Research ：

Cosmology

Galaxy Groups and Clusters

Galaxy Formation

Time-domain, Stars, and Planets

Main experience：

2017 to present: Special Researcher, Shanghai Jiaotong University
2016-2017: Postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University
2013-2016: Postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, USA
2008-2013: Ph.D., Ohio State University, USA
 
Research interest：
Large-scale structure of the universe
Accelerated expansion and dark energy of the universe
Formation and evolution of galaxies
Dynamics and weak gravitational lens effects of clusters
Quasar light changes and supermassive black holes
 
 
Main research project：
  My main research goal is to reveal the mystery behind the evolution of the galaxy and the accelerated expansion of the universe. In the next few years after joining the Astronomy at Shanghai Jiaotong University, my research team will fully participate in the current international large-scale galaxy survey projects, including the Dark Energy Spectral Sky Survey (DESI; USA), the main focus spectrometer project (PFS; Japan), as well as the large integrated survey telescope metering program (LSST; USA), and uses cosmological structure formation theory and statistical models of galaxies to interpret and analyze these latest survey data.

Recent major research papers：
1.Y. Zu, R. Mandelbaum, M. Simet, E. Rozo, and E. S. Ryko. On the Level of Cluster Assembly Bias in SDSS. MNRAS, 470, 551, 2017.
2.Y. Zu and R. Mandelbaum. Mapping stellar content to dark matter halos - III.Environmental dependence and conformity of galaxy colours, arXiv:1703.09219, MNRAS accepted, 2017.
3.R. Mandelbaum, W. Wang, Y. Zu, S. White, B. Henriques, and S. More. Strong bimodality in the host halo mass of central galaxies from galaxy-galaxy lensing. MNRAS, 457, 2016.
4.Y. Zu and R. Mandelbaum. Mapping stellar content to dark matter haloes - II. Halo mass is the main driver of galaxy quenching. MNRAS, 457:4360–4383, 2016.
5.Y. Zu, C. S. Kochanek, S. Kozłowski, and B. M. Peterson. Application of Stochastic Modeling to Analysis of Photometric Reverberation Mapping Data. ApJ, 819:122, 2016.
 
My research team is recruiting undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers.
If you are: 1) Undergraduate students interested in astrophysics and cosmology, and wish to pursue a master's or doctoral degree;
              Or 2) Ph.D. students who are about to graduate, and are interested in my research direction and postdoctoral position at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
 Please contact me by email.