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Biography

My name is Cheng Li (李成), born 1978 in Hubei Province, China. I live in Shanghai with my wife Fengyun and son Yi. Currently I am an astronomer at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. I completed my studies at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) with a Bachelor of Science in Astrophysics in 2000 and received a PhD in Astrophysics from the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) at USTC in 2006. After that I started my life as a postdoc, holding a joint postdoctorial fellow between SHAO and Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), Garching, Germany. I left the MPA in September 2010, and came to Shanghai to start my current position as a Bairen research professor at SHAO since October 1, 2010.

My research interests include the structure, formation and evolution of galaxies, galaxy clustering and the large-scale distribution of galaxies, relationship between interactions, star formation and AGN activity, and numerical simulations of the formation of galaxies. Over the past 10 years I has been focusing my research on understanding the physical link between galaxies and dark matter halos, through statistically measuring the spatial and velocity distributions of different types of galaxies and comparing my observational results with predictions of current semi-analytic models of galaxy formation and halo occupation distribution models.

I am currently involved in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV project, serving as the Lead Scientist at SHAO for the science collaborations between SHAO and the SDSS-IV. My main interest with SDSS-IV is a better understanding of the star formation quenching processes occurring in local galaxies, expected to be archived based on the 2D maps of recent star formation histories being observed by the SDSS-IV/MaNGA survey. I'm also interested in measuring the clustering of galaxies at z~1 in the eBOSS survey and the constraints on galaxy formation and evolution models.

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Employment (4)

Tsinghua University: Beijing, Beijing, CN

2019-04-21 to present | Professor (Department of Astronomy)
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Tsinghua University: Beijing, Beijing, CN

2015-09-01 to 2019-04-20 | Professor (Physics Department)
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Shanghai Astronomical Observatory: Shanghai, CN

2010-10-01 to 2015-08-31 | Research Professor (Center for Galaxy and Cosmology)
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Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics: Garching, DE

2006-10-01 to 2010-09-31 | Postdoc (joint position with SHAO)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Science and Technology of China: Hefei, Anhui, CN

2000-09-01 to 2006-09-16 | PhD in Astrophysics (Center for Astrophysics)
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University of Science and Technology of China: Hefei, Anhui, CN

1996-09-04 to 2000-07-01 | B. S. in Astrophysics (Center for Astrophysics)
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Works (27)

What Drives the H i Content of Central Galaxies—A Comparison between Hydrodynamic Simulations and Observations Using Random Forest

The Astrophysical Journal
2025-02-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiao Li; Cheng Li; H. J. Mo
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Estimating Dust Attenuation from Galactic Spectra. III. Radial Variations of Dust Attenuation Scaling Relations in MaNGA Galaxies

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Niu Li; Cheng Li
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On the Origin of Quenched but Gas-rich Regions at Kiloparsec Scales in Nearby Galaxies

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Tao Jing; Cheng Li
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Measuring Galaxy Abundance and Clustering at High Redshift from Incomplete Spectroscopic Data: Tests on Mock Catalogs

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-04-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Jiacheng Meng; Cheng Li; H. J. Mo; Yangyao Chen; Kai Wang
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On the Existence, Rareness, and Uniqueness of Quenched H i-rich Galaxies in the Local Universe

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-03-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiao Li; Cheng Li; H. J. Mo; Jianhong Hu; Jing Wang; Ting Xiao
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Criss-cross Nebula: A Case Study of Shock Regions with Resolved Microstructures at Scales of ∼1000 au

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Tao Jing; Cheng Li; Renbin Yan; Cheng Cheng; Wei Zhang; Xihan Ji; Niu Li; Jing Wang; Chaojian Wu; Haibo Yuan
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Post-starburst Galaxies in SDSS-IV MaNGA: Two Broad Categories of Evolutionary Pathways

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Zhuo Cheng; Cheng Li; Niu Li; Renbin Yan; Houjun Mo
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Mapping Dust Attenuation and the 2175 Å Bump at Kiloparsec Scales in Nearby Galaxies

The Astrophysical Journal
2023-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Shuang Zhou; Cheng Li; Niu Li; Houjun Mo; Renbin Yan; Michael Eracleous; Mallory Molina; Caryl Gronwall; Nikhil Ajgaonkar; Zhuo Cheng et al.
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The IRX–β relation in kpc-sized star-forming regions in nearby galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2023-09-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Laura Duffy; Mallory Molina; Michael Eracleous; Robin Ciardullo; Renbin Yan; Caryl Gronwall; Nikhil Ajgaonkar; Médéric Boquien; Shuang Zhou; Cheng Li
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The need for multicomponent dust attenuation in modeling nebular emission: Constraints from SDSS-IV MaNGA

