Editorial Board of Physical Review Materials
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Editors of Physical Review Materials
Hari Dahal, Chief Editor
American Physical Society, USA
Hari received his Master's in Science degree from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2001 and earned his Ph.D. from Boston College, Massachusetts in 2008. Following that, he assumed the role of a postdoctoral research associate at the Theoretical Division and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research delved into correlated electron systems, two-dimensional materials, and multi-dimensional data visualization. He has more than 12 years of editorial experience as an Associate Editor of Physical Review B, Physical Review Research, and Physical Review Materials. He became the Chief Editor of Physical Review Materials in 2023.
Chris Leighton, Lead Editor
University of Minnesota, USA
Chris Leighton is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and a graduate faculty member in Physics at the University of Minnesota (UMN). Following a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Durham in the UK, he pursued post-doctoral research at the University of California San Diego, then joined UMN. His research deals with the electronic and magnetic properties of novel materials including complex oxides, oxide heterostructures, transition metal sulfides, metallic spintronic systems, magnetic nanostructures, and photovoltaics. His honors include Fellowship in the APS, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Neutron Scattering Society of America, in addition to a Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been with Physical Review Materials since its launch in 2017.
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Athanasios Chantis, Contributing EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Athanasios received a Ph.D. in materials science from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 2002. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Arizona State University and later as a Seaborg Institute Fellow at the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. He worked with both material scientists and physicists, experimentalists and theorists, on a variety of topics including spintronics, semiconductor physics, strongly correlated materials, actinides, and the development of first-principles methods for the electronic structure of solids. He has many years of Editorial experience as an Associate Editor of Physical Review B, which he joined in 2010. Since 2022, he has been an Associate Executive Editor for APS. |
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Margaret Hudson, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Margaret received her B.S. in Chemistry from Sewanee: the University of the South in 2014 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago in 2019. She did her postdoctoral research at North Carolina State University. She worked on many areas of Materials Chemistry including the synthesis and characterization of inorganic materials, photophysics, and colloidal quantum dots. She joined the Physical Review family of journals in 2021. |
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Junjie Li, Associate EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Junjie Li received his M.S. in optics in 2005 from Wuhan University and earned a PhD in condensed matter physics in 2011 from Florida State University. He worked as a Research Associate at the University of Illinois, followed by a postdoctoral research associate position at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Later, he was converted to a Staff Scientist at Brookhaven. With a strong background in experimental materials physics, optics, and instrumentation, Junjie joined the Physical Review family of journals in 2023. |
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Steven May, Associate EditorDrexel University, USA Steven May is a Professor and Department Head of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, having joined the faculty in 2009. He received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University in 2007, after which he pursued postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory in the Materials Science Division. His research focuses on thin film synthesis and characterization of materials with functional electronic and magnetic properties, such as complex oxide heterostructures, intermetallic topological semimetals, and MXenes. He has received the NSF CAREER award, an ARO Young Investigator Award, the Ross Coffin Purdy Award from the American Ceramic Society, and the Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers from ASM International. |
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Veronica AugustynNorth Carolina State University, USA Veronica Augustyn is the Jake and Jennifer Hooks Distinguished Scholar in Materials Science and Engineering and Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her B.S. from the University of Arizona and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, both in Materials Science and Engineering. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin. She is the recipient of several awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER, the Department of Energy Early Career, and Sloan Research Fellowship. Her research focuses on the electrochemistry of materials for energy and environmental applications, including interfacial phenomena, insertion mechanisms, and confinement effects. |
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Wenzhong BaoFudan University, China Wenzhong Bao is a full professor in the School of Microelectronics at Fudan University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 2011, where he studied in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. He subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2011 to 2014 and at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology from 2014 to 2015. His current research interests involve emerging semiconductors and their applications in next-generation electrical, optoelectrical, and energy devices. He was awarded the 2016 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Young Scientist Prize (C10) and the 2017 Hong Kong Qiushi Outstanding Young Scientist Prize. |
