Feb 2021 - now vice chair of COSPAR Commission E: Research in Astrophysics from Space

Aug 2015 - now co-chair of SWG on dense matter for Sino-EU X-ray mission eXTP mission

Apr 2015 - now core member, SKA radio transient SWG

Nov 2006 - now Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Principal Staff Scientist & Group leader

Mar 2004 - Oct 2006 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics

May 2001 - Feb 2004 University of Amsterdam, Astronomical Institute

July 1993 - May 2001 Institute of High Energy Physics, Staff Scientist

June 1996 - Jan 1998 NASA/MSFC/USRA CGRO/BATSE group, visiting student

Sep 1994 - Aug 1998 Ph.D student in particle physics, Institute of High Energy Physics

Sep 1990 - June 1993 MSc student in Theoretical Astrophysics, Central China Normal Univ.

Sep 1986 - June 1990 BSc student in Physics, Central China Normal Univ.

Multi-wavelength time domain astrophysics, Observational high energy astrophysics, Relativistic astrophysics

1. Radio transients

Niu C.-H., Aggarwal K., Li D., Zhang X., Chatterjee S., Tsai C.-W., Yu W., et al., 2022, "A repeating fast radio burst associated with a persistent radio source" , Nature, 606, 873. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04755-5

Zhang, X. , Yu, W., Motta, S. E., Fender, R., Woudt, P., Miller-Jones, J. C. A. and Sivakoff, G. R, 2022, "MeerKAT radio detection of the Galactic black hole candidate Swift J1842.5-1124 during its 2020 outburst", MNRAS, 510, 1258. doi:10.1093/mnras/stab3463

Sun, Shangyu, Yu, Wenfei, Yu, Yunwei, Mao, Dongming and Lin, Jie, "A Search for Short-term Hard X-Ray Bursts in the Direction of the Repeating FRB 121102", 2019, ApJ, 885, 55. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab4420

2. Black hole transients

Zhang, Wenda, Yu, Wenfei, Karas, Vladimir and Dovciak, Michal, "Probing the Bardeen-Petterson Effect in Tidal Disruption Events with Spectral line Reverberation Mapping", 2019, ApJ, 884, 72. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab3e3e

Yan, Zhen and Yu, Wenfei, "Detection of X-ray spectral state transitions in mini-outbursts of black hole transient GRS 1739-278", 2017, MNRAS, 470, 4298. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1562

3. Neutron stars and ultra-dense matter

Lin, Jie and Yu, Wenfei, "The Energetic Thermonuclear Bursts in SAX J1712.6-3739", 2020, ApJ, 903, 37. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abb76f

Stiele, H., Yu, W. and Kong, A. K. H., "Millihertz Quasi-periodic Oscillations in 4U 1636-536: Putting Possible Constraints on the Neutron Star Size" 2016, ApJ, 831, 34. doi:10.3847/0004-637X/831/1/34

4. Accretion physics

Mao, D. M., Yu, W. F., Lin, J., Zhang, J. J., Yan, Z., Zhang, H., Zhang, W. D. “High Speed Photometric Performance of Fast Optical Camera During the 2018 Campaign of a Black Hole Transient”，2021, Acta Astronomica Sinica (天文学报), 62, 53

Yan, Zhen and Yu, Wenfei, "X-Ray Outbursts of Low-mass X-Ray Binary Transients Observed in the RXTE Era", 2015, ApJ, 805, 87. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/805/2/87

Yu, W. and Yan, Zhen, "State Transitions in Bright Galactic X-ray Binaries: Luminosities Span by Two Orders of Magnitude", 2009, ApJ, 701, 1940. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/701/2/1940