主要经历

        赖东，1968年出生于中国江西赣州。他于1988年获得中国科学技术大学学位。他通过T.D.Lee（CUSPEA）计划来到美国并获得博士学位，于1994年在康奈尔大学获得物理学博士学位。在加州理工学院获得三年博士后奖学金后，他于1997年加入康奈尔天文学系，最终成为一名正教授。曾任哈佛大学高等研究院，KITP，CITA，国家和上海天文台，清华大学等客座教授。

近期主要研究成果

• 1.Harding, A. K., Lai, D. 2006, “Physics of Strongly Magnetized Neutron Stars”, Report of Progress of Physics, 69, 2631
• 2.Lai, D., Tsang, D. 2009, ”Corotational Instability of Inertial-Acoustic Modes in Black Hole Accretion Discs and Quasi-Periodic Oscillations”, MNRAS, 393, 979-991
• 3.Lai, D., Foucart, F., Lin, D.N.C. 2011, “Evolution of Spin Direction of Accreting Magnetic Protostars and Spin-Orbit Misalignment in Exoplanetary Systems”, MNRAS, 412, 2790-2798
• 4.Fuller, J., Lai, D. 2012, “Dynamical Tides in Compact White Dwarf Binaries: Tidal Synchronization and Dissipation”, MNRAS, 421, 426-445
• 5.Lai, D. 2012, “DC Circuit Powered by Orbital Motion: Magnetic Interactions in Compact Object Binaries and Exoplanetary Systems”, ApJ, 757, L3
• 6.Storch, N.I., Anderson, K.R., Lai, D. 2014, “Chaotic Dynamics of Stellar Spin in Binaries and the Production of Misaligned Hot Jupiters”, Science, 345, 1317 Wang, C., Lai, D. 2016 “Axion-Photon Propagation in Magnetized Universe”, JCAP, 6, 006
• 7.Xu, Wenrui, Lai, D. 2017, “Resonant Tidal Excitation of Oscillation Modes in Merging Binary Neutron Stars: Inertial-Gravity Mode”, Phys. Rev. D 96, 083005
• 8.Zanazzi, J.J., Lai, D. 2018, “Inclination Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks Around Eccentric Binaries”, MNRAS, 473, 603-615
• 9.Liu, B., Lai, D. 2018, “Black Hole and Neutron Star Binary Mergers in Triple Systems: Merger Fraction and Spin-Orbit Misalignment”, ApJ, 863, 68
• 10.Munoz, D.J., Miranda, R., Lai, D. 2019, “Hydrodynamics of circumbinary accretion: Angular momentum transfer and binary orbital evolution”, ApJ, 871, 84
• 11.Vick, M., Lai, D., Anderson, K.R. 2019, “Chaotic Tides in Migrating Gas Giants: Forming Hot and Transient Warm Jupiters via High-Eccentricity Migration”, MNRAS, 484, 5645-5668