Qian Yang

Astrophysicist (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow)
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138
E-mail: qian.yang@cfa.harvard.edu
CV and Publications

Working Experience

Astrophysicist (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow), 2021-present

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2018-2021

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Visiting Research Scholar, 2015-2016

University of Arizona

Education

Ph.D, Astrophysics, 2018

Peking University
Bachelor, Physics, 2012

Sichuan University

Research

Probing the Origin of Changing-look Quasar Transitions with Chandra (Paper)
A Southern Photometric Quasar Catalog from the Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2 (Paper)
Dust Reverberation Mapping in Distant Quasars (Paper)
Discovery of 21 New Changing-look AGNs (Paper)
Spectral Variability of Extreme Variability Quasars (Paper)
An Unusual Mid-infrared Flare in a Type 2 AGN (Paper)
Quasar Candidate Selection and Photometric Redshift Estimation (Paper, Code)

Press

'Echo Mapping' in Faraway Galaxies Could Measure Vast Cosmic Distances

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
New Discoveries Double the Number of Changing-look AGNs

The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University (KIAA-PKU)