in Oxia Planum, Mars.Astronomy & Astrophysics. 676, A16. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202346197 (SCI, JCR Q1; IF= 6.24)
12.Xiao Zhiyong, Yue Zongyu, Xie Minggang, Yang Jing, Di Kaichang, Hu Sen, Lin Yangting. (2023). Impact history of the Moon and its modification of lunar surface materials. Bulletin on Mineral and Rock Geochemistry, vol. 42,doi:10.19658/j.issn.1007-2802.2023.42.051
13.Lin Honglei, Chen Jian, Li Chao, Ding Chunyu, Xiao Xiao, Huang Jun, Ji Jinzhu, Gou Sheng, Zhang Jinhai, Wei Yong, Lin Yangting.(2023). Reserch progress of remote sensing for the Chang’E lunar exploration mission. Bulletin on Mineral and Rock Geochemistry, vol. 42,doi:10.19658/j.issn.1007-2802.2023.42.061.
14.Ding, Chunyu;Xiong, Siting; Li, Jing; Su, Yan; and Huang, Shaopeng. (2022), Yutu-2 Radar Observation of the Lunar Regolith Heterogeneity at the Chang’E-4 Landing Site.Astronomy & Astrophysics, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142803
15.Ding Chunyu, Su Yan, Lei Zhonghan, Zhang Zongyu, Song Mi, Liu Yuanzhou, Wang Ruigang, LiQingquan, Li Chunlai, Huang Shaopeng. (2022). Electromagnetic signal attenuation characteristics in the lunar regolith observed by the Lunar Regolith Penetrating Radar (LRPR) onboard the Chang’E-5 lander.RemoteSensing.14, 5189. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14205189 (Special invitation)
16.Yan Su, Ruigang Wang, Xiangjin Deng, Zongyu Zhang, Jianfeng Zhou*, Zhiyong Xiao,Chunyu Ding, Yuxi Li, Shun Dai, Xin Ren, Xingguo Zeng, Xingye Gao, Jianjun Liu, Dawei Liu, Bin Liu, Bin Zhou, Guangyou Fang*, Chunlai Li*. (2022). Hyperfine Structure of Regolith Unveiled by Chang'E-5 Lunar Penetrating Radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2022.3148200.
17.Zhiyong Xiao, Pan Yan, Bo Wu,Chunyu Ding, Yuan Li, Yiren Chang, Rui Xu, Minggang Xie, Yunhua Wu, Yichen Wang, Yizhen Ma, and Jun Cui. (2022). Translucent glassy globules on the Moon. Science Bulletin, doi:10.1016/ j.scib.2021.11.004
18.Haoqiu Zhou, Xuan Feng*,Chunyu Ding*, Zejun Dong, Cai Liu, Wenjing Liang. (2022).Heterogeneous Weathering Process of Lunar Regolith Revealed by Polarimetric Attributes Analysis of Chang’E-4 Lunar Penetrating Radar Data Acquired During the Yutu-2 Turnings.Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL099207.
19.Wang Ruigang; Su Yan; Zhang Zongyu; Zhang Qing; Liu Chendi; Hong Tiansheng; Liu Shuning; Du Wei; Dai Shun;Ding Chunyu;Li Chunlai. (2022). Study on the influencing factors of the new method for permittivityinversion based on the lunar penetrating radar.Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. doi:10.1088/1674-4527/ac846b
20.Song Mi; Zhong Feiyan;Ding Chunyu; Liu Yuanzhou; Huang Shaopeng; Li Qingquan. (2022). Regolith mineral detection based on the in-situ spectra of Chang’E-5 lander.SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy.doi:10.1360/SSPMA-2022-0318 (In Chinese, ESCI)
21.Liu Yuanzhou, Wang Tong, Jia Yinzhou, Song Mi,Ding Chunyu, Huang Shaopeng. (2022). Effect of landing site thermal environment on the external temperature of the Chang'E-5.SCIENTIA SINICA Physica, Mechanica & Astronomica, doi:10.1360/SSPMA-2022-0339(In Chinese, ESCI)
22.Tiansheng Hong; Yan Su; Shun Dai; Zongyu Zhang; Wei Du; Chendi Liu; Shuning Liu;Chunyu Ding; Chunlai Li. (2022). An improved method of surface clutter simulation based on orbiting radar in Tianwen-1 Mars exploration.Radio Science. In press.
