29 December 2017: Richard received a 2017 Peking University Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor Award
December 2017: Connections Between Star Cluster Populations and Their Host Galaxy Nuclear Rings, Ma C., de Grijs R., Ho L.C., 2018, ApJ, submitted for publication
December 2017: Impact of distance determinations on Galactic structure. I. Young and intermediate-age tracers, Matsunaga N., Bono G., Chen X.D., de Grijs R., Inno L., Nishiyama S., 2018, Space Sci. Rev., submitted for publication
December 2017: No Evidence for Chemical Abundance Variations in the Intermediate-age Cluster NGC 1783, Zhang H., de Grijs R., Li C., Wu X.H., 2018, ApJ, accepted for publication; arXiv:1712.08161
December 2017: Standard sirens: Listening to gravitational waves, de Grijs R., submitted to the Sixth Annual Joan and Arnold Seidel Griffith Observer Science Writing Contest
December 2017: An unexpected detection of bifurcated blue straggler sequences in the young globular cluster NGC 2173, Li C., Deng L., de Grijs R., Jiang D., Xin Y., 2018, ApJ, re-submitted for publication
14 December 2017: Emigrant return policies may slow 'brain gain' in China, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
November 2017: The NGC 7742 star cluster luminosity function: A population analysis revisited, de Grijs R., Ma C., 2017, Res. Astron. Astrophys., accepted for publication; arXiv:1712.00007
November 2017: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of November 2017 (Preparations for James Webb Space Telescope operations offer tantalizing prospects of major breakthroughs), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, January 2018, in press (in Chinese; English version)
November 2017: Time and Time Again: Determination of Longitude at Sea in the 17th Century, de Grijs R., Bristol, UK: IOP Publishing Ltd., e-book [367-page peer-reviewed monograph straddling science and the humanities]; KIAA news item
November 2017: The Near-infrared Optimal Distances Method applied to Galactic Classical Cepheids Tightly Constrains Mid-infrared Period-Luminosity Relations, Wang S., Chen X.D., de Grijs R., Deng L., 2017, ApJ, accepted for publication; arXiv:1711.06966
November 2017: Not-so-simple stellar populations in nearby, resolved massive star clusters, de Grijs R., Li C., 2017, Physica Scripta, accepted for publication (review article); arXiv:1711.06079
November 2017: An internally consistent distance framework in the Local Group, de Grijs R., Bono G., 2018, in: Stellar Populations and the Distance Scale, eds Jensen J., Rich R.M., & de Grijs R., Peking University (China), September 2017, Astron. Soc. Pac. Conf. Ser., in press; arXiv:1711.03228
5 November 2017: 'Double first-class' universities plan needs careful thought, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
October 2017: Nuclear starbursts in galaxies due to non-axisymmetric bulges, Kim E., Kim S.S., Choi Y.-Y., Lee G.-H., de Grijs R., Lee M.G., 2017, MNRAS, submitted for publication
27 October 2017: Changes in Chinese higher education to benefit the country's workforce, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
25 October 2017: China and World Focus: China leading the world in technology, china.org.cn host Xu Lin interviews Richard to explore technology developments in the past five years
October 2017: The VMC survey - XXVIII. Improved measurements of the proper motion of the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae, Niederhofer F., Cioni M.-R.L., Rubele S., Schmidt T., Bekki K., de Grijs R., Emerson J., Ivanov V.D., Oliveira J.M., Petr-Gotzens M.G., Ripepi V., Sun N.-C., van Loon J.D., 2017, A&A, submitted for publication
