CV

This is the CV of Dr. Zhiwei Chen. 中文版本请点击右上角PDF预览。

Contact Information

Name Zhiwei Chen
Email chenzhiwei171@mails.ucas.ac.cn

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Frankfurt, Germany

    Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher
    Goethe University Frankfurt
    Visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, supervised by Prof. Luciano Rezzolla.
    • Relativistic astrophysics
    • Binary neutron-star merger remnants
    • Numerical relativity
  • 2025 - present

    Beijing, China

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Postdoctoral researcher working with Prof. Jifeng Liu and Prof. Youjun Lu.
    • Gravitational-wave astrophysics
    • Compact binary populations
    • Multi-messenger astronomy

Education

  • 2021 - 2025

    Beijing, China

    PhD
    National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Astrophysics
    • Supervisor: Prof. Youjun Lu
    • Outstanding Graduate of Beijing, 2025
    • Zhuliyuehua Scholarship, 2024
  • 2017 - 2021

    Beijing, China

    Bachelor
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Astronomy and Physics
    • Outstanding Graduate of Beijing, 2021
    • National Scholarship
    • First Prize Scholarship

Teaching

Introduction to Modern Astrophysics: Teaching Assistant, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Spring 2025. Course coordinated by Prof. Youjun Lu and collaborators.
Advanced Astronomy: Teaching Assistant, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fall 2021. Course coordinated by Prof. Jifeng Liu and collaborators.

Research Interests

  • Gravitational-wave astrophysics and multi-messenger astronomy
  • Binary neutron-star mergers and remnant stability
  • Numerical relativity and relativistic stellar equilibria
  • Strong gravitational lensing of gravitational waves
  • Compact-binary populations and merger-rate studies
  • Short gamma-ray bursts, extended emission, and merger-novae
  • Tidal disruption events

Invited and Contributed Talks

The First Altay Time-Domain Astronomy Workshop: Invited Talk, Altay, China, August 2023. “On the Lensed TDE and BNS Merger-Nova Luminosity Function.”
Annual Meeting of the Division of Gravitation and Relativistic Astrophysics, Chinese Physical Society: Best Student Talk, Chongqing, China, May 2023. “Constraining the Origin of Stellar Binary Black Hole Mergers by Detections of Their Lensed Host Galaxies and Gravitational-Wave Signals.”
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics Conference 2021: Hefei, China, June 2021.

Awards

  • 2025

    Beijing Municipal Commission of Education

  • 2024

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • 2023

    Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China

  • 2022

    Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • 2021

    Beijing Municipal Commission of Education

  • 2019

    Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China