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Kirill BelashchenkoUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Kirill Belashchenko is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his M.S. in Physics of Metals in 1996 from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in 1999 from the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" in Moscow, Russia. He held research appointments at Ames Laboratory and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before joining the faculty at UNL in 2005. He received a Cottrell Scholar award from the Research Corporation in 2008. His research interests focus on computational magnetism and spintronics. |
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Robert CavaPrinceton University, USA Bob Cava is the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. His research in new materials emphasizes the relationships between chemistry, crystal structure, and electronic and magnetic properties. He received his Ph.D. in Ceramics from MIT in 1978, after which he was an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Solid State Chemistry at NIST. He began at Princeton in 1997 after working at Bell Labs for 17 years, where he was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Ceramic Society, and the Neutron Scattering Society of America, and is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of The Royal Society of London. He has been the recipient of awards from the APS, the ACS, and the MRS, and other recognitions for his teaching and research. |
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Michele CeriottiEPFL, Switzerland Michele Ceriotti received his Ph.D. in Physics from ETH Zürich. He spent three years in Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College. Since 2013 he leads the laboratory for Computational Science and Modeling, in the Institute of Materials at EPFL, and has been promoted to associate professor in 2020. His research interests focus on methods for molecular dynamics and quantum simulations, the development of machine-learning techniques for the study of complex systems at the atomistic level, and their application to problems in chemistry and materials science. He was awarded the IBM Research Forschungspreis in 2010, the Volker Heine Young Investigator Award in 2013, an ERC Starting Grant in 2016, the IUPAP C10 Young Scientist Prize in 2018, and an ERC Consolidator grant in 2021. |
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Sergei DudarevUK Atomic Energy Authority, United Kingdom Sergei Dudarev is a Senior Fellow at the UK Atomic Energy Authority. After receiving an M.Sc in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, and Ph.D. and D.Sc in Theoretical Physics from Moscow Engineering Physics University, he held research and teaching appointments at Oxford before joining UKAEA in 2000, where he leads research in computational modeling of fusion reactor materials. He is a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and a visiting professor at Oxford University and Imperial College London. His research spans statistical theory of diffraction and microscopy, electronic structure, and dynamic models for defects and dislocations. |
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Joanne EtheridgeMonash University, Australia Joanne Etheridge is the founding Director of the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy and Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University. Following a degree and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Melbourne and RMIT, respectively, she held appointments at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, including a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Her research develops electron scattering methods to determine the atomic and electronic structure of materials and applies these to investigate structure-property relationships in functional materials. |
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Giulia GalliUniversity of Chicago, USA Giulia Galli is the Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She also holds a Senior Scientist position at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and she is a Senior Fellow of the UChicago/ANL Computational Institute. Prior to joining UChicago and ANL, she was Professor of Chemistry and Physics at UC Davis (2005-2013) and the head of the Quantum Simulations group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1998-2005). She holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy. Honors include fellowship in the APS and AAAS, award of excellence from the Department of Energy and the Science and Technology Award from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. |
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Arindam GhoshIndian Institute of Science, India Arindam Ghosh did his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, following which he worked in Cambridge University, UK, as a postdoctoral researcher. He returned to IISc, Bangalore in 2005, becoming a full Professor in 2017. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow in Nanotechnology at the T. J. Watson Research Center of IBM. Arindam is a low temperature experimental physicist with specialization in the physics of semiconductors, the interplay of Coulomb interaction and disorder in low-dimensional systems, and noise in quantum devices. He has received numerous prizes, including in December 2020 the Infosys Prize for Physical Sciences for his development of atomically thin two-dimensional semiconductors to build a new generation of functional electronic, thermoelectric and optoelectronic devices. |
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Daniel S. GianolaUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, USA Daniel S. Gianola is a Professor in the Materials Department at the University of California Santa Barbara. Dr. Gianola joined the Materials Department at UCSB in early 2016 after holding positions of Associate Professor and Skirkanich Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania, Gianola was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in Germany. His research interests include the development and characterization of structural materials, with emphasis on deformation mechanisms at the micro- and nanoscale, particularly using in situ nanomechanical testing techniques. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER, Department of Energy Early Career, and TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow awards. |
