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 chemical processes of planet formation. Please see more details in my research page.

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2024/09 Welcome to our new postdoc Abby Waggoner to join UW Madison!
2024/09 Welcome to our new first year graduate student Eshan Raul to join UW Madison!
2024/06 Our research forward proposal to study habitability of exoplanet hycean worlds has been funded!
2024/06 Welcome to our group, Carl Yao! Carl is a sophomore undergraduate student at UW Madison.
2024/04 Congratulations to our postbac student Leopold Hutnik who has been admitted to the graduate program at the New Mexico State University!
2024/03 Congratulations to our undergraduate Ella Chevalier! Ella is selected to attend the summer REU program at the University of California-Berkeley!
2023/08 Congratulations to our postdoc Leon Trapman, whose ALMA cycle 10 proposal "Measuring accurate gas masses for the exoALMA planet-forming disks", 13.6h, has been accepted.
2023/07 Welcome to our group, Tayt Armitage! Tayt is a first-year graduate student at UW-Madison. He will investigate the chemical signs of pebble drift in the HD 163296 protoplanetary disk.
2023/07 Congratulations to our postdoc Leon Trapman, whose new paper "How large is a disk - what do protoplanetary disk gas sizes really mean?" was just accepted for publication in the AAS Journal.
2023/05 Our JWST/MIRI proposal to study the chemical evolution at the terrestrial planet-forming zoom has been approved! (PI. Zhang, 65h)
2023/05 Congratulations to our undergraduate Nina Weichmann, who is awarded an undergraudate research fellowship by the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium! Great job, Nina!
2023/03 Congratulations, Estephani! Estephani is awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
2023/03 Congratulations to our undergraduate Ella Chevalier! Ella is selected to attend the summer REU program at the Louisianna State University!
2023/02 Welcome to our group, Nina Weichmann! Nina is a sophomore undergraduate student at UW Madison. She will work on modeling mm to cm continuum fluxes of the HD 179218 disk.
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