Xuening Bai ()

Institute for Advanced Study (IASTU) and
Department of Astronomy (DoA)
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Office: 312 Science Hall (IASTU);
      E316 Physics Building (DoA)
Phone: (+86) 10-6278-9981 (IASTU)
Email: xbai (at) tsinghua.edu.cn

Welcome to my homepage! I am a professor at Institute for Advanced Study at Tsinghua University (IASTU), and an adjunct professor at Department of Astronomy (DoA). I obtained my BS in physics and mathematics from Tsinghua University in 2007, PhD from Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University in August 2012, followed by a Hubble Fellow and ITC Research Associate at Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I joined the faculty at IASTU in 2017, and became a full professor in 2023.

Research Interests:

I am a theoretical and computational astrophysicist. My research interests include:
  • Planet formation: gas and dust dynamics in protoplanetary disks, planetesimal formation, planet-disk interaction
  • Plasma astrophysics: accretion disks, magnetized disk winds, pulsar physics, cosmic-ray acceleration, transport and feedback
  • Computational astrophysics: magnetohydrodynamics, particle-in-cell methods
 Research overview

Research group

Publications: on NASA ADS and Google Scholar.

Check out my recent review article on Angular Momentum Transport in Protoplanetary Disks

Teaching:

Here you can find some courses I currently teach or have taught and lectures I have given in the past few years.

Computational Astrophysics (Tsinghua, 2026 Fall)
Plasma Astrophysics (Tsinghua, 2026 Spring)
Statistics and Numerical Methods (Tsinghua, 2019-2024 Fall)
Special Topics in Observational/Theoretical Astrophysics (Tsinghua, 2018 Fall and 2019 Spring)

Computational Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (SHAO, 2018 Winter)
Plasma Astrophysics (Harvard, 2016 Spring)
Lectures on planet formation (Tsinghua, 2014 Spring and 2017 Summer)