Yun Wang

Yun Wang (born 1964) is a poet and cosmologist. She is originally from Gaoping, a small town near Zunyi, in Guizhou Province, China.

Poet and cosmologist Yun Wang.

Professional work in astrophysics

Yun Wang received a bachelor's degree in physics from Tsinghua University in Beijing, after which she came to the United States and obtained her master's and doctorate (also in physics) from Carnegie Mellon University. A senior research scientist at California Institute of Technology since 2015, and a professor in the University of Oklahoma's department of physics and astronomy until 2017, she has published over 100 refereed papers, most recently specializing on probing the dark energy in the Universe, with particular attention to the use of supernovae and galaxy redshift surveys as cosmological probes, studies of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy, and the measurement of cosmological parameters.

Yun Wang has developed strategies for optimizing future surveys to probe dark energy, and created a mission concept for the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM), the Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation (JEDI), and served as the principal investigator of JEDI. The JEDI/JDEM mission concept illustrates the extraordinary efficiency achievable through innovative instrumentation, and the great scientific advantages of combining three independent observational methods (galaxy clustering, weak lensing, and supernovae) to probe dark energy. JEDI has significantly impacted the design of space missions to probe dark energy.

Yun Wang was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012, with the citation: "For her leadership in dark energy research, especially in developing a robust and consistent framework for analysing and interpreting cosmological data to place model-independent constraints on dark energy, and in optimizing the science return of planned space missions to probe dark energy" (from http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=W&year=2012&unit_id=DAP&institution=)

Yun Wang is a Founder of ESA's Euclid Mission, which was launched on July 1, 2023. She has co-led one of the two major science working groups for the Euclid Consortium, the Euclid Galaxy Clustering Science Working Group. Wang has led galaxy clustering science for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, with launch expected in October 2026. Roman is highly synergistic with Euclid in illuminating the mystery of the dark Universe, see https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-roman-and-esas-euclid-will-team-up-to-investigate-dark-energy.

Yun Wang is the PI of ATLAS Probe, a mission concept for a NASA probe-class space mission. ATLAS Probe will map the cosmic web of dark matter, and decode the physics of galaxy evolution. It will also provide definitive measurements on dark energy, explore dusty regions of the Inner Milky Way, and probe the formation history of the Outer Solar System. Yun Wang is also the PI of the space mission ISCEA (Infrared SmallSat for Cluster Evolution Astrophysics), selected by NASA in September 2018 for a mission concept study.[1]

Her technical monograph "Dark Energy" (ISBN 978-3-527-40941-9) was published by Wiley in 2010.

Her six most-cited recent papers are the following (with citations from INSPIRE-HEP):

Poetry

Books
  • The Book of Mirrors (ISBN 1945680474), White Pine Press, 2021, Winner of the Twenty-Sixth White Pine Press Poetry Prize
  • Dreaming of Fallen Blossoms: Tune Poems of Su Dong-Po (ISBN 194568027X, Translations, Chinese/English bilingual), White Pine Press, 2019
  • The Book of Totality (ISBN 978-1910669136), Salmon Poetry Press, 2015
  • The Book of Jade (ISBN 1-58654-023-8), Story Line Press, 2002; Winner of the Fifteenth Nicklas Roerich Poetry Prize

Chapbooks
  • The Carp, Bull Thistle Press, 1994
  • Horse by the Mountain Stream (ISBN 0975465309), Word Palace Press, 2016.

References
  1. "NASA Astrophysics Eyes Big Science with Small Satellites". 12 September 2018.

General references
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