Dr. Ke-Jung Chen

Profile

Academic position	Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fields	Astrophysics and Astronomy
Keywords	Hydrodynamical simulations, Massive stars, Radiative transfer simulations, Supernovae, Circumstellar shells
Honours and awards	2022: Career Development Award, Academic Sinica 2020: Mentoring Award for College Student Research, MOST 2019: Young Scholar Innovation Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship 2015: EACOA Fellowship 2015: The NERSC Achievement Award, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2013: IAU Gruber Fellowship

Current contact address

Country	Republic of China (Taiwan)
City	Taipei
Institution	Academia Sinica
Institute	Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Homepage	https://www.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Friedrich Röpke	Physik stellarer Objekte, Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien (HITS), Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship	01/07/2025

Programme(s)

2024	Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2026	Ou, P.-S. and Chen, Ke-Jung: {Critical Metallicity of Cool Supergiant Formation. II. Physical Origin}. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 999, 2026, 109
2026	Tsai, S.-H. and Chen, Ke-Jung and Maeda, K. and Ou, P.-S. and Röpke, F. K.: {Interacting Binary Stars as Progenitors for Interacting Supernovae}. In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1005, 2026, L36
2026	Chen, W.-Y. and Chen, Ke-Jung and Maeda, K. and Ono, M. and Ou, P.-S. and Röpke, F. K.: {Multiwavelength Signatures of Supernova Shock Breakout from Red Supergiants in Two Dimensions}. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 999, 2026, 56
2025	Tung, P.-C. and Chen, Ke-Jung: {Coevolution of Dwarf Galaxies and Their Circumgalactic Medium Across Cosmic Time}. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 988, 2025, 127
2025	Chen, Ke-Jung and Ho, M.-Y. and Tung, P.-C.: {Formation of Supersonic Turbulence in the Primordial Star-forming Cloud}. In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 988, 2025, L67
2025	Chen, Ke-Jung: {Origins of supermassive black holes in galactic centers}. In: Modern Physics Letters A, 40, 2025, 2530007
2024	Tang, C.-Y. and Chen, Ke-Jung: {Clumpy structures within the turbulent primordial cloud}. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529, 2024, 4248--4261
2024	Chen, Ke-Jung and Tang, C.-Y. and Whalen, D. J. and Ho, M.-Y. and Tsai, S.-H. and Ou, P.-S. and Ono, M.: {How Population III Supernovae Determined the Properties of the First Galaxies}. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 964, 2024, 91
2024	You, K.-A. and Chen, Ke-Jung and Pan, Y.-C. and Tsai, S.-H. and Ou, P.-S.: {Modeling the Progenitor Stars of Observed Type IIP Supernovae}. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 970, 2024, 145
2024	Chen, W.-Y. and Chen, Ke-Jung and Ono, M.: {Multidimensional Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of SN 1987A Shock Breakout}. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 976, 2024, 147
2023	Ou, P.-S. and Chen, Ke-Jung and Chu, Y.-H. and Tsai, S.-H.: {Critical Metallicity of Cool Supergiant Formation. I. Effects on Stellar-mass Loss and Feedback}. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 944, 2023, 34
2023	Chen, Ke-Jung and Whalen, D. J. and Woosley, S. E. and Zhang, W.: {Multidimensional Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Pulsational Pair-instability Supernovae}. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 955, 2023, 39
2023	Lin, C.-H. and Chen, Ke-Jung and Hwang, C.-Y.: {Rapid Growth of Galactic Supermassive Black Holes through Accreting Giant Molecular Clouds during Major Mergers of Their Host Galaxies}. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 952, 2023, 121
2023	Tsai, S.-H. and Chen, Ke-Jung and Whalen, D. and Ou, P.-S. and Woods, T. E.: {The Evolution of Population III and Extremely Metal-poor Binary Stars}. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 951, 2023, 84