Hello! I’m Ran Chen (陈然), a PhD student at Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). As a relativist, I focus on the physics and astrophysics of gravitational waves, testing General Relativity, and exploring alternative theories of gravity.

📖 Educations

• 2024.11 - now, Visitor, SISSA, Trieste.
• 2021.06 - now, PHD, Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjing.
• 2021.06 - now, PHD, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei.
• 2017.09 - 2021.06, Undergraduate, Department of Physics, Sichuan Univeristy, Sichuan.

🔥 Research Interests

• Test GR and beyond GR theory.
• Environmental effects for gravitational-wave astrophysics.
• Stochastic Gravitational waves Background.
• Gravitational waves multi-band data analysis and phenomenology.

📝 Publications

• arXiv 2025Muffled Murmurs: Environmental effects in the LISA stochastic signal from stellar-mass black hole binaries, Ran Chen, Rohit S. Chandramouli, Federico Pozzoli, Riccardo Buscicchio, Enrico Barausse.

• JCAP 2025 Forecast analysis of astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave background beyond general relativity: a case study on brans-dicke gravity, Ran Chen, Zhao Li, Yin-Jie Li, Yi-Ying Wang, Rui Niu, Wen Zhao, Yi-Zhong Fan.

• PRD 2024 Prospects of constraining f(T) gravity with the third-generation gravitational-wave detectors, Ran Chen, Yi-Ying Wang, Lei Zu, Yi-Zhong Fan.

👥 Talks

• Detecting Environmental effects on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Stellar-Mass Black Hole Binaries in LISA. GR24-Amaldi16, July 2025, Glasgow, UK. Poster (PDF)

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024 China Scholarship Council Scholarship
• 2022 Doctoral First-class academic scholarship for academic excellence in USTC
• 2021 Outstanding Graduate of the Class of 2021, Sichuan University
• 2020 Outstanding Student Award, Sichuan University