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Sloan Fellow Dai Liang Returns to China, Joins Fudan Astronomy Centre

6/6/2026

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Physicist Dai Liang, a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow, returned from the United States to accept a professorship at Fudan University and join its astronomy centre.
The Sloan fellowships, created in 1955 by GM chief Alfred Sloan, have produced sixty Nobel laureates and seventeen Fields Medalists.
Born in Hangzhou in 1988, Dai earned a Peking University degree and a Johns Hopkins PhD in cosmology, focusing on cosmology, astrophysics and black holes.

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Physicist Dai Liang, a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow, returned from the United States to accept a professorship at Fudan University and join its astronomy centre.
The Sloan fellowships, created in 1955 by GM chief Alfred Sloan, have produced sixty Nobel laureates and seventeen Fields Medalists.
Born in Hangzhou in 1988, Dai earned a Peking University degree and a Johns Hopkins PhD in cosmology, focusing on cosmology, astrophysics and black holes.