Disk-regulated cluster dynamics, from AGN transients to gravitational-wave sources

I am a theoretical and computational astrophysicist and an Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (HKIAA) and the Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKU, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Nick Stone, and a Fellow at the Nevada Center for Astrophysics at UNLV, collaborating with Bing Zhang and Zhaohuan Zhu. I completed my PhD at Stony Brook University under Rosalba Perna.

I work on the fundamental dynamics of few-body gravitational systems in dense astrophysical environments. A particular focus is how stellar and compact-object populations evolve in AGN accretion disks, producing nuclear transients and gravitational-wave sources observable across the electromagnetic and gravitational-wave spectrum. I develop the open-source codes SpaceHub and VegasAfterglow for high-precision few-body integration and gamma-ray burst afterglow modeling.

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