Key facts
- Physicist Dai Liang has returned to China.
- Dai Liang received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2021.
- He has taken up a professorship at Fudan University in Shanghai.
- He will join the Fudan Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Dai Liang, a Chinese physicist recognized for his work in black hole research, has returned to China. He was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2021, an honor reserved for promising early-career scientists in the US and Canada. Dai Liang has now accepted a professorship at Fudan University in Shanghai, where he will also be part of the Fudan Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics. The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 by Alfred Sloan, former CEO of General Motors, to support researchers in their early careers.