Dai Zigao, born in November 1964, received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the National University of Defense Technology, CAS Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research, and Nanjing University in 1987, 1990, and 1993, respectively. From 1993 to 2020, he successively served as a postdoctoral researcher, lecturer, associate professor, and professor at Nanjing University. He is currently a professor at the Department of Astronomy, University of Science and Technology of China.
With the research field of high-energy astrophysics, he has published 268 SCI papers (as of June 2021) with collaborators, including 2 papers in Science, 8 in Nature and its sub-journals, and 3 in Physical Review Letters. Most of the remaining papers have been published in top core international astronomy journals. His work has been cited over 10,000 times (according to NASA/ADS), and he has been listed in Elsevier's Highly Cited Researchers List for six consecutive years. In 1998, he received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and in 2002, he was appointed as a Distinguished Professor under the Ministry of Education's Distinguished Scholar Program. He won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2003 (ranked first), the first prize of the Ministry of Education's Natural Science Award in 2002 and 2010 (both ranked first), the 8th China Youth Science and Technology Award in 2004, and the Huang Runqian Prize for Basic Research in Astrophysics from the Chinese Astronomical Society in 2017. Among the Ph.D. students he has supervised, four have won the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, one has received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and three have received the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. He has led the first Innovation Research Group Project in Astronomy of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology's Gamma-ray Burst 973 Project. He once served as Vice President of the Chinese Astronomical Society (for three terms) and President of the Jiangsu Astronomical Society.
Research Directions
· Neutron stars
· Gamma-ray bursts
· Fast radio bursts
· Supernovae
· Cosmology
Contact Information
Office: Room 1007-2, Building C, Material Scientific Research Building, East Campus
Phone number: 86-551-63606090
E-mail: daizg@ustc.edu.cn