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Professor DAI, Jane Lixin

Professor DAI, Jane Lixin

Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, HKU

B.Sc. HKUST; M.Sc., Ph.D. Stanford

  • 3910 2166
  • 2559 9152
  • Room 311J, CYM Physics Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong

Teaching Area

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

 

Research Interests

  • High-energy astrophysics – black hole accretion disks and jets

  • Time-domain astronomy – nuclear transients

  • Multi-messenger astrophysics

  • Computational astrophysics

 

Honours & Fellowships

2026|Research Fellow, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC)
2023|Co-Chair, STP1 (Tidal Disruption Events and Active Galactic Nuclei), Einstein Probe Telescope Team
2021|Excellent Young Scientist Fund (Hong Kong & Macau), National Natural Science Foundation of China
2019|Sophie and Tycho Brahe Visiting Professorship, University of Copenhagen
2018|Block Award, Aspen Center for Physics, USA
2017–2019|DARK & Carlsberg Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

 

Recent News & Features

 

Selected Publications 

  • Li D., Zhang W*., Yang J., Chen J.-H., Yuan W*. et al. (including Dai, L.* as a corresponding author), "A fast powerful X-ray transient from possible tidal disruption of a white dwarf", Science Bulletin, 2026, 71, 538.
  • Chang, J. N. Y., Dai, L.*, Pfister, H., Kar Chowdhury, R., Natarajan, P., "Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption Events around Intermediate-mass Black Holes", ApJ, 2025, 980, L22.
  • Kar Chowdhury, R., Chang, J. N. Y., Dai, L.*, Natarajan, P., "Detecting Population III Stars through Tidal Disruption Events in the Era of JWST and Roman", ApJL, 2024, 966, L33.
  • Kwan, T. M., Dai, L.*, Tchekhovskoy, A., "The Effects of Gas Angular Momentum on the Formation of Magnetically Arrested Disks and the Launching of Powerful Jets", ApJL, 2023, 946, L42.
  • Leloudas, G.*, Bulla, M., Cikota, A., Dai, L.*, Thomsen, L. L., et al., "An asymmetric electron-scattering photosphere around optical tidal disruption events", Nature Astronomy, 2022, 6, 1193–1202.
  • Thomsen, L. L., Kwan, T. M., Dai, L.*, Wu, S. C., Roth, N., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., "Dynamical Unification of Tidal Disruption Events", ApJL, 2022, 937, L28.
  • Dai, L.*, Lodato, G., Cheng, R., "The Physics of Accretion Discs, Winds and Jets in Tidal Disruption Events", Space Science Reviews, 2021, 217, 12.
  • Dai, L.*, McKinney, J., Roth, N., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., & Miller, M. C., "A Unified Model for Tidal Disruption Events", ApJL, 2018, 859, L20.
  • Kara, E.*, Miller, J., Reynolds, C., & Dai, L., "Relativistic reverberation in the accretion flow of a tidal disruption event", Nature, 2016, 535, 388.
  • Dai, L.*, McKinney, J., & Miller, M. C., "Soft X-Ray Temperature Tidal Disruption Events from Stars on Deep Plunging Orbits", ApJL, 2015, 812, 39.
  • Dai, L.*, & Blandford, R., "Roche Accretion of Stars Close to Massive Black Holes", MNRAS, 2013, 434, 2948.
  • Dai, L.*, Fuerst, S. & Blandford, R., "Quasi-Periodic Flares From Star-Accretion Disc Collisions", MNRAS, 2010, 402, 1614.

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