Email: chengcheng @ nao.cas.cn
Astronomer
Chinese Academy of Science South America Center for Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, Beijing, China
2021 --- 2028
Associate professor
2018 --- 2020
Assistant professor
Chinese Academy of Science South America Center for Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, Beijing, China
2016 --- 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher
Instituto de F'isica y Astronom'ia, Universidad de Valpara'iso, Valpara'iso, Chile. Supervisor: Edo Ibar
2013 --- 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Supervisor: Jiasheng Huang
2008 --- 2013 Ph.D in Astrophysics
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Thesis: Clumpy accretion onto black holes Supervisor: Jian-Min Wang
2004 --- 2008
Bachelor degree in Theoretical physics
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. Supervisor: Ye-Fei Yuan
2017 Outstanding Employee third-class Awards, Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2017 Excellent Postdoctoral Researcher, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2013 Excellent student prize of Institute Chief Fellowships, Institute of High Energy Physics
2022.01 - 2025.12 An observational study of extragalactic neutral hydrogen gas, National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program, 600 000 rms (~ 94 857.16 US dollars), PI: Cheng Cheng
2020.01 - 2020.12 Kpc-scale multi-wavelength star formation properties of galaxies at high redshift, Emergency Project of NAOC, 102 000 rms (~ 14 857.11 US dollars), PI: Cheng Cheng
2019.01 - 2021.12 ALMA Spectral Line Imaging in Submillimeter: The Spatially Study of the Galaxies Star Formation Efficiency at Redshift 0.15, National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 11803044, 280 000 rmb (~ 40 000 US dollars), PI: Cheng Cheng
2018.06 - 2020.06 Low Redshift Galaxies Star Formation Efficiency, Young Researcher Grant (top class) of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 50 000 rmb (~ 7000 US dollars), PI: Cheng Cheng
2020.01 - 2024.12 Next Generation Wide-Field Deep Optical and U-band Survey, National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 11933003, 3 600 000 rmb (~ 500 000 US dollars), PI: Jiasheng Huang; main participant: Cheng Cheng
2017.01 - 2020.12 ALMA Spectral Line Imaging in Submillimeter: Novel Ways to Better Characterize Star Formation in Galaxies Near and Far, National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 11673028, 670 000 rmb (~ 90 000 US dollars), PI: Nanyao Lu; main participant: Cheng Cheng
2017/07-2022/06 参加国家重点研发计划 恒星形成与星际介质研究 课题四：星际介质、恒星形成率和恒星形成定律，PI: Yu Gao
2025, 14 hours, GMRT. Cold Gas Dynamics in X-ray Bright Galaxy Group RX J0751.3+5012: HI Mapping with GMRT Band-5
2025, 15.89 hours, VLA. Resolving Starless H I Clouds in the CGM of Massive Galaxies
2024, 24.8 hours, FAST. Mapping the diffuse HI distribution in the Circumgalactic Medium of NGC4565
2024, 21.767 hours, FAST. Deep Mapping of Diffuse HI in Intragroup Medium of Stephan’s Quintet
2023, 23 hours, FAST. Ultra Deep FAST mapping: where is the atomic gas in the HI-deficient compact groups
2022B, 1.3 hours, NTT. Unveiling the nature of CL AGN
2022A, 7 hours, Gemini-North/GMOS. A pilot survey of low mass quiescent field galaxies at z ~ 0.15: measuring their chemical evolution and kinematics
2020B, 30 hours, FAST/19-beam receiver. Unveiling the HI gas for galaxies in transition from low to high star formation efficiency
2020B, 16 hours, FAST/19-beam receiver. Unveiling the HI gas for super spiral galaxies at redshift 0.27
LOT2020A, 2 nights, Lulin One meter Telescope. Halpha and Hbeta narrow bands observation of the UV and FIR resolved local galaxies
TAP2020A, 0.5 night, Hale telescope/CWI. Using P200/CWI to probe the origin of the double CO core in an ALMA galaxy at redshift 0.15
2019B, JCMT, 16hours, SCUBA2 Imaging of the Spitzer IRAC Dark Field
Share-risk proposal in Commissioning Phase, 10 hours, FAST/19-beam receiver. Unveiling the HI gas for galaxies in transition from low to high star formation efficiency
TAP2019A, 20.68 hours, CFHT/WIRCam. Deep Near-IR Imaging of the IRAC Deep Field (IDF) — Preparing for the JWST
SMA2019A, 10.5 hours, SMA/compact. Exploring molecular gas content in low mass galaxies
TAP2018B, 2 nights, Hale telescope/DBSP. Investigating local faint star forming galaxies: the bulge formation, stellar population and metallicity
2018A, 2 nights, Magellan / Baade /IMACS. Gas diagnostics in star-forming galaxies: understanding the star-formation process of Herschel galaxies in the main sequence
TAP2018A, 20.68 hours, CFHT/WIRCam. Deep Near-IR Imaging of the IRAC Deep Field (IDF) — Preparing for the JWST
2018A, 7 hours, Gemini/GMOS-IFU. Investigating local faint star forming galaxies: the bulge formation, star formation quenching and metallicity
ALMA cycle-5, 8.5 hours, band-5, Revealing the missing link between normal and starburst galaxies at z~0.15 – a follow-up to SEPIA detected galaxies
TAP2017B, 1 night, Hale telescope/DBSP. Investigation on the local blue absorption line galaxy
TAP2016B, 2017A, 2017B, 6.5 nights, MMT/Hectospec. Local faint galaxy spectroscopic survey
GTC/MEGARA, 2021B, 5 hours. Testing ISM self-regulated models through the observation of starburst galaxies lying in the star-formation efficiency transition zone (PI: Juan Molina)
Spitzer Director’s Discretionary Time proposal, 26.4 hours, Spitzer/IRAC. IRAC Imaging of Planck ‘‘550 micron Peakers’’ Selected Based on PCCS2 (PI: Haojing Yan)
ALMA cycle 7, 7.6 hours. A survey for the molecular gas content in normal star-forming galaxies at z~1.5: a VLT/KMOS and ALMA synergy (PI: Edo Ibar)
GTC2018B 4.5 hours, GTC/OSIRIS/Long slit spectroscopy. Calibrating the PAH emission as a SFR tracer for low-metallicity galaxies (PI: Xu Shao)
ALMA cycle 6, 26.7 hours, A survey for the molecular gas content in star-forming galaxies at z~1.5: exploiting the VLT/KMOS and ALMA synergy (PI: Edo Ibar)
APEX2018B, 18.8 hours, APEX. The molecular gas content taken from the MESS survey at z ~ 0.1 − 0.25 (PI: Juan Molina)
APEX2018A, 20 hours, APEX. Physical conditions in molecular gas in galaxies across the transition region from main-sequence to starbursts (PI: Thomas Hughes)
ESO2017B, 25 hours, VLT/MUSE. MUSE imaging of ionised gas across the transition region from main-sequence to starburst galaxies (PI: Thomas Hughes)
ALMA cycle-5, 4.4 hours, Dust destruction by radio jets in Seyfert galaxies as seen by ALMA and VLT (PI: Roger Leiton)
Lijiang 2.4m telescope, 112 half nights. AGN reverberation mapping. 2014. Feb. - Jun. (PI: Jian-Min Wang)
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Science review panel of the China-Chile joint postdoc project (2019), National Natural Science Foundation of China (2019)
LOC of the 5th China-Chile Bi-Lateral Astronomy Science Meeting