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Berit Goodge, Early Career Board MemberMax Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany Berit Goodge is currently a Minerva Group Leader in the Physics of Quantum Materials Department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany. She earned her B.A. in physics from Carleton College followed by her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University, after which she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in chemistry and physics at the University of California Berkeley. Her research interests lie in leveraging atomic-scale insights from advanced electron microscopy imaging and spectroscopy to understand — and ultimately design — new quantum materials. She has been recognized as a Schmidt Science Fellow, Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science Webb Fellow, a Microscopy and Microanalysis Student Scholar, an American Physical Society Division of Materials Physics Ovshinky Student Awardee, and a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Silver Awardee. |
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Axel GroßUlm University, Germany Axel Groß is Professor for Theoretical Chemistry at Ulm University (Germany) and Principal Investigator at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) Electrochemical Energy Storage. He studied Physics at the University of Göttingen and obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 from the Technical University of Munich. After five years as a Staff Scientist at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society in Berlin, he became Associate Professor for Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Munich before joining Ulm University in 2004. His research interests are based on the atomistic first-principles modeling of structures and processes in electrochemical energy storage and conversion, with a particular focus on heterogeneous and electro-catalysis and batteries. |
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Jiaqing HeSouthern University of Science and Technology, China Jiaqing He is a Chair professor in the Department of Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He received his joint Ph.D. in Physics from both Juelich Research Center and Wuhan University in 2004. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a research assistant professor at Northwestern University, and a professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is a recipient of the Natural Science Award of The Ministry of Education of China and the Outstanding Talents Training Fund in Shenzhen. His research interests include transmission electron microscopy, thermoelectric materials, and structure and property relationship. |
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Matthew HelgesonUniversity of California Santa Barbara, USA Matthew Helgeson is Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware in 2009. He performed postdoctoral research at MIT before joining the faculty at UCSB. Helgeson’s research focuses on understanding and engineering flow and thermal processes for the development of soft materials, and developing in situ characterization methods to support these efforts. His research has been recognized with a number of awards, including Early Career Awards from both the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, the Victor K. LaMer Award and Unilever Award from the American Chemical Society, and the Neutron Scattering Society of America Science Prize. |
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Kui JinChinese Academy of Sciences, China Kui Jin is the director of the National Lab for Superconductivity (NLSC) at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOPCAS). He received his Ph.D. from IOPCAS in 2008 and worked as a Research Associate at University of Maryland, College Park until 2012. He then joined IOPCAS and set up his research team in NLSC. His research group is devoted to synthesizing high-quality superconducting films and solving relevant key scientific issues in both physics and applications. They established a unique high-throughput superconductivity research paradigm, and successfully disclosed a common scaling of the strange metal scattering in high-temperature superconductors.. |
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Kai LiuGeorgetown University, USA Kai Liu is a Professor and McDevitt Chair in Physics at Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1998, and did postdoctoral research at UC San Diego. He joined the UC Davis faculty in 2001, and moved to Georgetown University in 2018. His research interest is in experimental studies of magnetism and spin transport in nanostructured materials. He is a recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a UC Davis Chancellor's Fellowship. He is also an elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), American Physical Society, IEEE, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Inventors. He served as the General Chair for the 2016 MMM. He is currently the Chair of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Commission on Magnetism (2021-2024). |
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David MitziDuke University, USA David Mitzi is the Simon Family Professor of Engineering at Duke University, with joint appointments to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and the Department of Chemistry. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics from Princeton University in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1990. Prior to joining the faculty at Duke in 2014, Dr. Mitzi spent 23 years at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, most recently serving as manager for the Photovoltaic Science and Technology Department. Dr. Mitzi’s current research interests focus on the search for and application of new electronic materials, including organic-inorganic hybrids and inorganic materials for photovoltaic, LED, and other energy-based applications. |
