LI Di, Ph.D.

Research Focus

Observational research into galactic star formation, radio astronomy equipment and technologies, astrochemistry and spectroscopy, pulsar search and fast radio bursts, data analysis algorithms.

Research Projects

(1) The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), a National Major Scientific Project, participant, national project, Jul 2007-Sep 2016

(2) Pre-study for large-scale extragalactic HI survey, supported by the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, member, national project, Jan 2011-Dec 2012.

(3) Herschel Open Time Projects (4 projects in total), member, institutional project, Jan 2011-Dec 2014.

(4) Herschel Open Time Key Projects (Project I), member, institutional project, Jan 2009-Dec 2014.

(5) SOFIA (the largest airborne telescope operated by the US and Germany) Basic Science Program, project leader, institutional project, Jan 2009-Dec 2014.

(6) Conditions of Dark Clouds, Herschel Open Time Project, project leader, institutional project, Jan 2011-Dec 2012

(7) The Frontiers of Radio Astronomy and FAST Early Sciences, supported by the National Basic Research Program of China, project leader, national project, Jan 2012-Aug 2016.

(8) Herschel Open Time Key Projects (Project II), member, institutional project, Jan 2009-Dec 2014.

(9) Spitzer Open Project, NASA ((Project I), project leader, institutional project, Jan 2006-Dec 2007.

(10) Spitzer Open Project, NASA ((Project I and Project III), member, institutional project, Jan 2006-Dec 2007.

(11) Evolution of carbon in dark nebulas, project leader, national project, Jan 2014-Dec 2012.

(12) An international research network based on FAST, project leader, ministry project, Jan 2016-Dec 2020.

(13) A Priority FAST Pulsar Survey Project, member, ministry project, Jun 2016-May 2021

(14) An innovative cross-functional team based on FAST, project leader, ministry project, Jan 2017-Feb 2019.

(15) Research into pulsars, neutral hydrogen galaxies, and galactic structure based on FAST Drift-Scan Survey, project leader, national project, Jul 2017-Jun 2022.

(16) Surveys with Large Radio Facilities and Evolution of the Interstellar Medium, project leader, national project, Jan 2018-Dec 2022.

(17) Gravitational waves and relativistic astrophysics, member, national project, Jan 2017-Dec 2021.

(18) LAMOST and FAST: A Study of the Milky Way and the Local Universe, member, national project, Jan 2020-Dec 2024.

(19) Pre-research on SKA scientific goals (FRB) based on FAST, project leader, prefectural project, Jan 2020-Dec 2021.

Patents

Research Outcomes

(1) OH Evolution in Molecular Clouds, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2021.(corresponding author)

(2) Resolution-dependent subsonic non-thermal line dispersion revealed by ALMA, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021. (corresponding author)

(3) CRAFTS for Fast Radio Bursts: Extending the Dispersion-Fluence Relation with New FRBs Detected by FAST, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021. (corresponding author)

(4) Collapsing index: a new method to identify star-forming cores based on ALMA images, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021. (corresponding author)

(5) The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Revealing the Diverse Magnetic Field Morphologies in Taurus Dense Cores with Sensitive Submillimeter Polarimetry, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021. (corresponding author)

(6) Studying Infall in Infrared Dark Clouds with Multiple HCO+ Transitions, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021. (corresponding author)

(7) Tiny-scale Structure Discovered toward PSR B1557-50, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021. (corresponding author)

(8) Di Li, Pei Wang, Yongkun Zhang. Shining on from the first light: the early sciences of FAST, Chinese Science Bulletin, 2021.(corresponding author)

(9) A bimodal burst energy distribution of a repeating fast radio burst source, Nature, 2021. (corresponding author)

(10) FAST discovery of an extremely radio-faint millisecond pulsar from the Fermi-LAT unassociated source 3FGL J0318.1+0252, Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2021. (corresponding author)

Research Team and Career Opportunities

Astronomical data analysis researcher

https://zp.zhejianglab.com/detail.aspx?id=C842E311CEC94255A5F1F82A38785339

Astronomical data analysis researcher 2

https://zp.zhejianglab.com/detail.aspx?id=3BF9356A69354701B791A802DA8A3CDA

A.I. algorithm engineer

https://zp.zhejianglab.com/detail.aspx?id=ED45B350A1954AD9BFB196F202935B34

Astronomical big data service platform development engineer

https://zp.zhejianglab.com/detail.aspx?id=622050B0E7674CF4BEA966D3ED460882

Data mining and algorithm application engineer

https://zp.zhejianglab.com/detail.aspx?id=259222DC069840AEAD2877382A7A9DEC

High-performance astronomical terminal system engineer