2013-现在，中国科学技术大学，教授 

2012-2013, University of California, Los Angeles, 助理研究员

2009-2012, University of California, Los Angeles, 博士后

Rice University, 2004-2009, 物理与天文系，博士

中国科学技术大学，2000-2004, 地球与空间科学系，学士

Tao, X., J. Bortnik, J. M. Albert, and R. M. Thorne (2012), Comparison of bounce-averaged quasi-linear diffusion coefficients for parallel propagating whistler mode waves with test particle simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A10205, doi:10.1029/2012JA017931.

Tao, X., J. Bortnik, J. M. Albert, R. M. Thorne, and W. Li (2012), The importance of amplitude modulation in nonlinear interactions between electrons and large amplitude whistler waves, J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys., in press, doi: 10.1016/j.jastp.2012.05.012

Tao, X., W. Li, J. Bortnik, R. M. Thorne, and V. Angelopoulos (2012), Comparison between theory and observation of the frequency sweep rates of equatorial rising tone chorus, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L08106, doi:10.1029/2012GL051413

Tao, X., J. Bortnik, R. M. Thorne, J. M. Albert, and W. Li (2012), Effects of amplitude modulation on nonlinear interactions between electrons and chorus waves, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L06102, doi:10.1029/2012GL051202

Tao, X., J. Bortnik, J. M. Albert, K. Liu, and R. M. Thorne (2011), Comparison of quasilinear diffusion coefficients for parallel propagating whistler mode waves with test particle simulations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L06105, doi:10.1029/2011GL046787

Tao, X., R. M. Thorne, W. Li, B. Ni, N. P. Meredith, and R. B. Horne (2011), Evolution of electron pitch-angle distributions following injection from the plasma sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A04229, doi:10.1029/2010JA016245

Tao, X., R. M. Thorne, and R. B. Horne (2011), Importance of plasma injection events for energization of relativistic electrons in the Jovian magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A01206, doi:10.1029/2010JA016108

Tao, X., and J. Bortnik (2010), Nonlinear interactions between relativistic radiation belt electrons and oblique whistler mode waves, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 17, 599–604, doi:10.5194/npg-17-599- 2010

Tao, X., R. Thorne, R. B. Horne, S. Grimald, C. S. Arridge, G. B. Hospodarsky, D. A. Gurnett, A. J. Coates, and F. J. Crary (2010), Excitation of electron cyclotron harmonic waves in the inner Saturn mag- netosphere within local plasma injections, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A12204, doi:10.1029/2010JA015598

Tao, X., J. Bortnik, and M. Friedrich (2010), Variance of transionospheric VLF wave power absorption, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A07303, doi:10.1029/2009JA015115