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Please look at this page if you're interested to know about myself. Please refer to the Research Page for details of my research and my group, and the Teaching Page for my courses. You're welcome to Contact me, if you're interested to visit and talk with me on my research or courses, but before that you may want to consult my Weekly Schedule and Travel plan.
My recent research works

    Recovering star formation histories of low-mass galaxies (S. Zhou et al. 2020)
    Relating structure of dark halos to their assembly and environment (Y.Y. Chen et al. 2020)
    Estimating stellar dust attenuation from galactic spectra (N. Li et al. 2020)
    Searching for Wolf-Rayet Regions of Massive Stars in Galaxies (F.H. Liang et al. 2020)
    Estimating the molecular gas mass of low-redshift galaxies from a combination of mid-infrared luminosity and optical properties (Y. Gao et al. 2019)
    A joint analysis of CALIFA and CARMA-EDGE survey data shows molecular gas concentration driven by bars and interactions (R. Chown et al. 2019)
    Environmental dependence of alpha abundance of nearby galaxies as revealed by MaNGA data (Z. Zheng et al. 2019)
    Stellar initial mass function varies across galaxies based on Bayesian analyses of MaNGA spectra (S. Zhou et al. 2019)
    Quantifying the cosmic variance in low-z galaxy distribution using constrained simulations (Y.Y. Chen et al. 2019)
    MaNGA reveals how galaxies stop forming stars (E.C. Wang et al. 2018)

I'm a Professor of Astrophysics at Department of Astronomy of Tsinghua University. My research has been focused on the structure, formation and evolution of galaxies, and the large-scale structure of the Universe. I use data from both observational experiments (particularly SDSS-IV and Subaru/PFS) and numerical simulations to understand the physical link of different classes of galaxies with the hosting dark matter halos. I've been teaching “Observational Astrophysics”, an astrophysical course for both graduate students and high-level undergraduates. From the fall of 2017 I have been teaching a new course, Observational Cosmology - From the Solar System to the Distant Universe, a general education course for non-major junior undergraduate students.
Current Commitments

    I'm the current Chair of the Galaxies and Cosmology Commission of Chinese Astronomical Society, since 10/2014
    I'm chairing the Data Products Committee, co-chairing the Science Committee, and serving on the Executive Committee for the SDSS-IV/MaNGA project.

Employment

    Professor of astrophysics, Physics Department, Tsinghua University, 9/2015-Present
    Research professor, head of Max-Planck Institute Partner Group, SHAO, 10/2010-01/2017
    MPA postdoctoral fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, 10/2008-9/2010
    MPA-SHAO joint postdoctoral fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, 9/2007-9/2008
    MPA-SHAO joint postdoctoral fellow, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, 10/2006-8/2007

Education

    PhD in Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, 9/2000-9/2006
    BsC in Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, 9/1996-8/2000

Awards

    Winner of National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars, 2013
    Shanghai Pujiang Tallent, Shanghai Sci & Tech. Commission, 2010
    The 1st-class Prize for Natural Science and Technology, Shanghai Government, 2009
    Top 50 Excellent PhD Theses, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2008