Dan was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2018 in recognition of her “contributions to understanding the microcircuits underlying cortical computation, cellular mechanisms for functional plasticity, and neural circuits controlling sleep”. Last month, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
She was introduced as the second full-time principal investigator at SMART earlier this month.
The two scientists were the first NAS-member couple to repatriate to China, signalling a growing trend of top-tier scientists being drawn to the nation’s ambitious research ecosystem.
Dan, who is in her late-fifties, has made transformative discoveries in cortical computation. According to Google Scholar, she has published more than 90 articles with over 24,000 citations.