23.Ding, Chunyu; Xiao, Zhiyong; Bo,Wu; Zhaojin Li; Yan Su; Bin Zhou; Kaijun Liu; Jun Cui. (2021). Rock fragments in shallow lunar regolith: Constraints by the lunar penetrating radar onboard the Chang’E-4 mission, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.126, e2021JE006917. doi:10.1029/2021JE006917
24.Ding, Chunyu*; Liu Kaijun; Huang Shaopeng; Su Yan; Li Jiawei. (2021). Application of lunar penetrating radar in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. Acta Geologica Sinica. 95(9), doi:10.19762/j.cnki.dizhixuebao.2021091(EI, Special invitation, In Chinese)
25.Zhiyong Xiao;Chunyu Ding; Minggang Xie; Yuzhen Cai; Jun Cui; Ke Zhang; Juntao Wang. (2021). Ejecta from the Orientale basin at the Chang’E-4 landing site. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL090935.doi: 10.1029/2020GL090935
26.Ding, Chunyu; Xiao, Zhiyong; Su, Yan; and Cui, Jun. (2021). Hyperbolic reflectors determined from peak echoes of ground penetrating radar. Icarus, 358, 114280. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114280
27.Ding, Chunyu; Xiao, Zhiyong; Su, Yan. (2021). A potential subsurface cavity in the continuous ejecta deposits of the Ziwei crater discovered by the Chang’E-3 mission. Earth, Planets and Space. doi:10.1186/s40623-021-01359-7
28.Lin Honglei,Ding Chunyu, Xu Xuesen, Zhang Jinhai, Wei Yong, Lin Yangting. 2021. Review on the in-situ spectroscopy and radar remote sensing on the Moon. Reviews of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, 52(4): 373–390. (CSCD, Special invitation, In Chinese)
29.Haoqiu Zhou, Xuan Feng*Chunyu Ding* Zejun Dong, Cai Liu, Zhiguo Meng, (2021). Yutu-2 radar sounding evidence of a buried crater at Chang’E-4 landing site. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2021.3090528
30.Wang ruigang; Su Yan;Ding Chunyu;Dai Shun; Liu Chendi; Zhang Zongyu; Hong Tiansheng; Zhang Qing; Li Chunlai. A novel approach for permittivity estimation of lunar regolith using the lunar penetrating radar onboard Chang’E-4 rover, (2021). Remote Sensing, 13(18), 3679;https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13183679.
31.Tiansheng Hong, Yan Su, Mingyi Fan, Shun Dai, Peng Lv,Chunyu Ding, Zongyu Zhang, Ruigang Wang, Chendi Liu, Wei Du, Shuning Liu, Chunlai Li. (2021). Flight experiment validation of altitude measurement performance of MOSIR on Tianwen-1 orbiter. Remote Sensing.13, 5049. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13245049
32.Chang,Yiren; Xiao, Zhiyong; Wang, Yichen;Ding,Chunyu; Cui, Jun; Cai, Yuzhen. (2021). An updated constraint on the local stratigraphy at the Chang’E-4 landing site, Earth and Planetary Physics. 5(1), 19–31. doi: 10.26464/epp2021007
33.Ding, Chunyu; Xiao, Zhiyong; Wu, Bo; Li, Yuan; Prieur, Nils C.; Cai, Yuzhen; Su, Yan; Cui, Jun. (2020). Fragments Delivered by Secondary Craters at the Chang'E-4 Landing Site, Geophysical Research Letters,47(7), doi:10.1029/2020GL087361.
