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
2024 Faculty of Science Award for Publication, Monash University
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
2024 30.2 hr, ESO-P115, VLT//ESPRESSO, 'Testing fundamental physics with distant red clump stars', Co-I
2024 2.5 nights, Keck-2024B/2025A, HIRES, 'Testing fundamental physics with red clump stars', Co-I
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
09/2024: invited seminar, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
09/2024: invited seminar, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
08/2024: invited seminar, ASA's ECR colluquium symposium, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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