Shi Yong

Personal introduction

Shi Yong is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University. He was supported by the Thousand Young Talents Program of China in 2013 and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2018. He was awarded the Explorer Prize by Tencent in 2019.

He received his bachelor’s in 2003 from the Department of Geophysics at Peking University and his doctorate in astronomy in 2008 from the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona. Then he stayed on for post-doc studies for a year. From 2009 to 2013, he carried on his post-doc studies at the California Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of Nanjing University in 2013.

He has successfully led many observation projects using space telescopes like Spitzer Space Telescope and Herschel Space Observatory, and those using multi-band, ground-based telescopes both at home and abroad. He published over 60 papers on Nature and its sub-journals and other international core journals in astronomy, including one on Nature for which he is the first author and independent corresponding author.

He has been invited to work as a reviewer for core international journals like Astrophysical Journal, Astrophysical Journal Letter, and Astronomy & Astrophysics and for comprehensive magazines like Science China. He has been an invited speaker and plenary speaker on major international scientific conferences. At present he is an associate editor of PASJ.