Chairman，2022 Science Committee of the Future Science Prize

EMPLOYMENT

2019-          Emerita Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz 

1985-2019 Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

1982-1985 Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

1979-1982 Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

1977-1978 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University

1976-1979 Science Research Fellow, Trinity Hall and Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

EDUCATION

1976 Ph.D., Cambridge University, Astrophysics

1972 Applied Math Tripos, Part III, Cambridge University

1971 B.S., McGill University, Montreal

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

2007-11 Founding Director, Kavli Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Peking University

1997-98       Chair, Astronomy Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

1991-97       Associate Director, California Space Institute, Center for Origins Studies

1989-90       Director, Institute for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of California, Santa Cruz

1984-99       Executive committee, Center for Star Formation Studies

HONORS AND AWARDS

2020            Legacy Fellow, American Astronomical Society

2019        Van der Waals Professorial Chair, Amsterdam, Netherland

2018        Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University  

2018            Sackler visiting Professor, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University 

2016            Carnegie Professorship, St Andrew University

2015            Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal, Astronomical Society of the Pacific

2015            Naming of Asteroid #25133 Douglin

2015            Brouwer Award, Division of Dynamical Astronomy, American Astronomical Society

2014 Peter Wall International Distinguished Professor, University of British Columbia

2014            Lecar Lecturer, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University

2010            Honorary Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society

2009            Rothschild Professor, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge

2008 Outstanding Faculty, Division of Physical and Biological Sciences, UCSC

2002 Member, American Academy of Arts and Science

2001 Sackler Distinguished Fellow, Cambridge University

1999 SAAS-Fee Lecturer, Geneva Observatory, Switzerland

1992 Alexander von Humbolt Fellow (Federal Republic of Germany)

Perrant Lecturer, University of London

1991 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow

Otto Schmidt Medal of the Soviet Academy of Sciences

1986 Churchill Overseas Fellowship

PUBLICATIONS:

Total papers in refereed Journals: 268; Cumulative citation:22,000;  H index 84 

RESEACR INTERESTS:

Planet formation, internal structure, and long term evolution; solar system dynamics; interstellar asteroids, star formation and interstellar medium; astrophysical hydrodynamics and stellar dynamics; theory of accretion disks; interacting binary stars; magnetosphere-accretion disk interaction, formation and dynamical evolution of stellar clusters; interacting galaxies; active galactic nuclei and black holes; intergalactic medium; gravitational waves.