I am leading the high-energy time-domain astrophysics (HETIDA)group at Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). My research fields include high energy astrophysics, time domain astronomy, cosmology and fundamental physics. I am interested in observation and theoretical interpretation of all of the extremely energetic explosive transients, such as gamma-ray bursts, gravitational wave events, fast radio bursts, supernovae, etc. My main concerns are (magneto-) hydrodynamic (accretion and outflow, relativistic or non-relativistic shock waves) and radiation (thermal or non-thermal) processes in these spectacular phenomena, and the physical nature of the central compact objects (black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs), as well as cosmology and fundamental physics probed and tested with observational data of the above transients. I have published >150 refereed papers for major professional journals in astrophysics/physics, with >8,000 citations and H index = 43.

Education
* Ph.D. in Astronomy, 9/2000 – 6/2005, Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, China
Thesis: "Gamma-ray bursts and afterglows: jets, environments and radiation mechanisms"
Supervisor: Professor Zi-Gao Dai.
* B.S. in Physics, 9/1996 – 7/2000, Department of Intensive Instruction for Most Talented Youth, Nanjing University, China

Employments
* Deputy Director, PMO, CAS, 2/2019 – present
* Executive Deputy Dean, School of Astronomy and Space Sciences of USTC, 5/2019 – present
* Deputy Dean, School of Astronomy and Space Sciences of USTC, 6/2016 – 5/2019
* Leader, High-Energy Time-Domain Astrophysics (HETIDA) Group at PMO, 11/2015 – present
* CAS Senior Visiting Scholar, Pennsylvania State University, Host: CAS Einstein Professor Peter Meszaros, 5/2015 – 7/2015
* Research Professor, PMO, 5/2011 – present
* Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, LasVegas, advisor: Prof. Bing, Zhang, 4/2010 – 3/2011
* Visiting Postdoc Scholar, Astronomy & Astrophysics Department, Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University, advisor: Prof. Peter Meszaros, 4/2009 – 3/2010
* Research Associate, Astronomy & Astrophysics Department, Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University, advisor: Prof. Peter Meszaros, 2/2008 – 3/2009
* Visitor in Astronomy, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech, host: Prof. Re’em Sari, 12/2006 – 1/2008
* Member, Joint Center for Particles, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology of Nanjing University and Purple Mountain Observatory, 1/2006 – present
* Associate Research Professor, PMO, 6/2005 – 4/2011
* Postdoctoral Fellow, PMO, advisor: Prof. Tan LU, 6/2005 – 4/2010

Selected Accomplishments/Awards/Honors
* Jiangsu Province "333 High-level Talents Cultivating Project", 2nd Level, 2018
* National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scientist of China, NSFC, 2017
* Jiangsu Province "333 High-level Talents Cultivating Project", 3rd Level, 2016
* CAS Mrs. ZHU Liyuehua Outstanding Teacher Award, 2016
* CAS Award for Outstanding Mentors, 2015& 2016
* National Natural Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scientist of China, NSFC, 2013
* Member /Excellent Member of CAS Youth Innovation Promotion Association, 2011/2015
* China's Top 10 Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs in Astronomy of the Years 2009, 2015 and 2017
* The Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists, COSPAR, 2008
* National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China, 2007

