I am a postdoctoral researcher in astrophysics at University of Oxford. Before this I was a SKA postdoc at University of the Western Cape. I received my PhD at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020. My research interests lie primarily in developing analysis tools and models to extract astrophysical and cosmological information from HI galaxy surveys in particular with MeerKAT and FAST telescopes.
Over the past few years, I have developed a few “Bayesian stacking” techniques (Pan et al. 2020;2021;2022) to measure the HI mass function (HIMF), Tully-Fisher (TF) relation and HI scaling relations for galaxies below the detection threshold of the radio survey, supplemented with multi-wavelength spectroscopic measurements. These techniques allow us to reach far lower-HI systems and the higher-z Universe than it is possible from direct detections. I have been involved with the MIGHTEE and LADUMA surveys which are two of eight large survey projects approved for observation with the MeerKAT telescope.
I’m also leading a project of studying the intergalactic (IGM) and circumgalactic (CGM) mediums that trace the matter flow from large-scale structures to galaxies with the world's largest single-dish radio telescope-FAST in combination with the high-resolution MeerKAT.