Professor in the Department of Astronomy, he started his undergraduate study in the Department of Physics of Beijing Normal University in 1997, and was admitted to the graduate program in 2001. He was taught by Prof. Gang Hu and Prof. Canbin Liang, and has accumulated research in noise and signal and general relativity, respectively, and since 2006, he has combined these two areas with ultra-large scale numerical computation, focusing on numerical relativity and gravitational wave astronomy, especially on gravitational wave templates and related data processing. Under the leadership of Ronggen Cai, he has been leading the subproject of "Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Wave Modeling" in the major project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Areas of Research: numerical relativity, general relativity, gravitational wave astronomy.

Completed and ongoing research and teaching projects

1. 2014.01-2017.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Chair), Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Wave Source Modeling

2. 2017.01-2019.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Wave Astronomy

3. 2017.01-2021.12, "Research on Gravitational Wave-Related Physics", National Natural Science Foundation of China, Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Wave Modeling

Representative papers

1. Xiaolin Liu, Xiaokai He, and Zhoujian Cao, Accurate calculation of gravitational wave memory, Physical Review D, 103, 043005 (2021).

2. Xiaolin Liu, Zhoujian Cao, and Lijing Shao, Validating the effective-onebody numerical-relativity waveform models for spin-aligned binary black holes along eccentric orbits, Physical Review D, 101, 044049 (2020).

3. Bing Sun, Zhoujian Cao, and Lijing Shao, Constraints on fifth forces through perihelion precession of planets, Physical Review D, 100, 084030 (2019).

4. Zhoujian Cao, Wen-Biao Han, Waveform model for an eccentric binary black hole based on the effective-one-body-numerical-relativity formalism, Physical Review D, 96, 044028 (2017).

5. Zhoujian Cao,Wen-Biao Han, Inspiral-merger-ringdown (2, 0) mode waveforms for aligned-spin black-hole binaries, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33, 155011 (2016).

6. Xiaokai He, Zhoujian Cao, New Bondi-type outgoing boundary condition for the Einstein equations with cosmological constant, International Journal of Modern Physics D, 24, 1550081 (2015).

7. Zhoujian Cao, Binary black hole simulation with an adaptive finite element method: Solving the Einstein constraint equatio