Yu-Ying Zhang

Curriculum Vitae

• Education
• Current position
• Past position
• Personal Grants
• Research interests and selected ongoing projects
• Publications
• Teaching experience
• Research visiting
• Selected conferences and presentations
• Accepted space telescope time as Principal Investigator
• Accepted large ground telescope time as Principal Investigator

• Education

  • Ph.D. in 2005
    Thesis: The Structure of Galaxy Clusters and their Intracluster Medium as Observed with XMM-Newton
    Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Garching, Germany
    Physics department, Ludwid-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU), Muenchen, Germany

  • M.Sc. in 2002
    Thesis: X-ray and SZ Properties of Galxy Clusters and Their Cosmological Applications
    National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), Beijing, China
    Astrophysical Center, Peking University, Beijing, China

  • B.Sc. in 2000
    Thesis: Measuring metal abundance of red giant stars in globular clusters
    National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), Beijing, China
    School of Physical Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia University, Inner Mongolia, China

  
  

• Current position

  • Research scientist at the Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie (AIfA), University of Bonn, Germany (since Sep 2007).

  
  

• Past position

  • Research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Garching, Germany (Sep 2005 - Aug 2007).

  
  

• Personal Grants

• Research interests and selected ongoing projects

• Publications

• Teaching experience

  • List of courses and student seminars.

  
  

• Research visiting

  • National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Aug 2012).

  • University Observatory Munich (Oct 2011).

  • Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik (Oct 2011).

  • Tsinghua University (Jun 2011).

  • National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (May-Jun 2011).

  • Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik (Nov 2010).

  • Institute of High Energy Physcis, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Oct 2010).

  • National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Oct 2010).

  • Department of Physics, Tokyo University of Science (Jul 2010).

  • Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik (Jan 2010).

  • Department of Physics, Tohoku University (Mar 2009).

  • Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik (Aug 2008).

  • Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago (Jun 2008).

  • Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, University of Bonn (Aug 2007).

  • Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, University of Bonn (Feb 2007).

  • School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham (Sep 2006).

  • Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie, University of Bonn (Jun 2006).

  • Institute of High Energy Physcis, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nov 2005).

  • National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Oct-Nov 2005).

  • Joint Center for Astrophysics, Maryland University (Feb 2005).

  • National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Aug 2003).

  • National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Aug 2002).

  • National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Jan-Aug 2000).

• Selected conferences and presentations

  
  

• Accepted space telescope observing time as Principal Investigator

  • XMM-Newton, 2005, Proposal ID: 040222, 36 ksec
    "Completing multi-wavelength studies of the REFLEX-DXL sample"
    

  • XMM-Newton, 2008, Proposal ID: 060500, 171 ksec
    "LoCuSS: A Joint XMM-Newton Subaru Study of Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations"
    

  • XMM-Newton, 2009, Proposal ID: 065201, 134 ksec
    "LoCuSS: completing a volume limited sample of massive clusters with XMM-Subaru"
    

  • XMM-Newton, 2010, Proposal ID: 067385, 650 ksec
    "XMM-Subaru:Complete High Precision Study of Galaxy Clusters for Modern Cosmology"
    

  • XMM-Newton, 2011, Proposal ID: 069301, 382 ksec
    "XMM-Subaru:Complete High Precision Study of Galaxy Clusters for Modern Cosmology"
    

  • XMM-Newton, 2012, Proposal ID: 072189, 109 ksec
    "Complete High Precision Study of Galaxy Clusters for Modern Cosmology"
    

• Accepted large ground telescope observing time as Principal Investigator

  • VLT/VIMOS, 2010, Proposal ID: 087.A-0096, 3.5 hs imaging and 22.5 hr spectroscopy
    "Origin of the scatter of the L-sigma relation of galaxy clusters"

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