Prof. George Japaridze
Georgian National Academy of Sciences Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Georgia

Prof. George I. Japaridze received his MSc from the Tbilisi State University in 1975. Starting from 1976 he continuously works at the Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, where he received his PhD degree in 1983 and Doctor of Sciences degree in 1998. Currently he is the head of the Scientific Council of the Institute and Academician-Secretary of the Mathematics and Physics Department of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences. Scientific interests are connected with the physics of low-dimensional systems, including correlated electrons, spin systems, spintronics, theory of metal-insulator transitions, unconventional mechanisms of superconductivity and topological materials.

Dr. Lede Xian
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany

Dr. Xian obtained his Ph.D . in 2014 from Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA under the supervision of Prof. Mei-Yin Chou. He is currently a postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter working with Prof. Angel Rubio. Dr. Xian is a theoretical physicist with extensive experience in density functional theory calculations and novel 2D materials research. He has contributed to the exploration of novel elemental 2D materials, ultra-fast band gap renormalization of VO2 and plasmonic properties of 2D heterostructures. His recent interest lies in the study of twisted 2D systems.

Dr. Jiri Orava
IFW Dresden, Institute for Complex Materials, Germany

Dr. Jiri Orava obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pardubice, the Czech Republic in 2009. Since then, he has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge (UK), Tohoku University (Japan) and Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Germany). His research interests mainly include physical-chemical properties of metallic glasses, tailoring the relationship between structure and macroscopic properties of glasses, synthesis, physical-chemical properties of chalcogenide glasses, chalcogenide phase-change materials for non-volatile computer memory, crystallization and stability of glass-forming liquids, glasses and glass-ceramics for optics and photonics.

Dr.Xianxin Wu
Würzburg University , Germany

Dr. Xianxin Wu obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016. Since then, he has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at Würzburg University in Germany. His research interests mainly include unconventional superconductivity, topological superconductivity and novel topological phases of matter.

Dr. Lingzhen Guo
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), Germany

Dr. Lingzhen Guo is a senior postdoc follow in Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), Germany. In July 2013, He obtained a PhD degree from Beijing Normal University joined with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. From August 2013 to August 2014, he did postdoc research in the Institute of Theoretical Solid Physics at KIT. From September 2014 to August 2015, he continued his postdoc research in the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2) at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. From September 2015 to August 2017, he led a junior research group funded by Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung (200,000 €) at KIT. In January 2018, he joined the research group of Prof. Florian Marquardt at MPL and worked there till now. He works on quantum optics, quantum many-body physics and quantum information.

Dr. Hao Shi
Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute

Hao Shi is the Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation. He got his B.S. physics at Nanjing University on 2008 and studied computational physic at Renmin University from 2008 to 2011. He joined the Flatiron Institute after getting his Ph.D. Physics at the College of William and Mary on 2017. Hao’s research focuses on studying strongly correlated systems by Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo and other numerical methods. Hao has worked on the Fermi gas, Hubbard model, quantum chemistry, and Ca2RuO4 materials.

Prof. Andre LeClair
The Cornell University , USA

Prof. Andre’ LeClair obtained a degree in physics from MIT in 1982, and a PhD from Harvard in 1987. After a postdoc at Princeton, he joined the faculty at Cornell University in the physics department, where he has been a full professor since 2001. He has received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship and a National Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation. He has written over 115 articles in a broad range of topics, including string theory, Integrable quantum field theory, condensed matter theory, topological insulators, the Riemann Hypothesis, and more recently on black holes.

Prof.Steven Kivelson
Stanford University, USA

Professor Steven Kivelson obtained his Ph. D. in 1979 from the Harvard University. Prof. Kivelson was elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and as Member of National Academy of Sciences in 2010. He was awarded John Bardeen Prize in 2012. Now he is the Prabhu Goel Family Professor of Physics and Principal Investigator in the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences at the Stanford University. The main thrust of the research carried out by Professor Kivelson is the search for theoretical characterization of qualitatively new behaviors of interacting electrons (i.e., new states of matter) as well as new regimes of parameters in which familiar states of matter behave in new and different ways. In particular, he seeks to explore; qualitatively... the relation between the microscopic interactions between electrons and the effective parameters that control the macroscopic behavior of solids.

