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Principal Investigator

Academic background, research interests and contact information for the principal investigator.

Academic portrait of Jiaxin Zhao

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Jiaxin Zhao

Researcher under the Hundred Talents Program (Assistant Professor) · Department of Physics · Zhejiang University

Jiaxin Zhao studies how light interacts with low-dimensional materials, with a focus on exciton–polaritons at room temperature, nonlinear dynamics, and spin and valley physics.

She received her Ph.D. in Physics from Nanyang Technological University and was awarded the NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad.

APPOINTMENTS & EDUCATION

Academic path

Researcher under the Hundred Talents Program (Assistant Professor)

Department of Physics, Zhejiang University

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow

Nanyang Technological University · Supervisors: Timothy C. H. Liew and Weibo Gao

Research Fellow

Nanyang Technological University

Ph.D. in Physics

Nanyang Technological University · Supervisor: Qihua Xiong

B.S. in Physics

Central China Normal University · National Science Talents Training Base

RESEARCH VISITS

Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université (2024); CNR NANOTEC, Italy (2022); and INL–CNRS, France (2018).

EXPERIMENTAL EXPERTISE

Van der Waals material assembly; optical microcavities; angle- and time-resolved spectroscopy; nonlinear optics; interferometry; and nanofabrication.