Mengtao Tang/ Tenure-track Fellow
Astronomy and Astrophysics Division
mengtao.tang@sjtu.edu.cn

Educational Background

  • 2014- 2020, The University of Arizona , Ph.D
  • 2010- 2014, Peking University , B.S

Work Experience

  • 2025-Now, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tenure-track Fellow
  • 2025-Now, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tenure-track Associate Professor
  • 2022-2025, The University of Arizona, Postdoc
  • 2020-2022, University College London, Postdoc

Research Interests

  • High-redshift Galaxies and First Generations of Galaxies
  • Cosmic Reionization
  • Galaxy Formation and Evolution
  • AGN

Representative Papers And Monographs

  • "JWST/NIRSpec Observations of High-ionization Emission Lines in Galaxies at High Redshift", Tang, M. et al. 2025, ApJ, 991, 217
  • "JWST/NIRSpec Observations of Lyman α Emission in Star-forming Galaxies at 6.5 < z < 13", Tang, M. et al. 2024, ApJ, 975, 208
  • "Lyα emission in galaxies at z ~ 5-6: new insight from JWST into the statistical distributions of Lyα properties at the end of reionization", Tang, M. et al. 2024, MNRAS, 531, 2701
  • "JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of z = 7-9 star-forming galaxies with CEERS: new insight into bright Lyα emitters in ionized bubbles", Tang, M. et al. 2023, MNRAS, 526, 1657
  • "Stellar populations and star formation histories of the most extreme [OIII] emitters at z = 1.3 - 3.7", Tang, M. et al. 2022, MNRAS, 513, 5211
  • "Rest-frame UV spectroscopy of extreme [OIII] emitters at 1.3 < z < 3.7: toward a high-redshift UV reference sample for JWST", Tang, M. et al. 2021, MNRAS, 501, 3238