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General Information

Full Name Shangjia Zhang (张尚嘉)

Education

  • 2024 (expected)
    PhD in Astronomy
    University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  • 2018
    B.S. in Astronomy and Physics
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Honors and Awards

  • 2021 - 2024
    • Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINNEST) Grant in the Planetary Science Division
  • 2020 - 2021
    • UNLV Barrick Graduate Fellowship

Academic Interests

  • Planet-disk interactions and young planet population
  • Disk thermal structure
  • Radiation Hydrodynamics of Protoplanetary Disk
    • Vertical Shear Instability
    • Planet-disk interactions with shadowing
  • Dust properties in protoplanetary disks
    • Fitting self-scattering polarization observations and continuum SEDs
  • Deep Learning Applications in Protoplanetary Disks