CV

Academic CV including appointments, education, publications, talks, teaching, service, and references.

Contact Information

Name Deheng Song
Professional Title Postdoctoral Researcher in Astroparticle Physics
Email deheng.song _AT_ ulb.be
Location Boulevard du Triomphe 2, Bruxelles, Belgium 1050

Experience

  • 2025 -

    Brussels, Belgium

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Université libre de Bruxelles
    • Member of the IceCube Collaboration.
    • Working on dark matter searches with astrophysical neutrinos.
  • 2025 - 2025

    Tokyo, Japan

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Tokyo Metropolitan University
  • 2022 - 2025

    Kyoto, Japan

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
  • 2021 - 2022

    Batavia, USA

    Visiting Scholar
    Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Education

  • 2016 - 2021

    Blacksburg, USA

    PhD in Physics
    Virginia Tech
    Dissertation: "Gamma-ray emission from Galactic millisecond pulsars: Implications for dark matter indirect detection." Supervisor: Shunsaku Horiuchi.
  • 2012 - 2016

    China

    BS in Physics
    Shandong University
    Physics

Publications

  • 2025
    Revisiting axion dark matter with nonlinear transitions
    arXiv:2509.13292 [hep-ph]
  • 2025
    Composite asymmetric dark matter with a dark photon portal: Multimessenger tests
    Physical Review D 112 (1), 015027
  • 2024
    Search for heavy dark matter from dwarf spheroidal galaxies: leveraging cascades and subhalo models
    JCAP 05, 087
  • 2024
    Robust inference of the Galactic centre gamma-ray excess spatial properties
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 530 (4), 4395-4411
  • 2024
    Constraining decaying very heavy dark matter from galaxy clusters with 14 year Fermi-LAT data
    JCAP 03, 024
  • 2024
    Twin sterile neutrino dark matter
    Physical Review D 109 (6), 063514
  • 2023
    External inverse-Compton and proton synchrotron emission from the reverse shock as the origin of VHE gamma rays from the hyper-bright GRB 221009A
    Astrophysical Journal Letters 947 (1), L14
  • 2022
    Gamma-ray emission from the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy due to millisecond pulsars
    Nature Astronomy 6 (11), 1317-1324
  • 2021
    Measuring the smearing of the Galactic 511-keV signal: positron propagation or supernova kicks?
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters 509 (1), L11-L16
  • 2021
    Cherenkov Telescope Array sensitivity to the putative millisecond pulsar population responsible for the Galactic Centre excess
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 506 (2), 1741-1760
  • 2021
    Evidence for a high-energy tail in the gamma-ray spectra of globular clusters
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 507 (4), 5161-5176
  • 2019
    Inverse Compton emission from millisecond pulsars in the Galactic bulge
    Physical Review D 99 (12), 123020

Selected Talks

  • Theory meeting experiments 2025, Quy Nhon, January 7, 2025.
  • 11th Fermi Symposium, University of Maryland, September 11, 2024.
  • Astroparticle Lunch, Ohio State University, September 6, 2024.
  • GAPP Seminar, Penn State, September 3, 2024.
  • TeVPa 2024, University of Chicago, August 28, 2024.
  • Galactic Center Excess Workshop, Rutgers, June 5, 2023.
  • Astrophysics Coffee, Institute for Advanced Study, May 15, 2023.
  • FY2022 DM Workshop, Kavli IPMU, March 9, 2023.
  • Astrophysics Seminar, Penn State, February 22, 2022.
  • TeVPa 2021, Chengdu (online), October 25, 2021.
  • ICRC 2021, DESY (online), July 12, 2021.
  • APS DPF Meeting, Northeastern University, August 1, 2019.

Honors and Awards

  • 2021
    Universities Research Association Visiting Scholarship
    Fermilab
  • 2020
    Clayton Williams Graduate Fellowship
    Virginia Tech
  • 2019
    Graduate School Doctoral Assistantship
    Virginia Tech
  • 2019
    Member of Sigma Pi Sigma
    The Physics and Astronomy Honor Society

Teaching

  • Astroparticle Physics, Teaching Assistant, Virginia Tech, Fall 2020.
  • Modern Cosmology, Teaching Assistant, Virginia Tech, Spring 2020.
  • Foundation of Physics, Lab Instructor and Recitator, Virginia Tech, 2016-2017.

Professional Service

  • Cosmo 2024, Kyoto University, voluntary coordinator, October 2024.
  • TeVPa 2024, University of Chicago, convener, August 2024.
  • Extreme Mass Dark Matter Workshop, Kyoto University, organizer, March 2024.
  • YITP Lunch Seminar, Kyoto University, organizer, 2023-2024.
  • PSU-YITP Journal Club, Kyoto University, organizer, 2023.

Skills

Scientific computing: Python, C/C++, Mathematica
Research tools: GALPROP, Git/GitHub, Unix shell, VS Code, LaTeX