Prof. Xun-Li WANG

Professor Xun-Li Wang received a B.S. in Physics from Peking University in 1985, and went to the United States through the CUSPEA program, earning a Ph.D. from Iowa State University. He had worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for 20 years before joining City University of Hong Kong in 2012, where he served as Founding Head of the Department of Physics and Executive Director of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, among other positions. In the fall of 2024, he was appointed a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.

 

Prof. Wang conducts research at the interface of condensed matter physics and materials science, using advanced neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering techniques. He is known for works on (1) structure and dynamics of metallic glass; (2) phase stability and deformation behavior of high entropy alloys; (3) neutron scattering instrumentation and applications to engineering problems.

 

Prof. Wang is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA).  He served as Chair of the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Neutron Scattering. In 2020, he received a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship in Hong Kong. In 2024, he was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the American Physical Society.