Assistant Professor
Email: menggu@tsinghua.edu.cn
Office: E218
Website: https://menggu-astro.github.io/
Introduction:
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Tsinghua University. From Mar 2024 to Nov 2025, I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Observatories and a Henry Norris Russell Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. I began my graduate studies at UC Santa Cruz and completed my PhD at Harvard University.
I am an observational astronomer studying galaxy formation and evolution, with a particular interest on stellar population analysis. I specialize in stellar population synthesis modeling as well as spectroscopic observations and data reduction. My research broadly investigates how galaxies form and evolve, and in particular aims to uncover the physical mechanisms that govern the interplay between star formation and galaxy mass assembly.
I investigate several outstanding questions in the field, including the nature of the stellar initial mass function in galaxies; the role of environment in shaping galaxy formation and evolution; and the growth and mass assembly of massive galaxies. I have used observations from the Magellan Telescpes, the Very Large Telescope, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the James Webb Space telescope address these problems, and I plan to continue pursuing these topics with next-generation facilities.
