About Me

My name is Zhuan Ning (宁专). I was born in Yiyang, Hunan Province, China. I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, supervised by Prof. Rong-Gen Cai. Before starting my PhD, I completed my bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

I work in gravity and cosmology. I use numerical relativity and lattice simulations to study the nonlinear dynamics of compact objects and the early Universe, including black holes, boson stars, primordial black holes, and gravitational-wave sources.

This website presents my publications, talks and some visualizations. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact me.

This animation shows numerical-relativity simulations of head-on collisions between a boson star and a black hole. Colors show the scalar-field amplitude as the star is disrupted and accreted, while red contours indicate the approximate horizon location. Read the corresponding paper (arXiv:2604.15240). Further details are available on the Visualizations page.