Faculty

KIAA & DoA Faculty

Xian Chen (陈弦)


Associate Professor
Office: 305
xian.chen@pku.edu.cn
Research interests: Dynamics and radiation processes in the vicinity of black holes, Galactic Center dynamics, gravitational-wave astrophysics.

Subo Dong (东苏勃)


Professor
Office: 306
dongsubo@pku.edu.cn
Research interests: extrasolar planets, supernovae, gravitational microlensing, dynamics, time-domain astronomy

Gregory J. Herczeg


Associate Director of Science, Professor
Office: 204
gherczeg1@gmail.com
Research interests: Star and planet formation; Protoplanetary disks; pre-main-sequence stellar evolution

Luis C. Ho (何子山)


Director, University Chair Professor
Office: 207
lho.pku[at]gmail.com
Research interests: processes in galactic nuclei, accretion disks and jets, massive black holes

Kohei Inayoshi


Assistant Professor
Office: 203
inayoshi0328@gmail.com
Research interests: Black hole formation and evolution, gravitational waves

Fangzhou Jiang (姜方周)


Assistant Professor
Office: 213
fangzhou.jiang@gmail.com
Research interests: theory of galaxy formation and evolution, dark matter, galaxy-dark-matter-halo interaction, cosmology

Linhua Jiang (江林华)


Professor
Office: 206
jiangKIAA[at]pku.edu.cn
Research interests: Extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology, high-redshift quasars and supermassive black holes

Kejia Lee (李柯伽)


Professor
Office: DoA2921
kjlee007[at]gmail.com
Research interests: pulsars, gravitational waves

Li-Xin Li (李立新)


Professor
Office: 104
lxl[at]pku.edu.cn
Research interests: High energy astrophysics, cosmology, general relativity

Zhuo Li (黎卓)


Associate Chair of Dept. of Astronomy, Bairen Research Professor
Office: 108
zhuo.li[at]pku.edu.cn
Research interests: gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, relativistic collisionless shocks

Fukun Liu (刘富坤)


Professor
Office: DoA2909
fkliu[at]pku.edu.cn
Research interests: supermassive black hole binaries, accretion disks and active galactic nuclei

Yingjie Peng (彭影杰)


Professor
Office: 214
yjpeng[at]pku.edu.cn
Research interests: observational cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution

Lijing Shao (邵立晶)


Associate Professor
Office: 217
lshao@pku.edu.cn
Research interests: gravitational waves, pulsar astronomy, new physics beyond the standard model

Jing Wang (王菁)


Associate Professor
Office: 216
jwang_astro[at]pku.edu.cn
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution

Ke Wang (王科)


Assistant Professor
Office: 219
kwang.astro[at]pku.edu.cn
Research interests: Star formation, interstellar medium, radio interferometry

Lile Wang(王力乐)


Assistant Professor
Office: 301
lilew@pku.edu.cn
Research interests: numerical simulations in astrophysics

Ran Wang (王然)


Associate Professor
Office: 304
rwangkiaa@pku.edu.cn
Research interests: formation and co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies in the early universe

Xue-Bing Wu (吴学兵)


Associate Director of Administration, Chair of Dept. of Astronomy, Professor
Office: 209
wuxb[at]pku.edu.cn
Research interests: quasars and active galactic nuclei, supermassive black holes, accretion physics, X-ray binaries

Renxin Xu (徐仁新)


Professor
Office: DoA2912
r.x.xu[at]pku.edu.cn
Research interests: particle astrophysics, pulsars, quark stars, neutron stars

Huawei Zhang (张华伟)


Associate Chair of Dept. of Astronomy, Associate Professor
Office: 202
zhanghw[at]pku.edu.cn
Research interests: Stellar Chemical Abundance, NLTE Abundance Analysis, Galactic Archaeology, Galactic Structure and Chemical Evolution, Star Formation

Qingjuan Yu (于清娟)


Professor
Office: 106
yuqj[at]pku.edu.cn
Research interests: Black hole physics. Planetary and stellar dynamics. Galaxy formation and evolution, galactic nuclei

Joint Faculty

Pau Amaro-Seoane


Visiting Faculty
pau@ice.cat
Research interests: stellar dynamics, LIGO/Virgo/LISA black holes, data analysis and gravitational-wave search algorithms, planetesimal dynamics, scalar fields and collisional dark matter, and GPU computing

Claudio Ricci


Visiting Faculty
claudio.ricci.astro@gmail.com
Research interests: AGN

Rainer Spurzem


Adjunct Professor; joint appointment with the NAOC
Office: 213
spurzem[at]bao.ac.cn
Research interests: modelling dense stellar systems, galactic nuclei with black holes, relativistic dynamics, N-body simulations, parallel many-core and accelerated computing

Feng Yuan (袁峰)


Adjunct Professor; joint appointment with SHAO
fyuan[at]shao.ac.cn
Research interests: accretion and outflow; active galactic nuclei; black holes; galaxy formation and evolution; X-ray binaries

Hu Zhan (詹虎)


Adjunct Professor; Hundred Talent Program; joint appointment with the NAOC
zhanhu[at]nao.cas.cn
Research interests: Cosmology, dark matter, dark energy, large-scale structure, survey science

Emeritus Faculty

Jiansheng Chen (陈建生)


Coordinator, Professor
chenbac@nao.cas.cn
Research interests: wide-field astronomy, quasar surveys, large-scale structure of the universe, galaxy formation and evolution

Former Faculty

Zuhui Fan (范祖辉)


Professor; joint appointment with the Dept. of Astronomy (2006-2018)
Research interests: cosmology, gravitational lensing, cluster of galaxies, galactic dynamics

Richard de Grijs (何锐思)


Professor(2009-2018)
Research interests: young massive star clusters, Internal star cluster dynamics

M.B.N. (Thijs) Kouwenhoven (柯文采)


Bairen Research Professor(2009-2017)
Research interests: formation and evolution of binary and multiple stellar systems, dynamics of planetary systems, star formation, N-body simulations, the initial mass function

Douglas N. C. Lin (林潮)


Director Emeritus(2006-2012)
Research interests: formation, structure and evolution of planets, dynamics of planetary systems, protoplanetary disk

Xiaowei Liu (刘晓为)


Professor; joint appointment with the Dept. of Astronomy(2006-2017)
Research interests: wide-field astronomy, spectroscopy, Galactic archeology and near-field cosmology, interstellar medium, atomic and molecular processes, radiation mechanisms

Eric Peng (彭逸西)


Associate Professor
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, stellar populations, galaxy dynamics, globular cluster systems

Martin C. Smith


Bairen Research Professor(2009-2011)
Research interests: Galaxy formation/evolution, in particular the structure and evolution of the Milky Way; data mining with photometric/spectroscopic surveys; variable stars and gravitational microlensing.

Huirong Yan (闫慧荣)


Bairen Research Professor(2009-2015)
Research interests: cosmic ray physics, ISM theories, astrophysical magnetic field, turbulence, dust dynamics, supernovae, cluster of galaxies, GRBs, accretion disk

Marcel Zemp


Bairen Research Professor(2011-2014)
Research interests: cosmological structure formation, dark matter, dark energy, N-body techniques, dynamics, and black holes