Principal Investigator


Lei, Dangyuan (PhD, Imperial), Professor
Deputy Director, The Center for Functional Photonics
Programme Leader of MSc in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
Provost's Visiting Professor of Physics, Imperial College London
Managing Editor, Nanophotonics, De Gruyter
Editorial Board Member (Associate Editor), Advanced Photonics Nexus, SPIE
Content Manager, Hong Kong Office, Light: Science & Applications
Room R7125, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Complex, City University of Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3442 2487; Fax: +852 3442 0892; Email address: dangylei@cityu.edu.hk
Scholar profiles: Google Scholar (>11000 citations, h-index 58, i10-index 153, 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 and nanophotonics and low-dimensional 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:

24. Joseph Needham Foundation for Science and Civilisation Public Lectureship on STEAM Education
23. Provost's Visiting Professor of Physics, Imperial College London, 2023/24
22. World’s Top 2% Most-cited Scientist by Stanford University (single-year-impact), 2023, 2022, 2020
21. World's Top 100,000 Scientists by "全球学者库", 2021/22
20. National Science & Technology Expert, The Ministry of Science & Technology of China, 2022
19. Elected member, The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences (YASHK), 2022
18. Only finalist of Hong Kong for the 2021 iCANX Young Scientists Award, 2021
17. Outstanding Research Award for Junior Faculty, The City University of Hong Kong, 2021
16. Rising Star Lecturer (Materials Science), The Hong Kong Institute of Advanced Study, 2021
15. Only representative of Hong Kong for the 2021 APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE), 2021
14. NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau), 2020
13. Senior Member of The Optical Society of America, 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


Postdoc Fellows & Visiting Scholars

Liang, Xiu (PhD, BUAA)
Visting Scholar
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Tel: +852 3442 2487
Email: xiuliang@cityu.edu.hk

Cheng, Hongrui (PhD, FZU)
Research Associate
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Tel: +852 3442 2487
Email: hongruicheng91@gmail.com

Su, Dong (PhD, HUST)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Tel: +852 3442 2487
Email: dongsu@cityu.edu.hk

Chen, Yancong (PhD, SYSU)
Postdoc Fellow
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Tel: +852 3442 2487
Email: chenyc27@mail2.sysu.edu.cn

Cheng, Pengfei (PhD, TU Ilmenau)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Tel: +852 3442 2487
Email: pencheng@cityu.edu.hk

Chen, Jie (PhD, CAS)
Research Associate
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Tel: +852 3442 2487
Email: jchen667@cityu.edu.hk

Feng, Bin (PhD, Tsinghua)
Postdoc Fellow
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Tel: +852 3442 2487
Email: binfeng@cityu.edu.hk

Bai, Yu (PhD, SNNU)
Postdoc Fellow
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Tel: +852 3442 2487
Email: yubai35@um.cityu.edu.hk

Liu, Ying (PhD, DHU)
Postdoc Fellow
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Tel: +852 3442 2487
Email: yliu2428@cityu.edu.hk

Razdolski, Ilya (PhD, MSU)
Research Associate
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Tel: +852 3442 2487
Email: i.razdolski@cityu.edu.hk

Li, Qian (PhD, NJU)
Joint Postdoc Fellow with Prof. Alex Jen
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Tel: +852 3442 2487
Email: qli436@cityu.edu.hk


PhD Students

Liu, Feihong (BSc, USTC)
PhD student
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: feihonliu2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Liu, Jiahe (BSc, SUSTech)
Joint PhD student with SUSTech
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Email: jiaheliu2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Rao, Longshu (BSc, SUSTech)
PhD student co-supervised with Prof. Yu Chai
Room G2655, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: longshrao2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Li, Ye (BSc, TJU; Master, SUSTech)
Joint PhD student with SUSTech
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: yeli58-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Zhao, Shixuan (BSc, HRBEU; Master, SUSTech)
PhD student co-supervised with Prof. Zhedong Zhang
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: shixzhao-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Fang, Yanbo (BSc, JSU; Master, NWPU)
PhD student
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: yanbfang-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Jin, Shuaiyu (BSc, WHU)
PhD student
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: syjin6-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Wang, Yaorong (BSc, HUST; Master, BUPT)
PhD student
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: yaorwang2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Wang, Yifan (BSc, USTC; MSc, CityU)
PhD student
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: ywang3897-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Xu, Xueling (BSc, USTC; MSc, CityU)
PhD student co-supervised with Prof. Haixing Li
Room P7620, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: xuelingxu2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk


Research Assistants and MSc Students

Liao, Yuan (BSc, LZU; MEng, UCAS)
Research Assistant
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: yuanliao@cityu.edu.hk

Li, Chengyi (BSc, UESTC; MSc, CituU)
Research Assistant
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: chengyili6@cityu.edu.hk

