Chair Professor, Chair
Email: dili@tsinghua.edu.cn
Office: E314
Website: https://lidi-astro.com
http://groups.bao.ac.cn/ism/english/CRAFTS/CRAFTS/
Introduction:
Di Li led FAST's early science planning and its first scientific discoveries. He has published more than 500 journal articles, including 19 on the Nature and Science families of journals, including 9 on the main journals. His publications have received more than 15,000 citations, with a h-index of 58. His major achievements include the discovery of interstellar molecular oxygen, the development of the H I narrow self-absorption (HINSA) method (based on which the precise measurements of interstellar magnetic fields is featured on a Nature cover), and the compilation of the largest pulse sets of fast radio burst events. His research was recognized among China's Top 10 Scientific Advances in both 2021 and 2022.
Di Li's honors include the State Natural Science Award, the National Innovation and Initiation Award, and the Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2024, he received the 17th Marcel Grossmann Award, with the citation recognizing him "for his groundbreaking contributions to the scientific definition of the most sensitive radio telescope … advancing the field of fast radio bursts into a high-statistics era". The National Natural Science Foundation of China's annual report credited him with "historic achievements in two subfields of astronomy."
