Chinese black hole-hunting scientist Dai Liang quits US for Shanghai post

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Chinese black hole-hunting scientist Dai Liang quits US for Shanghai post

The physicist who received a fellowship reserved for the ‘brightest young scientists’ in North America has joined Fudan University

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Dai Liang specialises in finding possible binary black holes. Photo: Handout

Shi HuangPublished: 8:00pm, 5 Jun 2026

A physicist who was awarded a fellowship reserved for the “brightest young scientists” in the US and Canada for his work hunting for black holes has returned to China.

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.

The fellowships were established in 1955 by former General Motors chief executive Alfred Sloan to support early-career researchers across eight fields.

Sixty fellows have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, with 17 winning Fields Medals for mathematics, according to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Dai, who was born in Hangzhou in eastern China in 1988, specialises in cosmology and astrophysics.

He first studied at Peking University before moving to Johns Hopkins University in the United States where he received a PhD in theoretical cosmology.

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