Faculty

Shuai Chen (born Nov. 1975), is professor at Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, USTC. He received his BS degree from Jilin University in July 1997 and his PhD. from Peking University January 2005. He worked as a postdoc in the cold atom physics and quantum information research group of Physics Research Institute in Heidelberg University from February 2005 to January 2009. From 2009, he is professor at USTC. Prof. Shuai has published more than 20 papers, including Science (1)、Nature (1)、Nature Physics(3)、Nature Photonics (1) Physical Review Letters (6).

Bo Zhao is a professor of physics of University of Science and Technology of China. He got the Bachelor degree (2001) and Master degree (2005) in University of Science and Technology of China. He got the PhD degree in Heidelberg University, Germany in 2008. Bo Zhao has been working on quantum memory, quantum repeaters, Rydberg atoms, and polar molecules for more than ten years.

Xiaobo Zhu received his PhD in condensed matter physics at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOP-China), Beijing. Between 2003 and 2008, he worked in IOP-China as intern, assistant professor and associated professor. In 2008, he joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories as Research Associate and Senior Research Associate. In 2013, he became a special assigned professor in IOP-China. In 2016, he joined University of science and technology of China as professor.

Zhen-Sheng Yuan, born in July of 1976, is now professor of physics at the Hefei National Laboratory of Physical Sciences at the Microscale. He received a BSc in 1998 and a PhD in 2003 both from the University of Science and Technology of China. During 2006 to 2011, he had been working at the Heidelberg University as a PostDoc, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, and a senior scientist (when he was a CoPI of a couple of projects) successively. He was appointed professor of physics at USTC in 2011.