Dai Aoki is a professor at the Institute for Materials Research (IMR) of Tohoku University and has served as the Director of the International Research Center for Nuclear Materials Science (IRCNMS) since 2024. He obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from Osaka University in 1995, followed by a master's degree in 1997 and a PhD degree in 2000, with his research concentrating on the Fermi surface properties of rare earth and uranium compounds. Prof. Aoki started his career in 1997 as a Fellow of JSPS and held multiple research positions at Osaka University and CEA-Grenoble and CNRS in France. He has been an assistant professor at Tohoku University since 2002 and has obtained a permanent position as a researcher in CEA-Grenoble since 2007. He has been a full professor at Tohoku University since 2012.

Prof.Aoki has received several significant awards, including the Nishina Memorial Prize 2024, the Science and Technology Recognition from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Sports, Science, and Technology in 2024, several paper awards from the Japanese Physical Society, and the Young Scientist Award from the International Society for CryoPhysics in 2008.

His research centers on new materials and novel physical phenomena in heavy fermion systems with strong electronic correlations, as well as the coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity, multiple superconductivity in uranium-based compounds.

Andrea Cavalleri is the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg (Germany) and a professor of Physics at the University of Oxford (UK). After receiving a laurea degree from the University of Pavia (Italy), he held graduate, postgraduate, and research staff positions at the University of Essen (Germany), at the University of California, San Diego (US), and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US). He joined the Oxford faculty in 2005.

He is best known for his experimental studies of the photo-induced phase transition in materials with strongly correlated electrons, such as transition metal oxides and organic conductors.

In recent years, his research group has developed techniques that make use of strong TeraHertz pulses to manipulate directly collective modes of solids. Through precise optical control, he has shown that ordered states like superconductivity or ferroelectricity can be induced by light at temperatures far above the thermodynamic transition temperature.

Motivated by the need to probe driven materials, he has also been a major driver in the development of ultrafast X-ray techniques since their inception in the late 1990s through their modern incarnation at X-ray Free Electron Lasers.

Cavalleri is a recipient of the 2004 European Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, of the 2015 Max Born Medal from the IoP and the DFG, of the 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize from the Academy of Sciences in Goettingen and of the 2018 Isakson Prize from the American Physical Society. He is a fellow of the APS, of the AAAS, and of the IoP. In 2017, he was elected Member of the Academia Europaea.

Hui Chen is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOP-CAS). He got his Ph.D. at the IOP-CAS. His current research interest mainly focuses on the atomic manipulation of low-dimensional quantum structures (such as grapheme origami) and novel proprieties of correlated and topological materials (such as spin-orbit polaron, pair density waves in kagome-lattice based materials), using ultra-low-temperature strong-magnetic-field scanning tunneling microcopy/spectroscopy.

Jinguang Cheng is a professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOPCAS). He obtained the Ph.D. in Materials Science from University of Texas at Austin in 2010. Following two-year postdoctoral research at Austin, he joined IOPCAS and became the ground leader of EX6 in the Laboratory of Extreme Conditions Physics since 2014. His research interest focuses on the explorations of novel quantum materials and phenomena under high-pressure extreme conditions. He has published over 240 peer-reviewed journal papers and received the Sir Martin Wood China Prize in 2016.

Davis’ active research interests are in the macroscopic quantum physics of quantum matter including studies of superconductors, superfluids and supersolids; Kondo and Hund metals; magnetic and Kondo topological condensates; spin & monopole liquids. A specialty is development of innovative instrumentation to allow direct atomic-scale visualization or perception of the macroscopic quantum phenomena that are characteristic of these states. His honors include the Fritz London Memorial Prize, the H. Kamerlingh-Onnes Memorial Prize, the O.V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize and the O.E. Buckley Memorial Prize. Davis is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), the American Physical Society (USA), the Royal Irish Academy (Ireland), the America Assoc. for Advancement of Science (USA), and of the US National Academy of Sciences (USA).

Lingjie Du is a professor in the School of Physics at Nanjing University. Lingjie received his Bachelor’s degree in physics from Nanjing University in 2008, and his Ph.D. in physics from Rice University in 2016. Then he worked as a postdoctoral scientist at Columbia University before joining the faculty at Nanjing University in 2019. Lingjie’s research focuses on experimental studies of topological correlated states (such as fractional quantum Hall states and excitonic insulators) using techniques of low-temperature quantum transport and advanced optical spectroscopy.

