Dandan Wei
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
About Me
I am a postdoctoral research fellow at ISTA, Austria, working on the evolution and final fate of massive binary stars, gravitational mergers, and interacting supernovae.
My research combines stellar evolution theory, and light-curve modelling to understand how massive stars evolve, collapse, and produce gravitational-wave progenitors and diverse supernova types.
π’ Recent News
2026.04
π π Accepted for publication in A&A (https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26390) !
Diversity of stripped-envelope supernova light curves from interaction with binary-driven circumstellar material.
2025.08
π Gave a talk at the conference "Binary Stars in a New Era" in Lijiang!
2024.09
π Joined ISTA as a Postdoctoral Fellow under Prof. Ylva GΓΆtberg.
2024.08
π
New paper in A&A! Our work "The evolution and final fate of post-common-envelope massive binaries" explores how additional binary mass transfer and circumbinary disks affect subsequent gravitational wave merger events.