1. Lilian Jiang
Curriculum Vitae
"During my PhD, I worked on a merger tree
algorithm that was designed by Dr John Helly. My
role in its development was to carry out a series of
tests of the resulting halo catalogues and merger
trees. These enabled Dr John Helly to refine the
algorithm. I have also done a detailed implications
for the halo catalogues of the resulting algorithm."
Education
2010–2014 Doctor of Philosophy, Institute for Computational Cosmology (leading
international center for research into the origin and evolution of the Universe),
Durham University (among top five UK universities), UK.
2006-2010 Bachelor of Science, Department of Astronomy (has ranked first in Astron-omy
and Astrophysics in all previous Chinese national university rankings) ,
Nanjing University (NJU) (among top five Chinese universities), China.
Key skills
Advanced Statistics, Data analysis, Algorithms
Advanced Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Analysis, Numerical Simulation, LATEX,
Linux / Unix
Advanced Programming: python, Fortran, C / C++, IDL, Mathematica
Academic Awards
2010-2014 Durham Doctoral Studentship (only one or two per year in the Physics
Department), Durham University
2010 Completed the project in the 2006 National Undergraduate Innovation Pro-gram
and the result has been appraised as being Excellent in 2009
2008-2009 First Class Excellent Student Scholarship in Academic Competition, NJU
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2. 2007-2008 First Class Excellent Student Scholarship in Scientific and Technological
Innovation, NJU
2007-2008 First Class Excellent Student Scholarship in Study, NJU
2008 Second Prize of Jiangsu Province in China Undergraduate Mathematical
Contest in Modeling 2008 CUMCM
2006-2007 The Highest National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education
Scientific Publications
During PhD
2010–2013 Lilian Jiang, John Helly, Shaun Cole, Carlos Frenk.
N-body dark matter haloes with simple hierarchical histories, 2014, MNRAS, 440,
2115
2013-2014 Lilian Jiang, Shaun Cole, Till Sawala, Carlos Frenk.
Orbital parameters of infalling satellite haloes in the hierarchical CDM model,
arXiv:1409.1179, submitted to MNRAS
In preparation Lan Wang, Liang Gao, Lilian Jiang.
Comparing cold dark matter and warm dark matter simulation
In preparation Quan Guo, Qi Guo, Lilian Jiang.
Fair comparison of semi-analytic models
During BA
2006–2010 Jiang Lilian, Jiang Fangzhou, Li Zongyuan, Zhao Yinghe, Gu
Qiusheng.
The Photometry of Cataclysmic Variable V1159 Ori and BZ Uma, 2010, CHAA,
34, 265
Teaching
2013-2014 Foundations of Physics, module code: PHYS1122 (Level 1), Durham Univer-sity
2012-2013 Discovery Skills in Physics, module code: PHYS1101 (Level 1), Durham
University
2012-2013 Stars and Galaxies, module code: PHYS2621 (Level 2), Durham University
2011-2012 Mathematical Methods in Physics, module code: PHYS2611 (Level 2),
Durham University
2014 Sutton Trust Summer School Teaching Assistant, Durham University
2012 Sutton Trust Summer School Teaching Assistant, Durham University
Presentations
2014 N-body dark matter haloes with simple hierarchical histories, National As-tronomy
Meeting, June, 2014, Portsmouth University, UK
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3. 2014 Orbital parameters in the Dove simulation: Infalling dark matter substructures,
Virgo collaboration meeting, January, 2014, Leiden Observatory, Netherlands
2012 Dark matter halo merger tree, The CosmoComp Workshop in University of
Trieste, September, 2012, Trieste, Italy
2009 The Particle Physics and Astronomy International Undergraduate Summer
School held by University of Sheeld, June 15th to July 10th, 2009.
2008-2009 In charge of the program called Early Research by National Natural Science
Foundation of China in Grade three, NJU 2008-2009
2006-2008 First National Students Innovative Training Plan held by Ministry of Education
from Grade one to Two, NJU 2006-2008
Outreach
2014 The Great North East Space Engineering Expo at the Discovery Museum,
June, 2014
2013 Representing Cosmology in Crisis in the Royal Society Summer Science
Exhibition in London, July, 2013
2013 Representing Cosmology in Crisis in the British Science Festival in Newcastle,
September, 2013
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