Shaoqi Hou, Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University
Education
B.S. in Physics, Shandong University, June 2010
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Alabama, August 2016
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, December 2016 – November 2018
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, December 2018 – March 2021
Specially-appointed Associate Research Fellow, Wuhan University, April 2021 – January 2026
Associate Professor, Wuhan University, February 2026 – Present
Research Interests
Gravitational wave physics
Black hole physics
Gravitational lensing
Publications
Overview
26 papers as first author or corresponding author, including 2 ESI highly cited papers.
Selected Publications
1. Shaoqi Hou*, Zong-Hong Zhu, Shaving off soft hairs and black hole image memory effect,Phys. Rev. D 113, 124028 (2026), arXiv:2603.12670
2. Shaoqi Hou, Zhi-Chao Zhao*, Zhoujian Cao, Zong-Hong Zhu*, Space-Borne Interferometers to Detect Thousands of Memory Signals Emitted by Stellar-Mass Binary Black Holes,Chin. Phys. Lett. 42, 101101 (2025), arXiv:2411.18053
3. Shaoqi Hou*, Tao Zhu, Zong-Hong Zhu*, Asymptotic analysis of Chern-Simons modified gravity and its memory effects, Phys. Rev. D 105, 024025 (2022), arXiv:2109.04238. ESI Highly Cited Paper（Physics/2022-09）
4. Shaoqi Hou*, Zong-Hong Zhu, Gravitational memory effects and Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetry in scalar-tensor theories, JHEP 01 (2021) 083, arXiv:2005.01310
5. Shaoqi Hou, Xi-Long Fan*, Kai Liao, Zong-Hong Zhu*, Gravitational Wave Interference via Gravitational Lensing: Measurements of Luminosity Distance, Lens Mass, and CosmologicalParameters, Phys. Rev. D 101, 064011 (2020), arXiv:1911.02798
6. Yungui Gong, Shaoqi Hou*, Dicong Liang, Eleftherios Papantonopoulos, Gravitational waves in Einstein-æther and generalized TeVeS theory after GW170817, Phys. Rev. D 97, 084040 (2018), arXiv:1801.03382. ESI Highly Cited Paper（Physics/2018-11）
Research Projects
Principal Investigator (PI)
General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Jan 2026 – Dec 2029
Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Jan 2023 – Dec 2025 (now renamed Young Program C)
Young Faculty Grant, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, 2022 – 2023
Participant
Sub-project: Study of Lensed Gravitational Wave Detection, Young Scientist Project of the National Key R&D Program (Key Special Project for Gravitational Wave Detection), Core Member (3rd in order), Dec 2024 – Nov 2029
Sub-project: Properties of Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Compact Binaries, National Key R&D Program of MOST (Key Special Project for Gravitational Wave Detection: Physics and Astronomical Research on Compact Sources for Space-based Gravitational Wave Detection), Participant (4th in order), 2020 – 2025
General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Participant, Jan 2019 – Dec 2022
Teaching
College Physics B
Classical Dynamics
Recruitment Information
Recruiting Master and PhD candidates in theoretical physics, gravitational waves, black holes, cosmology and astrophysics all year round.