Liu Guilin, male, is a professor of astronomy, doctoral supervisor, and deputy department head. He graduated from the Department of Astronomy (the then Department of Astronomy and Applied Physics) of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2004 as the first cohort of five-year undergraduate students. After obtaining his master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts in 2006 and 2011, respectively, he conducted postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University and Virginia Tech. In 2016, he was appointed as a specially appointed professor at USTC, and was promoted to professor in February 2021.
For many years, he has been engaged in multi-wavelength observational research, successfully applying for and using world-class observational facilities such as the Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini 8-meter Telescope, VLT 8-meter Telescope, CARMA millimeter array, JVLA radio array, and Arecibo Telescope (with a total observation time of over 300 hours). After the final space maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009, he joined the early science release team of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
His main research fields include active galaxies and star formation, with interests in quasar outflows, broad absorption line quasars, relationship between star formation and interstellar medium, and properties of interstellar dust. He has published over 40 papers in journals such as the ApJ series, MNRAS, Science Advances, and Nature Astronomy. Three of his first-author papers have been cited over a hundred times. His notable contributions with significant international impact include the direct detection of high-luminosity quasar outflows using integral field spectroscopy and the revision of star formation laws on sub-kiloparsec scales in galaxies.
Research Direction
Galaxies
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