Donglai Feng is a Yan-Jici chair professor at University of Science and Technology of China, and the president of ShanghaiTech University. He has been studying complex quantum materials and their microstructures, and published over 200 papers. He is currently leading the construction of a 4th generation synchrotron light source, the Hefei Advanced Light Facility. Donglai Feng is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of American Physical society (APS).

Tetsuo Hanaguri is a team leader at RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science. He obtained B. Eng. (1988), M. Eng. (1990) and PhD (1993) from Tohoku University, Japan. Before joining RIKEN in 2004, he was working at the University of Tokyo as a research associate and an associate professor. His research field is experimental condensed-matter physics. He is currently focusing on spectroscopic-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy on unconventional superconductors and topological materials.

Steven Allan Kivelson is an American theoretical physicist known for contributions to condensed matter theory - mostly done in collaboration with a string of brilliant students, post docs and more established collaborators. He is the son of Margaret Kivelson, a distinguished Space Physicists at UCLA, and Daniel Kivelson, a prominent Physical Chemist, also at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1979, working with C. Daniel Gelatt, Jr., and then spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher working with J. Robert Schrieffer, first at the University of Pennsylvania and then at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982 and then moved to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. In 2004, he joined the faculty at Stanford University, where he was appointed Prabhu Goel Family Professor of Physics in 2012.

Kivelson was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship in 1995, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010. He won the APS Buckley Prize of 2025 in Condensed Matter Physics. He is the co-editor in Chief of Nature Partner Journal Quantum Materials, published in partnership with Nanjing University. He is particularly proud of having published scholarly papers in collaboration with his father on the glass transition, and his daughter, Sophia Kivelson, on emergence and complexity. His son, Paul Kivelson, is the author of the science fiction masterpiece, “Weapons of the Mind,” and his wife, Pamela Davis, is an artist whose vibrant portrait of the late Shoucheng Zhang hangs in the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials at Stanford University.

Tingxin is an Associate Professor of Physics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Before joining SJTU, he did postdoctoral research at Cornell University (2018-2021) and Rice University (2016-2018). He received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Northwest University, China, in 2011 and his Ph.D. in Physics from Peking University in 2016. His current research focuses on the novel quantum properties that emerge in 2D materials and their moiré systems, such as integer and fractional quantum anomalous Hall effects, superconductivities, magnetism, etc.

Dr. Xiao Lin received his B.S. degree from Zhejiang University (2008), and Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University (2013). He did his postdoctoral studies at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI), Paris Tech. from 2013 to 2015. He became a Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow at Cologne University from 2016 to 2018. He joined Westlake University as assistant professor in March 2018. Dr. Lin has rich experience in studying the transport properties of quantum matter, such as polar superconductors, polar metals, chiral superconductors, etc. His current research interests focus on nonlinear optical/transport phenomena, superconducting diode effect, quantum transport and quantum phase manipulation.

Dr. Xiaobo Lu obtained his PhD degree in 2017 from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOP, CAS), under the supervision of Prof. Guangyu Zhang. He then moved to ICFO and ETH Zurich subsequently, working as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2021, he joined ICQM-Peking University as an assistant professor. His research interest is to explore the emergent quantum phenomena in two-dimensional moiré materials with advanced nano-fabrication, quantum transport and optical spectroscopy techniques.

Dr. Qiong Ma is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Boston College. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and completed her Ph.D. in Physics at MIT under the supervision of Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, with close collaboration from Prof. Nuh Gedik.

At Boston College, Dr. Ma leads a research group focused on designing, detecting, and manipulating nanoscale quantum phases by exploring novel monolayer van der Waals crystals and twisted moiré heterostructures. She has pioneered photogalvanic and nonlinear transport experiments in materials such as 2D topological insulators WTe2 and TaIrTe4, Weyl semimetal TaAs, correlated metal TiSe2, topological magnet MnBi2Te4, and graphene. She has also been at the forefront of research on unconventional ferroelectricity in van der Waals heterostructures and its potential for neuromorphic computing applications. Her group is particularly interested in developing low-temperature broadband linear and nonlinear spectroscopy, spanning transport, microwave, and optical regimes, to probe quantum geometric properties.

