Lai, Dong

Professor

Positions

Professor, Astronomy (ASTRO), College of Arts and Sciences

After undergraduate study at the University of Science and Technology of China, Dong Lai came to the US for graduate study, receiving Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell in 1994. He joined the Astronomy faculty in the Fall of 1997 after three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech. He has held visiting positions at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, National Astronomical Observatory of China, etc. His research lies in theoretical astrophysics.