Geng, Muxuan (BSc, HEU; MSc, HEU)
Research Assistant
Room Y2440, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU
Email: muxuageng2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk


Alumni

Former Postdocs

  • Hou, Yidong, Research associate from Nov 2013 to Apr 2015 (now associate professor at SCU)
  • Duan, Jinglai, Research associate from Nov 2014 to Oct 2016 (now research fellow at IMP, CAS)
  • Jia, Guangyi, Research associate from Aug 2015 to Feb 2016 (now associate professor at TUC)
  • Zhang, Yongliang, Research associate from Aug 2015 to Aug 2016 (now associate research fellow at IOS, CAS)
  • Sun, Jianhui, Research associate from Sep 2015 to Feb 2017 (now associate professor at HLJU)
  • Zheng, Guangchao, Research associate from Jun 2016 to May 2017 (now associate professor at ZZU)
  • Zhang, Qiang, Research associate from Feb 2017 to Feb 2018 (now associate research fellow at TYUT)
  • Gan, Xiaorong, Research associate from May 2017 to Jan 2019 (now associate professor at HHU)
  • Shi, Fenghua, Research associate from Jul 2017 to Jul 2018 (now associate professor at AHNU)
  • Shang, Aixue, Postdoctoral fellow from Sep 2017 to Aug 2018
  • Qiu, Meng, Research associate from Oct 2017 to Mar 2019 (now senior engineer at Huawei)
  • Hu, Xin, Research associate from Feb 2018 to Feb 2019 (now associate professor at SuDa)
  • Li, Zhiyong, Research associate from Jun 2018 to Sep 2019
  • Dvorak, Petr, Visiting scholar from Jan 2019 to Jun 2019 (now assistant professor at BUT)
  • Qing, Yeming, Research assistant from Jan 2022 to Jul 2022 (now associate professor at NJUPT)
  • Wang, Zhuochao, Postdoc fellow from Jan 2022 to Jul 2022 (now associate professor at HRBEU)
  • Wang, Yunxia, Postdoc fellow from August 2021 to Jul 2022 (now associate professor at JSNU)
  • Wang, Hongfei, Postdoc fellow from Nov 2020 to Nov 2022 (now associate professor at Shanghai University)
  • Fan, Yulong, Postdoc fellow from Nov 2019 to Jan 2021 and from Jul 2021 to Dec 2022 (now associate research fellow at IOE, CAS)
  • He, Lanyue, Research Assistant from Oct 2022 to Mar 2023
  • Jiang, Cancheng, Postdoc fellow from Apr 2023 to May 2024

    • Former Graduates

  • He, Jijun, MPhil student from Jun 2013 to Mar 2016 (now professor at NUAA, NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar)
  • Li, Guangcan, PhD student & Research associate from Dec 2013 to Sep 2018 & Visiting Scholar from Dec 2020 to Sep 2021 (now associate research fellow at SCNU)
  • Bao, Zhiyong, PhD student & Research associate from Feb 2014 to Apr 2018 (now associate professor at HFUT)
  • Li, Siqi, PhD student & Postdoc fellow from Jul 2016 to May 2021 (now associate professor at AHU)
  • Lo, Billy, FYP student & PhD student & Postdoc fellow from Sep 2015 to Dec 2021
  • Gao, Han, PhD student from Sep 2018 to Dec 2021 (now Lecturer at China Jiliang University)
  • Liu, Danjun, Full-time research assistant & PhD student & Postdoc fellow from Jun 2017 to Aug 2023
  • Xu, Yunkun, PhD/MPhil student from Jul 2019 to Dec 2021
  • Chen, Haoran, Full-time research assistant & MSc student & Part-time research assistant from Oct 2020 to Apr 2022
  • Chen, Peigang, Full-time research assistant & PhD student & Part-time research assistant from May 2019 to Sep 2022
  • Liu, Jin, MPhil student from Jul 2016 to Jul 2018
  • Ho, Willis, MPhil student & Research assistant from Jul 2016 to Jan 2019
  • Tang, Zongyuan, Master student & Part-time research assistant from Aug 2021 to Jul 2022
  • Ligmajer, Filip, Visiting PhD student from Jan 2015 to June 2015 (now assistant professor at BUT)
  • Kejik, Lukas, Visiting PhD student from Feb 2017 to Aug 2017
  • Meng, Yongjun, Visiting PhD student from Jul 2017 to Aug 2018
  • Królikowski, David, Visiting Master student from Feb 2022 to Jul 2020
  • Fu, Yang, PhD student and research assistant from Dec 2019 to Jan 2024
  • Ma, Xue, PhD student from Aug 2020 to Jun 2024
  • Peng, Zhiwei, PhD student from Aug 2020 to July 2024 (now senior engineer at SMIC)