Q. Daniel Wang
Professor
Q. Daniel Wang is a Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 1990 from
Columbia University. He was awarded the ASP Robert J. Trumpler Award for
Outstanding North American Ph.D Dissertation Research in Astronomy. He was then
an Edwin P. Hubble postdoctoral fellow at University of Colorado and later a
Lindheimer fellow at Northwestern University.
He was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and
had a recent extended stay at University of Cambridge as a Raymond and
Beverley Sackler Distinguished Visiting Astronomer. He was the Siyuan
Visiting Chair Professor and is now the Yixing Visiting Chair Professor
in the School of Astronomy and Space Science at Nanjing University.
He served on a Frontier Science Panel of US Astro 2010 - the
Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics. He has published 160+ research
papers in refereed journals, including four in
Nature and one in Science as the lead author and one single author
paper on PNAS; about 50 over the last five years.
His current research focuses
on the hot interstellar and intergalactic media, the feedback and evolution of
galaxies, and galactic nuclear regions. He m
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