Dr. Ma’s research has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, the Sloan Fellowship, the ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award, the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar Award, the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize for Low Temperature Physics, the NSF Early Career Award, and the Rising Stars in Physics Award. Additionally, she actively promotes diversity in STEM by co-organizing events such as the 2024 APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP).

Kin Fai Mak received his B.Sc. in physics and mathematics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. Before joining Penn State University as an assistant professor in physics, he was a Kavli postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University. He moved back to Cornell in 2018 and is now a Josephson Family Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is also a scientific member and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter. His current research interests include magnetism, superconductivity, strong correlation physics and exciton physics in 2D materials and their heterostructures.

Andy Mackenzie is Director of the Physics of Quantum Materials department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany, and Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of St Andrews. He did his BSc at the University of Edinburgh, and PhD at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1991. Following a Newton Trust post-doctoral fellowship, combined with the Charles and Katherine Darwin Research Fellowship at Darwin College Cambridge, he held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at Cambridge (1993-97), Birmingham (1997-2001, combined with Readership) and St Andrews (2001, combined with Professorship). He moved to Germany in 2013, combining his position in Dresden with his St Andrews Professorship. He received the Mott Medal of the Institute of Physics in 2011, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society. His research interests focus mainly on unconventional superconductivity and ultra-high purity metallic oxides.

Professor Madhavan received her bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering in 1991 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, and a master of technology degree in solid state materials in 1993 from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. She obtained her phD from Boston University in 2000. She held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of California, Berkeley from 1999 to 2002, before joining the physics faculty at Boston College in 2002. She joined the faculty at Illinois in 2014 as a full professor.

Professor Madhavan investigates fundamental problems in quantum materials where interactions between the spin, charge, and structural degrees of freedom lead to emergent phenomena. She uses the tools of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), spin-polarized STM (SP-STM) and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) to unravel the mysteries of complex systems at the atomic scale. Her group carries out challenging, high-risk experiments, wherein the possibility of discovering new phenomena is high. Her team's recent work has focused on STM studies of unconventional superconductors, complex oxides and monolayer films of transition metal dichalcogenides topological materials.

Philip Moll is a director at the Max-Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Solids in Hamburg, Germany. His “microstructured quantum matter” department investigates electronic transport on mesoscopically shaped 3D crystals of quantum materials.

Philip obtained his PhD in 2012 at ETH Zurich in the group of Bertram Batlogg, working on iron-based superconductors in high magnetic fields. He joined UC Berkeley to work with James Analytis on topological systems. In 2015, he was awarded an independent Max-Planck research group at the MPI for chemical Physics of Solids. Working with Andy Mackenzie and Claudia Felser, he focused on mesoscopic phenomena in ultra-clean layered metals and electron hydrodynamics. Moving to EPFL in 2018 as a tenure-track assistant professor, he established a group in the materials science department working towards shape/size control of topological systems. Since 2022, he is a director at MPI for the structure and dynamics of solids in Hamburg.

He was awarded the ETH Metal, the ABB award and the Swiss Microscopy Society award for his work in Switzerland. In 2018 he won the Nicholas Kurti Science prize and subsequently was awarded multiple prestigious junior grants, such as two ERC projects and a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship.

Jie Shan is a professor of Applied and Engineering Physics and Physics at Cornell University. She received her diploma in Mathematics and Physics from Moscow State University in 1996 and Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University in 2001. Before joining Cornell in 2018, She has taught at Case Western Reserve University and the Pennsylvania State University. Research in her group is focused on experimental studies of the electronic and optical properties of nanoscale materials.  Current activities involve the investigation of correlated and topological phenomena in novel two-dimensional crystals and heterostructures.

Dr. Jie Shen is an associate professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research is primarily focused on the low-temperature transport measurement of topological states and unconventional superconductivity. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2013 and has since held postdoctoral positions at Yale University (2013-2015) and the Delft University of Technology-Microsoft Quantum Lab in the Netherlands (2015-2019). Dr. Shen also serves as the head of Ultra-Low Temperature Quantum Transport Experimental Station in Huairou SECUF. Throughout her career, she has published over 50 articles such as Science (1), Nature (1), Nature Communications (7), Science Advances (1) and PRX (3), with more than 6000 citations and an h-index of 23. Her work has been highlighted as one of China's top ten scientific advances by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2013. She has been honored with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Hundred Talents Program, Beijing Science and Technology Rising Star, Outstanding Young Scholar of Beijing, and the Martin Wood Chinese Physics Prize.

