Xuening Bai

Biography

"Employment Faculty Member, Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University (IASTU) and Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics (THCA), 2017.8- ITC Associate and Lecturer, Harvard College Observatory, 2015.8-2017.7 Hubble Fellow, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 2012.9-2015.7 Education 2012.8 Ph.D. Astrophysics, Princeton University (with Prof. James M. Stone) 2007.7 B.S. Mathematics and Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Selected Honors and Awards 2012.2 Hubble Fellowship & ITC (Harvard) Fellowship (5 years total) 2012.2 Miller & TAC (Berkeley) Fellowships (5 years total, declined) 2011.9-2012.8 Charlotte E. Procter Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University 2010.4 Young Scientist Award, at the 1st Sant Cugat forum in Astrophysics 2009.9-2012.8 The NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowhip (NESSF) 2007.9-2008.8 G. Wallace Ruckert ’30 Fellowship, Princeton University 2007.7 Graduate with Distinguished Honor, Tsinghua University 2007.7 Chi-Sun YEH Award, Tsinghua University 2007.7 Distinguished Senior Thesis, Tsinghua University 2003-2006 First-class scholarship (every year), Tsinghua University Xuening Bai 2 Professional Activities & Service Panelist/Reviewer at NSF, NASA ATP/EW/XRP, NESSF (since 2013) Referee for Nature, Science Advances, ApJ, ApJL, MNRAS, A&A, RAA and ApSS (since 2010) Organizer of the ITC Pizza Lunch series at Harvard CfA on Magnetic Fields and Turbulence in Astrophysics (2015 Spring, with B. Burkhart & A. Pillepich) Co-organized the Spring School on Protoplanetary Disks and Planet Formation (with Doug Lin and Dong Lai) at Tsinghua University, Beijing (2014.5) Teaching 2017.7 Lecturer, Astrophysics Summer School for College Students, Tsinghua University 2016.1-5 Co-Instructor, Astronomy 253 - Plasma Astrophysics, Harvard University 2014.5 Lecturer, Spring School on Protoplanetary Disks and Planet Formation at Tsinghua University, Beijing 2011.2-5 TA and guest lecturer, AST 204 - Topics in Modern Astronomy, Princeton Univ "

Research Interest

"Planet formation: gas dynamics, chemistry and evolution of protoplanetary disks, dust dynamics and transport, planetesimal formation, core accretion, planet-disk interaction Plasma astrophysics: accretion disks, magnetized disk winds, pulsar physics, particle acceleration in collisionless shocks, cosmic-ray transport Computational astrophysics: magnetohydrodynamics, particle-in-cell methods"