Main Focus
Quantum materials, thin-film synthesis, scanning probe microscopy:
- Stacking control of transition-metal dichalcogenides via self-intercalation
- Microscopic texture and driving forces of charge and excitonic orders
- Frustration engineering of mixed-valent spinel oxides via heteroepitaxy
- Magnetotransport of Dirac antiperovskite films
- Interface-enhanced superconductivity in monolayer FeSe
Curriculum Vitae
Positions:
10/2020--present: Research Subgroup Leader, Department of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany
10/2018--09/2020: Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Quantum Materials, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany (after a two-year hiatus from research)
06/2016--08/2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Harvard University, USA
09/2011-05/2016: Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, USA
Funding:
10/2023--06/2027: Co-PI in DFG Collaborative Research Center 360, Constrained Quantum Matter
10/2018--09/2020: Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers
09/2012--08/2015: Canadian NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship -- Doctoral
09/2011--08/2012: Canadian NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship -- Masters
Daily supervision in the Department of Quantum Materials:
Jiawei Zhang (current PhD student)
Yuan-Shan Zhang (current PhD student)
Sudip Pal (postdoc 2024--2025)
Ryosuke Oka (PhD 2025, the University of Tokyo)
Xinglu Que (PhD 2024, University of Stuttgart)
Giorgio Cocuzza (Masters 2023, The Polytechnic University of Milan)
Qingyu He (PhD 2022, University of Stuttgart)
Tim Schweizer (Masters 2021, University of Stuttgart)