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Employment
2026- Postdoctoral Research Fellow in theoretical astrophysics
National Center for Theoretical Sciences (Physics Division), National Taiwan University, Taipei, TW
Research group: Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics (TCA) Thematic Group (TG2.3)
Research expertise: Star formation and stellar feedback, interstellar medium, computational hydrodynamics
Collaborators: Prof. Yueh-Ning Lee, Prof. Min-Kai Lin
Education
2021-2025 PhD in computational astrophysics
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
Supervisor: Prof. Ian A. Bonnell
Thesis title: The Shocking Stars - Numerical modelling of stellar feedback in Giant Molecular Clouds
Publicly available at the St Andrews thesis repository
Examiners: Prof. Matthew Bate (external), Prof. Moira Jardine (internal)
2018-2020 MSc by Research in astrophysics
Department of Physics, University of York, England, UK
Supervisor: Dr. Emily Brunsden
Thesis title: Stellar rotation formalisms of γ Doradus stars from gravity-mode period spacings
Publicly available at the White Rose thesis repository
Examiners: Prof. Catherine Lovekin (external), Prof. Phil Lightfoot (internal)
2015-2018 BSc in physics with astrophysics
Department of Physics, University of York, England, UK
Supervisors: Dr. Chris Murphy (academic), Dr. Emily Brunsden (FYP)
First-class honours with Distinction (85%)
Dissertation title: Estimating distances to type I Cepheid variables using the Period-Luminosity relation with visual photometry
Publications
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9292-5996
- Lau, C. S. C. & Bonnell, I. A. 2025, “Semi-confined supernova feedback in HII region bubbles”, MNRAS, 540, 1124–1143, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf756
- Lau, C. S. C., Petkova, M. A. & Bonnell, I. A. 2025, “Hybrid radiation hydrodynamics scheme with adaptive gravity-tree-based pseudo-particles”, MNRAS, 538, 1461–1480, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf366
- Dudson, B. D., Allen, J., Body, T., Chapman, B., Lau, C., Townley, L., Moulton, D., Harrison, J. & Lipschultz, B. 2019, “The role of particle, energy and momentum losses in 1-D simulations of divertor detachment”, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion, 61, 6, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ab1321
Grants & Awards
2024 SPHERIC 2024 (Berlin) 2nd-place Libersky Prize for research on SPH
2021 UKRI STFC training grant PhD full scholarship
2019 University of York Departmental scholarship for MSc studies
2018 University of York 1st-place Goodwin Prize for best final-year project
Conference talks
2025 June SPHERIC 2025, Barcelona (Contributed)
2025 June Phantom workshop 2025, Grenoble (Invited)
2025 May Bally Fest, Budapest (Contributed)
2024 Sep UK galactic star formation, Armagh (Contributed)
2024 Sep German Astronomical Society meeting 2024, Cologne (Contributed x2)
2024 June Research visit to the Theoretical Astrophysics Cologne group, Cologne (Invited)
2024 June SPHERIC 2024, Berlin (Contributed)
2024 Feb ECOGAL winter school, Les Houches (Contributed)
2023 Mar Phantom workshop 2023, Online (Contributed)
2019 July NAM 2019, Lancaster (Contributed poster)
Teaching
At University of St Andrews
I worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the following undergraduate courses:
2025 Spring 3rd-year Computational astrophysics (lab demonstrator)
2024 Winter 1st-year Astronomy and Astrophysics (tutor)
2024 Spring 3rd-year Computational astrophysics (lab demonstrator)
2023 Winter 1st-year Astronomy and Astrophysics (tutor)
2023 Spring 3rd-year Computational astrophysics (lab demonstrator)
2022 Winter 1st-year Astronomy and Astrophysics (lab demonstrator)
2022 Spring 2nd-year Astronomy and Astrophysics (lab demonstrator)
2021 Winter 1st-year Astronomy and Astrophysics (lab demonstrator)
I also assissted/co-supervised the following MSc project students with Prof. Ian Bonnell:
2024 Spring Pavani Kumar
2024 Spring Jesus Miguel Yulo Asuncion
2024 Spring Daniel Maske
2023 Spring Florence Harper (now as Robin Harper)
At University of York
I worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the following undergraduate courses:
2020 Spring 2nd-year Mathematics (problem class tutor)
2020 Spring 1st-year Python lab (lab demonstrator)
2020 Spring 1st-year Vibrations and waves (problem class tutor)
2020 Spring 1st-year Electromagnetism (problem class tutor)
2020 Spring 1st-year Mapping the universe (problem class tutor)
2019 Winter 2nd-year Python lab for astrophysics students (lab demonstrator)
2019 Winter 3rd-year Advanced astrophysics laboratory (lab demonstrator)
2019 Spring 2nd-year Electromagnetism and optics (problem class tutor)