Research Areas
Astrochemistry; Evolved Stars; Molecules in Space; Radio Astronomy.
Education
2011 Feb. - 2015 Feb., Ph.D., Leiden University, Astrochemistry, Supervisor: Ewine van Dishoeck
2007 Sep. - 2010 June, M.Sc., Ludong University, Atomic and molecular physics, Supervisor: Meishan Wang
2003 Sep. - 2007 June, B.Sc., Hexi University, Physics
Working Experience
2019 May - current: Professor, Head of the Astrochemistry group, Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences
2018 June - 2019 April: FAST Fellow, Center for Astronomical Mega-Science (CAMS), Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017 Aug - 2018 May: EACOA Fellow, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)
2016 June - 2017 July: EACOA Fellow, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA)
2015 June - 2016 May: EACOA Fellow, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)
2015 Feb - 2015 May: Postdoc, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, the Netherlands, Astrochemistry
2010 July - 2011 Jan: Research assistant at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences
Selected Publications
(1) Xiaohu Li*, Alan N. Heays, Wim Ubachs, Brenton R. Lewis, Ruud Visser, and Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Photodissociation of interstellar N2, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2013, 555, A14
(2) Xiaohu Li*, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Marc C. van Hemert and Carina Arasa, Effects of reagent rotation and vibration on H + OH (v, j) -> O + H2, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2013, 117, 12889
(3) Xiaohu Li*, Tom J. Millar, Catherine Walsh, Alan N. Heays, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Photodissociation and chemistry of N2 in the circumstellar envelope of carbon-rich AGB stars, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 568, A111 (2014).
(4) Xiaohu Li*, Tom J. Millar, Alan N. Heays, Catherine Walsh, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Isabelle Cherchneff, Chemistry and distribution of daughter species in the circumstellar envelopes of O- rich AGB stars, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 588, A4 (2016).
(5) Tao Yang, Luke Bertels, Beni B. Dangi, Xiaohu Li, Martin Head-Gordon, and Ralf I. Kaiser，Gas phase formation of c-SiC3 molecules in the circumstellar envelope of carbon stars，Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)，2019，116 (29) ，14471-14478.
(6) Kaiser, Ralf I., Long Zhao, Wenchao Lu, Musahid Ahmed, Mikhail M. Evseev, Valeriy N. Azyazov, Alexander M. Mebel, Rana K. Mohamed, Felix R. Fischer, and Xiaohu Li*. "Gas-phase synthesis of racemic helicenes and their potential role in the enantiomeric enrichment of sugars and amino acids in meteorites." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 24, no. 41 (2022): 25077-25087.
(7) Feng, Yanan and Li, Xiaohu* and Millar, Tom J. and Szczerba,Ryszard and Wang, Ke and Quan, Donghui and Qin, Shengli and Fang, Xuan and Tuo, Juan and Miao, Zhenzhen and Ma, Rong and Xu, Fengwei and Sun, Jingfei and Jiang, Biwei and Chang, Qiang and Yang, Jianchao and Hou, Gao-Lei and Li, Fangfang and Zhang, Yong. Photochemical origin of SiC2 in the circumstellar envelope of carbon-rich AGB stars revealed by ALMA. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 10, 1215642 (2023).
(8) Zhenghai Yang, Galiya R. Galimova, Chao He, Shane J. Goettl, Dababrata Paul, Wenchao Lu, Musahid Ahmed*, Alexander M. Mebel*, Xiaohu Li*, Ralf I. Kaiser*, Gas-phase formation of the resonantly stabilized 1-indenyl (C9H7• ) radical in the interstellar medium, Science Advances, 9, eadi5060 (2023).
(9) Juan Tuo, Xiaohu Li*, Jixian Sun, Tom J. Millar, Yong Zhang, Jianjie Qiu, Donghui Quan, Jarken Esimbek, Jianjun Zhou, Yu Gao, Qiang Chang, Lin Xiao, Yanan Feng, Zhenzhen Miao, Rong Ma, Ryszard Szczerba, Xuan Fang, A λ 3 mm line survey towards the circumstellar envelope of the carbon-rich AGB star IRC +10216 (CW Leo), Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 271, 45 (2024).
(10) Zhenghai Yang, Chao He, Shane J. Goettl, Alexander M. Mebel,* Paulo F. G. Velloso, Márcio O. Alves, Breno R. L. Galvão,* Jean-Christophe Loison,* Kevin M. Hickson, Michel Dobrijevic, Xiaohu Li,* Ralf I. Kaiser1*, Low-temperature formation of pyridine and (iso)quinoline via neutral–neutral reactions, Nature Astronomy, 8, 856–864 (2024).
Positions offered
1. Admissions & Careers
Recruit master's students, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows in astrophysics and astrochemistry.
2. Recruitment information
(1) Research Assistant;
(2) Associate Researcher;
(3) Researcher.
Please email me if you are interested in the above positions.