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Julia Mundy, Early Career Board MemberHarvard University, USA Julia Mundy is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. She received an AB/AM in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University. Following her Ph.D. studies, she spent a year at the US Department of Education as the APS/AIP STEM Education Fellow. After a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, she returned to Harvard University where she began as an assistant professor in 2018. Prof. Mundy's research program combines atomically-precise oxide molecular-beam epitaxy with picoscale electron microscopy imaging to design, synthesize and probe new quantum materials. She is a recipient of the 2018 APS George E. Valley, Jr. Prize for exceptional contributions by an early career physicist, the 2019 IUPAP Young Scientist award in the field of magnetism and is a Moore Fellow in Materials Synthesis. |
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Chinedum OsujiUniversity of Pennsylvania, USA Chinedum Osuji received his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2003 from MIT. From 2003-2005 he was a Senior Scientist at Surface Logix Inc. and from 2005-2007 he conducted post-doctoral work in Applied Physics at Harvard University. In 2007 he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University and is now the Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Osuji’s research interests lie in the area of structure and dynamics of soft materials, with a particular emphasis on field-directed self-assembly of polymers and rheology of complex fluids. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Division of Polymer Physics. Dr. Osuji was the 2015 recipient of the APS Dillon Medal and the 2015 Hendrick C. Van Ness Award. |
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Katharine Page, Early Career Board MemberUniversity of Tennessee, USA Katharine Page is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 from the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, after which she was a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She maintains a Joint Faculty Appointment with the Neutron Scattering Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she worked before joining UT in 2019. Her research is focused on garnering new insights into complex functional materials, through advances in structural characterization techniques. This includes ventures to understand and exploit local to long-range ordering in bulk and nano ferroelectric ceramics, nanoscale catalysts, and energy conversion and storage materials. She is a 2015 recipient of the Department of Energy Early Career Award and a 2019 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). |
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Chris PalmstrømUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, USA Chris Palmstrøm is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Materials Departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his B.Sc. in physics and electronic engineering and Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Leeds. After being a Lecturer in Norway and a Research Associate at Cornell, he joined Bellcore as a Member of Technical Staff in 1985. From 1994-2007 he was a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota and in 2004 became the Amundson Chair Professor. In 2007 he joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a past secretary/treasurer for the Division of Materials Physics of the American Physical Society. His research interests include epitaxial growth and electronic and magnetic properties of novel materials and heterostructures including compound semiconductors, metallic compounds, metal oxides, magnetic, thermoelectric, and spintronic materials, and superconductors. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, MRS and AVS. |
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Nicola PerryUniversity of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA Nicola Perry is an associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UIUC. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2009, investigating interfacial transport in nano-ionics. She held postdoctoral positions at Northwestern and then jointly between Kyushu University and MIT, on inverse design of p-type transparent conductors, synthesis of missing materials, and dynamic behavior of mixed ionic/electronic conductors. From 2014-2017 she served as a World Premier Initiative assistant professor in the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research at Kyushu University and a Research Affiliate at MIT. She joined UIUC in 2018, where her solid-state-ionics group targets point defect-mediated properties in opto-electro-chemo-mechanically active oxides and halides for electrochemical energy applications. Research recognitions include an NSF CAREER Award, DOE Early Career Award, J. Bruce Wagner Jr. Award from the Electrochemical Society, and the Edward C. Henry and Richard M. Fulrath Awards from the American Ceramic Society. |
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Jacobo SantamariaUniversity Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jacobo Santamaria is a Full Professor of Physics at the Department of Materials Physics at the University Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics at the University Complutense (1989), followed by post-doctoral research at the University of California San Diego. He leads the Complutense Research Group on Complex Materials (GFMC), with focus on the physics of correlated transition metal oxides. His research is mainly on magnetism and superconductivity of artificial oxide interfaces with attention to spintronics and energy devices. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and has obtained the D´Alembert Chair of the University Paris Saclay. |
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Morten M. SmedskjaerAalborg University, Denmark Morten M. Smedskjaer is the Head of the Section of Disordered Materials and Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry from the same university in 2011 and worked as a research scientist at Corning Incorporated from 2011 to 2012. He received a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant in 2022 and is a fellow of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences and Danish Academy of Natural Sciences. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Vittorio Gottardi Prize, Sir Alastair Pilkington Award, W.H. Zachariasen Award, and Grundfos Prize. His research focuses on the structure, dynamics, and mechanical properties of disordered materials, including oxide and metal-organic framework glasses. |