34.Roberto Orosei,Chunyu Ding, Wenzhe Fa, Antonios Giannopoulos, Alain Hérique, Wlodek Kofman, Sebastian Lauro, Chunlai Li, Elena Pettinelli, Yan Su, Shuguo Xing, Yi Xu. (2020). The global search for liquid water on Mars from orbit: Current and future perspectives. Life Basel,10(8). doi: 10.3390/life10080120.
35.Ding, Chunyu; Li, Chunlai; Xiao, Zhiyong; Su, Yan; Xing, Shuguo; Wang, Yichen; Feng, Jianqing; Dai, Shun; Xiao, Yuan; Yao, Meijuan. (2020). Layering structures in the porous material beneath the Chang’e-3 landing site. Earth and space science,7, e2019EA000862. doi:10.1029/2019ea000862
36.Ding, Chunyu; Xiao, Zhiyong; Su, Yan; Zhao, Jiannan; Su, Yan; Cui, Jun. (2020). Compositional variations along the route of Chang'e-3 Yutu rover revealed by the lunar penetrating radar. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 32(7), doi: 10.1186/s40645- 020-00340-4.
37.Ding, Chunyu; Cai, Yunzhen; Xiao, Zhiyong; Su, Yan. (2020). A rocky hill on the continuous ejecta of Ziwei crater revealed by the Chang’e-3 mission, Earth and Planetary Physics, 4(2), 105–110. doi:10.26464/epp2020016.
38.Li, Chunlai; Su, Yan*; Pettinelli, Elena*; Xing, Shuguo*;Ding, Chunyu; Liu, Jianjun; Ren, Xin; Lauro, Sebastian E; Soldovieri, Francesco; Zeng, Xingguo; Gao, Xingye; Chen,Wangli; Dai, Shun; Liu, Dawei; Zhang, Guangliang; Zuo, Wei; Wen, Weibin; Zhang, Zhoubin; Zhang, Xiaoxia; Zhang, Hongbo. (2020). The Moon's farside shallow subsurface structure unveiled by Chang'E-4 Lunar Penetrating Radar, Science Advances, 6(9): eaay6898. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aay6898
39.Cai, Yuzhen; Xiao, Zhiyong;Ding, Chunyuand Cui, Jun. (2020). Fine debris flows formed by the Orientale basin. Earth and Planetary Physics, 4: 212–222. doi:10.26464/epp2020027
40.Xiao, Yuan; Su, Yan; Dai, Shun; Feng, Jianqing; Xing, Shuguo;Ding, Chunyu; Li, Chunlai.(2019). Ground experiments of Chang'e-5 lunar regolith penetrating radar, Advances in Space Research, 63(10): 3404–3419.
41.Li Chunlai; Xing Shuguo; Lauro Sebastian E; Su Yan; Dai Shun; Feng Jianqing; Cosciotti Barbara; Di Paolo Federico; Mattei Elisabetta; Xiao Yuan;Ding Chunyu; Pettinelli Elena. (2018). Pitfalls in GPR Data Interpretation: False Reflectors Detected in Lunar Radar Cross Sections by Chang'e-3, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(3): 1325-1335.
42.Ding, Chunyu; Su, Yan; Xing, Shuguo; Dai, Shun; Xiao, Yuan; Feng, Jianqing; Liu, Danqing; Li, Chunlai. (2017). Numerical Simulations of the Lunar Penetrating Radar and Investigations of the Geological Structures of the Lunar Regolith Layer at the Chang'E 3 Landing Site, International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 1–11. doi:10.1155/2017/3013249
43.Feng Jianqing; Su Yan;Ding Chunyu; Xing Shuguo; Dai Shun; Zou Yongliao. (2017). Dielectric properties estimation of the lunar regolith at CE-3 landing site using lunar penetrating radar data, Icarus, 284: 424-430.
