Research:

Numerical Simulations

Galaxy Formation

Milky Way and Galactic Dynamics

Biographical Sketch:

2019.02 - Present  Professor, Astronomy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2009.09-2019.02   Researcher, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2005.09-2009.09   University of Texas at Austin, Harlan J Smith Independent Postdoctoral

1999.09-2005.09   Rutgers Univ., Ph.D. in Astrophysics

1998.09-1999.07   Master of Astrophysics, Northwestern University, USA

1993.09-1998.07   Bachelor of Space Physics, University of Science and Technology of China

Reward:
Excellent Instructor Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017)
Newton Advanced Fellow of the Royal Society (2016)
Excellent Youth of National Fund Committee (2013)
“Hundred Talents Program”of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2011)
Richard J. Plano Dissertation Prize, 2006, Rutgers University, USA (2006)

Selected Publications: 

1.Li, Z.-Y., & Shen, J.,  "Dissecting the Phase Space Snail Shell", 2019, arXiv:1904.03314

2.Sellwood, J. A., Shen, J., & Li, Z.,  "The global stability of M33: still a puzzle", 2019, MNRAS, in press, arXiv:1902.07222

3.Li, Z-Y, Shen, J., Bureau, M., Zhou, Y., Du, M, Debattista, V. P., "Shape of LOSVDs in Barred Disks: Implications for Future IFU Surveys", 2018, ApJ, 854, 65

4.Li, Z., Sellwood, J. A., Shen, J., "Rapid Formation of Black Holes in Galaxies: A Self-limiting Growth Mechanism", 2017, ApJ, 850, 67

5.Li, Z.-Y., & Shen, J., ”The Vertical X-shaped Structure in the Milky Way: Evidence from a Simple Boxy Bulge Model”, 2012, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 757, L7

6.Shen, J., Rich, R. M., Kormendy, J., Howard, C. D., De Propris, R., & Kunder, A., “Our Milky Way as a Pure-disk Galaxy — A Challenge for Galaxy Formation”, 2010, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 720, L72

7.Shen, J., & Gebhardt, K., ”The Supermassive Black Hole and Dark Matter Halo of NGC 4649 (M60)”, 2010, The Astrophysical Journal, 711, 484