Cheng-Zong RUAN

Cosmology Postdoc at ICC, Durham

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About Me

My work focuses on translating gravitational actions beyond the Einstein-Hilbert framework into cosmological observables such as galaxy clustering, weak lensing, and cluster counts.
我的工作是将超越标准引力理论的各种作用量翻译成宇宙学可观测量,例如星系成团性,弱引力透镜与星系团计数。


Contact Details

Cheng-Zong Ruan
Institute for Computational Cosmology
Durham University
Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
chzruan@gmail.com

Employment

Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025 - present

Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC), Durham University

Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022 - 2025

Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (ITA), University of Oslo

Education

PhD in Cosmology, 2019 - 2022

Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC), Durham University

Supervisors: Prof. Baojiu Li, Prof. Carlton Baugh and Dr. Alexander Eggemeier
PhD Thesis: Non-linear galaxy clustering in modified gravity cosmologies

MSc in Astrophysics, 2017 - 2019

Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University

BSc in Physics, 2013 - 2017

Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University

Publications

Talks

From gravitational action to small-scale galaxy correlation functions

Durham Friday Lunchtime Astrophysics Talks (FLAT), October 29, 2021, [slides]