Professor
- Address:
- ERC 523
- Phone:
- (773) 702-8747
- Email:
- hwchen@uchicago.edu
- Website:
- https://lambda.uchicago.edu/
Background
PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1999
Research Fields
- Observational extragalactic astronomy
- Galaxy-intergalactic medium connection
- Quasar absorption lines
- Gamma-ray burst afterglows
Research Groups
Scientific Projects
Students
- Mandy Chen (graduate/Astronomy and Astrophysics)
- Hanjue Zhu (graduate/Astronomy and Astrophysics)
- Naren Kasinath (undergraduate/CS and Astronomy and Astrophysics)
- Rohan Venkat (undergraduate/CS and Physics)
Affiliations
Research
Hsiao-Wen Chen's research interests broadly cover issues concerning formation and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. The principal goal of her research is to understand the astrophysics that regulates star formation and galaxy growth. Her expertise lies in absorption-line spectroscopy of distant light sources (quasars/gamma-ray burst afterglows) to probe the unseen matter around luminous galaxies, and in combining absorption-line observations with galaxy survey data to understand the recycling of baryonic matter between star-forming regions and dark intergalactic medium.