The School of Astronomy and Space Science of Nanjing

University was established in March 2011, and its prede-

cessor, the Department of Astronomy, was founded in 1952.

It earns the longest history and high reputation among the

astronomy departments in China. The School owns the

national first-level key discipline of astronomy, consisting of two

national second-level key disciplines: Astrophysics and Astrometry

& Celestial Mechanics. It also consists of several laboratories, such

as Key Laboratory of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics of the

Ministry of Education, Central Laboratory for Teaching, Solar Tow-

er Laboratory, etc. During the previous National Primary Discipline

Evaluations, astronomy discipline of Nanjing University always

ranked 1st.

The school has established a strong faculty consisting of both distin-

guished senior scholars and a large number of young scholars. There

are 50 faculty members, including 23 professors, with 4 Academi-

cians of the Chinese Academy of Science, 4 Chang Jiang Scholars,

1 Chief Scientist for the National Basic Research Program (973

Program), 9 obtainers of National Outstanding Youth Funds and 9

youth high-level talents. The percentage of young scholars under

the age of forty-five is around 71%, which guarantees an exuberant

momentum of development.

Known as the “Whampoa Military Academy” in astronomical so-

ciety, the school focused upon cultivation of excellent talents with

international perspective and innovation ability. It has fostered more

than 2000 graduated students, most of them have grown into leading

experts, including 5 members of Chinese Academy of Sciences and

a group of academic leaders in top-ranked Chinese and overseas

universities and observatories.

To conform with the frontier of modern Astronomy and Astrophys-

ics, the school’s research targets at six influential fields, including

(1) high-energy astrophysics, (2) physics of solar activity region,

(3) galaxies and cosmology, (4) physics of planetary systems and

exoplanet search, (5) theory of astrometry and astronomical refer-

ence frame, and (6) deep space exploration and astrodynamics. The

high-energy astrophysics research group studies supernovae and its

remnants, gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows, compact stellar

objects, and particle acceleration, all of which are related to the most

violent explosions in our Universe. In particular, the school’s gam-

ma-ray burst research is internationally well-recognized. The solar

physics research group, aided with its unique spectrographic and im-

aging telescope, studies the three-dimensional structure, the eruption

mechanisms and the magnetohydrodynamic processes in various

solar activities. The planet research group explores planet formation

and evolution, and recently discovered a sizable sample of exoplanet

candidates with the telescope at the South Pole. The astrodynam-

ics research group plays a leading role in the dynamical theory of

man-made satellites. In recent years, the school has won a series of

national and provincial awards, such as the second class prize of the

National Award of Natural Sciences. The works on high-precision

measurement of the distance to the Perseus Spiral Arm and the study

of X-ray flares in gamma-ray bursts were published in Science. The

former was thought to open the new era of VLBI measurement of

the Galactic structure, and was selected to the Top 10 Science and

Technology Development of China’s Higher Education and Top

10 News of Chinese Fundamental Research. Recently, the school

spared no effort to construct the Time Domain Observatory in Tibet

which is helpful to TESS mission, and will give star catalogues

around North Ecliptic Pole.

In the past four years, the school received a large number of grants

(more than 85 million RMB) from both the NSFC and the industry.

More than 120 papers were published per year and about 85 percent

of them were in high quality journals, in particular one in Nature

and 9 in Nature Series. In addition, the project of the Optical-NIR

Solar Eruption Explore Telescope was awarded first class Ministeri-

al Prize for Advances in Science and Technology as well as Top 10

Science and Technology Achievements in Chinese Astronomy.

In order to establish close collaboration between universities and

observatories, in December 2012, Nanjing University, Peking Uni-

versity, the University of Science & Technology of China, National

Astronomical Observatories, and Purple Mountain Observatory

co-founded the “Collaborative Innovation Center of Modern As-

tronomy and Space Exploration”. Additionally, the school has led to

finish a number of the strategic reports that guide the future devel-

opment of Chinese Astronomy. It also serves as an active member

in the scientific researches with national astronomical facilities such

as LAMOST, FAST and the South Pole Observatory. Furthermore,

the school explores the channels of cooperation with overseas part-

ners to push forward the process of internationalization and has

established steady cooperative relationship with over 20 top-level

institutes in USA, UK, Australia, Japan, etc. To be more specific, the

NJU-IRAM Collaboration has been established in December 2017,

and the school signed the MoU with CfA in January 2018. Fruitful

academic accomplishments and awards have been obtained owe to

those vigorous exchanges with both domestic and outside world.

Email: qulian@nju.edu.cn

Website: http://enastronomy.nju.edu.cn/

http://astronomy.nju.edu.cn/

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