Lei, Dangyuan (PhD, Imperial)
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Department of Physics (joint appointment)
Deputy Director, The Center for Functional Photonics
Programme Leader of MSc in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology
City University of Hong Kong
Provost's Visiting Professor of Physics, Imperial College London
Editorial Board Member (Associate Editor), Advanced Photonics Nexus, SPIE
Content Manager, Hong Kong Office, Light: Science & Applications
Associate Director, CLP Hong Kong Branch, Chinese Laser Press
Scholar profiles: Google Scholar (>19100 citations, h-index 77, i10-index 224, Scopus, ORCID)
Dangyuan Lei obtained his PhD degree in Physics from Imperial College London in 2011 under the supervision of Professor Stefan Maier and in close collaboration with Professor Sir John Pendry. His current research interest centers on plasmonics nanophotonics and low-dimensional optical quantum materials, with particular interest in cavity-enhanced light-matter coupling at the nanoscale and its applications in miniaturized optoelectronics, sensing, imaging, information processing, energy conversion, storage and saving.
He has received several important awards and honors, including:
26. Nomination Award of China’s Top 10 Optics Breakthroughs, 2025
25. Research Excellence Award (4 awardees for all Full Professors and Chair Professors), College of Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 2025
24. World’s Top 0.5% Highly Cited Scholar (All Fields) by ScholarGPS, 2025
23. Joseph Needham Foundation for Science and Civilisation Public Lectureship on STEAM Education
22. Provost's Visiting Professor of Physics, Imperial College London, 2023/24
21. World’s Top 2% Most-cited Scientist by Stanford University, 2020-2025
20. World's Top 100,000 Scientists by "全球学者库", 2021/22
19. National Science & Technology Expert, The Ministry of Science & Technology of China, 2022
18. Elected member, The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences (YASHK), 2022
17. Nomination Award of the iCANX Young Scientists Award, 2021
16. Outstanding Research Award for Junior Faculty, The City University of Hong Kong, 2021
15. Rising Star Lecturer (Materials Science), The Hong Kong Institute of Advanced Study, 2021
14. Nomination Award of the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE), 2021
13. NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau), 2020
12. Nano Research Young Innovator Award (NR45), Springer Nature Nano Research, 2020
11. Distinguished Visitor Award, Scottish University Physics Alliance, 2019
10. Emerging Leader, IOP Journal of Optics, 2017
9. Emerging Investigator, RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2016
8. Early Career Grants Award (2nd-class), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2013
7. Anne Thorne PhD Thesis Prize, Imperial College London, 2012
6. Deputy Rector’s Award, Imperial College London, 2008
5. Madam Wong Siew Khoon Scholarship, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005
4. Excellent Graduate of ShangXi Province and Northwest University, 2005
3. First-class Scholarship of Northwest University, 2004
2. First-class National Scholarship and First-class Scholarship of Northwest University, 2003
1. Second-class National Scholarship and First-class Scholarship of Northwest University, 2002
