Dr. Zhiwei Chen (陈智威)

Max-von-Laue Street, Riedberg, Frankfurt am Main.

I am currently a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP), Goethe University Frankfurt, working with Prof. Luciano Rezzolla.

I am also affiliated with the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), working with Prof.Jifeng Liu and Prof. Youjun Lu.

My research focuses on gravitational wave multi-messenger astrophysics, including the formation and evolution of compact-object populations, gravitational lensing of gravitational waves, and electromagnetic counterparts of compact binary merger. I have already published 11 first author papers in these fields.

My wechat number is czw987587834. Please feel free to contact me.

news

Feb 08, 2026	I moved to Frankfurt am Main and became a visiting postdoc at Group of Relativistic Astrophysics at ITP.
Aug 01, 2025	I became a postdoc at Group of Three-dimensional Structure of Milkway in NAOC, supervised by Prof. Jifeng Liu.
Jun 22, 2025	I received my PhD in GW astrophysics supervised by Prof. Youjun Lu from the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

selected publications

Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves from Astrophysical Sources: Theory, Detection, and Applications

Zhiwei Chen and Youjun Lu

Invited Review in RAA, Jun 2026

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Enhanced Localization of Dark Lensed Gravitational-wave Events Enables Host Galaxy Identification and Precise Cosmological Inference

Zhiwei Chen, Qingjuan Yu, Youjun Lu, and 1 more author

ApJ Letters, Nov 2025

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Constraining common envelope evolution in binary neutron star formation with combined galactic and gravitational-wave observations

Zhiwei Chen, Jihui Zhang, Youjun Lu, and 2 more authors

MNRAS Letter, Nov 2025

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Luminosity functions and detectability of binary neutron star merger-nova signals with various merger remnants

Zhiwei Chen, Youjun Lu, Hao Ma, and 1 more author

MNRAS, Dec 2025

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