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Professor Lixin Dai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Hong Kong, specializing in theoretical and computational high energy astrophysics. She received her BSc in Physics and Mathematics from HKUST (2005) and PhD in Physics from Stanford University (2012). Prior to her current role, she served as an Assistant Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute (University of Copenhagen) and holds the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Visiting Professorship there. Her research focuses on transient phenomena around astrophysical black holes, including tidal disruption events, accretion disks, jets, and gravitational wave counterparts.
- Education: B.Sc. HKUST (2005); M.Sc., Ph.D. Stanford University (2012)
Her work spans multiple observational missions, co-chairing the Einstein Probe mission's Science Topic Panel and contributing to X-ray astronomy and relativistic simulations. She has secured significant grants from NSFC/RGC and HKU's General Research Fund, supporting studies on ultraluminous X-ray sources and super-Eddington accretion flows. Recent publications analyze magnetized accretion disks, wind dynamics, and gravitational lensing applications in tidal disruption events.
Scientific awards include the Aspen Center of Physics Block Award (2018) and NSFC Excellent Young Scientist Fund (2021). She mentors PhD and MPhil students in astrophysics, teaches core courses like Astrophysics and Basic Research Methods, and participates in knowledge exchange activities such as public lectures on black holes and panel discussions at international festivals.
