Dr. Xingang Chen

Biography

Xingang Chen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2003. Throughout his career, he held postdoctoral positions at prestigious institutions including the University of Florida, Cornell University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also a Stephen Hawking Advanced Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on theoretical aspects of early universe models, primordial density perturbations, cosmic microwave background, large scale structure, dark matter, and string cosmology. Dr. Chen's contributions to the field have been recognized through various academic appointments, including his recent position at Harvard University after serving as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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