Prof. Shiyan Li

       Prof. Shiyan Li is working in the field of condensed matter physics. He is an expert at measuring the ultra-low-temperature transport and thermodynamic properties of correlated electronic materials. His group is one of the several groups in the field which can use ultra-low-temperature heat transport technique to probe the superconducting gap structure of superconductors and low-energy magnetic excitations in quantum magnets. He has made many achievements on the study of superconductors, quantum magnets, and topological materials, including: (1) Clarifying that the ground state of Na_0.7CoO₂ with enhanced thermopower is still Fermi liquid; (2) The first observation of T3 dependence of thermal conductivity contributed by antiferromagnetic magnons; (3) Systematic study of the superconducting gap struture of iron-based superconductors, for example, demostrating nodal superconducting gap in the extremely hole-doped superconductor KFe₂As₂. (4) Showing that there exists a quantum critical point at the upper critical field Hc₂ and the superconducting gap has nodes in heavy-fermion superconductor Ce₂PdIn₈. (5) By analyzing the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations of magnetoresistance, demonstrating the existence of a three-dimensional Dirac semimetal phase in Cd₃As₂. The linear magnetoresistance near room temperature and superconductivity under high pressure were also discovered in Cd₃As₂. (6) Revealing that there exist four quantum oscillation frequency and magnetoresistance is strongly suppressed by pressure in type-II Weyl semimetal WTe₂. (7) Demonstrating the absence of fermionic charge-neutral excitations in bulk of topological Kondo insulator SmB₆. (8) There is no significant contribution of thermal conductivity from spinons in the quantum spin-liquid candidate YbMgGaO₄, indicating that the ground state of YbMgGaO₄ might be a spin glass. Up to now, Prof. Shiyan Li has published over 140 papers in scientific journals, including Physical Review Letters * 19, Physical Review X * 5, Nature series * 7，PNAS * 2，JACS * 2，iScience * 1. The papers have now been cited over 5100 times.

       Prof. Shiyan Li got his Ph. D in 2002 under the supervising of Prof. Xianhui Chen in the University of Science and Technology of China. Then he did postdoc research for four and half years in Prof. Louis Taillefer’s group in University of Toronto/University of Sherbrooke, Canada. In 2007, he came back to join the Laboratory of Advanced Materials in Fudan University as a researcher. In 2010, he was appointed “Eastern Scholar” at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning. In 2012, he was appointed the “Xie Xide” Young Chair Professor of the Department of Physics in Fudan University. He was awarded the 2015 Sir Martin Wood China Prize for Research of Physical Science. In 2015, he was appointed the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics. In 2007, he became the member of the Cryogenic Physics Committee of the Chinese Physical Society. In 2017, he was the member of the first council of Actinide Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Nuclear Society. In 2018, he became the member of the academic committee of State Key Laboratory of Superconductivity, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The same year he became the member of the editorial board of Low Temperature Physical Letters. In 2019, he was served as the associate editor of Frontiers in Materials in quantum materials field.