Home People Teaching Staff CHU Ming Chung

Education:

• PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1987
• BSc, California Institute of Technology, 1983

Current Position:

• Choh-Ming Li Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Field:

• Astrophysics, Cosmology
• Nuclear/Particle Physics
• Theoretical and Computational physics

Research Interest:

• Dark Matter Astrophysics and Cosmology
• Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
• Neutrino Oscillations (Daya Bay and Aberdeen Tunnel experiments)
• Experimental Particle Physics (Link to ATLAS, CERN)

Honours and Awards:

• Choh-Ming Li Professor of Physics (2022), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Science (2014, 2019), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Fellow, Physical Society of Hong Kong (2019)
• Fellow, American Physical Society (2018)
• Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016)
• Lecturer of the Year, Physical Society of Hong Kong (2013)
• Outstanding Referee Award, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2013)
• University Education Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2012)
• Exemplary Teaching Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2001, 2007, 2008)
• Vice-Chancellor Exemplary Teaching Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2000)
• Li Ming Scholarship for Academic Achievement, Caltech (1985)
• George Green Prize for Creative Scholarship, Caltech (1983)
• Academic Prize, Chinese Science and Engineering Society (1982)

Major Research Grants:

• Area of Excellence Grant (19-27): Probing the Fundamental Structure of Matter with High Energy Particle Collisions
• General Research Fund (18-20): Accretion-Induced Collapse of Hybrid White Dwarfs
• Collaborative Research Grant (15-18): A Tier-2 Computing Center for Fundamental Physics
• Collaborative Research Grant (14-17): Searching for New Physics with the Large Hadron Collider
• General Research Fund (14-17): Constraining Spatial Variations of the Fine Structure Constant and Reionization using Cosmic Microwave Background Data
• Collaborative Research Grant (11-14): High Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation at Daya Bay
• Earmarked Grant (11-13): Constraining Sterile Neutrino Properties by Cosmological and Astrophysical Data
• Central Allocation Grant (08-11): Research and Development for the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
• Earmarked Grant (08-10): Constraining Alternative Gravity Theories with Cosmological Observables
• Earmarked Grant (07-09): Studying Cosmic Muons in Aberdeen Tunnel
• Earmarked Grant (06-08): Neutrino Oscillation Study at the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant
• Earmarked Grant (04-06): Entanglement Production in Interacting Massive Two-particle Systems
• Earmarked Grant (03-05): Probing the Early Universe with Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies
• Earmarked Grant (01-03): Dynamics of a Driven Bose-Einstein Condensate: Coherent Structures and Control
• Earmarked Grant (97-00): General Relativistic Astrophysics: Coalescences of Neutron Star Binaries
• Earmarked Grant (96-98): Theoretical and Computational Study of Sonoluminescence

Selected Publications:

• S Zha, M.-C. Chu, SC Leung, LM Lin, Accretion-induced Collapse of Dark Matter Admixed White Dwarfs. II. Rotation and Gravitational-wave Signals, The Astrophysical Journal 883, 13 (2019).
• J Zhang, YLS Tsai, JL Kuo, K Cheung, MC Chu,  Ultralight Axion Dark Matter and Its Impact on Dark Halo Structure in N-body Simulations, The Astrophysical Journal 853, 51 (2018).
• F P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration), Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters 118, 251801 (2017).
• Dalong Cheng, M.-C. Chu and Jiayu Tang, Cosmological Structure Formation in Decaying Dark Matter Models, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 07, 009 (2015).
• F P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration), Search for a Light Sterile Neutrino at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters 113, 141802 (2014).
• S.-C. Leung, M.-C. Chu, L.-M. Lin, and K.-W. Wong, Dark-matter admixed white dwarfs, Physical Review D 87, 123506 (2013).
• F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration), Observation of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay, Physical Review Letters 108, 171803 (2012).