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1989年获南京大学理学博士学位，原南京大学天文系天体力学教研室主任。1995年9月至1996年8月在美国西北大学做访问学者。
长期从事天文动力学基础理论的研究，主要包括：太阳系小天体运动理论与轨道共振；动力天文的数值方法、行星流体与磁流体动力学以及行星自转动力学等，研究手段主要是理论分析和大规模数值模拟，已发表论文近百篇。
现任中国科学院天文口“地球自转变化”创新团组首席研究员，博士生导师等职。

研究方向： 行星物理

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代表论著：

 　1、 Dali Kong, Xinhao Liao, Keke Zhang, Gerald Schubert, (2013), Gravitational Signature of Rotationally Distorted Jupiter Caused by Deep Zonal Winds, Icarus, 226: 1425-1430.  

　　2、 Liao Xinhao and Zhang Keke，(2012)  Asymptotic solutions of differential rotation driven by convection in rapidly rotating fluid spheres with the non-slip boundary condition, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 106: 643-659.  

　　3、 Liao Xinhao and Zhang Keke, (2012) On flow in weakly precessing cylinders:  the general asymptotic solution, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 709: 610-621. 

　　4、 Liao Xinhaoand Keke Zhang, (2010)  Asymptotic and numerical solutions of the initial value problem in rotating planetary fluid cores, Geophysical Journal International, 180: 181-192. 

　　5、 Liao Xinhao, and Keke Zhang , (2009) A new integral property of inertial waves in rotating fluid spheres,  Proceedings of The Royal Society A, 465: 1075-1091. 

　　6、 Liao Xinhao and Keke Zhang, (2008) On viscous decay factors for spherical inertial modes in rotating planetary fluid cores: Comparison between asymptotic and numerical analysis, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interior, 169:211-219 

　　7、 Liao Xinhao, Zhang K., Chang Y., (2007) Nonlinear Torsional Oscillations in rotating Systems, Physical Review Letters., 98:094501-1-094501-4. 

　　8、 Liao Xinhao, Feng T. and Zhang K., (2007) On the Saturation and Temporal Variation of Mean Zonal Flows: An implication for Equatorial Jets on Giant Planets, The Astrophysical Journal, 666:L41-L44. 

　　9、 Liao Xinhao, Zhang K. and Y. Change, (2006),  On boundary layer convection in a rotating layer, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 549: 375-384 

　　10、Liao Xinhao and Zhang K. (2006), On the convective excitation of torsional oscillations in rotating systems, The Astrophysical Journal, 638: L113- L116. 

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