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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 AndrewsLanguages:
Chinese (Mandarin & Amoy) ; English; German(A1 level)Research Interests:
Galactic dynamics, MOdified Newtonian Dynamics, Cold Dark Matter, Numerical Simulations - method of Schwarzschild and N-bodyNewsletter 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