Yuan Wan is a researcher in the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOP-CAS). Wan obtained his PhD in Physics from Johns Hopkins University in 2014. Before joining the IOP-CAS in 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Perimeter Institute (2014-2017) and University of Oxford (2017-2018). Yuan’s current research interests include the near and far from equilibrium dynamics of quantum materials, and the physics of geometrically frustrated systems.

Meng Wang is a professor at the School of Physics at Sun Yat-sen University. He graduated from Jilin University and then completed his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2013 to 2016. Professor Wang studies high-T_c superconductivity and quantum magnetism using neutron scattering, high-pressure, and various single-crystal growth techniques. Wang’s group discovered high-T_c superconductivity in a nickelate under pressure in 2023.

Nan-Lin Wang is a chair professor at the international center for quantum materials (ICQM), School of Physics, Peking University. He also serves as a vice-president of Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences. He obtained his PhD in condensed matter physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992. His research focuses primarily on infrared and terahertz spectroscopy study of strongly correlated electronic systems, including high temperature superconductors, charge/spin density wave compounds, transition metal oxides/chalcogenides, heavy fermions, quantum magnetic systems, 3D Dirac/Weyl semimetals in both equilibrium and nonequilibrium states. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Dr. Jian Wang is a Boya Distinguished Professor of Physics at Peking University. He developed two laboratories at Peking University to perform ultralow temperature-high magnetic field transport measurements and low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy-molecular beam epitaxy investigations. Dr. Jian Wang’s current research interests are quantum transport properties of low dimensional superconductors and topological materials. He has discovered a series of emergent quantum phase transitions and quantum states in both low dimensional superconductors and topological materials, including quantum Griffiths singularity, bosonic anomalous (quantum) metal state, topological zero energy bound states and pair density wave states in two dimensional superconductors, as well as log-periodic quantum oscillations, high Chern number and high temperature Chern insulator states in topological materials. Dr. Jian Wang authored more than 140 papers in Science, Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Science Advances, Nature Communications, PNAS, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, etc. He has given more than 100 invited talks and was awarded Sir Martin Wood China Prize in 2015, Changjiang Distinguished Professor of China's Ministry of Education in 2016, Outstanding Achievement Award for Research in Institutes of Higher Education of China (Young Scientists) in 2019, and the Achievement in Asia Award (Robert T. Poe Prize) in 2022.

Yayu Wang received his B.S. degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1998 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004. From 2004 and 2007 he was a Miller research fellow at UC Berkeley. After a brief visit to MIT, he joined the physics department of Tsinghua University in December 2007. His recent research interests include quantum transport studies of magnetic topological insulators and STM studies of high temperature superconductors. He has received the McMillan Award in Condensed Matter Physics, the Kun Huang Award from Chinese Physical Society, the Xplorer Prize and New Cornerstone Investigator award both from the Tencent Foundation.

Ziqiang Wang graduated from Tsinghua University in 1984 and received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Columbia University in 1989. He was a postdoc fellow at Rutgers University and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is currently a professor in the Physics Department at Boston College. He received a Cottrell Scholar Award in 1996 and a SEED Award in 2021 from Research Corporation for Science Advancement. His current research focuses on the basic physics of correlated and topological electronic states in advanced quantum materials, including unconventional superconductors, quantum magnetism, quantum Hall systems, topological superconductors and other extraordinary forms of superconducting matter. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Stephen Wilson currently serves as a Professor in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also co-directs the National Science Foundation's Quantum Foundry on campus. He is a fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America and a fellow of the American Physical Society. Prof. Wilson's research group focuses on the synthesis and characterization of a variety of quantum materials, with particular emphasis given to unconventional superconductors, correlated metals, and quantum magnets. His group also works to develop new single crystal growth methods and employs advanced neutron and synchrotron x-ray scattering techniques/spectroscopies for the study of quantum materials.

Tao Xiang, Professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is a member of CAS and a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences. He earned his BSc in 1984 and MSc in 1986 from Tsinghua University, followed by a PhD in 1990 from the Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS. He currently serves as the co-president of the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Science and the Chief Editor of Chinese Physics Letters. His research primarily focuses on condensed matter theory, with a special emphasis on the theoretical exploration of high-temperature superconductivity and tensor-network renormalization.

