Research

My research aims to build a comprehensive, physically grounded framework to understand how radiation, magnetic fields, turbulence, and cosmic rays regulate the interstellar medium (ISM) and drive star formation and galaxy evolution across cosmic time. 

I am leading the ITAMOS framework, an integrated multi-phase modeling ecosystem that combines three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics, detailed chemistry, and radiative transfer to self-consistently simulate ionized, atomic, and molecular gas.

My work has led to discoveries on cosmic-ray–driven CO destruction and CO-dark molecular gas, diagnostics of cloud–cloud collisions, the origin of [C II]  deficit in galaxy mergers, and the impact of α-enhanced chemistry and metallicity on molecular gas tracers.

Beyond scientific results, I play an active role in international collaborations and science diplomacy, founding the Olympian Symposium conference series and building research bridges between Europe and China.

Below is a summary of various research project I have been working on.