General
Shude Mao

Email:
smao@nao.cas.cn

Tel: +86-10-64806084    Fax: +86-10-64806237

Address: National Astronomical Observatories , Chinese Academic of Sciences , A20 Datun Rd, Chaoyang District , Beijing 100012, P. R. China 

Website:
info.bao.ac.cn/sdm/ 
                 
www.jb.man.ac.uk/~smao/

Research Areas

The research of Prof. Shude Mao spans a diverse range from planet hunting tocosmology, with particular interests in galaxy formation, gravitational lensing and dynamics, near-field cosmology.

Education

October 1992    
PhD in Astrophysics, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University

June1988          
BScinPhysics, University of Science and Technology of China

Experience

October 2010 – present
Full professor of Astrophysics
National Astronomical Observatory of China

August 2006 – present 
Full professor of Astrophysics
Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, UK 

October 2002 – July 2006
Reader in Astrophysics
Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, UK 

January 2000 – September 2002
Lecturer in Astrophysics
Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics ,Garching, Germany 

September 1995 – December 1999
Long-term Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA 

September 1992 – August 1995
Harvard-Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow
Princeton University Princeton, NJ 

September 1988 – August 1992
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 

September 1987 – June 1988
Research Assistant in high temperature superconductivity 

Professional society: 

International Astronomical Union
Royal Astronomical Society

Honors & Distinctions

Prof. Shude Mao has made important contributions to galaxy formation, gravitational lensing and exoplanet search with gravitational microlensing. He won the Bessel Research Award in 2007, which is in recognition of his outstanding research record, from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and has held visiting professor positions at Princeton, Cambridge and the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany. He has published over 140 papers, amassing more than 5,000 citations.

Publications

Selected publications 

A distortion of very-high-redshift galaxy number counts by gravitational lensing
Wyithe, J.; Stuart B.; Yan, Haojing; Windhorst, Rogier A.; Mao, Shude, 2011,Nature, 469, 181-184

Substructure lensing: effects of galaxies, globular clusters and satellite streams, Xu, D. D.; Mao, Shude; Cooper, Andrew P.; Wang, Jie; Gao, Liang; Frenk, Carlos S.; Springel, V., 2010, MNRAS, 408, 1721-1729.

Effects of Dark Matter Substructures on Gravitational Lensing: Results from the Aquarius Simulations
Xu, D. D., Mao, S., Wang, J., Springel, V., Gao, L., White, S. D. M., Frenk, C. S., Jenkins, A., Li, G. L., Navarro, J. F. 2009, MNRAS,398, 1235-1253

Anomalous Flux Ratios in Gravitational Lenses: For or against Cold Dark Matter?
Mao, S., Jing, Y. P., Ostriker, J. P., Weller, J. 2004, ApJ, 604, 5

Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. OGLE-1999-BUL-32: the Longest Ever Microlensing Event -- Evidence for a Stellar Mass Black Hole?,
Mao, S., Smith M.C., Wozniak P., Udalski, A., et al. 2002, MNRAS, 329, 349

The Influence of Central Black Holes on Gravitational Lenses
Mao, S., Witt, H.J., Koopmans L.V.E. 2001, MNRAS, 323, 301

Evidence for substructure in lens galaxies?
Mao, S., & Schneider, P. 1998, MNRAS, 295, 587

The Formation of Galactic Disks
Mo, H.J., Mao, S., & White, S.D.M. 1998, MNRAS, 295, 319

On the Cosmological Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Mao, S., & Paczynski, B. 1992, ApJ, 339, L1.

Gravitational Microlensing by Double Stars and Planetary Systems
Mao, S., & Paczynski, B. 1991, ApJ, 374, L37

Research Interests