Curriculum Vitae

Working experience

08/2022 - present, ASTRO 3D Research Fellow, SPA, Monash University, Australia

11/2019 - 08/2022,  Postdoctoral Research Associate, CAS, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

08/2016 - 10/2019, Postdoctoral Researcher, Lund Observatory, Lund University, Sweden

02/2016 - 07/2016, Postdoctoral Fellow, RSAA, Australian National University, Australia

Teaching & Supervision experience

02/2024 - present, honours thesis supervision, student: Mia Babatsikos

02/2023 - 07/2023, bachelor project supervision, student: Riley Thai

2019 - 2023,  PhD co-supervision, students: Daniel Berke, Christian Lehmann

01/2018 - 06/2019, master thesis supervision, student: Lorena Acuña

01/2017 - 06/2017, bachelor thesis supervision, student: Frida Ekstrand

Education

2012 – 2016  PhD in Astronomy, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University

2009 – 2012  M.S in Astrophysics, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2005 – 2009  B.S in Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University

Grant & Awards & Scholarship

2021 Travel grant for Young Researchers, Swinburne University

2019  Travel grant for Young Researchers, The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund

2016 - 2018  The Märta and Eric Holmberg Endowment, The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund

2015  ANU Eggen Supplementary Scholarship

2014  RSAA Best Student Paper Award

2012 – 2016  ANU International PhD Scholarship

2012 – 2016  ANU HDR Supplementary Scholarship

2011  ‘Triple A’ Outstanding Student Prize, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Observing Experience

12/2021 Binary stars, HIRES on Keck I telescope,  Hawaii, US (remote observing at Swinburne)

08/2021 Binary stars, MIKE on Magellan telescope, Chile (remote observing from home)

06/2021 - 07/2021 Survey for distant solar twins, HERMES on AAT, Australia

2021 - 2022  GALAH observing run, HERMES on AAT, Australia

05/2016  Metal-rich stars, HIRES on Keck I telescope, Hawaii, US

11/2015  Metal-rich stars, HIRES on Keck I telescope, Hawaii, US (remote observing at Swinburne)

01/2015  M67, HIRES on Keck I telescope, Hawaii, US

08/2013  Kepler field stars, HIRES on Keck I telescope, Hawaii, US

01/2012  Metal-poor stars, Hamilton spectrograph on 3m Shane telescope, Lick Observatory, California, US

03/2011  Metal-poor stars, Hamilton spectrograph on 3m Shane telescope, Lick Observatory, California, US

12/2010  RV survey, HRS on 1.8m telescope, Okayama Observatory, Okayama, Japan

2010 – 2012  RV survey, HRS on 2.16m telescope, Xinglong Observational Staion, Hebei, China

2010 – 2012  Transit Follow-up, 50cm/1m telescope, Xinglong Observational Staion, Hebei, China

Telescope Proposals

2023 4.1 hr, ESO-P112, VLT/ESPRESSO, 'Testing fundamental physics with red clump stars', Co-I

2022 6.5 nights, ESO-P111, HARPS, 'How rare are analogues of the Solar System', Co-I

2021 1 night, Keck-2021B, HIRES, 'Characterising binary stars in the Gaia era', PI

2021 32 hr, ESO-P108, VLT/UVES, 'Characterising binary stars in the Gaia era', Co-I

2021 14.3 hr, ESO-P108, VLT/ESPRESSO, 'Testing fundamental physics with distant solar twins: first science', Co-I

2021 7 nights, AAT-2021A, HERMES, 'Discovering distant solar twins to test fundamental physics', Co-I

2020  29 hr, ESO-P106, VLT/FLAMES, 'Chemical (in)homogeneity and atomic diffusion in the open cluster M67', PI

2019 7 nights, ESO-P103, HARPS, 'The effect of stellar activity on the chemical composition of young Suns and radial velocity variations’, Co-I

2018  1 night, Keck-2018A, HIRES, 'Stellar chemical signatures of terrestrial planet formation', Co-I

2018  15.8 hr, ESO-P101, VLT/UVES, 'Detailed chemical abundances of wide binary stars: constraints on the scenario and model of planet formation', PI

2017  17.8 hr, ESO-P99, VLT/UVES, 'A systematic study of detailed chemical abundance patterns of thin and thick disc stars', PI

2017  2 nights, Keck-2017A, HIRES, 'Are open clusters chemically homogenerous?', Co-I

