EDUCATION

• California Insititute of Techonlogy 
  Advisor: Geoffrey A. Blake
• Beijing Normal University

 

Ph.D. Astrophysics  

Thesis: Volatiles in Protoplanetary Disks

M.S.   Astrophysics

B.S.    Astronomy

 

06/2015 

 

07/2008

07/2005

                              Full_CV

EMPLOYMENT

• University of Wisconsin-Madison
  
• University of Michigan
  
• University of Michigan

 

Assistant Professor

Hubble Fellow

Postdoctoral Researcher

 

2020/08-

2017/08-2020/08

2015/07- 2017/07

AWARDS

• Scialog Fellow 
• Hubble Fellowship (~330k)
  
• Sagan Fellowship (declined)
• ALMA Postdoctoral Ambassador (10k)
• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding self finance Students Abroad (6k)
• AAS International travel grant
• Meyerson travel grant, Department of Astronomy, Caltech
• Academic fellowship, Beijing Normal University                                  
• Excellent Students Awards, Beijing Municipality Government
• Chongying scholarship, Beijing Normal University                                                        

 

03/2020

01/2017

01/2017

01/2017

03/2015

03/2015

08/2014

09/2006

06/2005

2002-2004


PUBLICATIONS                

 

 > 2200 citations, h-index 24

 

FIRST AUTHOR

1. Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales (MAPS). V. CO Gas Distributions
   Zhang, Ke; Booth, Alice S; Law, Charles. 2021, ApJS, 257,5 (link)
   
2. Excess C/H in Protoplanetary Disk Gas from Icy Pebble Drift Across the CO Snowline
   Zhang, Ke; Bosman, Arthur D.; Bergin, Edwin A. 2020, ApJL, 891, 16 (link)
3. Rapid Evolution of Volatile CO from the Protostellar Disk Stage to the Protoplanetary Disk Stage
   Zhang, Ke; Schwarz, Kamber R.; Bergin, Edwin A. 2020, ApJL, 891, 17  (link)
4. Systematic Variations of CO Gas Abundance with Radius in Gas-rich Protoplanetary Disks
   Zhang, Ke; Bergin, Edwin A.; Schwarz, Kamber R
,; Krijt, Sebastiaan; Ciesla, Fred, 2019, ApJ, 883, 98 (link)
5. Unveiling the mass inventory of the giant-planet formation zone in a solar nebula analog
 
   Zhang, Ke; Bergin, Edwin A.; Blake, Geoffrey A.; Cleeves, L. Ilsedore; Schwarz, Kamber R
, Nature Astronomy, 2017, 1, 6     (link)
6. On the Commonality of 10-30 AU Sized Axisymmetric Dust Structures in Protoplanetary Disks        (link)
   Zhang, Ke; Bergin, Edwin A.; Blake, Geoffrey A.; Cleeves, L. Ilsedore, et al., 2016, ApJL, 818,16
7. Evidence of fast pebble growth near condensation fronts in the HL Tau protoplanetary disk
             (link)
   Zhang, Ke; Blake, Geoffrey A.; Bergin, Edwin A, 2015, ApJL, 806,7
8. Dimming and CO absorption toward AA Tau protoplanetary disk: infalling flow caused by disk instability?

   Zhang, Ke; Crockett, Nathan; Salyk, Colette; Pontoppidan, Klaus; et al. 2015, ApJ, 805, 55              (link)     
9. Comparison of the Dust and Gas Radial Structure in the Transition Disk [PZ99] J160421.7-213028

   Zhang, Ke; Isella, Andrea; Carpenter, John M.; Blake, Geoffrey A., 2014, ApJ, 791,42        (link)
10. Evidence for a Snow Line beyond the Transitional Radius in the TW Hya Protoplanetary Disk
    Zhang, Ke; Pontoppidan, Klaus M.; Salyk, Colette; Blake, Geoffrey A., 2013, ApJ, 766, 82    (link)
11. On Magnesium Sulfide as the Carrier of the 30 μm Emission Feature in Evolved Stars

    Zhang, Ke; Jiang, B. W.; Li, Aigen, 2009, ApJ, 702, 680      (link)
12. On the carriers of the 21 μm emission feature in post-asymptotic giant branch stars

    Zhang, Ke; Jiang, B. W.; Li, Aigen, 2009, MNRAS, 396,1247  (link)
    