16 October 2017: Richard appears in the ORCID@5 video, celebrating the fifth anniversary of the open identifier; local version
13 October 2017: The daily life of a Dutch astronomer in China, European Union science promotion video featuring Richard de Grijs (video in English; webpage in Chinese); promotion by the Netherlands embassy
October 2017: The VMC Survey XXVII. Young Stellar Structures in the LMC's Bar Star-Forming Complex, Sun N.-C., de Grijs R., Subramanian S., Bekki K., Bell C.P.M., Cioni M.-R.L., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M., Oliveira J.M., Piatti A.E., Ripepi V., Rubele S., Tatton B.L., van Loon J.T., 2017, ApJ, 849, 149; arXiv:1710.00984
September 2017: An extremely low mid-infrared extinction law toward the Galactic Center and 5% distance precision to 55 classical Cepheids, Chen X.D., Wang S., Deng L., de Grijs R., 2017, ApJ, submitted for publication
September 2017: The VMC survey. XXVI. Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud from RR Lyrae stars, Muraveva T., Subramanian S., Clementini G., Cioni M.-R.L., Palmer M., van Loon J.T., Moretti M.I., de Grijs R., Molinaro R., Ripepi V., Marconi M., Emerson J., Ivanov V.D., 2017, MNRAS, 473, 3131; arXiv:1709.09064
September 2017: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of September 2017 (The hunt is on for chemical analysis of atmospheres outside our solar system), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, November 2017, p. 17 (in Chinese; English version)
21 September 2017: An interview with Richard appeared in Nature, vol. 549, pp. S5-S9: Young science in an old city; Chinese version
21 September 2017: How to review a paper, de Grijs R., 2017, AuthorAID advice column
September 2017: The MALATANG Survey: II. The LGAS -- LIR Correlation on Sub-Kiloparsec Scale in Six Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies as Traced by HCN J = 4--3 and HCO+ J = 4--3, Tan Q.-H., Gao Y., Zhang Z.-Y., Greve T.R., Jiang X.-J., Wilson C.D., Yang C.-T., Bemis A., Chung A., Matsushita S., Shi Y., Ao Y.-P., Brinks E., Davis T.A., de Grijs R., Ho L.C., Imanishi M., Kohno K., Lee B., Parsons H., Rawlings M.G., Rigopoulou D., Rosolowsky E., Bulger J., Chen H., Chapman S.C., Eden D., Gear W.K., Gu Q.-S., He J.-H., Jiao Q., Liu D.-Z., Liu L.-J., Li X.-H., Michalowski M.J., Nguyen-Luong Q., Qiu J.-J., Smith M.W.L., Violino G., Wang J.-F., Wang J.-Z., Yeh S., Zhao Y.-H., Zhu M., 2017, ApJ, submitted for publication
September 2017: The Optical--Mid-infrared Extinction Law of the l = 165o Sightline in the Galactic Plane: Diversity of Extinction Law in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium, Wang S., Jiang B.W., Zhao H., Chen X., de Grijs R., 2017, ApJ, 848, 106; arXiv:1709.05989
September 2017: Clustering of Local Group distances: publication bias or correlated measurements? V. Galactic rotation constants, de Grijs R., Bono G., 2017, ApJS, 232, 22; arXiv:1709.02501
30 August 2017: Richard was interviewed for an article in Technisch Weekblad (in Dutch), China boekt succes in kwantumcryptografie (paywalled; local copy)
16-30 August 2017: Richard is a Writer in Residence (local .pdf) at the Fondation Jan Michalski in Montricher (Switzerland), aiming to finish his monograph, Time and Time Again: Determination of Longitude at Sea in the 17th Century (IOP Publishing Ltd.)
