Congyao Zhang


Congyao Zhang

Dr. Congyao Zhang (张从尧) is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Masaryk University. He received his PhD from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University in 2016, and subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) and the University of Chicago.

His research interests include galaxy clusters, large-scale structures, and cosmology, using both observations and numerical simulations. He has recently led several cluster kinematic mapping projects within the XRISM collaboration.

EDUCATION:
 
 
2016 PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA), Peking University, Beijing, China
 
 

POSITIONS:
 
 
current  Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
 
previously  Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), Garching, Germany
 
previously  Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Selected Publications

Encounters of merger and accretion shocks in galaxy clusters and their effects on intracluster medium (arXiv).
C. Zhang, E. Churazov, K. Dolag, W. R. Forman, I. Zhuravleva, 2020, MNRAS.

Runaway merger shocks in galaxy cluster outskirts and radio relics (arXiv).
N. Lyskova, W. R. Forman, E. Churazov, C. Zhang, 2019, MNRAS.

Simulating the Galaxy Cluster “El Gordo” and Identifying the Merger Configuration (arXiv).
C. Zhang, Q. Yu, Y. Lu, 2015, ApJ.

Generation of internal waves by buoyant bubbles in galaxy clusters and heating of intracluster medium (arXiv).
C. Zhang, E. Churazov, A. A. Schekochihin, 2018, MNRAS.

Close-up view of an ongoing merger between the NGC 4839 group and the Coma cluster–a post-merger scenario.
N. Lyskova, E. Churazov, C. Zhang, W. Forman, C. Jones, K. Dolag, et al., 2019, MNRAS.


For a complete list of publications see here.