Jianxing Chen
“Liyun” Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Physics and Astronomy, Beijing Normal University
CV
Experience
2024 – Present
“Liyun” Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Physics and Astronomy, Beijing Normal University
Investigating white dwarf cooling sequences and exotic binary systems in globular clusters with HST photometry.
2023 – 2024
Research Fellow
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna
Studied stellar populations in Galactic globular clusters.
Grants & Funding
- 2026 – 2028 National Natural Science Foundation of China — Young Scientists Fund (Category C) No. 12503036PI
- 2024 – 2026 China Postdoctoral Science Fund — General Fund (76th Batch) No. 2024M760242PI
- 2024 – 2026 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF No. GZC20240124PI
- 2022 Postgraduate Research Activities Grant, University of BolognaPI
- 2022 Marco Polo Grant, University of BolognaPI
- 2019 – 2023 Key Program of NSFC — Asteroseismology of pulsating variable stars in the Kepler fields No. 1183000094Co-I
- 2019 – 2020 Natural Science Foundation of Beijing — Asteroseismology of high-amplitude δ Scuti stars from LAMOST & Kepler No. 1194023Co-I
Observing Experience
- HST GO 17763 — Calibrating the white dwarf cooling chronometer: the effect of residual thermonuclear burning
- Xinglong 2.16m National Astronomical Observatories, China
- Xinglong 85cm National Astronomical Observatories, China
- Nanshan 1m Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, China
- Lijiang 2.4m Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, China
- SPM 85cm Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de la Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Mexico
Outreach
- 2018
- 2018
- 2015
Publications
First / Corresponding Author
(8)
Exploring the optical properties of redback pulsars: The case of J1717+4308A in the globular cluster M92
Chen, J., Ettorre, G., Pallanca, C., Cadelano, M., Sen, B., Misra, D., Dalessandro, E., Ferraro, F. R., Lanzoni, B., Ridolfi, A., Burgay, M., Possenti, A., Freire, P. C. C., Ransom, S. M., Linares, M., Breton, R. P.
A&A (2026) First Author
XGBoost for Predicting Chemical Abundances of Open Clusters in LAMOST DR11 LRS
Zhang, R., Chen, J., Wu, C., Wang, G., Lu, Y.
RAA, 25, 035019 (2025) ✦ Corresponding
The ‘canonical’ White Dwarf Cooling Sequence of M5
Chen, J., Ferraro, F. R., Salaris, M., Cadelano, M., Pallanca, C., Lanzoni, B.
ApJ, 950, 155 (2023) First Author
A young white dwarf orbiting PSR J1835-3259B in the bulge globular cluster NGC 6652
Chen, J., Cadelano, M., Pallanca, C., Ferraro, F. R., Lanzoni, B.
ApJ, 948, 84 (2023) First Author
Slowly cooling white dwarfs in NGC 6752
Chen, J., Ferraro, F. R., Cadelano, M., Salaris, M., Pallanca, C., Lanzoni, B.
ApJ, 934, 93 (2022) First Author
Slowly cooling white dwarfs in M13 from stable hydrogen burning
Chen, J., Ferraro, F. R., Cadelano, M., Salaris, M., Pallanca, C., Lanzoni, B., Althaus, L. G.
Nature Astronomy, 5, 1170 (2021) First Author
G132-12: A one-mode ZZ Ceti star located at the blue edge of instability strip
Chen, J., Fu, J., Niu, H., Pan, Y., Su, W.
New Astronomy, 73, 101276 (2019) First Author
A new ZZ Ceti star discovered based on the LAMOST survey
Chen, J., Fu, J., Pan, Y., Niu, H.
Journal of Beijing Normal University (Natural Science), 55, 403 (2019) First Author
Significant Contributions
(4)
Probing Red Giant Interiors with Gravity-dominated Mixed Modes. I. The Cases of KIC 9145955, KIC 9970396, KIC 9882316, and KIC 11968334
Zhang, X., Li, T., Chen, J., Chen, X., Li, G., Li, C., Bi, S.
ApJ, 1002, 198 (2026)
Discovery and Timing of millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster M5 (NGC 5904) with FAST and Arecibo
Zhang, L., Ridolfi, A., Freire, P., Chen, J., et al.
ApJS, 269, 56 (2023)
A triplet of the only pulsation mode detected in the DAV star G132-12
Su, W., Fu, J., Chen, J., Niu, H., Pan, Y.
RAA, 21, 139 (2021)
PSR J1641+3627F: A Low-mass He White Dwarf Orbiting a Possible High-mass Neutron Star in the Globular Cluster M13
Cadelano, M., Chen, J., Pallanca, C., Ferraro, F. R., Lanzoni, B.
ApJ, 905, 63 (2020)
Collaborator
(2)
When LAMOST Meets Gaia DR3. Exploring the Metallicity of Open Clusters
Zhang, R., Wang, G., Lu, Y., Chen, J., et al.
A&A (2024)
Radial velocity measurements from LAMOST medium-resolution spectroscopic observations: A pointing towards the Kepler field
Liu, N., Fu, J., Zong, W., Chen, J., et al.
RAA, 19, 075 (2019)
News
Invited Talk at Xi'an Jiaotong University — Slowly cooling white dwarfs in globular clusters
Invited Talk at China West Normal University — Slowly cooling white dwarfs in globular clusters
CSST Seminar at Sun Yat-sen University — Slowly cooling white dwarfs in globular clusters
Invited Talk at Dezhou University — Slowly cooling white dwarfs in globular clusters
China Science Daily — Slowly cooling white dwarfs discovered in M13
Contact
Office Address
No.19, Xinjiekouwai St, Haidian District
Beijing, 100875, P.R.China
GitHub
github.com/jianxing-chenORCID
0000-0002-8004-549X