Qi-Kun Xue received his PhD in condensed matter physics from Institute of Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 1994. He has been a chair professor at Department of Physics since 2005. In 2020, he became the President of Southern University of Science and Technology. He is also the director of Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences (since 2017) and the founding director of Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (since 2022). He was elected into the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005, and became a Fellow of American Physical Society in 2016.

His research interests include scanning tunneling microscopy/ spectroscopy, molecular beam epitaxy, low-dimensional and interface-related superconductivity, topological insulators, and quantum size effects in various low-dimensional structures. He has received a number of prestigious academic awards including China's State Preeminent Science and Technology Award for 2023, the TWAS Prize in Physics in 2010, State Natural Science Award (the First Prize) in 2018, The Fritz London Memorial Prize of IUPAP in 2020, and the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize of American Physical Society.

Wang YAO obtained his BSc from Peking University in 2001, and PhD in physics from University of California, San Diego in 2006. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 2008, and rose through the academic ranks to Chair Professor of Physics in 2019. His group works in an interdisciplinary area across condensed matter physics, quantum physics, and optical physics, with current research interest in 2D quantum materials and their twisted structures. He is a New Cornerstone Investigator, and Fellow of American Physical Society and Fellow of Optica.

Dr. Ye is an assistant professor at the University of Utah. She got her B.S. in Physics from Zhejiang University. M.S. in Physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She did her postdoc research at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara.

Ming Yi is an associated professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. Her research interests lie in exploring quantum materials with moderate to strong electron correlations using spectroscopy tools such as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Her research group has recently been exploring unconventional superconductors, geometrically frustrated lattice systems, electronic topological materials, low dimensional magnetism, and charge density wave systems. Her group is also interested in developing sample environments for ARPES experiments that allow in-situ tuning capabilities. Ming received her BS degree in Physics from MIT in 2007, PhD degree in Physics from Stanford in 2014, and worked as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley before starting her position at Rice University in 2019. She has received awards including the Ardentec Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers, Bryan R. Coles Prize, US Department of Energy Early Career Award, Sloan Fellowship, and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in the Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter.

Prof. Huiqiu Yuan is a Qiushi Professor in the School of Physics, and the executive deputy director of the Center for Correlated Matter at Zhejiang University. He is an APS fellow and the awardee of Ye Qi-Sun Prize of the Chinese Physical Society.

Prof. Yuan has been working on the emergent quantum phases and phenomena in correlated electron systems. He synthesizes materials and probes their physical properties under multiple extreme conditions of low temperature, high pressure and high magnetic field. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed articles, including a few articles published in Nature, Science, RMP, and delivered over 100 invited conference talks.

Prof. Yuan serves for the international advisory committees of the International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES) and organized the SCES conference in 2016. He is among the editorial board of several journals, including Science China, Chinese Physical Letters, Reviews in Physics and Frontiers in Electronic Materials. He is the principal investigator of several national projects in China, including the National Key R&D Program and the key project of NSFC.

Yuanbo Zhang obtained his Bachelor's degree from Peking University in 2000 and completed his PhD in Physics at Columbia University in 2006. He served as a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, from September 2006 to June 2009, and later worked as a postdoc research associate at IBM Almaden Research Center from March 2010 to September 2010. Since 2011, Yuanbo Zhang has been a professor at Fudan University. His research focuses on electronic transport in two-dimensional materials, and he also utilizes a scanning tunneling microscope to probe these materials at the atomic scale.

Jun Zhao is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Fudan University, where he has been a faculty member since 2012. Before joining Fudan, he was a Miller Research Fellow at UC Berkeley. His research primarily focuses on utilizing various neutron scattering techniques to investigate phase transitions and spin dynamics in strongly correlated electron systems. Additionally, he works on the growth of large-scale, high-quality single crystal samples and the measurement of their thermodynamic and transport properties. His work aims to advance the understanding of high-temperature superconductivity and quantum magnetism.

Xingjiang Zhou is currently a professor in the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University and his Ph. D degree from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He developed a series of high-resolution vacuum ultra-violet laser-based angle-resolved photoemission systems. His research focuses on studying high temperature superconductors and other quantum materials. He has published more than 270 papers. He got the Achievement in Asia Award in 2014 and the TWAS Prize in Physics in 2015. He is a Fellow of American Physical Society.