Bio

Jiaxuan Li is a Brinson Prize Fellow at Stanford University’s Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). He is an observational astrophysicist studying dwarf galaxies, dark matter, and galaxy formation in the nearby universe, using deep imaging, large sky surveys, numerical simulations, and statistical methods. He leads the ELVES-Dwarf survey, which is building a statistical census of satellite systems around dwarf galaxies in the Local Volume. Jiaxuan received his Ph.D. in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University in 2026, where he worked with Jenny Greene, and his B.S. in Astrophysics from Peking University.

Honors & Awards

  • Brinson Prize Fellow, Brinson Foundation (2026)
  • Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship, Princeton University (2025)
  • Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award, American Astronomical Society (2024)

Stanford Advisors

Contact

  • Academic
    jiaxuanl@stanford.edu
    University - Scholar Department: Physics Position: Postdoctoral Scholar

Additional Info

All Publications

  • The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Satellite Galaxies ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Rose, J. C., Lisanti, M., Torrey, P., Navarro, F., Garcia, A. M., Farahi, A., Filion, C., Brooks, A. M., Kallivayalil, N., Kollmann, K. E., Lilie, E., Li, J., Mostow, O., Cruz, A., Nguyen, T., Roy, S., Pace, A. B., Ahvazi, N., O'Neil, S., Shen, X., Cyr-Racine, F., Price-Whelan, A. M., Geha, M., Necib, L., Vogelsberger, M., Munoz, J. B., Dalcanton, J. J. 2026; 1006 (2)

    View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ae82f8

    View details for Web of Science ID 001835730700001

  • The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-Halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Dark Matter Speed Distributions ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Lilie, E., Rose, J. C., Lisanti, M., Garcia, A. M., Torrey, P., Kollmann, K. E., Li, J., Mostow, O., Wang, B. Y., O'Neil, S., Shen, X., Brooks, A. M., Farahi, A., Kallivayalil, N., Necib, L., Pace, A. B., Vogelsberger, M. 2026; 1002 (2)

    View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ae5c9b

    View details for Web of Science ID 001761228100001

  • The DREAMS Project: Disentangling the Impact of Halo-to-halo Variance and Baryonic Feedback on Milky Way Dark Matter Density Profiles ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Garcia, A. M., Rose, J. C., Torrey, P., Caputo, A., Lisanti, M., Pace, A. B., Liu, H., Hussein, A., Liu, H., Villaescusa-Navarro, F., Barry, J., Leisher, I., Costanza, B., Kho, J., Lilie, E., Li, J., Ahvazi, N., Bhowmick, A., Nguyen, T., O'Neil, S., Ou, X., Shen, X., Farahi, A., Kallivayalil, N., Necib, L., Vogelsberger, M. 2026; 1002 (1)

    View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ae5938

    View details for Web of Science ID 001751567000001

  • A Sample of Nearby Isolated Dwarf Galaxies: A First Look at the Mass Function of Field Dwarfs ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Carlsten, S. G., Li, J., Greene, J. E., Drlica-Wagner, A., Danieli, S. 2026; 1001 (2)

    View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ae4c5c

    View details for Web of Science ID 001752270500001

  • ELVES-Field: Isolated Dwarf Galaxy Quenched Fractions Rise below <i>M</i><sub>∗</sub> ≈ 10<SUP>7</SUP> <i>M</i><sub>⊙</sub> ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS Carlsten, S. G., Li, J., Greene, J. E., Drlica-Wagner, A., Danieli, S. 2026; 1001 (2)

    View details for DOI 10.3847/2041-8213/ae4bdf

    View details for Web of Science ID 001752267900001

  • EP250108a/SN 2025kg: A Jet-driven Stellar Explosion Interacting with Circumstellar Material ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS Srinivasaragavan, G. P., Hamidani, H., Schroeder, G., Sarin, N., Ho, A. Y. Q., Piro, A. L., Cenko, S., Anand, S., Sollerman, J., Perley, D. A., Maeda, K., O'Connor, B., Kuncarayakti, H., Miller, M., Ahumada, T., Vail, J. L., Duffell, P., Dastidar, R., Andreoni, I., Bochenek, A., Brennan, S. J., Carney, J., Chen, P., Freeburn, J., Gal-Yam, A., Jacobson-Galan, W., Kasliwal, M. M., Li, J., Li, M. L., Sravan, N., Warshofsky, D. E. 2025; 988 (2)

    View details for DOI 10.3847/2041-8213/ade870

    View details for Web of Science ID 001541149800001

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