Educational Background

Ph.D.     Condensed Matter Physics                     2009/09 – 2015/01

Fudan University, 2205 Songhu Road, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China

Supervisor: Prof. Yizheng Wu

Dissertation: Anisotropic magneto-resistance in epitaxial iron films

B.Sc.      Applied Physics                                       2004/09 - 2008/07

     China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), 1 Daxue Road,

     Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221116, P. R. China

Professional Experience

Assistant Project Scientist    Condensed Matter Physics       2020/03 – 2020/09

       University of California, Riverside (UCR)

       Supervisors: Prof. Jing Shi

       Project: 1. Magnon-polaron in Antiferromagnetic insulators;

                    2. Spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic bulk material and thin films;

Postdoc                                   Condensed Matter Physics        2015/03 – 2020/03

       University of California, Riverside (UCR)

       Supervisors: Prof. Jing Shi, Prof. Peng Wei

       Project: 1. Spin and heat transport in Antiferromagnetic insulators, spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic bulk material and thin films;

                    2. Growing WTe2 epitaxial films using molecular beam epitaxy and studying its novel transport properties;

Reviewer for Science Advances, Applied Physics Letters, Physics Letters A.

Director assistant of SHINES center since March 2015 (SHINES center is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded in 2014 by the US Department of Energy, Prof. Jing Shi is the director).

学习经历

Ph.D.     Condensed Matter Physics                     2009/09 – 2015/01

Fudan University, 2205 Songhu Road, Shanghai, 200438, P. R. China

Supervisor: Prof. Yizheng Wu

Dissertation: Anisotropic magneto-resistance in epitaxial iron films

B.Sc.      Applied Physics                                       2004/09 - 2008/07

     China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), 1 Daxue Road,

     Xuzhou, Jiangsu, 221116, P. R. China

Honors & Awards

(1) “Magnon mediated electric current drag effect in normal metal/YIG/normal metal heterostructures”, J. X. Li, Y. D. Xu, M. Aldosary, C. Tang, Z. S. Lin, S. F. Zhang, R. Lake, and J. Shi.

Best Poster Award. SHINES annual meeting 2016, Long Beach, California, USA.

(2) “Three-dimensional mapping of the anisotropic magneto-resistance of single crystal iron thin films”, J. X. Li, Z. Ding, J. Zhu, T. P. Ma, and Y. Z. Wu.

Best Poster Award. Chinese Physical Society Fall Meeting, Xiamen University, Xiamen, P. R. China, Sep. 12-15, 2013.

(3) “In-plane magnetic anisotropy in Fe/MgO/GaAs(001) system”, G. Chen, J. X. Li, J. Zhu, J. H. Liang, and Y. Z. Wu.

Best Poster Award. Annual Meeting of Physics Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China, June 4, 2011. (Presented by Junxue Li).

Best Poster Award. 55th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Atlanta, Nov. 14-18, 2010. (Presented by Gong Chen).

Selected Publication

(1)   J. X. Li, H. T. Simensen, D. Reitz, Q. Y. Sun, W. Yuan, C. Li, Y. Tserkovnyak, A. Brataas, and J. Shi, Observation of Magnon Polarons in a Uniaxial Antiferromagnetic Insulator, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217201 (2020).

Link: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.217201.

(2)   J. X. Li, C. Blake Wilson, R. Cheng, M. Lohmann, M. Kavand, W. Yuan, M. Aldosary, N. Agladze, P. Wei, M. S. Sherwin, and J. Shi, Spin Current from Sub-Terahertz-generated Antiferromagnetic Magnons, Nature (London) 578, 70 (2020).

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1950-4.

(3)   M. Alghamdi*, M. Lohmann*, J. X. Li*, P. R. Jothi, Q. S. Shao, M. Aldosary, T. Su, B. Fokwa and J. Shi, Highly Efficient Spin-Orbit Torque and Switching of Layered Ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2. Nano Lett. 19, 7, 4400-4405 (2019).

Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01043.

(4)   J. X. Li, Z. Shi, V. H. Ortiz, M. Aldosary, C. Chen, V. Aji, P. Wei, and J. Shi, Spin Seebeck Effect from Antiferromagnetic Magnons and Critical Spin Fluctuations in Epitaxial FeF2 Films, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217204 (2019).

Link: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.217204.

(5)   J. X. Li*, G. Q. Yu*, C. Tang, Y. Z. Liu, Z. Shi, Y. W. Liu, A Navabi, M. Aldosary, Q. S. Shao, K. L. Wang, R. Lake, and J. Shi, Deficiency of the bulk spin Hall effect model for spin-orbit torques in magnetic-insulator/heavy-metal heterostructures, Phys. Rev. B 95, 241305(R) (2017).

Link: https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.241305.

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7122913.