Dr. Zhihai Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Dr. Zhu obtained his Ph. D. in 2016 from the University of Connecticut in the USA, under the advice of Prof. Barrett O. Wells. He currently is a postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the direction of Prof. Riccardo Comin. Dr. Zhu’s research lies in correlated-electron physics in transition metal oxides (TMOs). His study is materials and problem based, tackling the full spectrum of a problem from material synthesis (PLD, OMBE) to advanced measurements (Neutron scattering, muon spin rotation, resonant elastic/inelastic x-ray scattering etc.), often at large scale facilities at national labs.

Dr. Guoqian Liao
Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

Guoqian Liao is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. He got his BS degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2011 and Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016. He worked as a postdoc at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 2016 to 2018 under the support from the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents. His research interests include intense terahertz (THz) sources, THz applications, and laser–plasma interactions.

Dr. Chandan Setty
University of Florida, USA

Chandan Setty is currently a postdoctoral researcher in theoretical condensed matter physics at the University of Florida since fall 2018. Before joining UF, he completed his doctoral work at Purdue in 2015 followed by a three year postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Dr.Xin Wang
Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA

Dr. Xin Wang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston. He received his PhD in Physics from Peking University, and he was a postdoc at Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK, before joining Harvard. His research interest lies at the interface between physics and biology. He worked on systems biology problems such as cell growth, cell cycle and seed germination networks, biophysical problems like biofilm growth, and theoretical ecology problems. His related studies published in journals such as Nature Communications, eLife, PNAS, New Journal of Physics as the first or co-first author (also as the first theoretical author).

Dr. Xingguo Ren
University of Science and Technology of China

Xinguo Ren obtained his PhD from University of Augsburg in Germany in 2006. From 2006 to 2012, he worked as a postdoc scientist at the Fritz Haber Institute of Max Planck Society in Berlin. In early 2013, he became a professor at University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, and has worked there ever since. In 2015, Dr. Ren was appointed as the head of Max Planck Partner Group for Advanced Electronic-Structure Methods. Dr. Ren’s research has been focused on (i) density-functional theory with advanced exchange-correlation functionals, especially those based on random-phase approximation and beyond, (ii) Green’s function theory for excited state calculations, and (iii) the development of massively parallel computer softwares for large-scale ab initio simulations. Dr. Ren authored and coauthored about 50 journal papers with over 4000 citations. He received the IBM-Löwdin award from the Sanibel Symposium in 2011.

Prof. N. Peter Armitage
The Johns Hopkins University, USA

N. Peter Armitage is a physicist whose research centers on material systems which exhibit coherent quantum effects at low temperatures, like superconductors and quantum magnetism. He is exploiting and developing recent technical breakthroughs using very low frequency microwave and THz range radiation to probe these systems at their natural frequency scales. Prof. Armitage has been the recipient of a DARPA Young Faculty Award, an NSF Career Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, was a three-time Kavli Frontiers Fellow, the Spicer Award from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, the McMillan Award from the University of Illinois and 2016 Genzel Prize. He was also the co-chair of the 2014 Gordon Research Conference in Correlated Electron Systems.

Dr.Huan He
Princeton University

Huan He is currently a fifth year graduate student in the physics department of Princeton University, supervised by Prof. B. Andrei Bernevig. Previously he obtained a master degree in Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, and a bachelor degree in University of Science and Technology of China. His current research interest includes (but is not restricted to) topological phases of matter and especially fracton models in 3D.

Dr. Zhe Wang
Helmholtz Center Dresden Rossendorf, Germany

Dr. Zhe Wang studied physics in Nanjing Universtity, and obtained his master (2010) and doctor degrees (2015) at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Since 2017, he has been a director’s postdoctoral fellow in the Helmholtz-Center Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany. His research focuses on linear and nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy of condensed matter, particularly on quantum magnetism, unconventional superconductivity, and multiferroics.

Dr. Edbert Sie
Stanford University, USA

Edbert Sie is currently a GLAM Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests focus on engineering novel quantum phases of matter at non-equilibrium, with particular interests in 2D condensed matter systems. In combination with various ultrafast laser techniques, his research aims to innovate new ways of manipulating quantum materials at the atomic length scale and on femtosecond timescale.

Prof.Michael Steel
Macquarie University,Australia

Prof Michael Steel is the Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Macquarie University. He is also currently Interim Director of Australian Astronomical Optics – Macquarie, the newest department in the University. He is responsible for the oversight of all academic functions in both of these departments. He obtained his PhD in nonlinear optics from the University of Sydney (Australia) in 1996 and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and Columbia University (New York). His research focuses on the application of integrated nonlinear photonic devices to optical signal processing and quantum information. His group’s interests include nonlinear optics in periodic structures, integrated quantum photonics, magneto-optic and non-reciprocal devices, and femtosecond laser induced waveguides in glasses.

