Dr. Zigao Dai is a professor in Nanjing University (NJU). He obtained his PhD in NJU in 1993 and has worked there since then. His research areas include neutron stars, pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, gamma-ray cosmology, fast radio bursts, and super-bright supernovae. He was awarded the National Natural Science Foundation for outstanding young scientists in 1998 and was elected as a distinguished professor of the Cheung Kong scholars award scheme in 2002. He is the chief scientist of the GRB 973 project. He has won many national science and technology awards, such as the first prize of natural science of the Ministry of Education in 2002 and 2010, and the second prize of National Natural Science of the Ministry of Education in 2003.