Xue-Bing Wu

Professor of Astrophysics & Deputy Chair,
Department of Astronomy, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Office: Room 2903S, No. 2 Science Building
Phone: (+86-10) 62758635; FAX: (+86-10) 62765031
Email: wuxb[et]bac.pku.edu.cn

Teaching

Undergraduate course: Frontiers of Astrophysics (Spring)
Postgraduate courses: Active Galactic Nuclei (Autumn); Radiative Processes in Astrophysics (Autumn)

Research Interests

Accretion disks; Black hole physics; Quasars and active galactic nuclei; X-ray binaries

Research Assistants in My Group

Present stars:
Postgraduates: Ran Wang (2004-, now in Predoctoral Program at NRAO), Lei Qian (2004-, now visiting Goteborg U., Sweden), Zhaoyu Li (2006-)
Undergraduate: Jing Luan (2007-)
Former stars:
Postgraduates: Bingxiao Xu (2003-2007, Msc; now in Georgia State U.), Minzhi Kong (2003-2006, PhD; now in Hebei Normal U.), Fan Zhang (2003-2005, MSc.), Rui Chen & Tianzhi Zhang (2001-2003)
Undergraduates: Jie Zhou (2006-2007, now at NAOC), Chaolun Wu (2004-2006, now in U. Virginia), Qi Hu (2004-2006, now in U. Colorado), Yongzhe Gui (2005-2006), Sheng Chen & Jinwu Qi (2004-2005, now both at NAOC), Wei Zhang (2002-2003, now in U. Washington St. Louis), Shaokun Yang(2001-2002)

Publications (An imcomplete list of my papers in ADS)

My Degrees

B.Sc., 1986, Physics, Central China Normal Univ.
M.Sc., 1989, Astrophysics, Central China Normal Univ.
Ph.D., 1996, Astrophysics, Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Working Experiences

1989-1993, Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, Dept. of Physics, Central China Normal Univ.
1996-1998, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1998-2000, Research Associate, Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2000-2001, Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, Peking University
2001-present, Professor, Department of Astronomy, Peking University

Visiting Experiences

10/95-01/96, Research Assistant, Dept. of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, China
04/97-07/97, Visiting Scientist, Max-Plank Institut fuer Extraterrestriche Physik, Germany
07/97-08/97, Visiting Scientist, Max-Plank Institut fuer Astrophysik, Germany
01/99-07/99, Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Physics, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
08/99-12/00, Visiting Scientist, Max-Plank Institut fuer Astrophysik, Germany,
04/04-05/04, Visiting Scientist, Academic Sinica, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Taipei
05/05-06/05, Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Physics, Purdue University, USA

Astronomy & Astrophysics links

Some nice introductions of Neutron Stars , Black Holes, and Active Galactic Nuclei
Want to visit a black hole and read my article on it (in chinese)? Go with me!!