First Director: Kangxi, in the establishment of the Institute of Astronomy at Zhejiang University | Astronomy | Director
On July 4th, Zhejiang University issued a document to establish the Institute of Astronomy, with Kangxi serving as the first director of the institute.
The above picture is a photo of Kangxi in Cold Lake, Qinghai. He said that this place will be a holy land for Chinese astronomy in the future, and many optical telescopes for Chinese astronomy will be placed in the Cold Lake of Qinghai in the future.
According to public information, Kangxi graduated from the Department of Physics at Lanzhou University in 1995 and obtained a doctoral degree from the Shanghai Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute of Astronomy. From 2009 to 2019, he was the Chief Researcher at the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I became a professor at the School of Physics, Zhejiang University in 2020.
Today, Kangxi introduced to a reporter from Treasure Hunt that the Institute of Astronomy at Zhejiang University currently has 9 teachers who will focus on mainstream research directions in astronomy, such as galaxy cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, and exoplanets.
Kangxi said, "Zhejiang University began admitting master's and doctoral students in astronomy in 2020. Currently, there are more than 10 graduate students in astronomy who will pursue a degree in physics in the future. In the future, Zhejiang University will definitely establish an astronomy department to recruit undergraduate students in astronomy, but it seems that it will take some time."
This year, "The Three Body Problem" was a hit, and Kangxi felt that many people around him had become more interested in astronomy. He introduced that in order to study astronomy, one must have a strong interest in astronomical phenomena. In addition, studying astronomy requires a relatively high level of physics and mathematics.
He introduced students majoring in astronomy and their future prospects after graduation - half of them graduated from undergraduate astronomy, half went to graduate school, half went to primary and secondary schools to work as teachers in astronomy or physics, or went to work at planetariums and other institutions. After graduating from graduate school, one will engage in research in astronomy or become a high school or university teacher; Some may also choose to cross industry and work in artificial intelligence or other fields.
