Legal name: Qiushi Tian
[email protected] | ORCID: 0009-0009-9148-2159 | Full ADS library
Education and Academic Position
- 2025–2027 (expected), Leiden University, Master of Science, Astronomy
- Supervisor (first project): Mariska Kriek
- 2024–2025, Johns Hopkins University, Research Assistant (post-baccalaureate)
- Mentors: Kirsten Larson, David Thilker, Janice Lee. Topic: Stellar populations with PHANGS-HST and JWST
- 2022–2024, Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Arts, Astronomy, Physics, with Honors in Astronomy
- Advisor: Seth Redfield. Thesis: "Monitoring Stellar Activity of Exoplanet Hosts with the Van Vleck Observatory" 24-inch Telescope" doi.org/10.14418/wes01.1.2867
- 2020–2022, Brandeis University, physics major (transferred to Wesleyan University)
Publications
The SPACE Program I: The featureless spectrum of HD 86226 c challenges sub-Neptune atmosphere trends
K. Angelique Kahle, Jasmina Blecic, Reza Ashtari, Laura Kreidberg, Yui Kawashima, Patricio E. Cubillos, Drake Deming, James S. Jenkins, Paul Mollière, Seth Redfield, Qiushi Chris Tian, Jose I. Vines, David J. Wilson, Lorena Acuña, Bertram Bitsch, Jonathan Brande, Kevin France, Kevin B. Stevenson, Ian J.M. Crossfield, Tansu Daylan, Ian Dobbs-Dixon, Thomas M. Evans-Soma, Cyril Gapp, Antonio García Muñoz, Kevin Heng, Renyu Hu, Keivan G. Stassun, Johanna Teske
Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 701, 2025 Sep 15, pp. A184
Daniel Maschmann, Janice C. Lee, D. Thilker, B. Whitmore, S. Deger, M. Boquien, R. Chandar, Daniel A. Dale, A. Wofford, Stephen Hannon, K. Larson, A. Leroy, E. Schinnerer, E. Rosolowsky, L. Úbeda, A. Barnes, E. Emsellem, K. Grasha, B. Groves, R. Indebetouw, Hwihyun Kim, R. Klessen, K. Kreckel, R. C. Levy, F. Pinna, M. J. Rodríguez, Qiushi Tian, T. Williams
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 273, 2024 Jul 9, p. 14
J. Zak, H. M. J. Boffin, E. Sedaghati, A. Bocchieri, Q. Changeat, A. Fukui, A. Hatzes, T. Hillwig, K. Hornoch, D. Itrich, V.~D. Ivanov, D. Jones, P. Kabath, Y. Kawai, L. V. Mugnai, F. Murgas, N. Narita, E. Palle, E. Pascale, P. Pravec, S. Redfield, G. Roccetti, M. Roth, J. Srba, Q. Tian, A. Tsiaras, D. Turrini, J. P. Vignes
Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, vol. 687, 2024 Jun 24, pp. L2
PAH Marks the Spot: Digging for Buried Clusters in Nearby Star-forming Galaxies
Gabrielle B. Graham, Daniel A. Dale, Chase L. Smith, Elisabeth Brann, Kaycee D. Conder, Samuel Crowe, Sumitra Dhileepkumar, Nicole A. Imming, Emilio Mendez, Zachary Pleska, Kelsey Sako, Amirnezam Amiri, Ashley T. Barnes, Médéric Boquien, Rupali Chandar, Ryan Chown, Oleg Y. Gnedin, Kathryn Grasha, Stephen Hannon, Hamid Hassani, Rémy Indebetouw, Hwihyun Kim, Jaeyeon Kim, Hannah Koziol, Kirsten L. Larson, Janice C. Lee, Adam K. Leroy, Elias K. Oakes, M. Jimena Rodríguez, Erik Rosolowsky, Karin Sandstrom, Eva Schinnerer, Jessica Sutter, David A. Thilker, Leonardo Ubeda, Bradley C. Whitmore, Tony D. Weinbeck, Thomas G. Williams, Aida Wofford, J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado, Qiushi Chris Tian, the PHANGS Collaboration
In-press, ApJ, 2025
Qiushi Chris Tian, Kirsten Larson, David Thilker, Janice Lee, et al.
