Work experience

Since 2019
Senior Scientist, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Institute for Data Science, Windisch, Switzerland

2015 – 2018
Post-doctoral Fellow, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

2013– 2014
Associate Professor, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing,  China

2010 – 2013
Assistant Research Scientist, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing, China

Education

2005 – 2010
PhD in Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics, College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, China

2001 – 2005
B.S. in Physics, Department of Physics, College of Science, Nanchang University,  China

Selected publications

• POLAR collaboration, Detailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five Gamma-Ray Bursts, Nature Astronomy, 2019
• H. Xiao, H. Wojtek et al, In-flight calibration of the space-borne hard X-ray polarimeter POLAR, Astroparticle Physics Journal 103 (2018) 74-86.
• H. Xiao, Simulations of radiation damage in the spacecraft camera for ESA JUICE mission, Radiation damage and effect conference proceedings, 2018 Beijing.
• H. Xiao, H. Wojtek et al, Space-borne Hard X-ray Compton Polarimeter POLAR data center at PSI,  ICRC, 2017
• H. Xiao et al, Optimization of the final settings for the space-borne Hard X-ray Compton Polarimeter POLAR, 2017 ICRC
• H. Xiao et al., A crosstalk and non-uniformity correction method for the space-borne Compton polarimeter POLAR, Astroparticle Physics 83 (2016) 6-12
• H. Xiao et al., Calibration of gamma-ray burst polarimeter POLAR, 2015 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging conference (NSS/MIC)

Full list of publications

• Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays STIX on-board the ESA Solar Orbiter (Since 2019)
  • STIX ground system and STIX operation

• ESA mission JUpiter ICy moons Explorer JUICE
  • Performance study and calibrations for JUICE Radiation Monitor (2015 – Now)
  • Radiation damage analysis and hardening for JUICE Mission Camera (2017-2018)
  • Radiation effects and Shielding optimization for JUICE Particle Enviroment Package (2015-2016)
• ESA Lagrange mission Radiation Monitor (2018 – Now)
  • Detector design and optimization
  • Radiation analysis
• EU-China joint project Gamma-ray burst polarimeter POLAR (2010 – 2018)
  • Detector ground and in-flight calibration
  • Data analysis and software development for POLAR
• Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment (2005 – 2010)
  • Study of anti-neutrino detectors