Contact
Name
Yuanzhen Li

Position
Postdoc

Email
yuanzhen.li@uclouvain.be

Address
Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology - CP3
Université catholique de Louvain
2, Chemin du Cyclotron - Box L7.01.05
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

Office
E.162

UCL member card
https://www.uclouvain.be/en/people/yuanzhen.li
Projects
Research directions:
Cosmology
Cosmology and General Relativity
Particle Physics
Phenomenology of elementary particles

Active projects
Neutrinos in the Early Universe
Marco Drewes, Yuanzhen Li

We study the production and interactions of neutrinos in the primordial plasma from first principles of quantum field theory. This includes Standard Model computations such as QED corrections to Neff as well as constraints on new neutrinos species from cosmology and astrophysics.
Non-thermal Dark Matter
Mubarak Abdallah, Marco Drewes, Yuanzhen Li, Valentin Weber

We study the production of Dark Matter from non-thermal initial states in the early universe, e.g., in freeze-in scenarios. A focus of the project lies in the computation of thermal corrections.
Publications in IRMP
All my publications on Inspire

Number of publications as IRMP member: 2

2026

IRMP-CP3-26-18: Machine Learning Does It and Does It Better: Unearthing Primordial Dark-Matter Velocities from the Matter Power Spectrum
Keith R. Dienes, Jessica N. Howard, Fei Huang, Yuan-Zhen Li, Brooks Thomas

[Abstract] [PDF]
17 pages, LaTeX, 6 figures
Refereed paper. June 15.

2025

IRMP-CP3-25-42: New Particles at the Z-Pole: Tera-Z factories as discovery and precision machines
Marco Drewes, Juraj Klaric, Yuan-Zhen Li

[Abstract] [PDF] [Journal]
Refereed paper. December 1.