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Graduate Institute of Astrophysics

Faculty

Chia-Yu Hu


Name  胡家瑜
 Chia-Yu Hu
Title   Assistant Professor
Education  Ph.D. in Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2016)
Office  804 Astro-Math Building
Tel   02-3366-5161
E-mail  huchiayu@phys.ntu.edu.tw
Web  https://huchiayu.github.io/

 

Experiences
  • 2024 - : Assistant Professor, Institute of Astrophysics at National Taiwan University
  • 2022 - 2024: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Astronomy at University of Florida
  • 2019 - 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  • 2016 - 2019: Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics at Simons Foundation
Research
Study various problems in astrophysics using high-performance computer simulations. Research topics include interstellar medium, stellar feedback, galactic winds, turbulence modeling, and numerical methods.
Selected Publications

(1) [CII] Emission in a Self-regulated Interstellar Medium

     Alon Gurman, Chia-Yu Hu, Amiel Sternberg, Ewine F van Dishoeck, 2024, ApJ, 965, 179

(2) Co-evolution of Dust and Chemistry in Galaxy Simulations with a Resolved Interstellar Medium

     Chia-Yu Hu, Amiel Sternberg, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, 2023, ApJ, 952, 140

(3) Code Comparison in Galaxy Scale Simulations with Resolved Supernova Feedback: Lagrangian vs. Eulerian Methods

     Chia-Yu Hu, Matthew C. Smith, Romain Teyssier, Greg L. Bryan, Robbert Verbeke, Andrew Emerick,

     Rachel S. Somerville, Blakesley Burkhart, Yuan Li, John C. Forbes, 2023, ApJ, 950, 132

(4) Dependence of XCO on metallicity, intensity, and spatial scale in a self-regulated interstellar medium

     Chia-Yu Hu, Andreas Schruba, Amiel Sternberg, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, 2022, ApJ, 931, 28

(5) Metallicity dependence of the H/H2 and C+/C/CO distributions in a resolved self-regulating interstellar medium

     Chia-Yu Hu, Amiel Sternberg, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, 2021, ApJ, 920, 44

(6) A Priori Validation of Subgrid-scale Models for Astrophysical Turbulence

     Chia-Yu Hu, Chi-Ting Chiang, 2020, ApJ, 900, 29

(7) Thermal and nonthermal dust sputtering in hydrodynamical simulations of the multiphase interstellar medium

     Chia-Yu Hu, Svitlana Zhukovska, Rachel S. Somerville, Thorsten Naab, 2019, MNRAS, 487, 3252

(8) Supernova-driven winds in simulated dwarf galaxies

     Chia-Yu Hu, 2019, MNRAS, 483, 3363