Contact:+86-25-8968-0861
Email:zzhang@nju.edu.cn
Personal introduction
Zhang Zhiyu is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing university. He was selected into the National Major Talents Program of China (A-level youth program) in 2019 and joined the faculty of Nanjing University afterwards.
CV:
Professor, Nanjing University, 2019-present
Post-doc, University of Edinburgh, 2014-2019
Post-doc, European Southern Observatory, 2014-2019
Ph.D., Purple Mountain Observatory, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2009-2014
M.Sc., Purple Mountain Observatory of CAS, 2005-2009
B.Sc., Department of Modern Physics, USTC, 1998-2003
Take Courses
Reading and Writing for Astronomical Literature (spring 2020)
Research Field
Interstellar medium, radio astronomy, star formation, and galaxy evolution
Scientific interests:
Radiative transfer between the Cosmic Microwave Background and cold dust and gas of galaxies in the early Universe.
Physical conditions of dense molecular gas using dense molecular gas (traced by CS, HCN, HCO+, high-J CO, etc.)
Element abundances measured from gas phase
Galactic chemical evolution
The stellar initial mass function
Astro-chemistry
Cosmic rays
Interaction between supernova remnants and molecular clouds
Galaxy outflows
Active galactic nuclei
Academic publications