Selected Refereed Publications 
Wu, X. F., et al., 2003, MNRAS, "Optical flashes and very early afterglows in wind environments"; 
Wu, X. F., et al., 2005, MNRAS, "Gamma-ray bursts: polarization of afterglows from two-component jets"; 
Dai, Z. G., Wang, X. Y., Wu, X. F., & Zhang, B., 2006, Science, "X-ray Flares from Postmerger Millisecond Pulsars Science"; 
Racusin, J. L., Karpov, S. V., Sokolowski, M., Granot, J., Wu, X. F., et al., 2008, Nature, "Broadband observations of the naked-eye γ-ray burst GRB080319B"; 
Fermi LAT and Fermi GBM collaborations, Abdo, A. A., et al., 2009, Science, "Fermi Observations of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from GRB 080916C"; 
Fermi LAT and Fermi GBM collaborations, Abdo, A. A., et al., 2009, Nature, "A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects"; 
Wu, X. F., et al., 2013, ApJL, "Giant X-Ray Bump in GRB 121027A: Evidence for Fall-back Disk Accretion"; 
Gao, H., Ding, X., Wu, X. F.*, Zhang, B., & Dai, Z. G., 2013, ApJ, "Bright Broadband Afterglows of Gravitational Wave Bursts from Mergers of Binary Neutron Stars"; 
Wu, X. F., et al., 2014, ApJL, "A Double Neutron Star Merger Origin for the Cosmological Relativistic Fading Source PTF11agg?"; 
Gao, H., Ding, X., Wu, X. F.*, Dai, Z. G., & Zhang, B., 2015, ApJ, "GRB 080503 Late Afterglow Re-brightening: Signature of a Magnetar-powered Mergernova"; 
Gao, H., Wu, X. F.*, & Meszaros, P., 2015, ApJ, "Cosmic Transients Test Einstein's Equivalence Principle out to GeV Energies";
Wei, J. J., Gao, H., Wu, X. F.*, & Meszaros, P., 2015, PRL, "Testing Einstein’s equivalence principle with fast radio bursts"; 
Wu, X. F., et al., 2016, ApJL, "Constraints on the Photon Mass with Fast Radio Bursts"; 
Wu, X. F., et al., 2016, PRD, "Testing Einstein's weak equivalence principle with gravitational waves"; 
Wu, X. F., et al., 2016, PRD, "New test of weak equivalence principle using polarized light from astrophysical events"; 
Hu, L, Wu, X. F., et al., 2017, Science Bulletin, "Optical observations of LIGO source GW 170817 by the Antarctic Survey Telescopes at Dome A, Antarctica"; 
Zhang, B. B., et al., 2018, Nature Communications, "A peculiar low-luminosity short gamma-ray burst from a double neutron star merger progenitor"; 
Zhang, B. B., et al., 2018,Nature Astronomy, "Transition from fireball to Poynting-flux-dominated outflow in the three-episode GRB 160625B"; 
Zhang, S. N, et al., 2019, Nature Astronomy, "Detailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five gamma-ray bursts"; 
Xue, Y. Q., et al., 2019, Nature, "A magnetar-powered X-ray transient as the aftermath of a binary neutron-star merger";
For total publications, see https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/public-libraries/Po3RrXitQYaXVlS1Rgocqw  

Professional Committees / Service
* Member of the science teams of China’s ground-based astronomical facilities, including AST3, KDUST, WFST, LOT, and LHASSO
* Member of the science teams of China’s space astronomy missions, including SVOM, EP, POLAR, GECAM, HERD,PANGU, and eXTP
* Member of the science teams of international collaborations, including SKA, TMT, and HINOTORI, and previous affiliated member of NASA Swift and Fermi satellites
* Editorial board member for astronomy, Journal of USTC, 2020-present
* Board member, 9th Academic Degree Evaluation Committee of USTC, 2019-present
* Deputy director, 9th Academic Degree Evaluation Committee of PMO, 2019-present
* Director, Academic Ethics Committee of Jiangsu Astronomical Society, 2019-present
* Board member, Jiangsu Astronomical Society, 2018-present
* Director, Committed on Space Astronomy and High Energy Astrophysics, Chinese Astronomical Society, 2018-present
* Editorial member, 3rd Edition of Astronomical Volume, Encyclopedia of China Publishing House, 2016-present

PI Grants (ongoing)
* Key Scientific and Technological Project, "Site monitoring and pilot scientific research at Lenghu station for astronomical mega-science facilities", Qinghai Province, 6/2019-12/2022
* National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scientist of China, "High energy time domain astronomy", NSFC, 1/2018-12/2022;
* General Program, "Theoretical research on the multi-component emission and polarization of gamma-ray bursts", National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1/2017-12/2020;
* Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, "Research on the physics of extremely violent explosive events at cosmological distance", Chinese Academy of Sciences, 8/2016-12/2020.