16 August 2017: Documentary explores the history of astronomy in China, Physics World blog post; YouTube documentary release
August 2017: Mira Variable Stars From LAMOST DR4 Data: Emission Features, Temperature Types, and Candidate Selection, Yao Y.H., Liu C., Deng L., de Grijs R., Matsunaga N., 2017, ApJS, 232, 16; arXiv:1708.04703
8 August 2017: China pioneers in cybersecurity applications, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
4 August 2017: Richard was interviewed by Jingkids magazine: Where do the stars come from?; official story; English version (17 October 2017)
August 2017: The VMC Survey. XXV. The 3D structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud from Classical Cepheids, Ripepi V., Cioni M.-R.L., Moretti M.I., Marconi M., Bekki K., Clementini G., de Grijs R., Emerson J., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., Molinaro R., Muraveva T., Oliveira J.M., Piatti A.E., Subramanian S. van Loon J.T., 2017, MNRAS, 472, 808; arXiv:1707.04500
30 July 2017: A policy of open scientific data sharing benefits all, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
July 2017: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of July 2017 (Starbirth and violent death: now directly observable in unprecedented detail), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, September 2017, p. 17 (in Chinese; English version)
July 2017: The dynamical origin of multiple populations in intermediate-age clusters in the Magellanic Clouds, Hong J., de Grijs R., Askar A., Berczik P., Li C., Wang L., Deng L., Kouwenhoven M.B.N., Giersz M., Spurzem R., 2017, MNRAS, 472, 67; arXiv:1707.09153
7 July 2017: Richard won a Merit Award for his essay, In China, even the sky is no longer the limit, submitted to the Asian Scientist Writing Prize 2017; photos of the ceremony
July 2017: Our TV documentary, The Science of Heaven, is now available online.
1 July 2017: Richard was honoured to be invited as commencement speaker at the 2017 Graduation Ceremony of the Peking University School of Physics; news item (including full text of the speeches) and video excerpt
June 2017: Our Ministry of Science and Technology-supported five-year National Key Research and Development project on Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium (co-I) has been approved!
June 2017: Toward a self-consistent astronomical distance scale, de Grijs R., Courbin F., Martínez-Vázquez C.E., Monelli M., Oguri M., Suyu S.H., 2017, Space Sci. Rev., 212, 1743; arXiv:1706.07933
June 2017: Discovery of Extended Main Sequences in Four Young Massive Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds, Li C., de Grijs R., Deng L., Milone A., 2017, ApJ, 844, 119; arXiv:1706.07545
4 June 2017: Continuing allegations of research misconduct require system reform, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
May 2017: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of May 2017 (Planetary formation in disks of dust and gas unveiled), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, July 2017, p. 17 (in Chinese; English version)
May 2017: VISTA Peeks Through the Small Magellanic Cloud's Dusty Veil, ESO/VMC team press release (3 May 2017)
April-June 2017: Richard is spending seven weeks as an Erskine awardee at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand; interview (pdf)
April 2017: Improved Method to Determine the Integrated Properties of Nuclear Rings: NGC 1512, Ma C., de Grijs R., Ho L.C., 2017, ApJS, 230, 14; arXiv:1705.01251
April 2017: Richard was selected as one of three finalists of the 2017 Flame Challenge (written entry), explaining What is Energy? to 21,000 11-year-old school children!
24 April 2017: National Space Day aims to inspire the next generation, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
19 April 2017: Richard was quoted in a collection of opinions, titled Experts' view on China's cyber security and informatization progress
April 2017: In China, even the sky is no longer the limit, de Grijs R., 2017, submitted to the Asian Scientist Writing Prize 2017
13 April 2017: Migrant children miss out on school coverage, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
6 April 2017: ORCID Board Elections 2018: Applications and Procedures, de Grijs R., 2017, ORCID Blog post
4 April 2017: Richard was mentioned in an article in 24 heures (in French) announcing the opening of a private Swiss facility by the Fondation Jan Michalski, aimed at supporting authors from around the world; his application was one of 29 proposals selected from around 900 submissions!
