Kong, Albert
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Albert Kong Distinguished Professor, SFHEA D.Phil., University of Oxford, U.K. (2000) Office: +886-3-574-2619 (Room 512) Lab: +886-3-574-2619 Fax: +886-3-574-2499 Email: akong @ phys.nthu.edu.tw
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Awards
2020 Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK
2020 Outstanding Teaching Award, Tsing Hua College, NTHU
2018 Elected Fellow, The Physical Society of Taiwan
2017 – 2022 Rising Star Program, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2015 Outstanding Research Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2013 Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators
Research Interests
My research group has a wide range of research interests with a focus on multi-wavelength (from GHz to GeV) investigation of the physics of compact objects using space-based and ground-based telescopes (e.g., Yap et al. 2019, A&A, 621, L9; Kong et al. 2017, ApJ, 839, 130; Kong et al. 2014, ApJ, 794, L22; Li et al. 2014, ApJ, 797, 111). More recently, we are working on gravitational wave astrophysics and I am leading Taiwan to participate the KAGRA collaboration, an underground gravitational wave observatory led by Japan (KAGRA Collaboration, 2019, Nature Astronomy, 3, 35). Because of this, we have been participating in data analysis activities involving GRBs and FRBs in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. We are also working in multi-wavelength follow-up observations of gravitational wave events (e.g., Anand et al. 2020, Nature Astronomy; Andreoni et al. 2020, ApJ, 890, 131; Coughlin et al. 2019, ApJ, 885, L19; Lin et al. 2019, JHEAp, 21, 1) and neutrino events (Stein et al. 2021, Nature Astronomy) using the Zwicky Transient Facility and observing facilities in Taiwan. My group is currently collaborating with the University of Glasgow in multi-messenger studies of GRBs and kilonovae.