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-present: Associate Professor of Astronomy, Xiamen University, China

Research interest:

Galaxy cluster; Galaxy evolution; High energy astrophysics

Funding and approved PI proposals:

• 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 (to Dec. 2022): 18+ peer-reviewed papers (12 as the first or corresponding author) 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