44.Xiao, Yuan; Su, Yan; Dai, Shun; Feng, Jianqing;Ding, Chunyu; Xing, Shuguo; Li, Chunlai. (2017). Overview of the Martian Subsurface Exploration and Research Using Radar. Astronomical Research and Technology, (02): 192–211. (In Chinese)
45.Xing Shuguo; Su Yan; Feng Jianqing; Dai Shun; Xiao Yuan;Ding Chunyu; Li Chunlai. (2017). The penetrating depth analysis of Lunar Penetrating Radar onboard Chang'e-3 rover, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 17(5).
46.Wang, Yaming; Su, Yan; Feng, Jianqing; Dai, Shun; Xing, Shuguo; Xiao, Yuan;Ding, Chunyu.(2016). A Review of Lunar Polar Exploration. Astronomical Research and Technology, 6:300–309. (In Chinese)
47.Ding, Chunyu; Feng, Jianqing; Zheng, Lei; Dai, Shun; Xing, Shuguo; Xiao, Yuan; and Su, Yan. (2015). A Review of Applications of Radar-Detection Techniques in Lunar Explorations. Astronomical Research and Technology, 12(2), 228–242. doi: 10.14005/j.cnki.issn1672-7673.20141113.005 (In Chinese)
48.Shun Dai; Yan Su; Yuan Xiao; Jianqing Feng; Shuguo Xing;Chunyu Ding. (2014). Echo simulation of lunar penetrating radar: based on a model of inhomogeneous multilayer lunar regolith structure, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 14(12): 1642-1653.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
1.Chunyu Ding; Zhiyong Xiao; Yan Su.(2020). Comparsion of the layering structure within lunar regolith at Chang’E -3 and Chang’E-4 landing site. Paper presented at the 2020 Annual meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union.
2.Ding Chunyu; Li Chunlai*; Xiao Zhiyong; Su, Yan; Xing Shuguo; Wang Yichen; Feng Jianqing; Dai Shun; Xiao Yuan; Yao Meijuan. (2019). Laminar structures in the porous material beneath the CE–3 landing site. Paper presented at the 4th international conference on lunar and deep space exploration.
3.Ding Chunyu;Su Yan; Xiao Yuan; Wang Yanming. (2014). Numerical simulation of the Lunar penetrating radar for ground-test experiment based on ray tracing method. Paper presented at 2nd Imaging Radar Conference, Beijing.
4.Su, Y., Li, C., Dai, S., Fu, Q., Zhang, G.,Ding, C., Zhou, B., Wang, R., Zeng, X., Kong,D. and Zhu, X., (2020). A complex geological history at China’s Chang’E-4 landing site revealed by the Lunar Penetrating Radar. In 18th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (pp. 444-447). Society of Exploration Geophysicists
5.Xing, S., Su, Y., Dai, S.,Ding, C., Li, H., and Li, C. (2017). The penetration depth estimation of Chang’e-3 500MHz radar data using Correlation Coefficient Method. 2017 IEEE Radar Conference.
6.Feng, J., Su, Y., Xing, S.,Ding, C.and Li, C., (2015). The properties of the lunar regolith at Chang'e-3 landing site: A study based on LPR data. In AGU Fall Meeting (pp. P51C- 2073).
7.Su, Y., Xing, S., Feng, J., Dai, S.,Ding, C.,Xiao, Y... and Liu, B. (2015). Data Processing and Primary results of Lunar Penetrating Radar on Board the Chinese Yutu Rover. In EGU General Assembly Conference
8.Shun Dai; Shuguo Xing; Yuan Xiao; Jianqing Feng;Chunyu Ding;Yan Su.(2015). Preliminary analysis of lunar regolith characteristic within the Chang’e-3 rover’s route, 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
AWARDS
1.SUSTech, Presidential Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021
2.Qualification certificate for studying oversea, Shenzhen, 2021
3.Certificate for Returnees from studying oversea, 2015 to 2016
4.Full Scholarship in a Joint PhD International Trainning Program, UCAS, 2015
5.Honorary title of “Three good student”by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2015
6.Scholarship Sponsored by National Astronomical Observatories, CAS and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) Company, First-class, 2014
