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

Science Committee Member

Douglas Nelson Chao LIN

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.


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