Curriculum Vitae
Education
2021-Present
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
PhD Student in Astronomy & Astrophysics
2017-2021
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
BSc in Astronomy, with highest honor Guo Moruo Scholarship
Thesis: Observational constraints on the evolution of nearby galaxies from IFU spectroscopy
First-Author Publication
2. Unveiling the Formation of NGC 2915 with MUSE: A Counterrotating Stellar Disk Embedded in a Disordered Gaseous Environment
Yimeng Tang, Bojun Tao, Hong-Xin Zhang, et al. 2022, A&A, 668, 179T
1. New Constraints on the Origin of Surface Brightness Profile Breaks of Disk Galaxies from MaNGA
Yimeng Tang, Qianhui Chen, Hong-Xin Zhang, et al. 2020, ApJ, 897, 79T
Approved Telescope Proposals
3. Keck: Unravelling the origins of cluster ultra-diffuse galaxies
Co-I, DEIMOS, 1 nights, 2023A (PI: Aaron Romanowsky)
2. Keck: Unravelling the origins of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Perseus cluster
Co-I, DEIMOS, 3 nights, 2022B (PI: Jean Brodie)
1. HST: A trail of dark matter-free galaxies in the NGC1052 group
Co-I, ACS, 15 orbits, Cycle 29 (PI: Pieter van Dokkum)
References
Aaron Romanowsky (UCO/SJSU) aaron.romanowsky@sjsu.edu
Sandra Faber (UC Santa Cruz) faber@ucolick.org
David Koo (UC Santa Cruz) koo@ucolick.org
Xu Kong (USTC) xkong@ustc.edu.cn
Hong-Xin Zhang (USTC) hzhang18@ustc.edu.cn
Selected Awards & Honors
2021 Outstanding Graduate of General Colleges and Universities in Anhui Province
2021 Outstanding Graduate of USTC
2021 USTC Undergraduate Honorary Rank
2020 Guo Moruo Scholarship
2020 National Scholarship
2019 Outstanding Student Scholarship (Gold Prize), USTC
2018 National Scholarship
2017 Outstanding Graduate of Suzhou High School of Jiangsu Province
Teaching
3. Practical Programming for the Science (UCSC, ASTR 19), TA, 2022 Spring
2. Astronomical Labs (USTC, ASTR 170), TA, 2020 Fall
1. Observational Astronomy (USTC, ASTR 167), TA, 2020 Spring