Xianzhong Zheng/ Senior Scientist of JUST
Astronomy and Astrophysics Division
N572 xzzheng AT sjtu.edu.cn

Educational Background

  • 1999- 2002, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS , Doctor
  • 1993- 1997, Xinjiang University , Bachelor

Work Experience

  • 2024-Now, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, SJTU, Senior Scientist
  • 2016-2024, Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS, Chief Scientist of Research group on galaxy formation and wide-field surveys
  • 2017-2018, University of Chile, Visiting Senior Researcher
  • 2007-2015, Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS, Scientist
  • 2004-2007, Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany, Postdoc
  • 2003-2004, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon , France, Postdoc
  • 2002-2002, National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Assistant Scientist

Research Interests

  • Galaxy structure, formation and evolution
  • Galaxy protoclusters at high redshifts
  • The scaling relations of galaxies

Honorary Distinctions

  • the hundred talents program
  • Deputy Chief Designer of the wide-field survey telescope (WFST)

Representative Papers And Monographs

  • Qin, J., Zheng, X. Z., Wuyts, S., Lyu, Z., Qiao, M., Huang, J.-S., Liu, F.S., Katsianis, A., Gonzalez, V., Bian, F., Xu, H., Pan, Z., Liu, W., Tan, Q.-H., An, F.X., Shi, D.D., Zhang, Y., Wen, R., Liu, S. & Yang, C., Understanding the Universal Dust Attenuation Scaling Relation of Star-Forming Galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024, 528, 658
  • Shi, D.D., Wang, X., Zheng, X. Z., Cai, Z., Fan, X., Bian, F. & Teplitz, H. I., The Emergence of a Brightest Cluster Galaxy in a Protocluster Core at z=2.24, The Astrophysical Journal, 2024, 963, 21
  • Liu, S., Zheng, X. Z., Shi, D. D., Cai, Z., Fan, X., Wang, X., Yuan, Q., Xu, H., Pan, Z., Liu, W., Qin, J., Zhang, Y. & Wen, R., What boost galaxy mergers in two massive galaxy protoclusters at z = 2.24?, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023, 523, 2422
  • Wang, T., Liu, G., Cai, Z., Geng, J., Fang, M., He, H., Jiang, J.-. an ., Jiang, N., Kong, X., Li, B., Li, Y., Luo, W., Pan, Z., Wu, X., Yang, J., Yu, J., Zheng, X. Z., Zhu, Q., Cai, Y.-F., Chen, Y., Chen, Z., Dai, Z., Fan, L., Fan, Y., Fang, W., He, Z., Hu, L., Hu, M., Jin, Z., Jiang, Z., Li, G., Li, F., Li, X., Liang, R., Lin, Z., Liu, Q., Liu, W., Liu, Z., Liu, W., Liu, Y., Lou, Z., Qu, H., Sheng, Z., Shi, J., Shu, Y., Su, Z., Sun, T., Wang, H., Wang, H., Wang, J., Wang, J., Wei, D., Wei, J., Xue, Y., Yan, J., Yang, C., Yuan, Y., Yuan, Y., Zhang, H., Zhang, M., Zhao, H. & Zhao, W., Science with the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST), Science China Physics, Mechanics, and Astronomy, 2023, 66, 109512
  • Zhang, Y., Zheng, X. Z., Shi, D. D., Gao, Y., Dannerbauer, H., An, F. X., Shu, X., Gao, Z.-K., Wang, W.-H., Wang, X., Cai, Z., Fan, X., Fang, M., Pan, Z., Liu, W., Tan, Q., Qin, J., Ren, J., Qiao, M., Wen, R. & Liu, S., Submillimetre galaxies in two massive protoclusters at z = 2.24: witnessing the enrichment of extreme starbursts in the outskirts of HAE density peaks, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, 512, 4893
  • Qin, J., Zheng, X. Z., Fang, M., Pan, Z., Wuyts, S., Shi, Y., Peng, Y., Gonzalez, V., Bian, F., Huang, J.-S., Gu, Q.-S., Liu, W., Tan, Q., Shi, D. D., Ren, J., Zhang, Y., Qiao, M., Wen, R. & Liu, S., Systematic biases in determining dust attenuation curves through galaxy SED fitting, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, 511, 765
  • Zheng, X. Z., Cai, Z., An, F. X., Fan, X. & Shi, D. D., MAMMOTH: confirmation of two mas- sive galaxy overdensities at z = 2.24 with H emitters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021, 500, 4354
  • Ren, J., Zheng, X. Z., Valls-Gabaud, D., Duc, P.-A., Bell, E. F., Pan, Z., Qin, J., Shi, D. D., Qiao, M., He, Y. & Wen, R., Long tidal tails in merging galaxies and their implications, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020, 499, 3399
  • Qin, J., Zheng, X. Z., Wuyts, S., Pan, Z. & Ren, J., Understanding the Discrepancy between IRX and Balmer Decrement in Tracing Galaxy Dust Attenuation, The Astrophysical Journal, 2019, 886, 28
  • Qin, J., Zheng, X. Z., Wuyts, S., Pan, Z. & Ren, J., A universal relation of dust obscuration across cosmic time, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019, 485, 5733
  • Shi, D. D., Zheng, X. Z., Zhao, H. B., Pan, Z. Z., Li, B., Zou, H., Zhou, X., Guo, K., An, F. X. & Li, Y. B., Deep Imaging of the HCG 95 Field. I. Ultra-diffuse Galaxies, The Astrophysical Journal, 2017, 846, 26
  • Guo, K., Zheng, X. Z. & Fu, H., The Intrinsic Scatter along the Main Sequence of Star-forming Galaxies at z~0.7, The Astrophysical Journal, 2013, 778, 23
  • Zheng, X. Z., Bell, E. F., Somerville, R. S., Rix, H.-W., Jahnke, K., Fontanot, F., Rieke, G. H., Schiminovich, D. & Meisenheimer, K., Observational Constraints on the Co-Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies, The Astrophysical Journal, 2009, 707, 1566
  • Zheng, X. Z., Bell, E. F., Papovich, C., Wolf, C., Meisenheimer, K., Rix, H.-W., Rieke, G. H. & Somerville, R., The Dependence of Star Formation on Galaxy Stellar Mass, The Astrophysical Journal, 2007, 661, L41
  • Zheng, X. Z., Hammer, F., Flores, H., Ass ́emat, F. & Pelat, D., HST/WFPC2 morphologies and color maps of distant luminous infrared galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2004, 421, 847
  • Zheng, X. Z., Xia, X. Y., Mao, S., Wu, H. & Deng, Z. G., Spectroscopic Properties of QSOs Selected from ULIRG Samples, The Astronomical Journal, 2002, 124, 18