Aigen Li - Curriculum Vitae

AIGEN LI
CURRICULUM VITAE

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Education

Nov 1994 - Sep 1998 --	PhD, Astrophysics Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden University, The Netherlands PhD Thesis: Theoretical Studies of Interstellar Dust Advisor: Prof. J. Mayo Greenberg (1922.1.14 -- 2001.11.29) Promotor: Prof. Ewine F. van Dishoeck (member, US National Acad. Sci.)
Sep 1992 - Jun 1994 --	MSc, Astrophysics Graduate School and Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Advisor: Prof. Jingyao Hu
Sep 1988 - Jul 1992 --	BSc, Astrophysics Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, China

Employment

Sep 2004, 2009 - --	Assistant, Associate Professor of Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri
Feb 2002 - Aug 2004 --	Theoretical Astrophysics Prize Fellow, Theoretical Astrophysics Program, University of Arizona
Jan 1999 - Feb 2002 --	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University Advisor: Prof. Bruce T. Draine (member, US National Acad. Sci.)

Research Interests

Interstellar Dust

Dust Disks around Young Stars

Dust Envelopes around Evolved Stars

Physics and Chemistry of Comets

Infrared Galaxies

Active Galactic Nuclei

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Light Scattering by Small Particles

Professional Services

Co-organizing The NATO Advanced Study Institute International School of Space Chemistry: Formation and Evolution of Solids in Space (Mar. 10--21, 1997);

Organizing The Princeton Interstellar Medium Seminar (1999--2001);

Lecturing in the 2006 Kobe International School of Planetary Sciences: Small Bodies in Planetary Systems (Kobe, Japan, Dec. 3--7, 2006);

Guest Editor, Earth, Planets and Space, special issue "Cosmic Dust: Formation and Evolution" (2008);

Reviewer for NASA Origins Program, NASA Astrobiology Program, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, and US Civilian Research and Development Foundation;

Reviewer for journals including Nature, ApJ, A&A, MNRAS, Icarus, Planet. Space Sci., Adv. Space Res., Adv. Geosci., Naturwissenschaften, Ap&SS, and Intl. J. Mod. Phys.

External Funding

NASA $46,300 (01 Sep. 2004 -- 31 Aug. 2007) -- Spitzer Cycle-1 GO Proposal "Spitzer Observations of the High-Latitude Translucent Cloud toward HD 210121" (PI: Aigen Li, 65% = $30,100);

NASA $36,750 (01 Jun. 2005 -- 31 May 2008) -- Spitzer Cycle-2 GO Proposal "Spitzer Observations of the Molecular Cloud toward HD 62542: A Sightline with Exceedingly Anomalous 2175 Angstrom Extinction Bump" (PI: Aigen Li, 70% = $27,560);

NASA $149,387 (01 Jun. 2005 -- 31 May 2006) Spitzer Cycle-2 GO Proposal "Tracing the PAH Variations and Probing the Metallicity and Radiation Field Dependence of PAH emission in M 101, NGC 2403, and NGC 628" (Co-I: Aigen Li, 10% = $14,940);

NASA $78,572 (01 Sep. 2005 -- 31 Aug. 2008) Spitzer Cycle-2 Theory Proposal "Modeling the Dust Infrared Emission from Nearby Galaxies" (PI: Aigen Li, 100% = $78,572);

NASA $82,239 (01 Sep. 2006 -- 31 Aug. 2009) Spitzer Cycle-3 Theory Proposal "Modeling the PAH Emission Spectra of Protoplanetary and Debris Disks" (PI: Aigen Li, 100% = $82,239);

NASA $82,798 (01 Sep. 2006 -- 31 Aug. 2009) Spitzer Cycle-3 Theory Proposal "Modeling the Destruction and Survival of PAHs in Extragalactic Environments: from Low-metallicity Galaxies to Elliptical Galaxies and Galactic Halos" (PI: Aigen Li, 100% = $82,798);

NASA $16,642 (01 Sep. 2006 -- 31 Aug. 2009) Spitzer Cycle-3 GO Proposal "Spitzer Search for the 21 Micron Sources from the MSX PSC Catalog" (Co-I: Aigen Li, 50% = $8,321);