Dr.Dezhong Meng
KYOKUGEN, Osaka University

Dr. Dezhong Meng received his B.S. (2012) from Hebei University of Science and Technology, M.S. (2015) from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Ph.D from Osaka University (2018). Now he works as a postdoc fellow at Osaka University. His research interests is the study of metallization, superconductivity and phase transition of metal hydrides under extremely high pressure (over 100 GPa) by using diamond anvil cell.

Prof. Lode Pollet
LMU Munich, Germany

PhD 2005 Ghent University , PostDoc 2005-2008 ETH Zurich , PostDoc fellow 2008-2010 Univ. Massachusetts/Harvard University, Research Assistant 2010-2011 ETH Zurich, Professor 2011-Now University of Munich.

Dr.Xiaoyu Wang
University of Chicago,USA

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the James Frank Institute in University of Chicago, working on various topics in theoretical condensed matter physics. My primary interest is in strongly correlated electron systems, in particular those relevant to high temperature superconductivity. My expertise is in many body techniques as well as numerical Quantum Monte Carlo methods. I obtained PhD degree in physics from University of Minnesota in 2017, before which I graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2010, with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical engineering.

Dr. Noah Yuan
MIT, Boston, USA

I got my Ph. D. in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2017, and now am a postdoc in Liang Fu’s group at MIT. I’m mainly interested in superconductivity and topological phases. During my Ph. D. research, I studied topological superconductors, Majorana zero modes, spin-orbit coupling effect in superconductivity (so-called Ising superconductivity) and chiral versus nematic superconductivity. My research has been deeply related to experiments, which includes both to explain experimental data and to propose experimental realization of exotic superconducting phases in specific materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides and bismuth selenides. Currently I’m interested in the unconventional superconducting and correlated insulating phases in twisted bilayer graphene, which are discovered recently.

Prof. AZUMA MASAKI
Tokyo Institute of Technology,Japan

Masaki Azuma is currently a full professor at Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Tokyo Institute of Technology and is chair of Tokyo Tech World Research Hub Initiative. He obtained his Ph. D degree in 1995 from Kyoto University. His research interests are experimental solid state chemistry and physics on low-dimensional and frustrated magnets, multiferroics, lead-free piezoelectrics and negative thermal expansion materials.

J. T. Ye (Justin) 叶剑挺
University of Groningen

Jianting Ye was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China in 1977. He obtained his B. Sc. (2000) degree from Zhejiang University, M. Sc. (2002) and Ph. D. (2006) degrees from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was a global COE postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Materials Research (2017-2018), Tohoku University, and was appointed assistant professor (2008–2010) in the Institute for International Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Tohoku University. He joined Quantum-Phase Electronics Center and Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo as an assistant professor (2010–2011) and lecturer (2011–2013). He moved briefly to the Center for Emergent Matter Science in RIKEN as a senior research scientist (2013). Since 2013 he has been an associate professor of the Zernike Institute of Advanced Materials, University of Groningen. He started the superconductivity research from studying ultrasmall carbon nanotubes. During his stay in Japan, he initiated field-effect control of superconductivity in a broad range of layered materials combining the micro-fabrication from graphene research and the high efficiency field-effect technique from ionic gating.

Dr. Andrea Taroni
Nature Physics

Andrea joined Nature Physics in 2014, having previously worked for Nature Communications and Nature Materials. A graduate of University College London, he completed his PhD in statistical physics. Following a short stint at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France, he undertook postdoctoral work at Uppsala University in Sweden, investigating the dynamics of low-dimensional magnetic systems. Andrea is based in London.

徐海潭
Yale University

Haitan Xu is currently a postdoc in the Department of Physics at Yale University, working on optomechanical and topological physics. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Maryland - College Park in 2014, and B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Zhejiang University in 2007 and 2009. He is both an experimentalist and a theorist, with research experience in multiple fields including optomechanics, silicon photonics, topological physics, condensed matter, and quantum computation.

