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Full name: Xufen Wu

Education:

09/2006-03/2010: Ph.D. in Astronomy, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK. Thesis topic: Galactic Dynamics in MOdified Newtonian Dynamics, supervisor: Dr. HongSheng Zhao.

09/2001-09/2005: B.Sc. in Astrophysics, Department of Astronomy and Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. Thesis topic: Cosmological Evolution of Fine Structure Constant, supervisor: Prof. Shouping Xiang.

Grants and Research Projects:

09/2006-08/2009: SUPA (Scottish Universities Physics Alliance) prize studentship for PhD.

02/2009-04/2009: HPC-Europa2 (High Performance Computing and Visualization) funded Transnational Access programme, of SARA Computing and Networking Services in Netherlands, (awarded 24,500 CPU hours on Huygens Supercomputer, Amsterdam)

Teaching Experiences:

05/2008: Tutorial in "Gravitational Dynamics" in University of St Andrews;

10/2007-12/2007: Lab Demonstrator in first year astro-lab "AS1001" in University of St Andrews

Languages: Chinese (Mandarin & Amoy) ; English; German(A1 level)

Research Interests: Galactic dynamics, MOdified Newtonian Dynamics, Cold Dark Matter, Numerical Simulations - method of Schwarzschild and N-body

Newsletter interview: HPC-Europa2 newsletter, on the project funded by HPC SARA, the Netherlands


A full CV can be download from : My CV (June 2011)

The full publications list is at : My publications