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 |
| chenzhiwei171@mails.ucas.ac.cn |
Experience
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2025 Beijing Municipal Commission of Education
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2024 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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2023 Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
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2022 Chinese Academy of Sciences
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2021 Beijing Municipal Commission of Education
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2019 Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China