Dai Yu was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, in December 1977. He received his doctorate in science from the Department of Astronomy at Nanjing University in 2005. From 2007 to 2009, he was engaged in post-doctoral research at the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris (IAP). He now serves as an astrophysics lecturer at the Department of Astronomy at Nanjing University.

　　Fluid Mechanics (undergraduate general-education course)
　　Magnetohydrodynamics (graduate-level core course)

　　Professor Dai Yu’s research focuses on the acceleration mechanism of high-energy particles in solar bursts such as flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) and the phenomena of large-scale disturbance in the corona. He proposes that the reconnection electric field of flares and the shock waves driven by CME accelerate the solar high-energy particles at different stages of the event in solar strong proton events and make them present “hybrid” characteristics. He also pointed out the coronal large-scale wave (EIT wave) is strongly correlated with CME in terms of time and space and EIT waves are not real waves but the feet of CME in the bottom of the corona.

1. Dai, Y.,Auchère, F., Vial, J.-C., Tang, Y. H., and Zong, W. G. ApJ, 2010, 708, 913-919 

2. Li, C., Dai, Y., Vial, J.-C., Owen, C. J., Matthews, S. A., Tang, Y. H., Fang, C., and Fazakerley, A. N. A&A, 2009, 503, 1013-1021 

3. Li, C., Tang, Y. H., Dai, Y., Fang, C., and Vial, J.-C. A&A, 2007, 472, 283-286 

4. Dai, Y., Tang, Y. H., and Qiu, K. P. Adv. Space Res., 2005, 35, 1871-1875

5. Dai,Y., Tang, Y. H., and Qiu, K. P. IAUS, 2005, 226, 374-378