After undergraduate study at the University of Science and Technologyof China, Dong Lai came to the US for graduate study, receivingPh.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell in 1994. He joined theAstronomy faculty in the Fall of 1997 after three years as apostdoctoral fellow at Caltech. He has h...
After undergraduate study at the University of Science and Technologyof China, Dong Lai came to the US for graduate study, receivingPh.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell in 1994. He joined theAstronomy faculty in the Fall of 1997 after three years as apostdoctoral fellow at Caltech. He has held visiting positions atthe Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Institute for Advanced Study,Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, National AstronomicalObservatory of China, etc. His research lies in theoreticalastrophysics.