About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands. I recieved my PhD from Leiden University on the 25th of October 2023, with a thesis titled Cosmic tomography with weak gravitational lensing. Prior to this, I earned an MSc in Astrophysics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019, and a BSc in Astronomy from Nanjing University in 2016. My research interests span the broad spectrum of gravitational lensing effects, encompassing microlensing, strong lensing, and weak lensing.

My current research primarily focuses on weak lensing measurements and their applications in the study of dark matter properties and the refinement of cosmological models. I am a core member of the Kilo-Degree Survey, contributing to cosmic shear analysis (e.g. Li et al. 2021; Li et al. 2023; Li el al. 2023) and exploring applications of galaxy-galaxy lensing in studying galaxy-halo connections (Li et al. in prep.). I am also a member of the weak lensing science working group within the Euclid Consortium, where my contributions include validating cosmic shear performance and the Flagship simulations.

Before pivoting my research focus towards weak lensing and cosmology, I also studied the gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (e.g. Li et al. 2018) and in the data analysis of microlensing events (e.g. Li et al. 2019), areas that continue to captivate my interest.

A more detailed CV in PDF format is available here.