KIAA Postdoctoral Fellows, Alberto Rebassa Mansergas and Haibo Yuan, have been awarded the 7th Postdoctoral Special Fund. This is the most prestigious and competitive fund offered by the China Postdoc Foundation. Dr. Rebassa Mansergas, who received his PhD from University of Warwick, is a LAMOST Fellow whose research seeks to understand how close compact binaries form and evolve, the nature of supernovae type Ia progenitors, and the physical properties of both white dwarfs and low-mass main sequence stars. He has recently used LAMOST data to study the birth rate of white dwards in our Galaxy. Dr. Yuan, who received his Ph.D. from Peking University, is also a LAMOST Fellow. His research interests include wide-field photometric and spectroscopic surveys, data mining, Galactic archaeology, near-field cosmology, astrophysics of emission-line nebulae, and photoionization modeling. He has made substantial contributions to the LAMOST survey design, implementation, and scientific analyses, particularly in the areas of interstellar extinction and diffuse interstellar bands.
