2019: Bachelor degree with HONOURS from Fudan University, outstanding graduate of Fudan.

Thesis: A test of general relativity with the reflection spectrum of Cygnus X-1

Supervisor: Prof. Cosimo Bambi

2019-2024: Doctor degree of Science from Fudan University, outstanding graduate of Shanghai.

Thesis: Probing the inner accretion flow around black holes with X-ray observations. [link]

Supervisor: Prof. Cosimo Bambi

2024-present: research assistant of the head (equivalent to assistant professor) at the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IAAT), University of Tuebingen.

Supervisor: Prof. Dott. Andrea Santangelo

Awards

  • The Gruber Foundation (TGF) fellowship awarded by IAU (2024). [link]



Accepted telescope proposals

  • NuSTAR DDT time on H 1417–624, 2025 (30 ks)
  • IXPE DDT time on H 1417–624, 2025 (300 ks)
  • IXPE AO2, 2024, on Swift J0243.6+6124 (PI, 300 ks)
  • NuSTAR, 2024, DDT time on 4U 1907+09 (20 ks)
  • NuSTAR, 2024, DDT time on BL Lac (20 ks) + exposures from the Lijiang 2.4 m telescope + 10 ks monitoring from Swift (UVOT + XRT)
  • Insight-HXMT AO7, 2024, on Swift J0243.6+6124 (PI, 150 ks)
  • Insight-HXMT AO7, 2024, on GRS 1915+105 (PI, 150 ks)
  • Insight-HXMT AO7, 2024, on state transition for one XRB (PI, 100 ks)
  • NuSTAR AO10, 2024, for Swift J0243.6+6124 (PI, 60 ks)
  • NuSTAR, 2024, DDT time on S4 0954+65 (20 ks)
  • Swift (UVOT, XRT) monitoring of S4 0954+65, 2024 (7 ks)
  • NuSTAR, 2023, 20 ks ToO on S5 1044+71 (Triggered)
  • NuSTAR, 2022, 20 ks ToO on LXT221107A (Triggered)
  • NICER monitoring of GRS 1915+105, 2023 (Triggered, > 35 ks)
  • Swift monitoring of S5 1044+71, 2023 (Triggered, > 30 ks)
  • Insight-HXMT AO5, 2022, 150 ks on Swift J0243.6+6124 (Triggered since July 2023)
  • Insight-HXMT AO5, 2022, 150 ks on GRS 1915+105 (Partly triggered)


I also have dozens of short (a few ks) NICER and Swift ToO observations triggered.


Talk contribution


Colloquium:

1.    December 2, 2024, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Tuebingen, Germany (40 min)


Invited talks:

1.    June 09-14, 2025, Frascati Workshop 2025, Multifrequency Behaviour of HighEnergy Cosmic Sources – XV, Palermo, Italy (20 min)

2.    January 17, 2025, talk at the X-ray group meeting of Groningen University (online, 30 min)

3.    December 30, 2024, seminar talk at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China (1 hour)

4.    December 3, 2024, The Fudan-Tuebingen Young Scholar Forum, Tuebingen, Germany (15 min)

5.    June 28, 2024, launch talk at the South-Western Institute for Astronomy Research (SWIFAR) of Yunnan University, Yunnan, China (30 min)

6.    June 27, 2024, seminar talk at Yunnan astronomical observatory, Yunnan, China (30 min)

7.    May 7, 2024, talk at the Mars seminar of Nanjing University, China (30 min)

8.    February 20, 2024, talk at the high-energy group meeting of TDLI, Shanghai, China. (30 min)

9.    October 18, 2023, seminar talk at Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China (1 hour)

10.    September 18, 2023, seminar talk at Shanghai Astronomical observatory, Shanghai, China. (1 hour)

11.    June 27, 2023, mini-seminar talk at Durham University, UK (30 min)

12.    June 22, 2023, seminar talk at Newcastle University, UK (1 hour)

13.    April 18, 2023, seminar talk at INAF – IASF, Palermo, Italy (online, 1 hour)

14.    April 12, 2023, seminar talk at the National Astronomical Observatories of China, Beijing, China. (1 hour)

15.    April 11, 2023, seminar talk at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. (1 hour)

16.    March 03, 2023, talk at the X-ray group meeting of Groningen University (online, 30 min)

17.    January 31, 2023, talk at the group meeting of the THEAPA group at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, UK (online, 30 min)

