Cao Xinwu received his bachelor of science from Hangzhou University in 1988 and his Ph. D. in astronomy from University of Science and Technology of China in 1994. After working in Physics Department of Hangzhou University as lecturer for a while, he joined Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in 1996, and became research professor in 1999. He is the leader of active galactic nuclei (AGN) group in the observatory, His researches mainly focus on the accretion disks and jets in AGN.

　　Selected publications:

　　1. Cao, X., 2014, “The Outflows Accelerated by the Magnetic Fields and Radiation Force of Accretion Disks”, ApJ, 783, 51

　　2. Cao, X., Spruit, H.C., 2013, “The Large-scale Magnetic Fields of Thin Accretion Disks”, ApJ, 765, 149

　　3. Cao, X., 2011, “The Large-scale Magnetic Fields of Advection-dominated Accretion Flows”, ApJ, 737, 94

　　4. Cao, X., 2009, “An accretion disc-corona model for X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei”, MNRAS, 394, 207-213

　　5. Cao, X., Li, F., 2008, “Rapidly spinning massive black holes in active galactic nuclei: evidence from the black hole mass function”, MNRAS, 390, 561-566

　　6. Li, S.-L., Cao, X., 2008, “An accretion disc model for quasar optical variability”, MNRAS, 387, L41-L44

　　7. Cao, X., 2005, “Constraints on the Radiatively Inefficient Accretion History of Active Galactic Nuclei from the Hard Cosmological X-Ray Background”, ApJ, 631, L101-L104

　　8. Cao, X., Rawlings, S., 2004, “No evidence for a different accretion mode for all 3CR FR I radio galaxies”, MNRAS, 349, 1419-1427

　　9. Cao, X., Spruit, H.C., 2002, “Instability of an accretion disk with a magnetically driven wind”, A&A, 385, 289-300

　　10. Cao, X., Spruit, H.C., 1994, “Magnetically driven wind from an accretion disk with low-inclination field lines”, A&A, 287, 80-86