CV

Employment

9/2022-Present Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysics
University of California, Los Angeles
Supervisor: Tommaso Treu
10/2018-8/2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Astrophysics
Carnegie Observatories
Supervisor: Andrew Benson

Education

10/2014-9/2018 Ph.D., Astrophysics
Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen
Supervisor: Jens C. Niemeyer
Thesis: Structure Formation with Ultralight Axion Dark Matter
9/2011-6/2014 M.Sc., Theoretical physics
Lanzhou University
Supervisor: Yuxiao Liu
Thesis: Cosmological Perturbations and Large Scale Structure Formation in EiBI Gravity
9/2006-6/2010 B.Sc., Theoretical physics
Nankai University
Supervisor: Xinhe Meng
Thesis: The Application of TeVeS Theory in Rotation Curves of Galaxies

Awards and honors

2011-2014 The first prize scholarship of Lanzhou University for master student.
2008-2009 Outstanding student scholarship of Nankai University on fundamental science during the school year 2008-2009.

Academic Activities

10/3/2023 Seminar talk, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Title: Probing the Nature of Dark Matter through Small-scale Substructure.
3/10/2023 Seminar talk, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Title: Soliton Merger Rates and Enhanced Axion Dark Matter Decay.
11/29/2022 Seminar talk, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Title: Dark Matter Substructure: simulations, semi-analytic models and observations.
5/24/2021 Seminar talk, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
Title: Structure Formation with Fuzzy Dark Matter: simulations and semi-analytic models.
9/22/2020 BSM PANDEMIC Seminars talk, online..
Title: Collison of Fuzzy Dark Matter Halos.
11/20/2019 Seminar talk, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.
Title: Modeling Nonlinear Evolution of Dark Matter Substructure.
10/29/2019 Seminar talk, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Title: Modeling Nonlinear Evolution of Dark Matter Substructure.
10/11/2019 Seminar talk, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Title: Modeling Nonlinear Evolution of Dark Matter Substructure.
10/1/2019 Seminar talk, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Title: Modeling Nonlinear Evolution of Dark Matter Substructure.
10/11/2018 Invited talk, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Title: Structure Formation with Ultralight axion dark matter.
6/2018 Poster presentation in the 14th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPS and WISPS held in Hamburg, Germany. (Co-present with Jan Veltmaat)
Title: Numerical Simulations with Ultralight Axion Dark Matter.
5/2017 Poster presentation in the 13th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPS and WISPS held in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Title: Substructure of fuzzy dark matter halos and constraints from gravitational lensing.
4/2017 Participate in the workshop of Open Questions in Particle Physics and Cosmology held in Goettingen, Germany.
4/2016 Participate in the 11th Cosmology Day held in Bielefeld, Germany.
3/2016 Participate in the Bethe Forum on Axions and the Low Energy Frontier held in Bonn, Germany.
9/2013 Participate in the 2013 Fall Meeting of Chinese Physical Society held in Xiamen, China.
7/2013 Participate in the seminar of String/M Theory, Gravity and topological field theory held in Lanzhou, China.
4/2013 Participate in the seminar of Planck satellite and AMS held at KITPC.
8/2012 Participate in the Summer school of theoretical physics for graduate students held at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
7/2012 Participate in the 2012 Annual Meeting of Chinese Society of Gravity and Relativistic Astrophysics held in Nanchong, China.

Teaching and Mentoring

7/2021-8/2021 Mentor of the CASSI/SURF program between Carnegie Observatories and Caltech.
Student: Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan
Project: Spherical Collapse of Fuzzy Dark Matter in Simulations
2015-2017 Tutor of the lab course “The Curious Case of Dark Energy”.
10/2015-3/2016 Teaching assistant of the lecture “Introduction to Cosmology”.