Li Jian, from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, was born in Henan Province in 1985. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 2013. From October 2013 to November 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ICE-CSIC; from December 2015 to October 2017, he worked as a Research Scientist at the ICE-CSIC; from November 2017 to October 2020, he was a Humboldt Fellow at the DESY, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In March 2021, he joined the Department of Astronomy of the University of Science and Technology of China as a specially appointed researcher, and was appointed as a specially appointed professor in January 2022.
His research focuses on galactic compact objects, utilizing multi-wavelength observational techniques to study the high-energy particle acceleration and radiation processes of these objects. He has extensive experience in multi-wavelength observations and has led several space satellite and ground-based telescope observation projects as the Principal Investigator (PI), including XMM-Newton, Chandra, NuSTAR, INTEGRAL, HXMT, GMRT, and the IRAM 30m radio telescope. As of March 2021, he has published 96 SCI papers, including 14 as the first author (in journals such as Nature Astronomy, ApJL, ApJ, MNRAS, A&A), and one as a co-corresponding author (excluding first-author papers, in ApJ). He has frequently served as a reviewer for leading international astrophysics journals such as A&A, ApJ, MNRAS and JHEAP, and as an internal reviewer for the Fermi international collaboration. He is currently a Full Member of the Fermi international collaboration and serves as the science coordinator for the Galactic group within the collaboration.
Research Directions
High-energy particle acceleration and radiation processes of galactic compact objects
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