Dafei Jin is an Associate Professor of Physics at University of Notre Dame and a jointly appointed Quantum Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. in low-temperature physics from Brown University and performed postdoctoral research in quantum nano-electronics and nano-photonics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of California (UC) Berkeley. He is the lead of the Quantum Matter and Devices Labs at Notre Dame and Argonne. His research team works in broad areas across quantum matter, quantum devices, topological materials, and nonequilibrium systems. At present, his main focus is on the development of a novel quantum information architecture based on quantum solids and superconducting circuits. He has over 80 scientific publications in high-impact journals, including Nature, Science, Nature sub-journals, Physical Review Letters, etc. His research was funded by grants and awards from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and the Julian Schwinger Foundation.
Xiaolong Liu is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame. His research is focused on visualizing and understanding novel quantum matter such as electron superfluids by means of low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and scanned Josephson tunneling microscopy. Xiaolong received his PhD degree in Applied Physics from Northwestern University in 2018, after which he joined Cornell University as a Kavli Postdoctoral Fellow in 2019. Xiaolong’s research has led to over 40 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals including Science (3), Science Advances (3), Nature Materials (3), Nature Reviews Materials (1), and Nature Communications (1), which overall have attracted over 6,000 citations. As recognitions of Xiaolong’s research achievements, he has received honors including the Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists, Early Career Scientist Prize in Low Temperature Physics, Nanotechnology Young Researcher Award, Nottingham Prize, Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Award.
Petr Stepanov is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame. After his graduation with a PhD degree from the Ohio State University in 2018, Petr joined Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain as a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow focusing on experimental studies of novel low-dimensional materials that feature strong electronic correlations (e. g. moiré superlattices). His research concentrates on probing and manipulating exotic states of matter, such as electron superfluid in unconventional superconductors, using a variety of experimental methods, including low-temperature quantum transport and cryogenic near-field optical microscopy. These research efforts resulted in over 25 peer-reviewed scientific publications in high-ranked journals, including Nature(x2), Nature Physics(x5), PRL(x5) and Science Advances(x1). Petr´s laboratory at the University of Notre Dame will focus on polaritonic properties and local photocurrent studies in twisted multilayer graphene systems, layered unconventional superconductors and transition metal dichalcogenides.