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Manling SuiBeijing University of Technology, China Manling Sui is a Chair Professor and the Director of Academic Committee of Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing at Beijing University of Technology (BJUT). She received her Ph.D. in 1991 at Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and successively worked at Northeastern University in China, University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, and Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then she joined BJUT as Chair Professor of Cheung Kong Scholars Programme in 2009. Her research is focused on the structure and property relationships of advanced materials at atomic scale, especially using in situ transmission electron microscopy with external stimuli such as thermal, electrical, mechanical, optical, and liquid/gas environments. She received the Distinguished Young Scholar Fund from the NSF of China, the Hundred Talents Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Top-ten Outstanding Women Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Natural Science Prize of China, etc. |
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Kai WuPeking University, China Kai Wu is the MOE Changjiang Professor and Boya Distinguished Professor at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Zhejiang University in 1987 and a Ph.D. degree from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. He was then an Assistant/Associate researcher at the State Key Laboratory for Catalysis in the same institute until 1995. Prior to his joining Peking University in 2000, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Germany and PNNL, USA. He has been working in surface physics and chemistry, aiming at quantitative understanding of various surface and interface processes with developed high-resolution visualization techniques at the atomic and molecular levels. His current interests mainly lie in surface molecular assembly, surface model catalysis, ion chemistry, and interfacial devices. |
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Bilge YildizMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Bilge Yildiz is an associate professor in the Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Materials Science and Engineering Departments at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she leads the Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces. She received her Ph.D. degree at MIT in 2003 and her BSc degree from Hacettepe University in Turkey in 1999. After working at Argonne National Laboratory as research staff, she returned to MIT as an assistant professor in 2007. Her research centers on molecular-level studies of charge transfer kinetics on surfaces and thin films at elevated temperatures, under stress and in reactive gases, by combining in situ surface sensitive experiments with first-principles calculations and novel atomistic simulations. The scientific insights derived from her research impact the design of novel surface chemistries for efficient and durable solid oxide fuel/electrolysis cells, solid state lithium ion batteries, memristive devices, and for corrosion resistant films in a wide range of extreme environments as in nuclear energy generation and oil exploration. Honors include the Charles Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society, the Somiya Award of the International Union of Materials Research Societies, and an NSF CAREER award. |
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Lei ZhouFudan University, China Lei Zhou received his Ph.D. in 1997 at Fudan University, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Tohoku University from 1997-2000 and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2000-2004. He joined the Physics Department of Fudan University in 2004. He received the Distinguished Young Scholar Fund from the NSF of China in 2007 and became a Chang Jiang Scholars Program chair professor in 2009. He was recognized as an APS Outstanding Referee in 2017 and an OSA Fellow in 2019. His research interests focus on metamaterials, plasmonics and nanophotonics. |
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Shuyun ZhouTsinghua University, China Shuyun Zhou is a professor of Physics at Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on the electronic structure and ultrafast dynamics of two-dimensional materials and heterostructures. She received her Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 2007. She worked as a postdoc and a project scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before joining Tsinghua University in 2012. She received recognitions such as L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science, China, Sir Martin Wood Prize for Low Temperature Physics, and Huang Kun Physics Prize. She served as Member of Commission on Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). |
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Igor ZozoulenkoLinköping University, Sweden Igor Zozoulenko is a Professor in the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the National Academy Sciences of Ukraine and the National University of Kyiv in 1988. Before joining Linköping University in 1995 he was a research scientist at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and a postdoc at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. His current research includes simulation and modeling of electronic, optical, structural, and transport properties of organic conducting polymers and biopolymers, as well as organic and electrochemical device modeling. |
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Eva ZurekUniversity at Buffalo, USA Eva Zurek studied chemistry and physics at the University of Calgary (Canada). She was awarded a Ph.D. fellowship from the Max Planck Research School for Advanced Materials, and obtained her doctorate at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). After a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, she joined the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, in 2009. Eva’s research interests include the electronic structure, properties and reactivity of superhard, superconducting, quantum and planetary materials, materials at extreme conditions, catalysts, as well as solvated electrons and electrides. She develops the XtalOpt evolutionary algorithm for crystal structure prediction, and applies it in materials discovery. Honors include the Alfred P Sloan Fellowship and the Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics Promising Young Scientist Award. She was also elected Member at Large for APS’ DCOMP. |
