Educational Background

2004-2009 Ph.D. in Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

2000-2004 B.S. in Physics, Department of Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University

Professional Experience

2024-Now: Professor, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology 

2017-2023: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology 
2015-2017: Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

2013-2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

2011-2013: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo

2009-2011: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University

Honors & Awards

2011 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers

Selected Publication

1. Xiao-Qiong Wang, Guang-Quan Luo, Jin-Yu Liu, W. Vincent Liu, Andreas Hemmerich, and Zhi-Fang Xu, Evidence for an atomic chiral superfluid with topological excitations, Nature 596, 227 (2021).

2. Zhi-Fang Xu, Li You, Andreas Hemmerich, and W. Vincent Liu, π-flux Dirac bosons and topological Bogoliubov edge excitations in a bosonic chiral p-wave superfluid, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 085301 (2016).

3. Jinlong Yu, Zhi-Fang Xu*, Rong Lu, and Li You, Dynamical generation of topological magnetic lattices for ultracold atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 143003 (2016).

4. Xiaoke Li, Bing Zhu, Xiaodong He, Fudong Wang, Mingyang Guo, Zhi-Fang Xu, Shizhong Zhang, and Dajun Wang, Coherent heteronuclear spin dynamics in an ultracold spinor mixture, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 255301 (2015).

5. Zhi-Fang Xu, Xiaopeng Li, Peter Zoller, and W. Vincent Liu, Spontaneous quantum Hall effect in an atomic spinor Bose-Fermi mixture, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 125303 (2015).