| Position: |
KITP Postdoctoral Scholar, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| |
Visiting Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University |
| Mailing Address: |
Kohn Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America |
| Email: |
linhaoma@princeton.edu |
| ORCiD: |
0000-0001-6117-5750 |
| Website: |
https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~lm2265/ |
| Education |
| 2024 |
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA |
|
advisor: Jim Fuller |
| 2022 |
Master of Science in Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA |
| 2019 |
Bachelor of Science in Physics, School of the Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China |
| Research Experience |
| 2024 - |
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University |
| 2025 - |
KITP Postdoctoral Scholar, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| 2023 |
Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
| 2020 - 2024 |
Graduate Research Assistant, California Institute of Technology |
| 2019 - 2020 |
Robert A. Millikan Graduate Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology |
| 2019 |
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg |
| 2018 |
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher, California Institute of Technology |
| Selected Talks and Presentations |
| May 2025 |
TUNA Lunch Talk, University of Virginia/NRAO, Charlottesville, VA, USA |
| May 2025 |
sdOB12 conference, Little Switzerland, NC, USA |
| Jan 2025 |
IAStrophysical Waves, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA |
| Oct 2024 |
TESS Science Talk, MIT Kavli Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA |
Nov 2023 |
TAC Seminar, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| Nov 2023 |
Seminar, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, Canada |
| Nov 2023 |
THEA Seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
| Nov 2023 |
CCA Stellar Meeting Seminar, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY, USA |
Nov 2023 |
CIERA Theory Seminar, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA |
| Aug 2023 |
Stellar Meeting Seminar, Geneva Observatory, Versoix, Switzerland |
| July 2023 |
Massive Triples, Binaries and Mergers Conference 2023, Leuven, Belgium |
| Jan 2023 |
Lorentz Workshop on Tidal Evolution in Astrophysics, Leiden, the Netherlands |
| May 2022 |
AAS Exoplanets IV, Las Vegas, NV, USA |
| Sept 2018 |
SURF Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena, USA |
| Awards |
| 2024 |
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University |
| 2024 |
KITP Postdoctoral Fellowship, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| 2023 |
Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics Fellowship |
| 2022, 2023 |
David and Barbara Groce Travel Fund, Caltech |
| 2019 |
Robert A. Millikan Graduate Fellowship, Caltech |
| 2016 |
1st Place in “Electromagnetism A” Course Project Competition, USTC |
| 2015, 2016, 2017 |
Outstanding Student Scholarship, USTC |
| Teaching |
| 2020-2021 |
Teaching Assistant for Ph2A, Ph2C, Ph12B, Ph12C, and Ph236B at Caltech |
| 2018 |
Teaching Assistant to 022148 at USTC |
| Services and Outreach |
| 2023 |
Undergraduate Research Mentor for Caltech SURF Program |
| Feb 2022 |
Invited Speaker for Astronomy on Tap in Mandarin (online) |
| 2021 - present |
Referee for MNRAS, ApJ, and A&A |
| Skills |
| Programming |
Python, Fortran |
| Simulations |
MESA, GIZMO, GYRE, Athena++ |
| Typesetting |
LaTeX, HTML |
| Languages |
Chinese (native), English (advanced), German (intermediate), Italian (beginner) |
| References |
| Jim Fuller |
Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology |
| Eliot Quataert |
Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy, Princeton University |
| Selma E. de Mink |
Scientific Director, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
| Philip F. Hopkins |
Ira S. Bowen Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology |
| Earl Patrick Bellinger |
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Yale University |
| Publications |
8 papers (7 as first-author), 500+ total citations; see NASA/ADS,
arXiv or Google Scholar |
