Dai Liang, recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, has returned to China to take up a professorship at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Dai Liang was born in Hangzhou in 1988 and specialises in cosmology and astrophysics. He first studied at Peking University before moving to Johns Hopkins University in the United States where he received a PhD in theoretical cosmology. In 2021 Dai Liang received a Sloan Research Fellowship for physics. The fellowships were established in 1955 by former General Motors chief executive Alfred Sloan to support early-career researchers. Dai Liang recently took up a professorship at Fudan University in Shanghai and joined the Fudan Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics.