Juntai Shen

Professor Shen obtained his PhD in Astronomy from Rutgers University in USA in 2005, he then worked as a Harlan J. Smith Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin from 2005 to 2009. He has been working as a Bairen Professor at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS since 2009. His research covers a wide range of topics in galactic dynamics, including barred galaxies, galactic warps, dynamical modeling of the Milky Way bulge and its X-shaped structure, and measuring the mass of supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies through dynamical modeling. Many of his papers have been highlighted by internationally renowned textbooks, ARAA reviews, and the modern astronomical reference series “Planets, Stars, and Stellar Systems” (Springer Reference). He was also invited to serve as an expert reviewer on the “Galactic Structure” panel for the NSF of USA. He is now a Newton Advanced Fellow of Royal Society of the UK.