A Quick Sketch - Weichen Wang

I am currently a postdoc researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca. My research is focused on detecting the ambient cosmic gas around and away from galaxies in the distant Universe and characterizing the roles of such cosmic gas in the formation of galaxies. I use several major telescopes across the world for my research, the most noticeable among which are the JWST, VLT and Keck (see the JWST cycle-1 programs I am heavily involved in here and here). I work closely with Prof. Sebastiano Cantalupo and other members of the COSMIB group in Milan.

I defended my Ph.D. in astrophysics at the Johns Hopkins University in 2022. For my thesis, I studied the cool outflowing gas from galaxies (a.k.a. galactic winds) in the distant Universe. I worked with Dr. Susan Kassin at the Space Telescope Science Institute and Prof. Tim Heckman at Hopkins. I also collaborated with Prof. Sandy Faber and Prof. David Koo at University of California, Santa Cruz. Before going to Baltimore, I spent my college life at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where I worked at Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics with Prof. Shude Mao on gravitational lensing (Find a roasted duck here).

Milky Way and Andromeda at the Apache Point Observatory, New Mexico,
photo taken during the JHU student observation tour in 2016.