Prof. Xiaofeng Wang is currently a professor of Tsinghua University. He received the PhD degrees in Astrophysics from Beijing Normal University in 2002. After that, he worked as a postdoc at NAOC, UC Berkeley, and Texas A&M University. In 2010, he joined in physics department of Tsinghua University. In 2013, he was awarded for “The National Science Fund for distinguished Young Scholars”. In 2015, he was awarded for the “Huang Shoushu” Prize by the Chinese Astronomical Society. In 2016, he was selected for innovation talent promotion plan by the Ministry of science and technology of China. His research interests include observations and theories of supernovae, supernova cosmology, and time-domain astronomy. His team has discovered more than 300 nearby SNe over the past few years using the telescopes in China, becoming one of the main supernova search engines in the world.
