In this talk the speaker will review their current understanding of giant planet and binary star formation, highlighting the key similarities and unique unknowns for each process. She will show how cu...
On Earth’s surface, there are only a handful of high-quality astronomical sites that meet the requirements for very large next-generation facilities. In the context of scientific opportunities in tim...
Inspired by the Arecibo telescope, a technical and scientific wonder of the 20th century, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) was originally proposed as part of a SKA con...
Galaxy clusters are the largest virialized structures in the universe, providing ideal laboratories to study cosmology, plasma physics, and the nature of dark matter. Understanding their formation and...
Galaxy formation is currently faced with immense datasets, both observational and simulated, with much more on the way. As the simulations continue to improve, I argue it is time to start thinking abo...
Cluster cosmology has entered into a new and exciting era allowing us to probe the universe at an unprecedented scale, thanks to the deployment of large-sky surveys in multiple wavelengths and the rec...
As the most luminous non-transit objects, quasars are unique probes of the early Universe. I have been leading a wide-field reionization-era quasar survey, which has provided the first large statistic...
Cosmology was once a mainly philosophical endeavour, but thanks to the exponential growth of astronomical data over the last decades, it has become a data driven field of science where we can study ph...
The environment around neutron stars features high magnetization, strong gravity, and relativistic particles. With radio, X-ray, and gravitational wave observations, neutron stars are perfect laborato...
The discovery of gravitational waves from the coalescence of binary black holes in 2015 has marked the dawn of the gravitational wave (GW) astronomy/cosmology. Besides the gravitational wave bursts fr...