Education and Positions：
2005-2009: B.S. Physics, Zhejiang University, China
2009-2015: Ph.D. Astronomy, Nanjing University, China
2012-2014: Visiting student, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
2015-2017: Postdoc, Purple Mountain Observatory, China
2017-2021: Postdoc, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
2022-2024: Associate Professor of Astronomy, Xiamen University, China
2024-present: Professor of Astronomy, Xiamen University, China
Research interest:
Galaxy cluster; Galaxy evolution; High energy astrophysics
Funding and approved PI proposals:
NSFC Funding for Excellent Young Scholars: the galaxy cluster ecosystem
NSFC General Program: multi-wavelength scaling relations and selection bias of galaxy clusters
NSFC Youth Program: warm and hot gas in and around galaxy clusters
Chandra, 130ks, Double bullet cluster A4067
XMM-Newton, 40ks, Abell 1367: hierarchical growth through multiple mergers
NuSTAR, 300ks, Exploring the acceleration limit of the peculiar supernova remnant G106.3+2.7
Publications: ADS, Google scholar
Sun, Ming∗; Ge, Chong∗; Luo, Rongxin∗ et al., 2022, Nature Astronomy, 6, 270: A universal correlation between warm and hot gas in the stripped tails of cluster galaxies—Nature Astronomy cover story
Ge, Chong∗; Luo, Rongxin; Sun, Ming∗ et al., 2021, MNRAS, 505, 4702: An Hα/X-ray orphan cloud as a signpost of the ICM clumping—ESA, Sky & Telescope news reports
Ge, Chong; Liu, Ruo-Yu∗; Niu, Shu et al., 2021, The Innovation, 2, 100118: Revealingapeculiarsupernova remnant G106.3+2.7 as a petaelectronvolt proton accelerator with X-ray observations
Ge, Chong∗; Sun, Ming∗; Liu, Ruo-Yu et al., 2019, MNRAS, 486, L36: A merger shock in Abell 1367
Ge, Chong∗; Sun, Ming∗; Rozo, Eduardo et al., 2019, MNRAS, 484, 1946: X-ray scaling relations from a complete sample of the richest maxBCG clusters
Teaching:
Galaxy Astronomy (undergraduate students)
Galaxy Cosmology (graduated students)