13. The 21 micron feature in the circumstellar envelopes around highly evolved stars

    Zhang, Ke; Jiang, B. W.; Li, Aigen, 2006, PABei, 24, 43 (in Chinese)  (link)

CO-AUTHORED

1. Destruction of Refractory Carbon Grains Drives the Final Stage of Protoplanetary Disk Chemistry
   Bosman, Arthur D.; Alarcón, Felipe; Zhang, Ke, Bergin, Edwin. 2021, ApJ, 910, 3 (link)
   
2. Observing Carbon and Oxygen Carriers in Protoplanetary Disks at Mid-infrared Wavelengths
   Anderson, Dana E.; Blake, Geoffrey A.; Cleeves, L. Ilsedore, Zhang, Ke, et al. 2021, ApJ, 909,55 (link)
3. The TW Hya Rosetta Stone Project. III. Resolving the Gaseous Thermal Profile of the Disk
   Calahan, Jenny K.; Bergin, Edwin; Zhang, Ke, et al. 2021, ApJ, 908, 8 (link)
   
4. Chemical Evolution in a Protoplanetary Disk within Planet Carved Gaps and Dust Rings
   Alarcón, Felipe;  Teague, R.;  Zhang, Ke;  Bergin, E. A.;  Barraza-Alfaro, M., 2021, ApJ, 905,68 (link) 
   
5. CO Depletion in Protoplanetary Disks: A Unified Picture Combining Physical Sequestration and Chemical Processing
   Krijt, Sebastiaan;  Bosman, Arthur D.;  Zhang, Ke;  Schwarz, Kamber R.;  Ciesla, Fred J.; Bergin, Edwin A., 2020, ApJ, 899, 134 (link) 
6. Probing the Gas Content of Late-stage Protoplanetary Disks with N2H+
   Anderson, Dana E.; Blake, Geoffrey A.; Bergin, Edwin A.; Zhang, Ke; et al., 2019, ApJ, 881, 127 (link) 
7. CO Depletion in Protoplanetary Disks: A Unified Picture Combining Physical Sequestration and Chemical Processing
   Krijt, Sebastiaan;  Bosman, Arthur D.;  Zhang, Ke;  Schwarz, Kamber R.;  Ciesla, Fred J.; Bergin, Edwin A., 2020, ApJ, 899, 134 (link) 
8. Unlocking CO Depletion in Protoplanetary Disks. II. Primordial C/H Predictions inside the CO Snowline
   Schwarz, Kamber R.; Bergin, Edwin A.; Cleeves, L. Ilsedore; Zhang, Ke; et al., 2019, ApJ, 877, 131 (link) 
9. A High-resolution Mid-infrared Survey of Water Emission from Protoplanetary Disks
   Salyk, Colette; Lacy, John; Richter, Matt; Zhang, Ke; et al., 2019, ApJ, 874, 24 (link) 
   
10. A Cavity of Large Grains in the Disk around the Group II Herbig Ae/Be Star HD 142666
    Rubinstein, A. E.; Macías, E.; Espaillat, C. C.; Zhang, Ke.; Calvet, N.; Robinson, C., 2018, ApJ, 860, 7 (link) 
11. Unlocking CO Depletion in Protoplanetary Disks. I. The Warm Molecular Layer
    Schwarz, Kamber R.; Bergin, Edwin A.; Cleeves, L. Ilsedore; Zhang, Ke; 2018, ApJ,856,85  (link) 
12. Discovery and physical characterization of a large scattered disk object at 92 au
    Gerdes, D.W.; Masao Sako, Stephanie Hamilton, Ke Zhang, et al., 2017, ApJL, 839, 15   (link)
13. On Graphene in the Interstellar Medium

    Chen, X. H.; Li, Aigen; Zhang, Ke, 2017, ApJ, 850,104    (link)
14. Hydrocarbon emission rings in protoplanetary disks induced by dust evolution
    Bergin, Edwin A.; Du, Fujun; Cleeves, L. Ilsedore; Blake, Geoffrey A.; Schwarz, Kamber; Visser, Ruud; Zhang, Ke, 2016, ApJ, 831, 101 (link)
15. The Radial Distribution of H2 and CO in TW Hya as Revealed by Resolved ALMA Observations of CO Isotopologues

    Schwarz, Kamber R.; Bergin, Edwin A.; Cleeves, L. Ilsedore; Blake, Geoffrey A.; Zhang, Ke; et al., 2016, ApJ, 823, 91 (link) 
16. Measurements of Water Surface Snow Lines in Classical Protoplanetary Disks

