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Education
- Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Peking University, June 2025 (expected)
- B.S. in Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University, June 2020
Research experience
- September 2021 - Present: Black hole images
- Supervisor: Prof. Bin Chen
- Calculated black hole images using the general relativistic ray-tracing (GRRT) method, considering different astronomical environments, various light sources such as accretion disks, hotspots and jets.
- Investigated black hole shadow and polarization patterns.
- Explored charged particle dynamics around magnetized black holes.
- Developed an analytical morphological model of the accretion disk and funnel wall.
- Investigating the autocorrelation of black hole movies using dynamic light sources in order to extract physical information of the black hole or its accretion disk. (Ongoing project)
- August 2023 - Present: Primordial black holes and the early universe
- Supervisor: Prof. Shi Pi
- Calculating the abundance of PBHs using both the extended Press-Schechter approach and peak theory, and constraining it with future gravitational wave detectors. (Ongoing project)
- October 2018 - August 2020: Cosmological large-scale structure
- Supervisor: Prof. Xiao-Dong Li
- Used the tomographic Alcock-Paczynski test with non-parametric statistical methods to reconstruct the dark energy equation of state parameter.
- Developed a deep learning technique to infer the dark matter nonlinear velocity field from its density field.
Teaching experience
Academic Honors
- Peking University President Scholarship, June 2024.
- Peking University President Scholarship, June 2023.
- Outstanding Student Presentation Award in the 2022 Annual Conference of Division of Gravitation and Relativistic Astrophysics, Chinese Physical Society, July 2022.
- Sun Yat-Sen University First-Class Scholarship for Undergraduates, September 2018.
- National Scholarship for Undergraduate, September 2017.
Programming Skills
- Competent in
- Wolfram Mathematica
- Python
- Linux
- Familiar with
- C/C++
- With some basic knowledge of
- Julia
- Fortran
Talks
Numerical calculation of the autocorrelation in black hole movies
Conference talk at 2024 Workshop on Images of Black Holes in China, Changsha, China
Observational signatures of rotating black holes in the semi-classical gravity with trace anomaly
Conference talk at 2023 Workshop on Images of Black Holes in China, Beijing, China
Polarized images of charged particles in vortical motions around a magnetized Kerr black hole
Conference talk at 2023 Annual Conference of Division of Gravitation and Relativistic Astrophysics, Chinese Physical Society, Chongqing, China
Shadows of Kerr black holes with a Gaussian-distributed plasma in the polar direction
Conference talk at 2022 Annual Conference of Division of Gravitation and Relativistic Astrophysics, Chinese Physical Society, Liyang, China
Selected papers
You can find a full list of my papers on my INSPIRE profile.
Images and flares of geodesic hot spots around a Kerr black hole
Jiewei Huang, Zhenyu Zhang, Minyong Guo, and Bin Chen, Phys. Rev. D, 109 (2024) 12, 124062
Imaging thick accretion disks and jets surrounding black holes
Zhenyu Zhang, Yehui Hou, Minyong Guo, and Bin Chen, JCAP, 05 (2024) 032
A new analytical model of magnetofluids surrounding rotating black holes
Yehui Hou, Zhenyu Zhang, Minyong Guo, and Bin Chen, JCAP, 02 (2024) 030
Observational signatures of rotating black holes in the semiclassical gravity with trace anomaly
Zhenyu Zhang, Yehui Hou, Minyong Guo, Chin. Phys. C, 48 (2024) 8, 085106
Polarized images of charged particles in vortical motions around a magnetized Kerr black hole
Zhenyu Zhang, Yehui Hou, Minyong Guo, and Bin Chen, JCAP, 03 (2024) 013
Electromagnetic effects on charged particles in a near-horizon-extreme-Kerr geometry
Yehui Hou, Zhenyu Zhang, Haopeng Yan, Minyong Guo, and Bin Chen, Phys. Rev. D, 107 (2023) 12, 124014
Image of a Kerr-Melvin black hole with a thin accretion disk
Yehui Hou, Zhenyu Zhang, Haopeng Yan, Minyong Guo, and Bin Chen, Phys. Rev. D, 106 (2022) 6, 064058
Shadows of Kerr black holes with a Gaussian-distributed plasma in the polar direction
Zhenyu Zhang, Haopeng Yan, Minyong Guo, and Bin Chen, Phys. Rev. D, 107 (2023) 2, 024027
Cosmic Velocity Field Reconstruction Using AI
Ziyong Wu, Zhenyu Zhang, Shuyang Pan et al., Astrophys. J., 913 (2021) 1, 2
Non-parametric dark energy reconstruction using the tomographic Alcock-Paczynski test
Zhenyu Zhang, Gan Gu, Xiaoma Wang et al., Astrophys. J., 878 (2019) 2, 137