2016  1 night, Keck-2016B, HIRES, 'Stellar chemical signatures of terrestrial planet formation', Co-I

2016  2 nights, Keck-2016A, HIRES, ‘The most metal-rich stars: probing exoplanets, stars, the Milky Way and galaxies’, Co-I

2015  5.6 hr, Gemini-2015B, GRACES, ‘Chemical signatures of planet formation in small planet hosts’, PI

2015  1 night, Keck-2015B, HIRES, ‘The most metal-rich stars: probing exoplanets, stellar nucleosynthesis, Galactic archaeology and galaxy evolution’, Co-I

2015  AAT-2015B, HERMES, ‘Planets in clusters with K2’, Co-I

2014  2 nights, Keck-2014B, HIRES, ‘Solar twins in the open cluster M67: chemical signature of terrestrial planets or natal dust formation?’, Co-I

2013  1 night, Keck-2013B, HIRES, ‘The chemical signatures of planet formation: Kepler stars with rocky planets’, Co-I

2013  16.2 hr, ESO-P91, VLT/FLAMES&UVES, ‘Chemical signatures of planet formation: The open cluster Ruprecht 147’, Co-I

2013  36.6 hr, HET/HRS, ‘Chemical signatures of planet formation in open cluster stars’, Co-I

Conferences & Activities

07/2024: SOC/LOC of 'Advances in Evolved Cool Stars' conference, Melbourne, Australian

05/2024: contributed talk, ASTRO 3D Legacy Meeting, Sydney, Australia

05/2024: invited seminar, ESA's Space Science Faculty Seminars Programme, Europe (online)

03/2024 - 05/2024: 4 Invited seminars at Yunnan Uni, Tsinghua Uni, NAOC, and SHAO, China

02/2024: contributed talk, GALAH Legacy Meeting, Melbourne, Australia

09/2023, invited seminar, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

09/2023, contributed talk, ESO's Spectral Fidelity Conference, Florence, Italy

08/2023, contributed talk, MIAPbP Workshop, Garching, Germany

05/2023, contributed talk. ASTRO 3D Science Meeting, Perth, Australia

12/2021, contributed talk, PLATO workshop, Belgium (online)

02/2021, contributed talk, Precision Spectroscopy workshop, Brazil (online)

11/2020,  invited talk, Youth Scientists Forum, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China (online)

12/2019, contributed talk, Stars in Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

06/2019, contributed talk, STARPLANET2019 conference, Ringberg Castle, Germany

05/2019, PLATO workshop, Liege, Belgium

12/2018, visit and collaboration, RSAA, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

08/2018, contributed talk, Cool Stars meeting, Boston, US

05/2018, PLATO science meeting, Milazzo, Italy

04/2018, visit and presentation, MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany

03/2018, La Silla Paranal Users Workshop, Garching, Germany

12/2017, seminar, Yunnan Observatory, CAS, Kunming, China

12/2017, seminar, National Astronomical Observatory, CAS, Beijing, China

09/2017, contributed talk, 5th Annual GMT Community Science Meeting, Tarrytown, NY, US

05/2017, visit and collaboration, RSAA, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

02/2017, SOC/LOC of 'The Gaseous Universe for All' workshop, Lund, Sweden

12/2016, seminar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden

11/2016, seminar, Lund Observatory, Lund University, Sweden

09/2016, contributed talk, 4th Annual GMT Community Science Meeting, Pacific Grove, CA, US

09/2016, contributed talk, Precision spectroscopy workshop, Porto Alegre, Brazil

07/2015, invited talk, Pathways towards habitable planets conference, Bern, Switzerland

05/2015, contributed talk, The 2015 Australian Gemini, Magellan, and Keck Sience Symposium, Sydney, Australia

04/2015, contributed talk, Frontiers of Spectroscopy conference, Heidelberg, Germany

10/2014, Summer courses on exoplanets, La Palma, Spain

09/2014, poster, Towards the Earth II conference, Porto, Portugal

07/2014, contributed talk, ASA Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, Australia

12/2013, contributed talk, Third exoplanet workshop, Melbourne, Australia

07/2013, Harley Wood Winter School, Philip Island, Australia

12/2012, contributed talk, Second exoplanet workshop, Canberra, Australia

08/2010, Sino-German summer school on observational techniques, data reduction and analysis, Weihai, China

07/2010, Summer school on galactic studies with the LAMOST survey, Beijing, China