Sijing Shen

Associate Professor - Kosmologi

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Email sijing.shen@astro.uio.no

Phone +47 22856547

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Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 13 Svein Rosselands hus 0371 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1029 Blindern 0315 Oslo

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Academic interests

Galaxy formation and evolution;
The circumgalactic and intergalactic medium;
Hydrodynamische simulaties of structuurvorming;
Feedback Processes from stars and supermassive black holes in galaxy evolution;
Galactic Chemical Evolution

For more information about my research, please visit my website here.

Teaching

I will be teaching AST4320 - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics in Autumn 2017

Academic background

Ph.D. In Astrophysics, McMaster University, Canada, 2010
M.Sc. In Astrophysics, McMaster University, Canada, 2006
B.Sc. In Physics, Lanzhou University, China, 2003

Previous positions

Research Associate, University of Cambridge 2014 - 2016
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2010-2014
Research and Teaching Assistant, McMaster University, 2004-2010

Services

Referee for APJ, APJL and MNRAS
National Science Foundation (US) Grant review panelist
Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK) Dirac Resource Allocation Committee panelist

Full CV can be found in my webpage here.

Tags: Galaxies, Galaxy formation, Intergalactic Medium, Cosmology, Simulations, Feedback, Radiative processes

Full publication list can be found here .

Tamfal, Tomas; Mayer, Lucio; Quinn, Thomas R.; Babul, Arif; Madau, Piero & Capelo, Pedro R. [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). The Dawn of Disk Formation in a Milky Way-sized Galaxy Halo: Thin Stellar Disks at z > 4. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 928(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac558e. Full text in Research Archive
Wissing, Robert; Shen, Sijing; Wadsley, James & Quinn, Thomas (2022). Magnetorotational instability with smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 659. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141206. Full text in Research Archive
Mina, Mattia; Shen, Sijing; Keller, Benjamin Walter; Mayer, Lucio; Madau, Piero & Wadsley, James (2021). The baryon cycle of Seven Dwarfs with superbubble feedback. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 655. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039420. Full text in Research Archive
Gallart, Carme; Monelli, Matteo; Ruiz-Lara, Tomás; Calamida, Annalisa; Cassisi, Santi & Cignoni, M. [Show all 20 contributors for this article] (2021). The Star Formation History of Eridanus II: On the Role of Supernova Feedback in the Quenching of Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 909(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abddbe.
Applebaum, Elaad; Brooks, Alyson M.; Christensen, Charlotte R.; Munshi, Ferah; Quinn, Thomas R. & Shen, Sijing [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2021). Ultrafaint Dwarfs in a Milky Way Context: Introducing the Mint Condition DC Justice League Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 906(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abcafa.
Wissing, Robert & Shen, Sijing (2020). Smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics with the geometric density average force expression. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 638. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936739. Full text in Research Archive
Zana, Tommaso; Capelo, Pedro R.; Dotti, Massimo; Mayer, Lucio; Lupi, Alessandro & Haardt, Francesco [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2019). Barred galaxies in cosmological zoom-in simulations: the importance of feedback . Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 488(2), p. 1864–1877. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz1834. Full text in Research Archive
Smith, Matthew C.; Sijacki, Debora & Shen, Sijing (2019). Cosmological simulations of dwarfs: the need for ISM physics beyond SN feedback alone. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 485(3), p. 3317–3333. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz599. Full text in Research Archive
Christensen, Charlotte R.; Davé, Romeel; Brooks, Alyson M.; Quinn, Thomas & Shen, Sijing (2018). Tracing outflowing metals in simulations of dwarf and spiral galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 867(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae374. Full text in Research Archive
Sokołowska, Aleksandra; Babul, Arif; Mayer, Lucio; Shen, Sijing & Madau, Piero (2018). The complementary roles of feedback and mergers in building the gaseous halo and the X-ray corona of Milky-Way-sized galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 867:73, p. 1–18. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aae43a. Full text in Research Archive
Henden, Nicholas A; Puchwein, Ewald; Shen, Sijing & Sijacki, Debora (2018). The FABLE simulations: A feedback model for galaxies, groups, and clusters. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 479(4), p. 5385–5412. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty1780. Full text in Research Archive
Zana, Tommaso; Dotti, Massimo; Capelo, Pedro R.; Mayer, Lucio; Haardt, Francesco & Shen, Sijing [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2018). Bar resilience to flybys in a cosmological framework. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 479(4), p. 5214–5219. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty1850. Full text in Research Archive
Smith, Matthew C.; Sijacki, Debora & Shen, Sijing (2018). Supernova feedback in numerical simulations of galaxy formation: Separating physics from numerics. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 478(1), p. 302–331. doi: 10.1093/mnras/sty994. Full text in Research Archive
Sokołowska, Aleksandra; Capelo, Pedro R.; Fall, S. Michael; Mayer, Lucio; Shen, Sijing & Bonoli, Silvia (2017). Galactic Angular Momentum in Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations. I. Disk and Bulge Components and the Galaxy–Halo Connection. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 835(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/289.
Cole, Andrew A.; Weisz, Daniel R.; Skillman, Evan D.; Leaman, Ryan; Williams, Benjamin F. & Dolphin, Andrew E. [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2017). DDO 216-A1: A Central Globular Cluster in a Low-luminosity Transition-type Galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 837(1). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa5df6.
Capelo, Pedro R.; Dotti, Massimo; Volonteri, Marta; Mayer, Lucio; Bellovary, Jillian & Shen, Sijing (2017). A survey of dual active galactic nuclei in simulations of galaxy mergers: frequency and properties. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 469(4), p. 4437–4454. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1067.
Chakrabarti, Sukanya; Chang, Philip; O'Shaughnessy, Richard; Brooks, Alyson M.; Shen, Sijing & Bellovary, Jillian [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2017). The Contribution of Outer H I Disks to the Merging Binary Black Hole Population. Astrophysical Journal Letters. ISSN 2041-8205. 850(1), p. 1–5. doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa9655. Full text in Research Archive
Shen, Sijing; Kulkarni, Girish; Madau, Piero & Mayer, Lucio (2017). Chemical enrichment of stars due to accretion from the ISM during the Galaxy's assembly. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 469(4), p. 4012–4021. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stx1094. Full text in Research Archive
O'Shaughnessy, R.; Bellovary, Jillian; Brooks, A; Shen, Sijing; Governato, Fabio & Christensen, C. R. (2016). The effects of host galaxy properties on merging compact binaries detectable by LIGO. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711. 464(3), p. 2831–2839. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stw2550.

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Wissing, Robert Bleckert Nils Håkan & Shen, Sijing (2022). Simulating Galactic Dynamo Processes with Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics. Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 1501-7710.
Mas Ribas, Lluis & Shen, Sijing (2018). Extended Diffuse Emission as a Probe of Galaxy and Reionization Physics. Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo. ISSN 1501-7710.