Yun Wang

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Yun Wang is a poet and professor of astrophysics specializing in cosmology. She is originally from Gaoping, a small town near Zunyi, in Guizhou Province, China. Her poetry books include The Carp from Bull Thistle Press, and The Book of Jade (ISBN 1-58654-023-8) from Story Line Press.

[edit] Professional work in astrophysics

Yun Wang received a bachelor's degree in physics from Tsinghua University in Beijing, after which she came to the United States and obtained her master's and doctorate (also in physics) Carnegie Mellon University. Currently Associate Professor in the University of Oklahoma's Department of Physics and Astrophysics, she has published sixty-three papers, most recently specializing on the detection of dark matter in the universe, with particular attention to studies of the Cosmic microwave background anisotropy, the use of supernovae and gravitational lensing as cosmological probes, and the measurement of cosmological parameters.

She is notably active as the Principal Investigator of the JEDI Collaboration (the Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation), a candidate implementation of the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM).

Her three most-cited papers are the following:

Wang, Yun; Tegmark, M (June 2004). "New dark energy constraints from supernovae, microwave background, and galaxy clustering". Physical Review Letters 92 (24): 241302. (Times Cited: 103)
Wang, Yun; Mukherjee, P (May 2004). "Model-independent constraints on dark energy density from flux-averaging analysis of type Ia supernova data". Astrophysical Journal 606 (2): 654–63. (Times Cited: 74)
Wang, Yun; Garnavich PM (May 2001). "Measuring time dependence of dark energy density from type Ia supernova data". Astrophysical Journal 552 (2): 445–51. (Times Cited: 51)