Theoretical and Computational Astrophysicist at MIT
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
My research focuses on the formation & evolution of galaxies and the nature of dark matter. Several topics on my radar are:
The life of a Milky Way-mass galaxy
Copyright @Xuejian Shen
The Milky Way-mass galaxy in the Latte simulation
Copyright @FIRE collabration
Cosmic structure in the THESAN EoR simulations (CDM versus WDM)
Copyright @Xuejian Shen
A proto-cluster in the IllustrisTNG simulation (post-processed with SKIRT)
Copyright @Xuejian Shen
16 first/corresponding-author journal papers, see Publication for details.