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The Dragonfly Telephoto Array, photo taken at the New Mexico Skies (NMS) (Photo Credit: Imad Pasha)

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Me assembling telephoto lense onto one of the Dragonfly Narrowband Arrays (Photo Credit: Deb Lokhorst)

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A selfie taken in front of the Dragonfly Narrowband Array 4 at NMS with Deb, Imad, Seery and Will.

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Hello! I am a Oort Posdoctoral fellow at Leiden Observatory. I obtained my doctoral degree at the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at University of Toronto under the supervision of Roberto Abraham and Peter Martin. I received my bachelor degree at University of Science and Technology of China.

My recent interest is how the Euclid Space Telescope can transform our understanding of the faint diffuse side of the universe, which has been largely unexplored.

I have been using the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, a distributed aperture telescope designed for low surface brightness science. My research is focused on the observational techniques for deep wide-field imaging to further our understanding of the low surface brightness universe. My research interests include scattered light from dust grains in the Milky Way ("Galactic cirrus"), faint satellite galaxies in the Local Universe, and sky background modeling for doing photometry on low surface brightness targets. I helped developed the pipeline of the Dragonfly UltraWide (UW) Survey. Before working on Dragonfly, I used SITELLE, an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer (IFTS) equipped at CFHT to study emission-line galaxies in galaxy clusters at z~0.25.

My name is prouniced as 'Chīng Lee-ew', which is quoted from the first & last Chinese characters of the line "留取丹心照汗青" from an ancient Chinese poem.