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”.