Sophia Han - Tsung-Dao Lee Institute

Sophia Han/ Tenure-track Fellow

Particle and Nuclear Physics Division

N553 sjhan AT sjtu.edu.cn

Educational Background

Work Experience

2022-Now, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute,School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, T. D. Lee Fellow, Tenure-track Associate Professor
2020-2022, UC Berkeley/Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, N3AS Fellow
2018-2020, UC Berkeley/Ohio University, N3AS Fellow
2015-2018, University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Postdoc Associate/Guest Visitor

Research Interests

Honorary Information

2022, Overseas Outstanding Talent Program in Shanghai
2018, N3AS Fellowship, Network for Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries, NSF Physics Frontier Center, University of California Berkeley
2018, Theory Award, NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cycle 19 Theory Programs
2015, FGSA Travel Award for Excellence in Graduate Research, American Physical Society
2014, DNP Travel Award, American Physical Society

Representative Papers And Monographs

“g-modes of neutron stars with hadron-to-quark crossover transitions”, C. Constantinou, S. Han, P. Jaikumar, and M. Prakash, Phys. Rev. D, 104 123032 (2021), arXiv:2109.14091 [astro-ph.HE]
“Impact of the PSR J0740+6620 radius constraint on the properties of high-density matter”, I. Legred, K. Chatziioannou, R. Essick, S. Han, and P. Landry, Phys. Rev. D, 104 063003 (2021), arXiv:2106.05313 [astro-ph.HE]
“Limiting masses and radii of neutron stars and their implications”, C. Drischler, S. Han, J.M. Lattimer, M. Prakash, S. Reddy, and T. Zhao, Phys. Rev. C, 00 005800 (2021), arXiv:2009.06441 [nucl-th]
“On the minimum radius of very massive neutron stars”, S. Han and M. Prakash, Astrophys. J, 899 2 (2020), arXiv:2006.02207 [astro-ph.HE]
“Studying strong phase transitions in neutron stars with gravitational waves”, K. Chatziioannou and S. Han, Phys. Rev. D, 101 044019 (2020), arXiv:1911.07091 [gr-qc]
“Treating quarks within neutron stars”, S. Han, M.A. Al Mamun, S. Lalit, C. Constantinou, and M. Prakash, Phys. Rev. D, 100 103022 (2019), arXiv:1906.04095 [astro-ph.HE]
“Signatures for quark matter from multi-messenger observations”, M.G. Alford, S. Han and K. Schwenzer, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 46 114001 (2019), arXiv:1904.05471 [nucl-th]
“Tidal deformability with sharp phase transitions in (binary) neutron stars”, S. Han and A.W. Steiner, Phys. Rev. D, 99 083014 (2019), arXiv:1810.10967 [nucl-th]