Welcome to Yue Shen's Homepage
About Me
I am an extragalactic astronomer. I am interested in how galaxies and their central supermassive black holes evolve across cosmic time, as well as the physics and phenomenology of quasars. I use survey data and dedicated multi-wavelength observations to address these science questions. For more academic details, here are my CV and my publications on ADS.
I grew up in Huzhou, a city in Zhejiang Province, China.
Quick Links
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project (SDSS-RM)
- Here are the spectral properties of SDSS DR7 quasars (Shen et al. 2011)
- Here is the value-added catalog for SDSS DR16 quasars (Wu & Shen 2022)
- Survey geometry information for SDSS-I/II quasar samples
Appointments
- Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023 - present
- Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019 - 2023
- Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015 - 2019
- Hubble postdoctoral fellow, Carnegie Observatories, 2012 - 2015
- Clay postdoctoral fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 2009 - 2012
Education
- Princeton University, 2005 - 2009; PhD in Astrophysics (Oct 2009)
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2002 - 2005; MA in Physics (Jul 2005)
- Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1998 - 2002; BA in Physics (Jul 2002)
- Huzhou High School, Huzhou, Zhejiang, China, 1995 - 1998