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2023-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Xihan Ji; Renbin Yan; Kevin Bundy; Médéric Boquien; Adam Schaefer; Francesco Belfiore; Matthew A. Bershady; Niv Drory; Cheng Li; Kyle B. Westfall et al.
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Galaxy Populations in Groups and Clusters: Evidence for a Characteristic Stellar Mass Scale at M ∗ ∼ 109.5 M ⊙

The Astrophysical Journal
2023-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Jiacheng Meng; Cheng Li; H. J. Mo; Yangyao Chen; Zhen Jiang; Lizhi Xie
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Conditional H i Mass Functions and the H i-to-halo Mass Relation in the Local Universe

The Astrophysical Journal
2022-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiao Li; Cheng Li; H. J. Mo; Ting Xiao; Jing Wang
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An IFU View of the Active Galactic Nuclei in MaNGA Galaxy Pairs

The Astrophysical Journal
2021-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Gaoxiang Jin; Y. Sophia Dai; Hsi-An Pan; Lihwai Lin; Cheng Li; Bau-Ching Hsieh; Shiyin Shen; Fang-Ting Yuan; Shuai Feng; Cheng Cheng et al.
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Wolf-Rayet Galaxies in SDSS-IV MaNGA. II. Metallicity Dependence of the High-mass Slope of the Stellar Initial Mass Function

The Astrophysical Journal
2021-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Fu-Heng 珩 Liang 梁 赋; Cheng Li; Niu Li; Shuang Zhou; Renbin Yan; Houjun Mo; Wei Zhang
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Estimating Dust Attenuation From Galactic Spectra. II. Stellar and Gas Attenuation in Star-forming and Diffuse Ionized Gas Regions in MaNGA

The Astrophysical Journal
2021-08-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Niu Li; Cheng Li; Houjun Mo; Shuang Zhou; Fu-heng Liang; Médéric Boquien; Niv Drory; José G. Fernández-Trincado; Michael Greener; Rogério Riffel
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Star Formation Histories of Massive Red Spiral Galaxies in the Local Universe

The Astrophysical Journal
2021-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Shuang Zhou; Cheng Li; Cai-Na Hao; Rui Guo; Houjun Mo; Xiaoyang Xia
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The Breakdown Scale of H I Bias Linearity

The Astrophysical Journal
2021-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Zhenyuan Wang; Yangyao Chen; Yi Mao; Houjun Mo; Huiyuan Wang; Hong Guo; Cheng Li; Jian Fu; Yipeng Jing; Jing Wang et al.
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Constraints on Circumgalactic Media from Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effects and X-Ray Data

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-11-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Xuanyi Wu; Houjun Mo; Cheng Li; Seunghwan Lim
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Relating the Structure of Dark Matter Halos to Their Assembly and Environment

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-08-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Yangyao Chen; H. J. Mo; Cheng Li; Huiyuan Wang; Xiaohu Yang; Youcai Zhang; Kai Wang
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Estimating Dust Attenuation from Galactic Spectra. I. Methodology and Tests

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-06-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Niu Li; Cheng Li; Houjun Mo; Jian Hu; Shuang Zhou; Cheng Du
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Wolf–Rayet Galaxies in SDSS-IV MaNGA. I. Catalog Construction and Sample Properties

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-06-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Fu-Heng 赋珩 Liang 梁; Cheng Li; Niu Li; Renbin Yan; Houjun Mo; Wei Zhang; Camilo Machuca; Alexandre Roman-Lopes
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Constraining the H i–Halo Mass Relation from Galaxy Clustering

The Astrophysical Journal
2017-09-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Hong Guo; Cheng Li; Zheng Zheng; H. J. Mo; Y. P. Jing; Ying Zu; S. H. Lim; Haojie Xu
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The Peculiar Filamentary H i Structure of NGC 6145

The Astronomical Journal
2017-08-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Enci Wang; Jing Wang; Xu Kong; Fulai Guo; Lin Lin; Guobin Mou; Cheng Li; Ting Xiao
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CLUSTERING PROPERTIES AND HALO MASSES FOR CENTRAL GALAXIES IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE

The Astrophysical Journal
2016-03-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Lixin Wang; Cheng Li; Y. P. Jing
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DARK MATTER HALOS OF BARRED DISK GALAXIES

The Astrophysical Journal
2015-07-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Bernardo Cervantes Sodi; Cheng Li; Changbom Park
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P-MaNGA: GRADIENTS IN RECENT STAR FORMATION HISTORIES AS DIAGNOSTICS FOR GALAXY GROWTH AND DEATH

The Astrophysical Journal
2015-05-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Cheng Li; Enci Wang; Lin Lin; Matthew A. Bershady; Kevin Bundy; Christy A. Tremonti; Ting Xiao; Renbin Yan; Dmitry Bizyaev; Michael Blanton et al.
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The Detection of the Large-scale Alignment of Massive Galaxies at z ~ 0.6

The Astrophysical Journal
2013-06-10 | Journal article
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