Kong (Last Name) Xu (First name), Male, born in November 1970, native of Anhui. Professor of the University of Science
and Technology of China (USTC), Vice Dean of the School of Astronomy and Space Science; Winner of the National
Outstanding Young Scientist Fund (Jieqing); leader of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Key Fund Project
and the National Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology; Chief designer of the 2.5-meter Wide Field
Survey Telescope (Mozi Survey Telescope, WFST) of the University of Science and Technology of China-Purple Mountain
Observatory; member of the Academic Committee of the University of Science and Technology of China, the Scientific
Committee of the National Astronomical Big Science Project LAMOST Telescope, the Scientific Committee of the Chinese
Space Station Telescope CSST, and the User Committee of the Chinese Sky Eye (FAST); editorial board member of RAA and
Progress in Astronomy.
In June 2000, he received his Ph.D. degree in Science from the University of Science and Technology of China and stayed at
the university to work. From July 2001 to January 2003, he was a "Humboldt Scholar" of the Humboldt Foundation of
Germany and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany; from January 2003 to October 2003, he was
a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany; from November 2003 to December 2005, he
was a "JSPS Foreign Special Researcher" at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (returned to China early to work).
In June 2005, he was introduced to China by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to "introduce outstanding overseas talents".
In 2012, he was funded by the Outstanding Young Scientist Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Mainly engaged in galaxy formation and evolution and time-domain astronomy research, has published more than 150 SCI
papers in ApJ, MNRAS, A&A and other astronomical magazines, and the papers have been cited more than 8,500 times.
He used to be the executive director of the Department of Astronomy of the University of Science and Technology of China.
The lecture "Introduction to Astrophysics" was rated as a national excellent course, and the lecture "Galaxy Astronomy" was
rated as a provincial excellent resource sharing course. In 2021, he won the Excellent Postgraduate Instructor Award of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has trained many outstanding doctoral students.
