Prof. Baojiu Li was awarded the RAS Fowler (A) Award in 2019, the Winton Capital Prize in 2013 and the Michael Penston Thesis Prize in 2010.
He received his BSc degree from Tsinghua University, China in 2004, MPhys from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006, and PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2009, where he stayed as a Junior Research Fellow at Queens' College until 2011, when he was awarded a RAS Research Fellowship and a Lectureship at Durham University. He became a Senior Lecturer at Durham University in 2014, Reader in 2016 and Professor in 2019.
Baojiu works on theoretical and numerical cosmology, and his research interest includes large-scale structure, weak lensing, dark matter, dark energy, modified gravity and relativistic cosmology.