Department of Astrophysical Sciences

jmshi@astro.princeton.edu

4 Ivy Lane

http://jimingshi.us/

Princeton University


Office: (609)258-7375

Princeton, NJ 08544

 

Fax: (609) 258-8226

SPECIALTIES AND INTERESTS

High Performance Computation, Gas Dynamics, Accretion Disks, Planet/Planetesimal Formation,

Magnetohydrodynamics(MHD), Turbulence, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)

EDUCATION

 

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

 

Ph.D. in Astronomy

2011

Advisor: Julian H. Krolik

 

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China

 

M.S. in Astronomy

2005

B.S. in Astronomy

2002

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate research scholar, Max-Planck-Princeton Center for Fusion and Astro Plasma Physics (MPPC), Department of Astrophysical Sciences,  Princeton University    2017 – present

Postdoctoral Research Associate, MPPC, Department of Astrophysical Sciences,  Princeton University    2014 – 2017

CIPS/TAC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley  2011- 2014

Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University  2005 – 2011

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Extensive experience in High Performance Computing (HPC) on large scale computing systems in TeraGrid / XSEDE network.

Extensive experience in development of MPI-based parallel computing programs (such as ZEUS3D variants, Athena and Athena++) for both local and global MHD simulations of accretion disks.

Extensive knowledge of large scale data analysis and visualization using tools such as Python, IDL and VisIt.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Publication list on  ADS, Google Scholar and arXiv

RECENT/UPCOMING TALKS

Numerical Simulations of Planet-Disc Interactions Workshop, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2017

Max-Planck Princeton Center workshop, Greifswald, Germany, 2017

Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences seminar, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, 2017

Kavli migration workshop, Cambridge University, 2017

The Dynamo workshop, PCTS, Princeton University, 2015

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member of American Astronomy Society (AAS) &  American Physical Society (APS)

Referee for Science, The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)  & Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL)

HONORS

CIPS Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2011-2014

Full Tuition Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2005-2011

Swomley and Kerr Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2005

Excellent Graduate of University of Science and Technology of China, 2002

Outstanding Student Scholarship, 1998-2001

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Mentor for Undergraduate Summer Research Program (USRP), Princeton, 2015-2017

Teaching Assistant for Beginning Chinese, JHU, Spring and Fall 2007

Instructor for General Physics Lab, JHU, Fall 2005 and Spring 2006

Teaching Assistant for General Physics, JHU, Fall 2005 and Spring 2006

Teaching Assistant for Electromagnetism and Mechanics, USTC, Spring 2003

Teaching Assistant for Thermodynamics and Electromagnetism, USTC, Fall 2002