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