Dr. Lixin Dai received her B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2005, and her Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University in 2012. She was a joint postdoctoral fellow of Yale University and University of Chile for two years, and since then she has been a postdoctoral associate at the University of Maryland and a scientist at the Joint Space-Science Institute. Dr. Dai’s main research area is theoretical and computational high-energy astrophysics, especially on black hole accretion and jet physics, tidal disruption events, and X-ray binaries. She also works on high-energy astro-particle physics and gravitational waves.
