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Hey, my name is Ke (Coco) Zhang. I'm an Assistant Professor at the Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
My main research interests are circumstellar disks around young stars, which are cradles of planetary systems like our solar system. I study gas and dust distributions in these disks to understand the physical and chemcial processes of planet formation. Please see more details in my research page.
I am looking for new graduate students to start in Fall 2023. If you are interested in our planet formation group at UW-Madison, please send me an email with your CV.
News:
- 2022/10 Welcome to our group, Leopold Hutnik! Leopold is a senior undergraduate at UW Madison and he will work on modeling N2H+ emission of the TW Hya disk.
- 2022/10 Congratulations to our undergradaute Vicki for her fellowship to study at the University of Copenhagen in Spring 2023!
- 2022/09 Welcome to our group, Ella Chevalier! Ella is a sophmore student and she will help us extract spectra from AGE-PRO data.
- 2022/07 Our group have three new ALMA proposals approved! Great job!
PI Zhang: A unique gas tracer of pebble drift in protoplanetary disk (A grade, 9h)
PI Trapman: Weighting the Elias 2-27 protoplanetary disk: a crucial test for a new mass measurement technique (A grade, 3.5h)
PI Trapman: Measuring accurate gas masses of the planet-forming disks in Lupus (B grade, 26.5h) - 2022/07 Our NSF proposal: The evolution of gas in protoplanetary disk, was awarded!
- 2022/05 Congratulations to Vicki Braianova, who is awarded a sophoremore research fellowship of UW Madison! Vicki will use her fellowship to work in our group over the summer.
- 2022/01 Leon's paper " A novel way of measuring the gas disk mass of protoplanetary disks using N2H+ and C18O" was just accepted for publication in ApJL. Congratulations, Leon! Link
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