Biography

Dr. Xiaojie Wang joined the faculty at Missouri S&T in 2025. She is an experimental astrophysicist specializing in very-high-energy (VHE) and ultra-high-energy (UHE) gamma-ray astrophysics, with a focus on identifying and characterizing cosmic-ray accelerators such as microquasars, pulsar wind nebulae, supernova remnants, and the Galactic Center. Her work bridges ground-based observatories like the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory and the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO), with space-based missions through joint programs with NASA, including Fermi-LAT, Chandra, XMM-Newton, and XRISM. She is the Galactic Working Group Coordinator in HAWC, is also deeply involved in multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astrophysics, combining gamma-ray, X-ray, radio, and neutrino observations to investigate the extreme Universe. Her most recent work has led to the discovery of the first microquasar PeVatron candidate, resulting in a 2024 Nature publication.