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Shing Chi Leung Position Visiting Associate Scientist (from 2025/12/05 ) Project Researcher (from 2015/08/01 to 2019/09/30) show past_positions Main Affiliation SUNY Polytechnic Institute, The State University of New York Research Field Astronomy Supernovae E-Mail <leungs _at_ sunypoly.edu>  URL https://sunypoly.edu/faculty-and-staff/shing-chi-leung.html

I study the hydrodynamics and nucleosynthesis of supernova explosions, including both Type Ia and core-collapse supernovae, by doing multi-dimensional hydrodynamics simulations and post-processing with a large nuclear reaction network. The numerical results are applied to understand the following areas:

1. constraining supernova explosion physics,
2. explaining the chemical abundance pattern of galaxies and metal-poor stars,
3. tracing the progenitors of observed supernovae and supernova remnants,
4. improving understanding in stellar evolution theory and
5. improving supernova modeling techniques.