空间巡天观测、星系形成与化学演化、宇宙再电离、第一代恒星搜寻、引力透镜、暗物质分布
王鑫，中国科学院大学天文与空间科学学院与国家天文台双聘副教授。国家级海外引进人才。曾荣获中国科学院大学年度优秀个人 （领雁金奖），小米学者，北京大学科维理访问学者等奖励。主要从事空间望远镜数据处理算法开发，第一代恒星搜寻与宇宙再电离，星系形成与化学演化，引力透镜与暗物质空间分布等领域的天文研究。被选为詹姆斯·韦布空间望远镜（JWST）大师班成员，应美国航空航天局（NASA）授权负责为JWST培养观测人才。目前以首席科学家身份主持两项哈勃空间望远镜（HST）中型级别观测项目，作为核心成员参与数项珍宝级和大型JWST，HST观测项目。主持国家基金委优秀青年(海外)科学基金项目和面上项目，作为核心成员参与中国科学院稳定支持基础研究领域青年团队和CSST预研究课题项目。截止于24年7月，共发表SCI论文140余篇，被引用3400余次，H-index为34。
1. Wang, X. et al. A strong He II λ1640 emitter with extremely blue UV spectral slope at z = 8.16: presence of Pop III stars? 2024, Astrophys. J. Letters, 967, L42 (arXiv:2212.04476)
2. Wang, X. et al. Early results from GLASS-JWST. IV. Spatially resolved metallicity in a low-mass z ∼ 3 galaxy with NIRISS. 2022, Astrophys. J. Letters, 938, L16 (arXiv:2207.13113)
3. Wang, X. et al. The mass-metallicity relation at cosmic noon in overdense environments: first re- sults from the MAMMOTH-Grism HST slitless spectroscopic survey. 2022, Astrophys. J., 926, 70 (arXiv:2108.06373)
4. Wang, X. et al. A Census of Sub-kiloparsec Resolution Metallicity Gradients in Star-forming Galaxies at Cosmic Noon from HST Slitless Spectroscopy. 2020, Astrophys. J., 900, 183 (arXiv:1911.09841)
5. Wang, X. et al. Discovery of Strongly Inverted Metallicity Gradients in Dwarf Galaxies at z∼2. 2019, Astrophys. J., 882, 94 (arXiv:1808.08800)
6. Jiang, H., Wang, X. et al. The Lyα non-detection by JWST NIRSpec of a strong Lyα emitter at z=5.66 confirmed by MUSE. 2024, Astrophys. J. in press, (arXiv:2312.04151)
7. Sun, L., Wang, X. et al. The UV luminosity function at 0.6 < z < 1 from UVCANDELS. 2024, Astrophys. J., in press (arXiv:2311.15664)
8. He, X., Wang, X. et al. Early results from GLASS-JWST. XXVII. The mass-metallicity relation in lensed field galaxies at cosmic noon with NIRISS. 2023, Astrophys. J. Letters, 960, L13, (arXiv:2312.01932)
9. Wang, K., Wang, X., Chen, Y. Environmental Dependence of the Mass-Metallicity Relation in Cosmo- logical Hydrodynamical Simulations. 2023, Astrophys. J., 951, 66 (arXiv:2305.08161)
10. Li, Z., Wang, X. et al. First Census of Gas-phase Metallicity Gradients of Star-forming Galaxies in OverdenseEnvironments at Cosmic Noon. 2022, Astrophys. J. Letters, 929, L8 (arXiv:2204.03008)