I am a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) working on the physics of magnetic reconnection, plasma turbulence, and energetic-particle acceleration. My research combines large-scale kinetic simulations, transport modeling, and high-performance computing to understand energetic particles in solar flares, heliospheric plasmas, and astrophysical systems.

• Energetic-particle acceleration & transport in reconnection and turbulence

• High-performance kinetic simulations (PIC, hybrid-PIC, MHD)

• Development of advanced tools:

  • stochastic-parker — stochastic solver for particle transport equations
  • VPIC-Kokkos for large-scale GPU supercomputers
  • HybridVPIC-K + transport frameworks for heliophysics & astrophysics

• Magnetic reconnection & plasma turbulence
• Particle acceleration across solar, heliospheric, and astrophysical environments
• Multi-scale modeling: PIC → hybrid → MHD → transport
• HPC on leadership-class machines (Frontier, Perlmutter, Aurora, …)
• Advanced diagnostics (turbulence properties, energetic-particle diagnostics)

• stochastic-parker Stochastic Monte-Carlo solver for Parker / focused-transport equations.

• GPATS (in progress) Next-generation energetic-particle transport framework (Kokkos + Cabana).

• Reconnection & turbulence simulations Using VPIC-Kokkos, HybridVPIC-K, and MHD codes to study energy conversion and particle energization.

• Solar flare & heliospheric modeling Particle acceleration in solar flares, heliospheric current sheets, and large-scale eruptions.

• Email: phyxiaolee@gmail.com
• Website: https://xiaocanli.github.io/
• GitHub: github.com/xiaocanli

Recent updates can be found on https://xiaocanli.github.io/.