April 2017: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of March 2017 ("Citizen science" on the rise), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, May 2017, p. 17 (in Chinese; English version)
3 April 2017: Richard was interviewed by Lion TV for a PBS/NOVA documentary, Secrets of China's Forbidden City, on Ming-era astronomy, belief systems, and instrumentation at Beijing's Ancient Observatory
April 2017: We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in time-domain astrophysics in Galactic open clusters; application deadline: 30 April 2017
April 2017: The VMC survey - XXIII. Model fitting of light and radial velocity curves of Small Magellanic Cloud classical Cepheids, Marconi M., Molinaro R., Ripepi V., Cioni M.-R.L., Clementini G., Moretti M.I., Ragosta F., de Grijs R., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., 2017, MNRAS, 466, 3206; arXiv:1612.04650
22 March 2017: Chinese government strongly supports high-level expert advice, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
18 March 2017: Latest public screening of our documentary, The Science of Heaven, in Tianjin; news report
3 March 2017: A political 'perfect storm' may boost international talent recruitment, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick); Chinese version
March 2017: Young star clusters in circumnuclear starburst rings, de Grijs R., Ma C., Jia S., Ho L.C., Anders P., 2017, MNRAS, 465, 2820; arXiv:1610.09125
February 2017: Elsevier has announced that Richard de Grijs is among the "most highly cited Chinese scholars in 2016", a list of 1700 names (118 in physics, astronomy and planetary science) that includes 90 faculty members at Peking University
February 2017: Richard has been awarded an all-inclusive writing residency by the Fondation Jan Michalski to finish his historical monograph, Time and Time Again, in August 2017
19 February 2017: Food for thought and nourishment in Beijing, de Grijs R., Institute of Physics/IOP Life blog
19 February 2017: US universities alarmed at declining Chinese graduate enrollments, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
February 2017: Measure of the Heart: Santorio Santorio and the Pulsilogium, de Grijs R., Vuillermin D., 2017, Hektoen Int'l, Vol. 9, issue 3 Summer 2017, Moments in History; arXiv:1702.05211
6 February 2017: How Chinese universities can achieve world-class status, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
February 2017: Richard was interviewed for a news story in Physics World on China's next-generation space missions
February 2017: The VMC Survey XXII. Hierarchical star formation in the 30 Doradus-N158-N159-N160 star-forming complex, Sun N.-C., de Grijs R., Subramanian S., Cioni M.-R.L., Rubele S., Bekki K., Ivanov V., Piatti A.E., Ripepi V., 2017, ApJ, 835, 171; arXiv:1611.06508
February 2017: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of January 2017 (Pulsars--enigmatic objects that remain as mysterious as when they were first discovered...), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, March 2017, p. 16 (in Chinese; English version)
28 January 2017: Top-level international talent recruitment remains challenging, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
January 2017: The VMC Survey XXIV: Signatures of tidally stripped stellar populations from the inner Small Magellanic Cloud, Subramanian S., Rubele S., Sun N.-C., Girardi L., de Grijs R., van Loon J.T., Cioni M.-R.L., Piatti A.E., Bekki K., Emerson J.P., Ivanov V.D., Kerber L., Marconi M., Ripepi V., Tatton B.L., 2016, MNRAS, 467, 2980; arXiv:1701.05722
January 2017: The radial distributions of the two main-sequence components in the young massive star cluster NGC 1856, Li C., de Grijs R., Deng L., Milone A. P., 2017, ApJ, 834, 156; arXiv:1611.04659
15 January 2017: Third screening of our documentary, The Science of Heaven, in Shanghai; event invitation, advertisement; news report; SHAO news
13 January 2017: Science and innovation awards honor key achievements, Richard de Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
January 2017: Star clusters: Anything but simple (News and Views), de Grijs R., 2017, Nature Astronomy, 1, 0011; arXiv:1701.00053
January 2017: New open cluster Cepheids in the VVV survey tightly constrain near-infrared period-luminosity relations, Chen X., de Grijs R., Deng L., 2017, MNRAS, 464, 1119; arXiv:1609.05440
January 2017: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of November 2016 (Pure water in a Japanese mine offers clues to the nature of supernova explosions), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, January 2017, p. 26 (in Chinese; English version)
News from previous years: 2016; 2015; 2014; 2013
