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”. |