NASA $267,440 (01 Sep. 2006 -- 31 Aug. 2009) Spitzer Cycle-3 GO Proposal "A Complete Picture of the Dust in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Following up Spitzer Imaging with Spectroscopic Observations" (Co-I: Aigen Li, 10% = $26,744);

NASA $53,231 (01 Sep. 2006 -- 31 Aug. 2009) Hubble Cycle-15 Theory Proposal "Modeling the Optical and near-Infrared Scattered Light Images of Protoplanetary and Debris Disks" (PI: Aigen Li, 100% = $53,231);

NASA $49,068 (01 Jan. 2007 -- 31 Dec. 2010) Chandra Cycle-8 Theory Proposal "X-ray Scattering of Interstellar Grains" (PI: Aigen Li, 100% = $49,068);

NASA $53,000 (01 Jul. 2007 -- 30 Jun. 2010) Swift Cycle-3 Theory Proposal "Dust Extinction of GRB Host Galaxies" (PI: Aigen Li, 100% = $53,000);

NASA $55,205 (01 Sep. 2007 -- 31 Aug. 2010) Hubble Cycle-16 Theory Proposal "Radiation-induced Grain Dynamics in Dust Disks: Radiation Pressure, Poynting-Robertson Drag, and Photophoresis" (PI: Aigen Li, 100% = $55,205);

NASA $1,012,484 (01 Sep. 2007 -- 31 Aug. 2010) Spitzer Cycle-4 GO Proposal "SAGE-SMC: Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally-Disrupted, Low-Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud Magellanic Cloud: Following up Spitzer Imaging with Spectroscopic Observations" (Co-I: Aigen Li, 3% = $30,000);

NASA $87,146 (01 Sep. 2007 -- 31 Aug. 2010) Spitzer Cycle-4 Theory Proposal "Modeling the Infrared Emission Spectra of Specific PAH Molecules in Interstellar Space" (PI: Aigen Li, 100% = $87,146);

NSF $202,351 (01 Jul. 2007 -- 30 Jun. 2010) NSF/AST "Photo-excitation and Destruction of Specific Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Molecules in Interstellar Space and Circumstellar Dust Disks" (PI: Aigen Li, 100% = $202,351);

NASA $1,632,000 (01 Apr. 2008 -- 30 Sep. 2011) Herschel Space Telescope Open Time Key Program "HERschel Inventory of The Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE) in the Magellanic Clouds" (Co-I: Aigen Li, 0.6% = $10,000);

NASA $110,637 (01 Apr. 2008 -- 30 Sep. 2011) Herschel Space Telescope Cycle-0 Theory Proposal "Modeling the Far-IR/Submm Emission Properties of Interstellar Dust" (PI: Aigen Li, 100% = $110,637);

NSF $161,644 (01 Jul. 2011 -- 30 Jun. 2013) NSF/AST "On Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Molecules in Comets" (PI: Aigen Li, 100% = $161,644);

Publication History

>90 publications in refereed journals, with >5000 citations since 1995.

Student/Postdoc Advising

Graduate students: Shunlin Liang (since 2005), Suklima Guha Niyogi (2006-2008), Ajay Marsha (since 2008); postdoctoral research associates: Moping Li (since 2007), Melanie Koehler (since 2008).

Selected Publications

"Modeling the Infrared Emission from the HD 141569A Disk," by A. Li & J.I. Lunine, in The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 594, pp. 987-1010 (2003).

"Modeling the Infrared Emission from the HR 4796A Disk," by A. Li & J.I. Lunine, in The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 590, pp. 368-378 (2003).

"Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. II. The Diffuse Interstellar Medium," by A. Li & B.T. Draine, in The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 554, pp. 778-802 (2001).

"Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. I. Stochastic Heating of Small Grains," by B.T. Draine & A. Li, in The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 551, pp. 807-824 (2001).

"A Comet Dust Model for the β Pictoris Disk," by A. Li & J.M. Greenberg, in Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 331, pp. 291-313 (1998).

"A Unified Model of Interstellar Dust," by A. Li & J.M. Greenberg, in Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 323, pp. 566-584 (1997).

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