    Blevins, Sandra M.; Pontoppidan, Klaus M.; Banzatti, Andrea; Zhang, Ke; et al., 2016, ApJ, 818, 22 (link) 
17. Detection of Water Vapor in the Terrestrial Planet Forming Region of a Transition
    Salyk, Colette; Lacy, John H.; Richter, Matthew J.; Zhang, Ke; Blake, Geoffrey A.; Pontoppidan, Klaus M., 2015, ApJL, 810, 24 (link)
18. ALMA Observations of the T Tauri Binary System AS 205: Evidence for Molecular Winds and/or Binary Interactions

    Salyk, Colette; Pontoppidan, Klaus; Corder, Stuartt; Muñoz, Diego; Zhang, Ke; Blake, Geoffrey A., 2014, ApJ, 792, 68 (link)
19. Crystalline Silicates in Evolved Stars. I. Spitzer/Infrared Spectrograph Spectroscopy of IRAS 16456-3542, 18354-0638, and 23239+5754

    Jiang, B. W.; Zhang, Ke; Li, Aigen; Lisse, C. M., 2013, ApJ, 765, 72 (link)
20. An old disk still capable of forming a planetary system

    Bergin, Edwin A.; Cleeves, L. Ilsedore; Gorti, Uma; Zhang, Ke; et al. 2013, Nature, 493, 644   (link)
21. On Silicon Carbide Grains as the Carrier of the 21 μm Emission Feature in Post-Asymptotic Giant Branch Star
    
Jiang, B. W.; Zhang, Ke; Li, Aigen, 2005, ApJL, 630, 77  (link)

 

WHITE PAPERS

1.  The Unique Potential of ALMA to Probe the Gas Reservoir of Planet Formation      (link)     
   Cleeves, L. Ilsedore; Loomis, Ryan; Teague, Richard; Zhang, Ke, et al.; 2019,  
  Astro2020 White Paper
2. Tracing the Water Snowline in Protoplanetary disks with the ngVLA                                 (link)
   Zhang, Ke; Bergin, Edwin A., Jonathan P. Williams, Paola Pinilla, Sean M. Andrews, 2018,  ngVLA science book
3. The need for a far-infrared cold space telescope to understand the chemistry of planet formation  (link)
   Pontoppidan, Klaus M.; Bergin, Edwin A.; Melnick, Gary; Bradford, Matt; Staguhn, Johannes G.; Leisawitz, David T.; Meixner, Margaret; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Salyk, Colette; Blake, Geoffrey A.; Zhang, Ke; et al. White paper submitted to The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Exoplanet Science Strategy Committee


RECENT TALKS

 

• 04/2022// Colloquium, University of Chicago
• 11/2021//Invited review talk, workshop on "The Volatile Content of Planets that Form Early", Leiden University, Neitherlands
• 09/2021//Invited review talk, workshop on "Planet-forming Disks: From Surveys to Answers", Leiden Unviersity, Neitherlands
• 03/2021//Invited talk, University of Iowa, Astronomy/Space Physics Seminar, online
• 01/2021//Invited talk, MPIA planet formation group, online
• 07/2020//Contributed talk, IAU Astrochemical Frontiers, online
• 11/2019// Origins Seminar, University of Arizona
• 10/2019// Colloquium, Ohio State University
• 08/2019// Seminar, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Toronto, Canada
• 06/2019// Invited talk, Community Science workshop of Origins Space Telescope, New York, USA
• 03/2019// Contributed talk, Hubble Fellows Symposium
• 02/2019// Colloquium, University of Florida
• 02/2019// Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 02/2019// Colloquium, University of Rochester
• 12/2018// Contributed talk, Exoplanet research in the Greak Lakes area, IL, USA
• 07/2018// Contributed talk, Astrochemistry: Past, Present, and Future, CA, USA
• 03/2018// Contributed talk, Hubble Fellows Symposium
• 03/2018 //Colloquium,  University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 01/2018 //Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 07/2017 // Invited Talk,  workshop of Protoplanetary disk formation and evolution, Leiden, Netherlands  
• 03/2017 // Contributed Talk,  IAUS332 Astrochemistry VII: Through the Cosmos from Galaxies to Planets, Puerto Varas, Chile
• 01/2017 // TUNA lunch Talk, NRAO, Charlottesville, VA, USA
• 11/2016 // Invited Talk,  conference of Comets: A new vision after Rosetta/Philae, Toulouse, France