Staff profile

I am interested in galaxy formation and evolution, which is very broad topic and I am focusing on

• == galaxy-halo connections ==
  • identifying galaxy groups and protoclusters in galaxy surveys;
  • connecting galaxies across cosmic time to infer their redshift evolution;
  • relating the star formation activities and chemical evolution of galaxies to their large-scale enviornment;
  • linking the growth history of galaxy stellar mass and their super-massive black holes to the assembly of their dark matter halos;
• == dark matter halos ==
  • relating the assembly histories of dark matter halos to their internal structures and external environments;
  • simulating the orbital and structrual evolution of dark matter subhalos;
• == galaxies ==
  • estimating the physical properties of galaxies from their observable properties;

Journal Article

• Gao, Z., Peng, Y., Wang, K., Ho, L. C., Renzini, A., Gallazzi, A. R., Mannucci, F., Mo, H., Jing, Y., Yang, X., Wang, E., Zhao, D., Dou, J., Gu, Q., Lyu, C., Maiolino, R., Wang, B., Wang, Y.-C., Xu, B., Yuan, F., & Zhu, X. (2025). From Halos to Galaxies. X. Decoding Galaxy SEDs with Physical Priors and Accurate Star Formation History Reconstruction. The Astrophysical Journal, 979(1), Article 66. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9a5c
• Ma, C., Wang, K., Wang, E., Peng, Y., Jiang, H., Yu, H., Jia, C., Chen, Z., Li, H., & Kong, X. (2024). Revisiting the Fundamental Metallicity Relation with Observation and Simulation. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 971(1), Article L14. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad675f