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Xianyu Tan/ Tenure-track Fellow
Astronomy and Astrophysics Division
N554 xianyut@sjtu.edu.cn

Educational Background

  • 2006- 2010, University of Science and Technology of China , Bachelor
  • 2010- 2013, The University of Hong Kong , Master
  • 2013- 2018, The University of Arizona , Doctor

Work Experience

  • 2019-2022, University of Oxford, UK, Postdoctoral Researcher
  • 2023-2023, School of Physics and Astronomy, SJTU, Tenure-track Associate Professor
  • 2023-Now, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, SJTU, T. D. Lee Fellow

Research Interests

  • Exoplanetary atmospheres
  • Atmospheric dynamics of planets and brown dwarfs

Honorary Information

  • 2014-2017 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship of astrophysics

Representative Papers And Monographs

  • Tan, Xianyu. "Jet streams and tracer mixing in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and isolated young giant planets." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 511.4 (2022): 4861-4881.
  • Tan, Xianyu. "Weak Seasonality on Temperate Exoplanets around Low-mass Stars." The Astrophysical Journal 926.2 (2022): 202.
  • Tan, Xianyu, and Adam P. Showman. "Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: global and equatorial dynamics." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 502.2 (2021): 2198-2219.
  • Tan, Xianyu, Maxence Lefèvre, and Raymond T. Pierrehumbert. "Convection modeling of pure-steam atmospheres." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 923.1 (2021): L15.
  • Tan, Xianyu, and Thaddeus D. Komacek. "The atmospheric circulation of ultra-hot Jupiters." The Astrophysical Journal 886.1 (2019): 26.