赵金奎
美国橡树岭国家实验室散裂中子源

赵金奎，自从1986年进入物理所中子组攻读硕士以来，已从事中子散射工作三十多年。早期，他在德国GKSS研究中心工作，并获得汉堡大学博士学位。这期间，他主要从事动态核极化样品的极化中子散射工作，并发现了动态核极化样品中的极化质子团的散射现象。之后，他在美国洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室进行了两年的生物物理方面的研究。随后，他加入了美国的散裂中子源，并在那里领导建立了宽动量域小角散射谱仪。近期，他主要致力于尖端散射技术的研究。

Xin (Sunny) Wang （王欣）
City University of Hong Kong

Prof. Xin (Sunny) Wang received B.S. from School of Physics, Peking University in 2005, and received his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 2010. His Ph.D. study was focused on the theory of strongly correlated materials, in particular the high-Tc superconductors. From 2010-2015, Dr. Wang was a Research Associate in Condensed Matter Theory Center at University of Maryland, College Park. Starting from 2015 he joined City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include the theory of quantum computation using electron spins and strongly correlated electrons. He has published more than 35 journal papers, including those in Nature Communications, npj Quantum Information, and Physical Review Letters.

Dr. Ran He (何然)
IFW Dresden, Germany

Dr. Ran He（何然）currently works as a postdoc fellow at IFW-Dresden. He got his Bachelor degree in material physics in 2011 from Northeastern University, P. R. China. He studied physics at Boston College till the end of 2012, and then transferred to the University of Houston and obtained his Ph.D. in physics in 2016. His study mainly focuses on the transport properties of electron and phonon in mid-to-high temperature thermoelectric materials. He is a recipient of C. W. Chu scholarship at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

Baojie Feng (冯宝杰)
广岛大学同步辐射中心

Dr. Baojie Feng (冯宝杰) obtained his B.S. degree in Shandong University, Weihai (2009) and Ph.D degree in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015). From 2013 to 2014, he studied in University of California, Irvine as a visiting scholar. From 2015 to 2017, he worked in The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo (Japan) as a postdoctoral fellow. From 2017 to now, he works as an assistant professor in Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University (Japan). He is experienced in synchrotron/laser based spin and angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (SARPES), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), and scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS). He published 12 peer-reviewed papers as the first author or corresponding author and his total citation is more than 2000 (google scholar).

Sanfeng Wu (吴三丰)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Sanfeng Wu (吴三丰) grew up in Hefei, Anhui. He is currently a Pappalardo Fellow in Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Washington, Seattle in 2016. His research interests focus on observing and engineering quantum phenomena in low-dimensional electronic systems, particularly the atomically thin crystals and the atomic heterostructures created from them.

Cheng Chin（金政）
University of Chicago

Prof. Chin obtained his Ph.D in Physics from Stanford University (Adviser: Steven Chu).He is a professor at the University of Chicago, working for the Department of Physics as well as the Enrico Fermi Institute and the James Franck Institute. Prof. Chin is a very active scientist. He has given many invited talks in international conferences and organized or co-organized many conferences. He has published numerous papers, and is a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher. Prof. Chin has received many awards for his scientific achievements, including the I.I. Rabi Prize and the Bose-Einstein condensation award. He was elected as an American Physical Society Fellow in 2014.

Wei Zheng (郑炜)
Cambridge University (UK)

Dr. Wei Zheng received his Ph.D in physics from the School of Physics and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University. He is currently a postdoc working in the T.C.M Group, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University (UK). Dr. Wei's research is focused on the theory of cold atom physics including: 1) Quantum gases in the synthetic gauge field; 2) Quantum gases with internal degrees of freedom; 3) Topological states in the cold atom system; 4) Strongly interacting Fermi gases nearby Feshbach resonance; 5) Non-equilibrium phenomena in cold atom system.

Luyi Yang (杨鲁懿)
University of Toronto

Prof. Yang received her B.S. in physics and mathematics from Tsinghua University (2007) and her Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley (2013). Then she worked as a Los Alamos Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos. She joined the Department of Physics, University of Toronto as an assistant professor in September 2016. She was awarded the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar Fellowship in 2016 and Canada Research Chair in 2017.

Li Yang (杨理)
Washington University in St Louis

Li Yang (杨理) received his BS (1997) and MS (2000) from the Beijing Normal University and PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2006). From 2006 to 2009, he had worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2009, he joined the faculty of the physics department of the Washington University in St Louis. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles. He received the Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation in 2015. Using first-principles simulations and models, his group is working on condensed matter physics and studying fundamental electronic structures, transport and excited-state properties of reduced dimensional materials. Recently, he is particularly interested in predicting and designing novel materials with enhanced excitonic, thermoelectric, piezoelectric, and ferroelectric effects.

Jie Wu (吴颉)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

Dr. Jie Wu received the Ph.D degree from the physics department of University of California at Berkeley and did postdoc research at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). Dr. Wu became an assistant physicist of the oxide MBE group of BNL since 2012 and currently is a physicist working in the field of high temperature superconductivity.