Biography
2023-present: PhD in Astronomy, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK
2022-2023: MASt in Astrophysics, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK
2019-2022: BSc in Physics with Theoretical Physics, Imperial College London, UK
Research
Galactic Archaeology; Galactic Dynamics, Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Publications
-- H. Zhang, G. Iorio, V. Belokurov, \textit{et al.}, "Revealing the ages of metal-rich RR Lyrae via kinematic label transfer", 2025, MNRAS submitted, (arXiv:2504.06720)
-- H. Zhang, V. Belokurov, N.W. Evans, \textit{et al.}, "Observational Constraints of Radial Migration in the Galactic Disk Driven by the Slowing Bar", 2025, ApJL, 983, 10
-- H. Zhang, V. Belokurov, N.W. Evans, Z.-Y. Li, J. Sanders, A. Arentsen, "Deciphering the Milky Way disc formation time encrypted in the chrono-kinematics of the bar", 2024, MNRAS, 535, 2873
-- H. Zhang, V. Belokurov, N.W. Evans, S. Kane, J. Sanders, "Kinematics and dynamics of the Galactic bar revealed by \textit{Gaia} long period variables", 2024, MNRAS, 533, 3395
-- H. Zhang, A. Arentsen, V. Belokurov, "On the existence of a very metal-poor disc in the Milky Way", 2024, MNRAS, 533, 889
-- H. Zhang, J. Sanders, "A kinematic calibration of the Mira variable period--age relation", 2023, MNRAS, 521, 1462
-- A. Dillamore, J. L. Sanders, V. Belokurov, H. Zhang, "Dynamical streams in the local stellar halo", 2025, MNRAS accepted
-- S. Kane, V. Belokurov et.al (co-author H. Zhang), "The Ones That Got Away: Chemical Tagging of Globular Cluster-Origin Stars with Gaia BP/RP Spectra", 2025, MNRAS, 536, 2507
-- A. Arentsen, G. Monari et.al (co-author H. Zhang), "The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey - VIII. Characterizing the orbital properties of the ancient, very metal-poor inner Milky Way", 2024, MNRAS, 530, 3391
-- N. Martin, E. Starkenburg et.al (co-author H. Zhang), "The Pristine survey -- XXIII. Data Release 1 and an all-sky metallicity catalogue based on Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectro-photometry", 2024, A&A 692, 115