银河系结构，星系动力学，恒星物理，星族演化
刘超，男，1972年出生，天津人，中国科学院国家天文台研究员，空间站望远镜科学应用研究团组首席科学家。2008年获得中国科学院研究生部博士学位。2009年至2011年在德国马克斯普朗克天文研究所从事博士后研究。于2011年底入职中科院国家天文台工作至今。2018年晋升为研究员。 主要从事银河系结构、星族演化和恒星物理等方面的观测研究。研究成果发表于国际知名期刊，总计160余篇，总引用10400多次，截至2022年3月H-因子37。先后承担国家自然科学基金项目2项、参与国家重点研发计划2项、作为课题负责人参与国家重点研发计划1项。
1. Garbari, Silvia, Liu, Chao, Read, Justin I., and Lake, George, A new determination of the local dark matter density from the kinematics of K dwarfs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012, 425, 1445
2. Liu, Chao and van de Ven, Glenn, Chemo-orbital evidence from SDSS/SEGUE G-type dwarf stars for a mixed origin of the Milky Way's thick disc, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012, 425, 2144
3. Liu, C., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Sordo, R., Vallenari, A., Borrachero, R., Luri, X., and Sartoretti, P., The expected performance of stellar parametrization with Gaia spectrophotometry, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012, 426, 2463
4. Bird, Sarah A., Xue, Xiang-Xiang, Liu, Chao, Shen, Juntai, Flynn, Chris, and Yang, Chengqun, Anisotropy of the Milky Way’s Stellar Halo Using K Giants from LAMOST and Gaia, The Astronomical Journal, 2019, 157, 104
5. Wang, Hai-Feng, Liu, Chao, Xu, Yan, Wan, Jun-Chen, and Deng, Licai, Mapping the Milky Way with LAMOST- III. Complicated spatial structure in the outer disc, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, 478, 3367
6. Yu, Jincheng and Liu, Chao, The age-velocity dispersion relation of the Galactic discs from LAMOST-Gaia data, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, 475, 1093
7. Liu, Chao, Xu, Yan, Wan, Jun-Chen, Wang, Hai-Feng, Carlin, Jeffrey L., Deng, Li-Cai, Newberg, Heidi Jo, and 4 colleagues, Mapping the Milky Way with LAMOST I: method and overview, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2017, 17, 096
8. Zhang, Bo, Liu, Chao, and Deng, Li-Cai, Deriving the Stellar Labels of LAMOST Spectra with the Stellar LAbel Machine (SLAM), The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2020, 246, 9
9. Xu, Y., Liu, C., Tian, H., Newberg, H. J., Laporte, C. F. P., Zhang, B., Wang, H. F., and 3 colleagues, Exploring the Perturbed Milky Way Disk and the Substructures of the Outer Disk, The Astrophysical Journal, 2020, 905, 6
10. Liu, Chao, Smoking gun of the dynamical processing of solar-type field binary stars, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019, 490, 550