Professor Yin-Zhe Ma's academic history is as follows: January 2018 — present: Associate Professor at University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa June 2017---present: Adjunct Professor at Purple Mountain Observatory, China December 2017---present: Adjunct PhD Supervisor at USTC October 2015 — December 2017: Senior Lecturer at University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa September 2014 — September 2015: Research Associate at Jodrell Bank Centre of Astrophysics, Manchester September 2011 — September 2014: CITA national fellow at University of British Columbia October 2008 — September 2011: PhD in Astronomy, University of Cambridge September 2006 — July 2008: Master in Astrophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences September 2002 — June 2006: Bachelor in Physics, Nanjing University Prof. Yin-Zhe Ma’s research focusses on observational and theoretical cosmology aimed at understanding the fundamental laws of the Universe and uncovering the nature of dark energy and dark matter. In particular: Radio Cosmology: 21 cm Intensity Mapping, Epoch of Reionization Extragalatic Astronomy: galaxy peculiar velocity field, thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect, dynamics of the Local Group, near-field cosmology The Early Universe: the cosmic microwave background radiation, observational tests of inflation He is currently a member of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) team, the Planck Low Frequency Instrument consortium, the BAO as Integrated Neutral Gas Observation (BINGO) experiment, and the 6dFGS (Six-degree-Field Galaxy Survey).