Curriculum Vitae for Shude Mao

Experience:

• Professor of astrophysics, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Univ. of Manchester, 08/2006-Present
• Reader in astrophysics, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Univ. of Manchester, 10/2002-07/2006
• Lecturer in astrophysics, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Univ. of Manchester, 1/2000-10/2002
• Long-term postdoctoral fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, 9/1995-12/1999
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, 9/1992-8/1995
• Research Assistant, Princeton University, 9/1988-8/1992

Education:

• Ph.D., Princeton University, 1992, Gravitational microlensing and gamma-ray bursts (advisor: Bohdan Paczynski)
• B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 1988

Research areas:

• Gravitational microlensing and lensing
• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Active galactic nuclei and ultra-luminous IRAS galaxies

Professional society:

• International Astronomical Union
• Royal Astronomical Society

Award:

• Huaxin Prize, University of Science and Technology of China, 1988
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (April 2007)