Dr. Jian-Hua Jiang

Professor of Physics

Principal Investigator

Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research

University of Science and Technology of China


Contact address: 188 Renai Street, Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou, 215123, China.

Emails: jianhuajiang@suda.edu.cn, joejhjiang@hotmail.com


Education

• 2004 - 2010, University of Science and Technology of China, Ph.D. in Physics
• 2000 - 2004, University of Science and Technology of China, B.S. in Applied Physics

Work experience

• November 2022 - Present : Professor of Physics, Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, University of Science and Technology of China, Suzhou, China

• May 2015 - November 2022 : Professor of Physics, School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

• May-June 2017; August 2018 - January 2019: Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto
• August-September 2016 & August 2017: Visiting Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

• January 2013 - April 2015: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Canada (adviser: Prof. Sajeev John, University Professor, member of Royal Society of Canada)

• August 2010 - November 2012: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (adviser: Prof. Yoseph Imry, Laureate of the 2016 Wolf Prize of Physics)


Awards and honors

• 2022 Top ten breakthrough in photonics research in China

• 2022 Best session organizer award, PIERS 2021 Hangzhou conference

• 2021 Best Editor Award, Science Bulletin

• 2021 Distinguished Young Scientist, National Science Foundation of China

• 2021 Chow's Award for outstanding research, Soochow University

• 2021 IOP Publishing's Top Cited Paper Award

• 2020 Distinguished Referee of Europhysics Letters

• 2019 Junior Changjiang Scholar, Ministry of Education, China

• 2018 Jiangsu Province Specially Appointed Professor

• 2017 Suzhou City Special Talents Allowance

• 2009 President Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences


Membership

• member of European Physical Society


Professional engagement

• 2021-present, Editorial Group Member of National Science Review, Elsevier (Impact factor 9.5)

• 2021-present, Associate Editor of Science Bulletin, Elsevier (Impact factor 9.5)

• 2020-2023, Editorial Group Member of Chin. Phys. Lett., Chin. Phys. B, and Acta Phys. Sin.

• 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, Session organizer and session chair of Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium

• 2021, Committee member of Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium

• 2019-present, Scientific committee member of the National Conference of Metamaterials of China

• 2017-present, Scientific committee member of the National Conference of Statistical Physics and Complex Systems of China


Research funding granted

• Title: "Nonequilibrium and quantum physics in photonic and phononic systems"

Period: 1/01/2022---12/30/2026

Funding Agency: National Natural Science Foundation of China

PI: Jian-Hua Jiang

Amount: CNY 4,000,000

• Title: "Higher-order topological photonic and sonic crystals"

Period: 1/01/2021-12/30/2024

Funding Agency: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Grant number: 12074281

PI: Jian-Hua Jiang

Amount: CNY 550,000

• Title: "Topological photonics, acoustics and their applications"

Period: 10/01/2018-10/012021

Funding Agency: Jiangsu Provincial Government

PI: Jian-Hua Jiang

Amount: CNY 1,000,000

• Title: "Inelastic thermoelectric transport in mesoscopic systems"

Period: 1/01/2017-12/30/2022

Funding Agency: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Grant number: 11675116

PI: Jian-Hua Jiang

Amount: CNY 600,000

• Title: Jian-Hua Jiang's start-up funding

Period: 5/08/2015-5/08/2020

Funding Agency: Soochow University

PI: Jian-Hua Jiang

Amount: CNY 600,000


Main scientific contributions

• Experimental discovery of bulk-disclination correspondence (highlighted by Nature: News & Views "Electrons broken into pieces at crystal defects").

• Theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of a series of higher-order topological phases, including higher-order Weyl semimetals (highlighted by Nature Materials: News & Views "The sound of Weyl hinges").

• Experimental discovery of Euler class non-Abelian topological semimetals and their rich phase transitions. These concepts extend the conventional single-gap Abelian band topology to multi-gap non-Abelian topology.

• First experimental realization of acoustic skyrmion lattices (highlighted by APS Physics Synopsis: Skyrmions Made from Sound Waves).

• Pioneering studies in topological photonics and topological phononics.

• Experimental discovery of "parallel to interface refraction" (highlighted by Phys.org "Pushing the limit of thin-film absorption in solar and water-splitting applications", ScienceDaily.com "Extreme light trapping", and NewsWise.com "Extreme light trapping", etc.).

• Pioneering studies of 1D surface phonon polaritons in BN nanotubes (highlighted by Nature Materials: News & Views "Hyperbolic phonon-polaritons").

• Pioneering studies in the field of "inelastic thermoelectric effects".

• Prediction of universal behaviors of electron spin lifetime in semiconductors which are confirmed and acknowledged by more than 40 experimental works.


Research profiles

• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jian-Hua-Jiang

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Uh4cU2YAAAAJ&hl=en


Collaborations

(in alphabetical order, an incomplete list)


• Dr. Adrien Bouhon (NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden)

• Prof. Hongsheng Chen (Zhejiang University, China)

• Prof. Huanyang Chen (Xiamen University, China)

• Prof. Guang-Yu Guo (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

• Prof. Xiao Hu (MANA-NIMS, Japan)

• Prof. Yoseph Imry (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

• Prof. Sajeev John (University of Toronto, Canada)

• Prof. Manas Kulkarni (ICTS, Tata Institute, India)

• Prof. Ming-Hui Lu (Nanjing University, China)

• Prof. Arka Majumdar (University of Washington, U.S.A)

• Prof. Gilbert Walker (University of Toronto, Canada)

• Prof. Dvira Segal (University of Toronto, Canada)

• Dr. Robert-Jan Slager (Cambridge University, U.K.)

• Prof. Oded Zilberberg (University of Konstanz, Germany)

• Prof. Baile Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)


Big data analysis of my research:

Link: https://exaly.com/author/720161/jian-hua-jiang