Dr. Nanyao Lu obtained his Ph.D. in Astronomy from Cornell University in New York, USA in 1993. Afterwards, he joined the Infrared Astrophysical Group at Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow, and went on to become a staff scientist at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center of California Institute of Technology. From 1995 to 2015, he worked there as an instrument team-associated scientist on a number of infrared astronomical space missions, including the Infrared Space Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory. In 2016, he took a post as a senior research scientist with NAOC and the China-Chile Center for Astronomy. While he started his research career with HI 21cm observations of galaxies and galaxy large-scale distribution in the local Universe, his more recent research activities involve infrared and sub-millimeter observational studies of star formation, interstellar medium and their interplay in both normal and luminous infrared galaxies.
