Ruichen Zhou

Physical Geodesy · Satellite Altimetry · Systems

Ruichen Zhou / 周瑞宸

PhD Researcher in Physical Geodesy

Turning satellite altimetry into open marine gravity products, and building the Python pipelines behind them.

About

Current positions

PhD student in Geodesy, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2024–present)
Guest PhD researcher, University of Stuttgart (2025–present)

Research focus

  • Satellite altimetry data processing and waveform retracking
  • Gravity anomalies and vertical gravity gradients over oceans
  • Mean sea surface and marine gravity field modelling

Recent publications

Recent peer-reviewed papers and open datasets on satellite altimetry and marine gravity modeling:

Zhou, R., Guo, J., Ya, S., Sun, H., Liu, X.
Earth System Science Data(2025), 17(3), 817–836.
Zhou, R., Guo, J., Ya, S., Sun, H., Liu, X.
Zenodo
DOI
Zhou, R., Liu, X., Guo, J., Hwang, C., Jia, Y., Chang, X., Sun, H.
Earth, Planets and Space(2024), 76(1), Article 153.
DOI
Zhou, R., Liu, X., Li, Z., Sun, Y., Yuan, J., Guo, J., Ardalan, A. A.
Geophysical Journal International(2023), 234(2), 1519–1529.
DOI

Projects & Open Source

Open Source

Notebook-Translate

VS Code extension that translates Markdown cells in Jupyter notebooks into Chinese, with streaming output, provider switching (OpenAI-compatible, Ollama, Baidu), and OS keychain credential isolation.

TypeScriptVS Code APILLMKeychain
Open Source

mi-health-mcp

MCP server on Cloudflare Workers that pulls Xiaomi health data (sleep, heart rate, daily steps) for local LLM agents without running a local daemon.

Cloudflare WorkersTypeScriptModel Context Protocol
Research & Open Data

Global Marine Gravity & Gradient Inversion

Inversion methods and open datasets deriving vertical gravity gradients from multi-satellite altimetry and mean sea surface models.

Physical GeodesySatellite AltimetryESSD 2025Open Science
Infrastructure

Personal Research & Automation Infrastructure

Self-hosted computational and automation environment spanning 10+ devices across Germany and China. Integrates a private DERP relay for cross-border connectivity, OpenClaw for multi-device orchestration, and Hermes for autonomous alert diagnostics.

Tailscale / DERPOpenClawHermes AgentSelf-HostedLinux
Research & Open Data

trellis-for-research

Trellis spec templates and workflow for reproducible computational research, with task modes scaling checking effort from prototypes to durable models.

PythonReproducibilitySpecs

Curriculum vitae

Education, publications, and background details are collected in my CV. The page is password-protected; email me for access.

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