Research Experience
Postdoc, Department of Astronomy Shanghai, China
SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Nov 2021 - present
• Comparison of two formation mechanisms of barred spiral galaxies
Visiting scholar, Department of Astronomy Helsinki, Finland
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI April 2019 - May 2019
• The effect of AGN feedback on the quenching of the host galaxies
Education
PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics St Andrews, United Kingdom
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, SUPERVISOR: DR VIVIENNE WILD Oct 2021
• Thesis title: “Comparison of Simulated and Real Post-starburst Galaxies”
BSc in Astrophysics Hefei, China
UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA, SUPERVISOR: DR. XUFEN WU June 2017
• Thesis title: “The influence of the tidal force on galaxy shapes in Illustris Simulation”
Minor Degree in Computer Science and Technology Hefei, China
UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA June 2017
Galactic Dynamics, the formation and the dynamics of galaxy, barred spiral galaxy
Galaxy Formation and Evolution, the growth of the red sequence and the origin of galaxy bimodality, particularly galaxy quenching and its connection with supermassive black holes feedback
Simulations, numerical simulation, translating simulation outputs to mock observations, comparing simulated galaxies and observed ones
First author papers:
4. Zheng, Y., et al. in prep.,
Comparison of bar formation mechanisms II: does a tidally induced bar grow faster than an internally induced bar?
3. Zheng, Y. & Juntai S. 2024, Accepted by ApJ, arXiv:2412.04770,
Comparison of bar formation mechanisms I: does a tidally induced bar rotate slower than an internally induced bar?
2. Zheng, Y., Dave, R., Wild, V. and Montero, F.R., 2021, MNRAS, 513, 27,
Rapidly quenched galaxies in the Simba cosmological simulation and observations
1. Zheng, Y., Wild, V., Lahén, N., Johansson, P.H., Law, D., Weaver, J.R. and Jimenez, N., 2020, MNRAS, 498, 1259,
Comparison of stellar populations in simulated and real post-starburst galaxies in MaNGA
Co-author papers:
4. Leung, H., Wild, V., Papathomas, M., Carnall, A., Zheng, Y., Boardman, N., Wang, C., Johansson, P.H., 2024, MNRAS,528, 4029
3. Shen, J., Wu, X., Zheng, Y., Guo, B., 2024, ApJ, 961,46
2. Asari, N.V., Wild, V., de Amorim, A.L., Werle, A., Zheng, Y., Kennicutt, R., Johnson, B.D., Galametz, M., Pellegrini, E.W., Klessen, R.S. and Reissl, S., 2020, MNRAS, 498, 4205
1. Pawlik, M.M., Taj Aldeen, L., Wild, V., Mendez-Abreu, J., Lahén, N., Johansson, P.H., Jimenez, N., Lucas, W., Zheng, Y., Walcher, C.J. and Rowlands, K., 2018, MNRAS, 477, 1708
Supervision
• Second supervisor of MPhys project: Corey Pirie (2020-2021): Investigating the kinematic data of merging galaxies in simulations using the Radon Transform method
Tutor
• Marking tutorials, organizing discussions, answering questions, etc.
• Course: Galactic Dynamics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. (2022)
• Course: AS2001 Astronomy and Astrophysics 2, University of St Andrews, UK. (2020)
Demonstrator
• Helping students in astronomy labs, python programming, shell commands, git version control, etc.
• Course: AS2001 Astronomy and Astrophysics 2, University of St Andrews, UK. (2019)
• Course: AS1001 Astronomy and Astrophysics 1, University of St Andrews, UK. (2018 - 2019)
• Course: AS4010, Extragalactic Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK. (2018-2019)
• Workshop: Software Carpentry, University of St Andrews, UK. (March 2018)
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