18.    November 25, 2022, talk at the X-ray group meeting of Groningen University (online)

19.    April 08, 2022, talk at the X-ray group meeting of Groningen University (online)

20.    January 22, 2021, talk at the X-ray group meeting of Groningen University (online)

21.    December 22, 2020: Online talk at the High Energy Astrophysics meeting, India (online)




Conferences:

1.    September 20, 2024, Fudan-Tuebingen-(and Friends) Workshop on the Relativistic and Exotic Universe, Shanghai, China (25 min)

2.    Jan 23, 2024, Unveiling the Dynamic and Energetic Universe with Insight-HXMT for Six Years and Beyond, Zhuhai, China (12 min)

3.    Dec 11, 2023, the Fudan-Tuebingen forum for astrophysics, Shanghai, China (15 min)

4.    July 10, 2023, the Insight-HXMT workshop of 2023, Qingdao, China. (15 min)

5.    June 12-16, 2023, The X-ray Universe 2023, Athens, Greece (1 talk + 2 posters)

6.    April 27-28, 2023, the fourth Zhangheng Seminar held by the Chinese Astronomical Society, Wuhan, China. (10 min)

7.    November 30, 2022, The 3rd China-India workshop on high energy astrophysics, Shanghai, China (online, 15 min)

8.    June 15, 2022: The 60th anniversary of X-ray astronomy in China, Beijing, China (online, 15 min)

9.    December 6, 2021: The 2nd China-India workshop on high energy astrophysics, Shanghai, China (online, 15 min)

10.    June 15, 2021: The fourth anniversary of Insight-HXMT, Beijing, China (15 min)

11.    March 16-19, 2021: The RATOP 2021 Symposium, Warsaw, Poland (online, 25 min)

12.    December 13, 2019: The first ISSI meeting lead by Cosimo Bambi, Switzerland (15 min)


Visiting experience

1.    December 30, 2024, Wuhan University and Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China (Host: Bei You and Qingcui Bu)

2.    September 9-12, 2024, Institute of High Energy Physics, China (Host: Shu Zhang)

3.    June 27, 2024, Yunnan astronomical observatory, Yunnan, China (Host: Guobao Zhang)

4.    June 26-28, 2024, South-Western Institute for Astronomy Research, Yunnan University, China (Host: Kaushik Chatterjee, Chenxu Liu)

5.    October 16-19, 2023, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China (Host: Long Ji)

6.    September 18, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Shanghai, China (Host: Fangzheng Shi, Feng Yuan)

7.    August 16-19, 2023, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China (Host: Bei You)

8.    June 27, 2023, Durham University, UK (Host: Chris Done)

9.    June 18-29, 2023, Newcastle University, UK (Host: Adam Ingram)

10.    June 11-12, 2023, Institute of Astronomy (IoA), University of Cambridge, UK (Host: Jiachen Jiang, Andy Fabian)

11.    April 11-12, 2023, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (Host: Junjie Mao)

12.    September 22-29, 2021, Tsinghua University, China (Host: Jiachen Jiang)

13.    August 3-17, 2019, Institute of High Energy Physics, China (Host: Shu Zhang)

14.    July 23 - August 15, 2018, Caltech, US (Host: Javier Garcia)


Member

1.    2019-present: XTP/eXTP science team member (working groups 1, 2, 3 and 5)

2.    2023-present: Associate member of the science team of the Einstein Probe (EP)

3.    2023-present: Athena science working group member (for physics of accretion)

4.    2022-2024: HEX-P science team member (for X-ray binaries)

5.    2024-present: eROSITA consortium member (Compact object, AGN)

6.    2025-present: ARCO science working group


Teaching

1.    TA for the “Astronomy and Astrophysics” course, summer 2025, University of Tuebingen.

2.    TA for the I-HOW COSPAR Workshop “A New Era of High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy”, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (August 2024).

3.    TA for “Introduction to Astrophysics” at Fudan University (Fall, 2019; Spring 2021)


Referee

The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ); The Open Journal of Astrophysics; McGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal


Skills

Softwares: Xspec, PyXspec, XSTAR, Stingray, SPEX, BXA

Programming: Python, C/C++, Tcl, Bash

Familiar with instruments: XMM-Newton, Suzaku, NuSTAR, Insight-HXMT, Swift, NICER, IXPE



 

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