Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:

2009 - 2013 PhD in Physics, Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Supervisors: Prof. Victor V. Moshchalkov and Prof. Johan Vanacken 

2000 - 2004 BSc in Applied Physics, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Supervisors: Prof. Bixia Lin and Prof. Zhuxi Fu

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

2018 - D-IAS Assistant Professor, Danish Institute for Advanced Study and Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

2017 - 2018 Researcher, Division of Semiconductor Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

2014 - 2017 FWO Researcher, Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

2013 - 2014 PDM Research Fellow, Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

2009 - 2013 PhD student, Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

2008 - 2009 Predoctoral student, Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

2005 - 2006 Research Assistant, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany

AWARDS & HONORS:

2018 Appointed D-IAS Assistant Professor by the Danish Institute for Advanced Study

2017 Awarded “Seal of Excellence” by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions of European Commission

2015 Paper "Superconducting Properties of Nb/Pb/Nb Trilayer" selected by Superconductor Science and Technology for the collection of ‘highlights of 2015’

2014 Appointed FWO Research Fellow by the Flemish Government

2013 Appointed PDM Research Fellow by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

2010 Third prize in the poster competition of the NES-ESF Workshop on Nanoscale Superconductivity, Fluxonics and Plasmonics

2008 Awarded INPAC Scholarship by the Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

INVITED TALKS:

30.10.2020 'Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bands in doped diamond', Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, invited by Prof. Kasper Grove-Rasmussen

08.05.2019 'Quantum confinement and coherence in nanodiamond', Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, invited by Prof. Luca Camilli

14.03.2019 'Superconductivity and ferromagnetism in diamond', Quantum Phenomena Group, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum, Germany, invited by Dr. Johanna Jochum

09.05.2018 'Superconductivity in diamond', School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, China, invited by Prof. Huabing Wang

08.02.2018 'Black diamond: A piece of jewelry for superconductivity', Institut Neel, CNRS, France, invited by Prof. Vincent Bouchiat

24.10.2017 'Superconductivity in diamond', Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, invited by Dr. Jiri Vacik

14.08.2017 'Superconductivity in nanogranular diamond', Advances in Functional Materials, University of California Los Angeles, US

10.11.2016 'Superconductivity in diamond', Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Complexe, EPFL, Switzerland, invited by Prof. László Forró

03.09.2016 'Metal-bosonic insulator-superconductor transition in diamond', Nano Confined Superconductors and Their Applications, Garmisch-Partenkirschen, Germany

05.07.2016 'Superconductivity in diamond', Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany, invited by Dr. Michael Nicklas

10.12.2015 'Superconductivity in boron-doped granular diamond', Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK, invited by Prof. David Moran

08.10.2015 'Superconductivity in diamond', Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany, invited by Prof. Hidenori Takagi 

12.05.2015 'Superconductivity vs. granularity in boron-doped diamond', School of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, US, invited by Prof. Charles Ahn

20.04.2011 'Disorder-tuned superconductor-insulator transitions in high temperature superconductors and NbN thin films', The WHMEC Workshop on Frontier Science in Pulsed High Magnetic Field, Wuhan, China

REVIEW FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS:

Physical Review Letters (APS), Advanced Materials (Wiley), ACS Nano (ACS), Advanced Materials Technologies (Wiley), ACS Applied Nano Materials (ACS), Communications Physics (NPG), APL Materials (AIP), Journal of Applied Physics (AIP), IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity (IEEE), Europhysics Letters (IOP), Solid State Communications (Elsevier), Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism (Springer), Journal of Physics Communications (IOP), Physica C (Elsevier)

REVIEW FOR GRANT PROPOSALS:

ERC Starting Grant

EDITORIAL WORK:

Editorial Board Member for Functional Diamond