Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Distinguish Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Tsinghua University
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
EMPLOYMENT
2019- Emerita Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
2008-2019 Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
1985-2008 Professor,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz
1982-1985 AssociateProfessor,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz
1979-1982 AssistantProfessor,UniversityofCalifornia,SantaCruz
1977-1978 PostdoctoralFellow,CenterforAstrophysics,HarvardUniversity
1976-1979 ScienceResearchFellow,TrinityHallandInstituteofAstronomy,CambridgeUniversity 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: 284; Cumulative citation:>22,000; H index 87
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.