Main Focus
Quantum materials, thin-film synthesis, scanning probe microscopy, density functional theory:
- 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
- Topological semimetals with kagome, square, or antiperovskite lattices
- 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. I am grateful to have worked with the following colleagues:
Jiawei Zhang (current PhD student)
Yuan-Shan Zhang (PhD 2026)
Sudip Pal (postdoc 2024--2025)
Ryosuke Oka (PhD 2025, the University of Tokyo)
Xinglu Que (PhD 2024)
Giorgio Cocuzza (Masters 2023, The Polytechnic University of Milan)
Qingyu He (PhD 2022)
Tim Schweizer (Masters 2021)