Curriculum Vitae
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Appointments
Education
- Ph.D. in Astronomy, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, 2020-2025. Ph.D. thesis · Defense slides.
- B.S. in Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, 2016-2020.
Research projects
- LANCET (PI): evolutionary tomography of dense gas and nested cluster formation.
- QUARKS/ATOMS (Co-PI): dense-gas assembly, molecular kinematics, and stellar feedback in massive clumps.
- ASSEMBLE (PI): fragmentation, accretion, and the evolution of massive protoclusters.
- HLPC (PI): High-latitude molecular clouds and the local interstellar medium (PI).
- DUET (Co-I): matched-resolution ALMA survey of three Central Molecular Zone clouds (interactive magnifier).
- MagMaR (Co-I): Magnetic fields in massive star-forming regions.
Selected honors
- Peking University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, 2025.
- Merit Student Pacesetter, Peking University, 2023 and 2024.
- National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2023.
- Academic Innovation Award, Peking University, 2023.
- President Scholarship, Peking University, 2021-2023.
Publications
Xu, F., Zhang, Q., Sanhueza, P., Wang, K., et al. (2026). "Magnetic Fields in Massive Star-forming Regions (MagMaR). VII. On the dynamical importance of B-fields in massive protocluster W33 A." Astronomy & Astrophysics, accepted.
Xu, F., Galvan-Madrid, R., Morii, K., Nony, T., Palau, A., Traficante, A., & Nucara, A. (2026). "How Should We Understand the Core Mass Function? A memo of the CMF2IMF conference at ESO Garching." arXiv e-prints, arXiv:2607.09858.
Xu, F., Wang, K., Schneider, N., et al. (2026). "Linear Filament and Nested Cluster Evolution Tomography (LANCET) I: Capture the Evolution of Dense Gas in 14-parsec Filament G316.8." Astronomy & Astrophysics, 708, A251.
Xu, F., Lu, X., Wang, K., et al. (2025). "Dual-band Unified Exploration of Three CMZ Clouds (DUET): Cloud-wide Census of Continuum Sources Showing Low Spectral Indices." Astronomy & Astrophysics, 697, A164.
Xu, F., Wang, K., Liu, T., Zhu, L., et al. (2024). "The ALMA-QUARKS Survey II: The ACA 1.3 mm Continuum Source Catalog and the Assembly of Dense Gas in Massive Star-Forming Clumps." Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 24, 065011.
Xu, F., Wang, K., Liu, T., Eden, D. J., et al. (2024). "On the Scarcity of Dense Cores in High-latitude Planck Galactic Cold Clumps." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 963, L9.
Xu, F., Wang, K., Liu, T., Tang, X., et al. (2024). "The ALMA Survey of Star Formation and Evolution in Massive Protoclusters with Blue Profiles (ASSEMBLE): Core Growth, Cluster Contraction, and Primordial Mass Segregation." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 270, 9.
Xu, F., Wang, K., He, Y., Wu, Y., et al. (2023). "Clump-scale Gas Infall in High-mass Star Formation: A Multitransition View with James Clerk Maxwell Telescope HCN (4-3) Mapping." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 269, 38.
Xu, F., Wang, K., Liu, T., Goldsmith, P. F., et al. (2023). "ATOMS XV: Steady Accretion from Global Collapse to Core Feeding in the Massive Hub-Filament System SDC335." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520, 3259.
Xu, F., Wu, Y., Liu, T., Liu, X., et al. (2021). "Planck Galactic Cold Clumps at High Galactic Latitude: A Study with CO Lines." The Astrophysical Journal, 920, 103.
Selected talks
July 03, 2026
Colloquium talk at Königstuhl Colloquium (KoCo), Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
June 22, 2026
Conference talk at Perspectives of Planet and Star Formation 2026 (PoPSF2026), Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
March 11, 2026
Youth Forum talk at Purple Mountain Observatory Youth Forum, No. 171, Nanjing, China
March 03, 2026
Invited seminar at KIAA-DoA Seminar, Peking University, Beijing, China
October 13, 2025
Conference talk at Perspectives in Star Formation — Senior Insights, Young Visions (SF2025), Shanghai, China
September 17, 2025
Conference talk at Stellar Origins 2025, Vienna, Austria
July 27, 2025
Hands-on tutor at China Astrochemistry School 2025, Xiamen, China
September 09, 2024
Contributed talk at Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft 2024 — Massive Stars Splinter, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
September 03, 2024
Conference talk at 53rd Young European Radio Astronomers Conference (YERAC 2024), Real Observatorio de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
October 26, 2023
Contributed talk at Annual Conference on Molecular Clouds and Star Formation, Chongqing, China
August 31, 2023
Conference talk at Chinese Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2023 — Radio Astronomy Session, Weihai, China
April 10, 2023
Conference poster at Protostars and Planets VII, Kyoto, Japan
Teaching and service
- Teaching Assistant, Modern Astronomy, Peking University, spring 2022.
- Referee, The Astrophysical Journal, since 2024.
- Student supervision and co-supervision in undergraduate research programs, 2021-2023.
- Organizer and local-organizing-committee service for astronomy workshops and conferences.
Technical skills
- Python scientific ecosystem, including Astropy, SpectralCube, Matplotlib, and APLpy.
- Radio-interferometric analysis and imaging with CASA; spectral modeling with XCLASS.
- Experience with CARTA, GILDAS, Montage, shell workflows, and C++.