About
2016.11 -- Now: Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) Research Professor
Since 2019.01: SHAO's "Early Universe and High-redshift Galaxies" Group Group Leader
Since 2020.02: SHAO's Division of Science and Technology for Optical Astronomy Vice Director
2014.10 -- 2016.11 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (Chile) CAS-CONICYT Postdoctoral Fellow
2012.09 -- 2014.10 Arizona State University (USA) SESE Postdoctoral Fellow
2012.06 University of Science and Technology of China Ph.D.
2006.06 University of Science and Technology of China B.S.
Research Areas
His main research interests include distant galaxies in the early Universe, the epoch of cosmic reionization, super massive black holes and observational technologies in frontiers of the optical astronomy.
Scientific Research
Selected Publication
(1) Zheng Zhen-Ya; Wang Junxian; Rhoads James; Infante Leopoldo; Malhotra Sangeeta; Hu Weida; Walker Alistair R; Jiang Linhua; Jiang Chunyan; Hibon Pascale; Gonzalez Alicia; Kong Xu; Zheng XianZhong; Galaz Gaspar; Felipe Barrientos L; First Results from the Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) Survey: Cosmological Reionization at z similar to 7 , Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017, 842(2): 0-L22. (期刊论文)
(2) Zheng, Zhen-Ya; Rhoads, James E; Wang, Jun-Xian; Malhotra, Sangeeta; Walker, Alistair; Mooney, Thomas; Jiang, Chunyan; Hu, Weida; Hibon, Pascale; Jiang, Linhua; Infante, Leopoldo; Barrientos, L Felipe; Galaz, Gaspar; Valdes, Francisco; Wester, William; Yang, Huan; Coughlin, Alicia; Harish, Santosh; Kang, Wenyong; Khostovan, Ali Ahmad; Kong, Xu; Perez, Lucia A; Pharo, John; Wold, Isak; Zheng, XianZhong; Design for the First Narrowband Filter for the Dark Energy Camera: Optimizing the LAGER Survey for z similar to 7 Galaxies , Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2019, 131(1001): 0-074502. (期刊论文)
(3) Zheng Zhen-Ya; Malhotra Sangeeta; Rhoads James E; Finkelstein Steven L; Wang Jun-Xian; Jiang Chunyan; Cai Zheng; Ly alpha EMITTER GALAXIES AT z similar to 2.8 IN THE EXTENDED CHANDRA DEEP FIELD SOUTH. I. TRACING THE LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE VIA Ly alpha IMAGING , Astrophysical Journal, The Supplement Series, 2016, 226(2): 0-23. (期刊论文)
(4) Zheng Zhen-Ya; Wang Jun-Xian; Malhotra Sangeeta; Rhoads James E.; Finkelstein Steven L.; Finkelstein Keely; Ly equivalent width distribution of Ly emitting galaxies at redshift z ？ 4.5, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, 439: 1101-1109. (期刊论文)
(5) Zheng Zhen-Ya; Butler Nathaniel R.; Shen Yue; Jiang Linhua; Wang Jun-Xian; Chen Xian; Cuadra Jorge; SDSS J0159+0105: A Radio-Quiet Quasar with a Centi-Parsec Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidate, Astrophysical Journal, 2016, 827: 0-56. (期刊论文)
