Ji-Wei XIE was born in 1984 and received his bachelor’s degree from the Department of Astronomy at Nanjing University in 2006. He was a PhD student jointly hosted by Nanjing University and University of Florida. He obtained his PhD in 2011,then worked as a post-doc researcher at University of Toronto from 2011 to 2013. Since 2014, he has been working as an associate professor at the School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University.
　　He was engaged in the theoretical and observational research of exoplanets. At present, his research focuses on the large sample survey of exoplanets, the formation and dynamics analysis and simulation of exoplanets, and the exploration and data analysis of exoplanets.
　　In 2010, Xie was awarded the first New Academic Stars Award for PhD Candidates by the Ministry of Education. In 2012, his dissertation was awarded the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Jiangsu Province and later the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation in the following year. In 2018, he was selected into the Ten-Thousand Talents Program for Young Researchers. In 2019, he was supported by Jiangsu Provincial Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and awarded the seventh Huang Shoushu Prize by the Chinese Astronomical Society. Two of his research achievements were listed as among China’s Top Ten Astronomical Science and Technology Accomplishments in 2016 and 2018 respectively.

　　Theoretical Mechanics
　　Hot Research Topics in Astronomy and Astrophysics

　　Extrasolar Planets

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