Feng Yuan, Professor, Director
Education:
1987-1991: Physics department, Shandong University
1991-1994: Institute for theoretical chemistry, Shandong University
1994-1997: Center for Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China
Academic Appointments:
1997-1998: Lecturer, Department of Physics, Nanjing Normal University
1998-2000: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University
2000-2002: Postdoctoral researcher, Max-Planck Institute of Radio Astronomy
2002-2003: Postdoctoral researcher, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
2003-2005: Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Physics, Purdue University
2005-2023: Professor, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2018-2022: Deputy Director, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2015-2019, 2022-2023: Director, Key laboratory of galaxy and cosmology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2024-present: Professor, Department of Physics, Fudan University
2024-present: Director, Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fudan University
Research Interests:
Black hole accretion; active galactic nuclei; galaxy formation and evolution; computational astrophysics.
Selected Publications:
I have published over 190 peer-reviewed papers in major astrophysical journals, with a total of 20,000 citations. Some selected publications:
Lin, X.; Yuan, F., Revisiting flares in Sagittarius A* based on general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic numerical simulations of black hole accretion, 2024, MNRAS, 531, 3136
Yang, H.,; Yuan, F.; Li, H.; Mizuno, Y.; Guo, F.; Lu, R.; Ho, L. C.; Lin, X.; Zdziarski, A.A.; Wang, J., Modeling the inner part of M87 jet: confronting jet morphology with theory, 2024, Science Advances, 10, eadn3544
Zhu, B.; Yuan, F.; Ji, S.; Peng, Y.; Ho, L.C.; Ostriker, J.P.; Ciotti, L., Active galactic nuclei feedback in an elliptical galaxy (III): the impacts and fate of cosmological inflow, 2023, MNRAS, 524, 5787
Čemeljić, Miljenko; Yang, Hai; Yuan, Feng; Shang, Hsien, Formation of Episodic Jets and Associated Flares from Black Hole Accretion Systems, 2022, ApJ, 933, 55.
Shi, Fangzheng; Li, Zhiyuan; Yuan, Feng; Zhu, Bocheng, An energetic hot wind from the low-luminosity active galactic nucleus M81*, 2021, Nat. Ast. 5, 928.
Yuan, F., Yoon, D., Li, Y., Gan, Z., Ho, L. & Guo, F. Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback in an Elliptical Galaxy with the Most Updated AGN Physics (I): Low-angular Momentum Case, 2018, ApJ, 857, 121.
Yuan, F., Gan, Z.M., Narayan, R., Sadowski, A.，Bu, D., & Bai, X.-N. Numerical Simulation of Hot Accretion Flows (III): Revisiting wind properties using trajectory approach, 2015, ApJ, 804, 101.
Yuan, F., Narayan, R. Hot Accretion Flows Around Black holes, 2014, ARA&A, 52，529.
Yuan, F., Bu, D., & Wu, M. Numerical Simulation of Hot Accretion Flows (II): Nature, Origin, and Properties of Outflow and Their Possible Observational Applications, 2012, ApJ, 761, 130.
Yuan, F., Lin, J., Wu, K., & Ho, L. A Magnetohydrodynamical Model for the Formation of Episodic Jets, 2009, MNRAS, 395, 2183.
Yuan, F., Quataert, E., & Narayan, R. Nonthermal Electrons in Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow Models of Sagittarius A*, 2003, ApJ, 598, 301.