HI · Astrophysics

Chen Xu 徐晨

Postdoc at NAOC · Beijing, China

FAST HI observations, Circumgalactic medium, Galaxy formation and evolution

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Xu Chen at FAST
At FAST, Guizhou, 2025 / Photo by Prof. Wenbai Zhu

Hello there, I'm a postdoc at NAOC, in the Computational Cosmology Group (we call it CCG). In the fall of 2021, I became a PhD student of my advisor Wang, Jie, an excellent expert in galaxy formation, N-body simulations, large-scale structure of the universe, and deep learning in astronomy.

I'm more interested in radio astronomy, especially after the establishment of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, FAST. In 2019, when I was a junior at Jilin University, Prof. Wang needed some undergraduates to learn how to process the HI data of FAST. So I joined his group and now I am a member of the FAST key project mapping M31, our neighbor galaxy, and conducting another deep HI survey named Hundred-deg² HI Deep (HD²) Survey combined with DESI. In Oct. 2026, I obtained my PhD in NAOC and UCAS, and started as a postdoc in Nov. 2026.

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Welcome to visit our survey websites to learn more: HI Survey conducted by CCG@NAOC.

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