Gravitational Wave Physics
Positions
since Nov. 2024
Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA)
Oct. 2024 - Oct. 2023
The University of Hong Kong
Sep. 2023 - Oct. 2021
TianQin Center (SYSU)
Assistant Professor as a member of the "General Relativity and Partial Differential Equations" group
Post-doctoral Fellow in Prof. Lixin (Jane) Dai's group
Post-doctoral researcher as a member of the "Theoretical Study" group led by Prof. Jianwei Mei
Education
Jul. 2021 -Sep. 2017
Peking University
Nov. 2016 - Apr. 2015
Techincal University of Berlin
Jan. 2015 - Oct. 2012
Technical University of Berlin
Sep. 2015 - Apr. 2011
Technical University of Berlin
Sep. 2012 - Oct. 2009
Technical University of Berlin
Ph.D. in Astrophysics finished with the thesis "Gravitational Waves from Moving Sources: From the Theory to the Detection" supervised by Xian Chen & Pau Amaro Seoane
Master in Mathematics finished with the thesis "A Class of Polylogarithms for the Heptagon Remainder Function" supervised by Matthias Staudacher & Johannes Broedel
Master in Physics finished with the thesis "Bianchi-Identities and Conservation Laws in the Sciama-Kibble Theory of Gravity" supervised by Horst-Heino von Borzeszkowski
Bachelor in Mathematics finished with the thesis "Robinson Congruences and Null Electromagnetic Fields" supervised by Ulrich Pinkall
Bachelor in Physics finished with the thesis "Analytische und Numerische Betrachtung der Brown’schen Bewegung eines Schwarzen Lochs im Inneren eines Sternsystems" supervised by Dieter Breitschwerdt & Stefan Harfst
Projects
Feb. 2024 - Oct. 2022
Oct. 2022 - May 2020
since Aug. 2022
Member of the group in charge of the 'EMRI Chapter' for the LISA Red Book
Coordinator of the 'EMRI & IMRI Chapter' for the LISA Astrophysics Working Group White Paper
Coordinator of the chapter on 'Sources Around Massive Black Holes' for the TianQin Astrophysics White Paper
Grants & Awards
Dec. 2025 - Jan. 2024
Sep. 2023 - Jan. 2023
Jul. 2021 - Sep. 2017
Dec. 2020
Key Laboratory of TianQin Project Fund by the Ministry of Education (China) for studying the detection of XMRIs for the parameter estimation of SgrA*
The 72nd Batch of General Funding by the China Post Doctoral Science Foundation for studying the measurement of the velocity dispersion in galaxy clusters using gravitational waves
Chinese Government Scholarship covering full tuition fees and living expenses for my Ph.D. at the Peking University
Best Presentation Award at the 7th KAGRA International Workshop
Teaching & Supervising
Jun. 2024 - Oct. 2021
Sun Yat-Sen University
since Nov. 2023
The University of Hong Kong
since Sep. 2022
Sun Yat-Sen University
Jun. 2019 - Sep. 2018
Peking University
Mar. 15 - May 14
Technical University of Berlin
Supervisor of the Ph.D. Project by Chang-Qing Ye on "Measuring the velocity dispersion in galaxy clusters using EMRIs"
Co-supervisor of the Ph.D. Project by Leif Lui on "Gravitational waves from quasi-periodic eruptions"
Co-supervisor of the Ph.D. Project by Tianxiao Wang on "Detectability of XMRIs with TianQin"
Co-Supervisor of the undergraduate thesis by Peng Peng on "The Beaming Effect of Gravitational Waves"
Teaching assistant for theoretical physics for undergraduate courses on mechanics and quantum mechanics
Conference Talks
(Selected)
Apr. 28, 2024
Beijing (China)
Jul. 20, 2023
Online
Jul. 25, 2022
Glasgow (United Kingdom)
May 25, 2021
Online
Mar. 10, 2020
Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Invited talk at the 1st Sino-European Workshop on Lunar-Based Gravitational Wave Detection on "Astrophysical Gravitational Wave Sources in the milli-Hertz and deci-Hertz Bands"
Contributed talk at the 15th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves on "Moving gravitational wave sources at cosmological distances: Impact on the measurement of the Hubble constant"
Contributed talk at the 14th International LISA Symposium on "The effect of a constant velocity of the source on gravitational waves"
Invited talk at Astro-GR@Cuba 2021 on "Gravitational Wave Modes"
Contributed talk at the 2nd LISA Astrophysics Working Group Meeting on "A Phase Shift of Gravitational Waves induced by Aberration"
Seminar Talks
(Selected)
May 25, 2024
Beijing (China)
Mar. 4, 2024
Beijing (China)
Mar. 21, 2023
Zurich (Switzerland)
Nov. 18, 2020
Ithaca (United States of America)
Jun. 18, 2020
Waterloo (Canada)
Public talk organized by Tsinghua Astronomy Society on "Measuring our Universe with Gravitational Waves"
At Beijing Normal University on "Cosmology with Standard Sirens: Including the environment to get the full picture"
At University of Zurich on "Moving gravitational wave sources at cosmological distances"
At Cornell University on "Excitation of gravitational wave modes by motion: detecting the peculiar velocity of galaxies using extreme mass ratio inspirals"
At Perimeter Institute on "Phase Shift of Gravitational Waves induced by Aberration"