VORTEX Variable Objects & Radio Transients in EXtreme media

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Meet the group Collaborating Students/Postdocs

Graduate Students

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程炜 Wei Cheng

Ph.D. student

Research interest

Wei Cheng is currently working on pulsar binary searches in the globular cluster Tarzan 5.

Hobbies

basketball and long-distance running

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Postdocs

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田俊 Jun Tian

Postdoctoral fellow

Research interest

Jun Tian is a postdoc specializing in the search for high-energy radio transients across both the image and time domains. Utilizing a global array of state-of-the-art radio telescopes, their research focuses on uncovering the underlying emission physics of fast radio bursts (FRBs) and neutron stars.

Hobbies

cycling and playing table tennis

Collaborating Students/Postdocs

Jaikhomba Singha

Postdoc, University of Cape town

2025-now

Pulsar binary magneto-environments with MeerKat.

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Nick Loudas

Grad student, Princeton University

2024-2025

Unveiling the Origin of Fast Radio Bursts by Modeling the Stellar Mass and Star Formation Distributions of Their Host Galaxies

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陆万锦 Wanjing Lu

Graduate student, NAOC

2024-2026

Inferring the Characteristic Scale of Magnetized FRB Environments from Multiple Propagation Diagnostics

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Suryarao Bethapudi

Graduate student then, MPIfR, in industry now

2022-2025

Constraining the origin of the long-term periodicity of FRB 20180916B with polarization.

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邵一轩 Yixuan Shao

Graduate student, Nanjing University

2024-2026

Diverse Intensity–Polarization Relations in Pulsar Single Pulses

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Research keywords: High-Energy Astrophysics, Neutron Stars, FRBs; Hobbies: He enjoys playing tennis and has a keen interest in insects.