{"id":463803,"date":"2026-06-06T10:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463803\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:07:22","slug":"chinese-black-hole-hunting-scientist-dai-liang-quits-us-for-shanghai-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463803\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese black hole-hunting scientist Dai Liang quits US for Shanghai post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A physicist who was awarded a fellowship reserved for the \u201cbrightest young scientists\u201d in the US and Canada for his work hunting for black holes has returned to China.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Dai Liang, who received a Sloan Research Fellowship for physics in 2021, recently took up a professorship at Fudan University in Shanghai and joined the Fudan Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The fellowships were established in 1955 by former General Motors chief executive Alfred Sloan to support early-career researchers across eight fields.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sixty fellows have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, with 17 winning Fields Medals for mathematics, according to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Dai, who was born in Hangzhou in eastern China in 1988, specialises in cosmology and astrophysics.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He first studied at Peking University before moving to Johns Hopkins University in the United States where he received a PhD in theoretical cosmology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A physicist who was awarded a fellowship reserved for the \u201cbrightest young scientists\u201d in the US and Canada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[235034,235036,496,5466,235035,235037,46725,2608,22024,111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-463803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-alfred-p-sloan-foundation","tag-alfred-sloan","tag-berkeley","tag-black-holes","tag-china-sky-eye-fast","tag-dai-liang","tag-fudan-university","tag-gravitational-lensing","tag-milky-way","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}