Xuejian(Jacob) Shen
Theoretical and Computational Astrophysicist at MIT
About Me
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- I'm a member of the Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE), the THESAN, and the Lumina collaboration.
- In 2023, I received Ph.D. in Physics at California Institute of Technology, supervised by Prof. Philip F. Hopkins.
- In 2018, I received Bachelor's degree in Physics from Peking University.
Research
I am interested in a diverse array of questions regarding our Universe, with a special focus on the formation & evolution of galaxies and the nature of dark matter. Several topics on my radar are:
- Galaxy formation & evolution in the early universe
- Numerical simulations for cosmic structure formation on supercomputers
- The nature of dark matter in the context of galaxy formation
- Seeding, evolution & demography of supermassive black holes across cosmic time
Fly through a massive disky galaxy in the Lumina simulation
Copyright @Rongrong Liu & the Lumina collaboration
A multi-scale view of cosmic structures in the Lumina simulation
Copyright @Xuejian Shen
The Milky Way-mass galaxy in the Latte simulation
Copyright @FIRE collaboration
Cosmic structure in the THESAN-HR simulations (CDM versus WDM)
Copyright @Xuejian Shen
A proto-cluster in the IllustrisTNG simulation (post-processed with SKIRT)
Copyright @Xuejian Shen
Research Highlights
80+ publications
20+ first/corresponding-author journal papers, see Publication for details.
3000+ citations with h-index 30
First/corresponding-author citations 1200+