Education

2003-2008 PhD. in Physics Tsinghua University, Beijing China

Working Experience 

2008 - 2010, Humboldt Fellow, University of Bremen, Germany

2010 - 2011, Postdoc, Stanford University, US

2011 - 2012, Humboldt Fellow, University of Bremen, Germany

2012 - 2016, Group leader, Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany

2017 - 2019, Assistant Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2020 - 2024, Associate Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

2023-2024, Sabbatical at Penn State & Stanford

2025 - present, Professor, Penn State University

Honors and Awards

2008 Humboldt Fellowship by Humboldt Foundation in Germany

2013 ARCHES Prize by BMBF and Minerva Foundation, Germany

2017 IPS Prize for Young Scientist by the Israel Physics Society (IPS), Israel

2019 Morris L. Levinson Prize in Physics by the Weizmann Institute, Israel

2019 ERC Consolidator Grant

2019-2024 Highly cited researcher by Web of Science