In preparation, 2025
Qiushi Chris Tian, Seth Redfield, et al.
In preparation, 2025
Accepted Telescope Programs
- HST Cycle 33–34, SNAP 18079, 120 orbits. PI: S. K. Sarbadhicary, incl. co-I Q. C. Tian. “An HST Near-UV SNAP + Roman survey of extended star-forming disks in nearby galaxies”
- HST Cycle 33, GO 18086, 12 orbits. PI: R. McClain, incl. co-I Q. C. Tian. “The impact of stellar feedback as revealed by thousands of resolved HII regions in NGC 253”
- APO 3.5m, 2025Q3, "JH03". 2025-07-04. PI: Q. C. Tian. Instrument: KOSMOS. Half night.
- APO 3.5m, 2025Q2, "JH05". 2025-04-23. PI: Q. C. Tian. Instrument: KOSMOS. Half night.
Awards, Grant & Fellowship
- $ 1,500.00, Travel Support, STScI Spring Symposium, Space Telescope Sci. Inst., 2025.
- N/A, Chambliss Awards Honorable Mention, American Astronomical Society, 2024.
- $ 4,800.00, Adelphic Educational Fund Summer Grant, Wesleyan University, 2023.
- $ 4,500.00, CIS RIS Summer Research Fellowship, Wesleyan University, 2023.
Collaboration Memberships
- 2024–present, Regular member, Physics at High Angular Resolution in Nearby Galaxies (PHANGS)
- 2023–present, Member, Sub-Nepturn Planetary Atmosphere Characterization Experiment (SPACE)
Invited Talk
{9} JHU CAS AstroCoffee. Baltimore, MD. 2024 November 11
Conference Presentations
{12} STScI 2025 Spring Symposium Baltimore, MD. 2025 May 12
{11} 245th Meeting of the AAS National Harbor, MD. 2025 January 14
{10} STScI/JHU ExoJamboree Baltimore, MD. 2024 November 22
{8} STScI HotSci Talk Baltimore, MD. 2024 August 14
{7} 10th Connecticut Exoplanet Picnic @ Wesleyan Middletown, CT. 2024 July 24
{6} ERES IX Symposium @ Cornell University Ithaca, NY. 2024 July 12
{5} 243rd Meeting of the AAS New Orleans, LA. 2024 January 9
{4} KNAC Symposium @ Wesleyan University Middletown, CT. 2023 October 7
{3} The GOALS Virtual Team Meeting: Stars Online. 2023 August 28
{2} Summer Science Symposium, Wesleyan CIS Middletown, CT. 2023 July 27
{1} 9th Connecticut Exoplanet Picnic @ Wesleyan Middletown, CT. 2023 July 21
Service
- 2025–present, Assessor, Observity Committee, L.A.D. 'F. Kaiser' (student association at Leiden University)
- 2024, Mentor, PhA Mentorship Program at Johns Hopkins University
- 2024, Member, ERES Mission & Vision Committee
- 2023–2024, Public Outreach Assistant at Van Vleck Observatory, Wesleyan University
- 2023–2024, Core member, Society of Physics Students (SPS) at Wesleyan University
- 2022, Teacher, Splash at Brandeis University
- 2021, Volunteering docent, Beijing Planetarium
Skills
- JWST and HST image processing and analysis;
- Certified Observer, APO 3.5m telescope (KOSMOS, Echelle, ARCTIC, NICFPS);
- Small optical telescope operation (PlaneWave CDK24, L-600, FLI Proline PL4240);
- Small optical telescope automation (PWI 3, PWI 4, MaximDL, ACP DC-3);
- CIGALE (“Code Investigating GALaxy Emission,” an SED fitting tool);
- Python (Jupyter notebook and lab, NumPy, SciPy, Astropy, Astroquerry, astroplan, scikit-image, Matplotlib, dust_extinction, Lightkurve, PyKOSMOS, pyaladin, etc.);
- SAO ds9; TOPCAT; AstroImageJ;
- Astronomer’s Proposal Tools (APT);
- LaTeX; bash/zsh, PowerShell; GitHub; Web (HTML/CSS, JavaScript); Java; …….